[H-GEN] cp incantation

[Robert Stanford]

Doug South wrote:

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>Hi All,
>
>I've got a machine that has everything on one partition, which was OK
>at the time, but is causing some pain now. I've got a free partition
>and I want to move /usr from the root partition to the newly formatted
>partition *without* kill anything that currently works.
>
>I tried :
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>cp -L -preserve=all -r /usr /mnt/hda6
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>but some links weren't being created. I'm currently using midnight
>commander to do this[1], but I want to know the right way to get it
>done with cp. Any clues or suggestions?
>
>Regards,
>Doug
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>[1] Most likely not the right answer because I'm sure I'm losing
>ownership, which is important if I really want to keep things working.
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cd /usr
find . | cpio -pm /mnt/hda6