From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 10 19:14:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517F437B8F4 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 19:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine.udel.edu (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA38829; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 22:15:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000610221109.00ab8470@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 22:13:10 -0400 To: Tyler Spivey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: /var In-Reply-To: <200006110204.TAA19789@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >ok, i got to single user.. if i move around /var, how do i copy its >contents? if i umount it everything >disappears so i can't mv it .. what should i do? am i s.o.l? Instead of mv, try: umask 0000 cp -Rp /var/* /usr/var That should copy over all files without changing their permissions. Then umount it and do whatever you want with it (assuming you want to remove the filesystem and then create a symlink from /var to /usr/var ?) Good luck, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message