> Hello everybody, > > 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 > > (booted from gentoo-basic without chroot) > > Sorry if this thread isn't very gentoo-specific.
I've always used this for moving data to new partitions: % cd /mnt/gentoo/var % find -xdev -depth -print | cpio -padvmB /mnt/gentoo/newvar find options: -xdev Don't descend directories on other filesystems. -depth Process each directory's contents before the directory itself. -print Print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a newline. cpio options: -p Run in copy-pass mode. -a Reset the access times of files after reading them, so that it does not look like they have just been read. -d Create leading directories where needed. -v Verbose. List the files processed. -m Retain previous file modification times when creating files. -B Set the I/O block size to 5120 bytes. Initially the block size is 512 bytes. Good luck, -jrh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
