Re: Troubles with moving /var
*- On 20 Dec, Ethan Benson wrote about "Re: Troubles with moving /var"
> On 20/12/99 aphro wrote:
>
>>
>>cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar
>>command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted in a magazine(Maximum
>>Linux) but i forgot what it was, if its linux its safe to use cp -a
>
> probably something like (cd / ; tar -cvpf - var) | (cd /home ; tar -xvpf -)
>
> quite a bit more obnoxious then cp -a for sure, but iirc it seemed to
> deal with symlinks a bit better. there is a cpio way too but i'll
> leave that to someone else.
>
> the key is when using tar use the -p switch !! :-)
>
>
cd /var; find . -mount | cpio -dumpv /home/var
has done the trick for me several times.
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