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Re: Moving partition



On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote:
> I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr.
> In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one while
> ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?

Symbolic links are just names of files. If the path of the destination
stays the same (/usr is still /usr, even though the mount table is
different) you shouldn't have problems just using cp. But I haven't done
this before in truth.

> 
> What is the command to format (initialise ?) a partition ?

mkfs

auto mounts are in /etc/fstab

-- 
Rafael Kitover
rkitover@io.com


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