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Re: Problem moving /usr to new partition



On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:33:47AM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote:

> My question is: what else do I need to do to move /usr onto a new partition
> and have Linux boot properly? I re-read the HOWTOs and can't find any
> mention of anything other than what I tried. Help!

You need to copy things in a manner that preserves the permissions and
ownership of the files.  I tend to use "rsync -a" to do this.

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