Re: permissions on /var
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:35:02PM +0100, S.P. van Noort wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I decided to put /var on a seperate partition, and I used the command
> cp -R /var/* /tmpvar (/tmpvar the new partitiona for /var)
> and then deleted /var and mounted the new partition on /var.
>
> It was (a couple of minutes) later that I found out that everything
> on the new partition has owner and group root, and it looks that also some
> of the permissions have changed, although I'm not sure of that.
>
> Can someone help me, for example by sending me a full ls -Rl of /var.
>
> And can someone tell me what I should have done, a special flag for cp for
> example.
One option is to use tar through a pipe:
Moving from /somedir to /otherdir:
cd /somedir
tar cvf - . | ( cd otherdir; tar xvf - )
...not sure why I prefer this (I'm an old fart, I guess), but it
preserves links and file permissions in a good way.
...it's also a good idea to at least to a quick visual analysis of the
results and compare target to source before blowing away the original.
--
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