On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:59:22PM +0000, Fred Richards wrote: > I've installed a new hard disk and decided to shift /usr. > > I've tried using tar but I get lots of error messages - > symbolic links or something. > > When I unpack the file, amend fstab and reboot, the new > /usr isn't picked up properly and I have to re-mount the > old version. > > Any ideas? This is one of those tasks that everyone has their own favourite method for - some advocate tar, some advocate cp -a... I've moved a few partitions :-) using cp -a and had no trouble. Something like this: # mount /dev/yournewHD /mnt # cp -a /usr /mnt # umount /mnt ... then amend fstab, etc. But "lots of error messages - symbolic links or something" is really too vague for anyone to be of much help. Try posting the exact error messages in all their unexpurgated glory :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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