On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Colin Whittaker wrote:
||mkdir /a
|mount /dev/{newusr} /a
|( cd /usr && tar -cf - .) | (cd /a && tar -xf - )
just be careful that you've a "correct" umask set or put a preserve
permissions flag onto tar so that things will still work when you go back
to multi-user mode.
as always test it first to make sure that it works before committing your
self Instead of having having to learn the hard way.
regards
Ray ...
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