dang. i see the reply-to headers aren't fixed. :(
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Harry Souders wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:30:38PM -0700, Nicole Carlson wrote:
> > I'm trying to delete /redhat/* and use that partition for /home , a
> > brilliant idea somewhat hampered by mv's reluctance to move directories
> > across filesystems. I'll think of something eventually. [2]
> > But thanks for all the help!
>
> Here's a couple of suggestions for the partition:
>
> Borrow Partition Magic from someone and resize the partitions (maybe
> FIPS would work?)
>
> One interesting way to copy files, which I have not tried, is to use a
> piped tar. Brian Lavender had an example:
>
> tar cf - /var | (cd /newdisk/var/; tar xfp -)
>
> I 'think' copying the file structure over this way preserves the file
> bits (rwx & ownership).
note that you can do this with cp using the -r (recursive) and -p (preserve
file attributes) options.
pete
