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Neil Williams wrote: | | cp -r /oldvar/* /var
cp has some extra options to ensure you preserve more in a copy - I usually use "-rp" as a minimum of this sort of thing. Not sure how much it helps, just one of those habits which I probably thought about the first time I did it.
| When I edit /etc/fstab to mount, say, /dev/hdb6 as /usr/share, I'm presuming | that GNU/Linux is sensible enough to work out that /usr is on / (/dev/hda5) | and /usr/share is on /dev/hdb6. Directories in /usr/share will then be | created in the top level folder of /dev/hdb6. All that's happened with /var/ | is that /var/lost+found/ has appeared, as expected.
Order can matter, and mount point directories exist on the old file system only (it is just "/" on the mounted filesystem), but I think you are fine.
Traditionally *nix lets you hide files under system mount points (that is a very obscure way to lose disk space), I think some Linux distro's protect users from this now.
You are mounting a filesystem onto the root filesystem so order is not normally a big issue (hint try it without mounting "/" first ;) )
| (It's late, I just wanted confirmation so that I can do this tomorrow, maybe.)
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