Re: Need advise on repartitioning

1996-09-21 Thread salwen
> 1. "tar cvf var.tar /var/*" to have a backup of the current contents of >/var. > 2. "tar cvf home.tar /home/*" to have a backup of home. Just make sure that there are no files or directories in /var or /home that start with '.'. I made this mistake when I tried to backup a user and lost all

Re: Need advise on repartitioning

1996-09-21 Thread Winfried Truemper
Pedro I. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two : primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third : partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in : /dev/hda in the same partition of /

Need advise on repartitioning

1996-09-20 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in /dev/hda in the same partition of / (no separate partition for /var). I am thi