Lawson;
Thanks a lot! With your help I was able to resize my partitions. I'm
now much more comfortable working with linux partitions, editing fstab,
etc.
Everything seems to be working ok, EXCEPT! my backspace key in Netscape.
I'm using Netscape for email and with the way I type, no backspace key
is unacceptable. I could live without 'home' and 'end', but I can't
live without backspace.
Thanks again.
Tom
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>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tom Bernett wrote:
>
> > Richard;
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Richard Adams wrote:
> > >
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > directorys such as /proc cannot be copied because they are not realy
> there,
> > > they are virtual and held in memory.
> >
> > Yes, I understand that /proc is a virtual file system.
> >
> > > /usr should be ok tho. read the man page for cp or mv, a beter way is
> to
> > > use tar to archive the whole lot.
> > >
> >
> > You say it 'should' be ok. How can I be certain? What if it's not ok?
>
> > I don't want to do something that would require me to reinstall.
> >
> > I read man cp and man tar, but I don't believe they address my concern
> > about what can and what can't be copied.
> >
> If you didn't find man tar satisfying, try info -f tar :-). I would
> trust tar to move anything that can be moved. After all, its entire
> purpose is to make and restore backups. What use is a backup if you
> can't restore everything you backed up? To move the contents of
> /dev/foo to /dev/bar,
>
> mkdir /bas
> mkdir /baz
> mount -t <fstype> /dev/foo /bas
> mount -t <fstype> /dev/bar /baz
> tar -C /bas -cO . | tar -C /baz -xf -
>
> If you are moving something that is already mounted, of course you don't
> need to make a mount point or mount it. I just included those for
> completeness.
>
> do a diff -r /bas /baz if it makes you feel better, but if they are big
> partitions, it will take a while. In trying to prove to myself that
> that technique works, I accidentally deleted /dev/* before I had made a
> copy. So I made a device for my cdrom with mknod, mounted a slackware
> cd, and restored /dev from slakware/a2/devs.tgz. If you get this, tar
> handles device special files.
>
