On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:27:18 -0500 Erik Anderson <erik at andersonfam.org> wrote: >I have a RH8 box whose /var I need to move to another partition. Would >the following command be OK to copy the current /var to the /newvar? > ># rsync -avp /var /newvar > >Do you see any issues with that? Just make sure you dont have anything running that uses /var when you do it. Moving /var can mess up some system state and other things. Use lsof to verify if at all possible. I dont think your command has any bugs, but -a already includes -p so its redundant. If you have any hard links, you might also insider adding the -H option, but I dont think anything does that by default in /var. If you tar everything, then untar it in the destination, you have the added benefit of having just completed a backup at the same time. Jay _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list