[Sunhelp] Relocating partitions

[Dale Ghent]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Kevin Stevens wrote:

| I need to swap out a disk drive, and hence relocate the partitions/mount points
| on it temporarily.  For example, /var/mail is currently on this device, I want
| to relocate it to the system drive which has space free within /var, but no free
| partitions.  Several days later I'll want to move it back to the replacement
| drive.
| 
| It looks like this can be done with some combination of cp, ln, and swearing;
| but also seems as though it happens often enough that there might be a recipe.
| Can someone point me at a FAQ or howto?
|

use tar. It will get files and symlinks, which cp -r wont. When I need to
do this, I typically do:

cd /old/partition ; tar cf - . | ( cd /new/destination ; tar xfp - )

| Tangentially, where and how are Solaris 8 partitions managed, anyway?  I get
| lost when I can't find an fstab.  ;)

in /etc/vfstab

/dale