Brendan Halpin wrote:
> 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?
rsync -a /usr/local/ /tmp/mount/point
is probably the best way of copying. Then continue as in your first
suggestion.
Steve
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