Hi, On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:56:36AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > No, but it means you're going to want to move the directory and copy its > contents to the new mountpoint once you've created it: > > $ sudo bash > # cd / > # mv home home-bak > # mount /home > # cp -pdR home-bak/* /home
It works for /home since it usually does not have any filename starting with "." period in it. For the the last line of the example, I would use a command line: # cp -pdR home-bak/. /home or using equivalent and easy to remember "archive" option: # cp -a home-bak/. /home This ensures that everything gets copied including file names starting with period. Cheers :) Osamu PS: without "/." after home-bak, /home/home-bak/is created. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]