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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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