Re: Moving partition
Hi,
just a comment....
> 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.
I'm not sure about that. If I got it right plain cp will copy the file, it
will not create a symobolic link. So your symbolic link structure will be
ruined. tar on the other hand preserves it.
Sasha.
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