[ILUG] Copying directory trees

[Steven Satelle (Service Desk)]

Brendan Halpin <mailto:brendan.halpin at ul.ie> scribbled on 27 January 2004
09:19:

> Say I want to move /usr/local to a new partition: what's the least
> error-prone way of doing the copy?
> 
> cp to the new location, delete old, edit fstab, mount new partition?
> tar /usr/local, delete old, edit fstab, mount new partition, untar?
> 

the way I'd do it is 

'cp -rvf /usr/local /<new patition in temp mount point>
2>~/usr_local_cp.err'

then check to make sure there was no errors, unmount the old /usr/local,
mount the new one and leave the old one unmounted for a day or so to make
sure I can go back in case of SOD

But..... YMMV



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