Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Neal Lippman (nl@lippman.org) spake thusly:
...
> One thing I wondered about, though. You are using the technique of taring up 
> the entire directory tree and then untaring it into the target partition. Why 
> not just use cp -a <source> <target> instead?

Tradition, portability. "cp -a" is a GNUism, there was no "cp -a" back when, 
and there is no "cp -a" on many systems now. It doesn't matter if you are
not going to use a Real Unix(tm), ever; those who do prefer to learn portable
ways of doing things.

Dima
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