I got the idea how I should have done it, working with tar with some
specific tars. My biggest concern at the moment is however to repair the
whole thing.
Some of my problems so far:
- nothing is being logged in /var/log, even with chmod 777 the whole
thing (which doesn't exactly helps me in rep
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:54:42AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> One option is to use tar through a pipe:
>
> Moving from /somedir to /otherdir:
>
> cd /somedir
> tar cvf - . | ( cd otherdir; tar xvf - )
>
> ...not sure why I prefer this (I'm an old fart, I guess), but it
> pre
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:35:02PM +0100, S.P. van Noort wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I decided to put /var on a seperate partition, and I used the command
> cp -R /var/* /tmpvar (/tmpvar the new partitiona for /var)
> and then deleted /var and mounted the new partition on /var.
>
> It was (a couple of
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:29:49AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>
> As for whether cp -a is The Right Thing to do, that's an occasional topic
> of extended discussion. Some people prefer tar or other commands to handle
> that sort of thing, but some of us use cp -a and haven't had any problems
>
S.P. van Noort said:
> And can someone tell me what I should have done, a special flag for cp for
> example.
Relevant cp flag, from man cp:
-a, --archive
same as -dpR
And just what are d, p, and R?
-d, --no-dereference
preserve links
-p, --prese
Hello,
I decided to put /var on a seperate partition, and I used the command
cp -R /var/* /tmpvar (/tmpvar the new partitiona for /var)
and then deleted /var and mounted the new partition on /var.
It was (a couple of minutes) later that I found out that everything
on the new partition has owner
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