[wplug] adding new drives

[Bill Moran]

Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > This will work OK.  I would recommend booting from a knoppix CD when you
> > do the copies and fstab adjustments.  cp can have trouble if files are in
> > use.  Many people recommend using dump | restore when copying the files
> > for this kind of adjustment, since it seems to be a little more pedantic
> > about maintaining file attributes than cp, but I've never seen cp fail.
> > (again, I recommend you boot from Knoppix while doing the copy)
> 
> I have a Knoppix disk, so I will try that.  Since I will be using
> Knoppix, would it be better to use "mv" instead of "cp"?

mv will probably work.  Me ... I'm pretty paranoid, I always cp, and then
rm after I'm satisfied that everything transferred OK.  YMMV

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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