Craig Dickson wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Beware of symbolic links... > > Ah, good point. cp would actually change all symlinks (and hard links) > into separate copies, wouldn't it. So perhaps archiving to tar files > would be better. tar understands both symlinks and hard links, right? Answered my own question by creating a file, a hard link to the file, and a symlink to the file, then putting them in a tarball. Listing the contents of the tarball showed one file, one hardlink to the file, and one symlink to the file. So I deleted the originals and extracted from the tarball. Hard and symlink restored correctly. Nice! So I guess the plan will be to create three tarballs on the second HD: one for /usr, one for /home, and one for everything else in the root partition. Then mess with cfdisk and mke2fs, then unpack the tarballs into the new partitions, edit /etc/fstab, run lilo, and reboot. Craig
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