Did you mean to put the space bewteen / and usr?

ie:

tar cf - -C / usr | tar xvpf -
           ^
       right there?

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Pop Qvarnström
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?


even cooler..? :)

cd to /mnt, then do
tar cf - -C / usr | tar xvpf -

:o)

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:47:21 -0800 (PST)
 David Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cool:
>
> # tar cf - /usr | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfp - )
>
> [note - only one 'verbose v' cause you don't need it
> scrolling
> at you twice.]


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