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[ale] moving /var
- Subject: [ale] moving /var
- From: paul_tbot at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:15:00 -0500
- In-reply-to: <20070219173933.ZNYA29904.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@coleman>
- References: <20070219173933.ZNYA29904.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@coleman>
On Monday 19 February 2007 12:39, Chris Coleman wrote:
> Single user mode is best. Be careful to keep the permissions and ownership
> intact when you copy the files to the new partition.
I'm ASSuMing that is the process by the "--same-owner" switch on tar:
? ? tar --same-owner -cjpsvf /tmp/var.tar.bz2 /var
I was just trying that out on my system. I uh, heh heh, thought you had to
replace "same-owner" with a REAL name... ;-0) but after looking at man tar,
found out what it means!
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800