According to Brian Lehr: While burning my CPU.
>
> Tonight Brian Lehr is a happy man. It's 2:45 am, and I'm going to bed
> with a smile on my face (have to be up in five hours for Church -- hope
> my smile is still there!) :-)
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> Richard Adams wrote:
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> > Use mkfs to build the filesystem, read man mkfs, another option is
> > mkfs.ext2 but its more complicated, read the man page for details.
>
> > --
> > Regards Richard.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Exactly what I did just before I got your email. Found a good doc for
> system admins online. Until I read it, I knew nothing about mkfs.
> Didn't see it in my other docs on partitioning. But that's how we
> learn. Thanks to Richard and others for being patient with me. BTW,
> when I copied all my users home directories unto the new partition, they
> lost all their previously set permissions. I had to "re-permission"
> them all.
Use cp -Rp
-R Copy directories recursively.
-p Preserve the original files' owner, group, permissions, and timestamps.
The price would have been "none" when using the above options.
> Small price to pay for finally getting the extra space, but
> curious nonetheless.
>
> Thanks again,
> Brian Lehr
> Alberta, Canada
>
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Regards Richard.
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