On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 09:58:51PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote
> *- On 20 Dec, Ethan Benson wrote about "Re: Troubles with moving /var"
> > On 20/12/99 aphro wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar
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Ciao Alberto Bigazzi,
> I actually did it "by hand", by tar-ing /var, copying it under /home and
> untaring it there. Then deleting /var and symlinking /home/var to /var.
>
> But I guess this is something VERY BAD as I ended up with lots of problems
> with PERMISSIONS. Now normal users CANN
*- On 20 Dec, Ethan Benson wrote about "Re: Troubles with moving /var"
> On 20/12/99 aphro wrote:
>
>>
>>cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar
>>command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted in a magazine(Maximum
>>Linu
On 20/12/99 aphro wrote:
cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar
command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted in a magazine(Maximum
Linux) but i forgot what it was, if its linux its safe to use cp -a
probably something like (cd / ; tar -cvpf - var) | (cd /home
i moved /var /home /usr with the command cp -a which preserves everything,
i did it on 2 main servers and have nbot had a single problem so i bet its
a safe way of doing it(the servers have been online since april)
cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar
command..tha
On 20/12/99 Alberto Bigazzi wrote:
I actually did it "by hand", by tar-ing /var, copying it under /home and
untaring it there. Then deleting /var and symlinking /home/var to /var.
But I guess this is something VERY BAD as I ended up with lots of problems
with PERMISSIONS. Now normal users CANNO
The / partition on my home PC is fairly small and sometimes gets filled
up because ov /var, so I've decided to migrate /var somewhere else.
I have /usr and /home as separate partitions and would like to leave /usr
alone, thus putting /var under /home, which is quite large and nearly
unused (
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