Re: adding new hard disk
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 18:41 GMT, Travis Crump penned:
> Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 12:51 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
>>>
>>>cp -ax
>>
>> Okay, having read the man pages, I'm not sure how this does more than
>> the -d option that -a includes. -a already stops you from following
>> symlinks ... maybe I'm just being dense, but what additional
>> situations does the -x cover?
>>
>
> Say you have /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home mounted on seperate
> partitions and you want to move just the root partition to a new
> partition. you can do 'cp -ax / /mnt/newroot'. If you were to do
> just 'cp -a / /mnt/newroot', the contents of /usr, /tmp, /var, and
> /home would be copied to the new partition as well.
>
Doh! Sure enough, I was being dense.
Thanks for the clarification!
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monique
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