On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:24:09PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > my /usr is currently in xfs.. now, i want to turn it > back to ext2/ext3... how should i do this? > > is cp -a enough? or is there a debian/xfs way to do > this? tnx
Yes, cp -a will work. There are plenty of ways to do it. Basically, anything that gets all the files to the right place and keeps the metadata intact is fine. I often do something like this: # cd /usr # tar cf - . | (cd /new-usr && tar xvf -) noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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