At 10:43 PM -0500 12/6/07, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> I was getting dangerously close to running out of disk space >> since /usr was filling up fast. >> >> I thought it was simple to tar-copy /usr to a different drive/partiton >> using tar copy such as: >> >> (cd /usr; tar cpf - .) | (cd /newpartition; tar xpf -) > >using tar doesn't copy the extended attributes used by SELinux. ... ... `man tar` shows the --xattrs and --no-xattrs options (though `man tar` and `info tar` don't say what the default is), so tar should work for EAs if used with --xattrs. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
