Or just cp -a
>>>>> "Sudhakar" == Sudhakar Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sudhakar> [EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed:
>> I had setup a mailserver few days back. later i realised that
>> the var/spool partition wasnt adequate enough for all the
>> mails. so i bought a new harddisk, renamed the /var/spool/mail
>> , made a directory called mail in the new hardisk and copied
>> all the stuff from the old mail directory to this new
>> directory. next made a soft link in /var/spool called mail
>> linking to my new harddisk.
>>
>> it didnt work out. when i fire pine, it says mailbox empty.
Sudhakar> <snip>
Sudhakar> The permissions were not preserved when you copied over
Sudhakar> /var/spool/mail.old to /newhardisk/mail
Sudhakar> Use tar with the -p switch to preserve the permissions
Sudhakar> like so:
Sudhakar> cd /var/spool/mail.old tar cvf - . && cd
Sudhakar> /newhardisk/mail/; tar xvf -
Sudhakar> [WARNING! I have'nt tried this. Please try it out
Sudhakar> elsewhere before you actually do it]
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