On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:32, Oliver Lange wrote:
> I'd like to change the /home & /var location
> to newly added harddisk partitions, so i need
> the correct cp command phrase which regards
> all and every link & permission issue, like:
>
> cp -??? /mnt/gentoo/var /mnt/gentoo/newvar
From the cp man page:
-a, --archive
Preserve as much as possible of the structure and attributes of
the original files in the copy (but do not preserve directory
structure). Equivalent to -dpR.
I did a test and it works fine. The command you'll want is:
cp -a /mnt/gentoo/var/* /mnt/gentoo/newvar
Be aware, however, that this will probably not copy .* files in the top-level
directory, in this case /mnt/gentoo/var.
Instead of booting of a CD, you can also pass the "single" option to the
kernel, which will boot up and drop you to a root shell before switching to
the "default" runlevel. That way permissions listed with ls will be the
proper users rather than numbers.
Jason
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