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Re: Moving /var to another drive



On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 08:33, George Karaolides wrote:
<snip>
> And transfer the data using tar:
> 
> tar cplf - -C / var | tar xvf - -C /mnt
I would use rsync for this.  It is faster and just all around
better(IMHO).


> Unmount the partition
> 
> umount /mnt
> 
> Mount the other one and do the same thing for /usr:
> 
> mount /dev/<partition>
> tar cplf - -C / usr | tar xvf - -C /mnt
> umount /mnt
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