Just a follow up:  I moved the /vicepa partition using tar as I
suggested
and it has been working fine for several days.

Jan Harkes wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:12:38AM -0400, Douglas C. MacKenzie wrote:
> > I want to move my /vicepa partition to a faster disk drive.
> > I'm planning to turn off the coda server, use tar to copy the files
> > from the old partition to the new partition, and then change
> > fstab to map the new partition back to /vicepa.  BTW, the
> > new partition is larger than the old one, but I'm moving it
> > to gain some speed, not the extra size.
> >
> > Will that work?
> 
> I _think_ it should work, i.e. we shouldn't be depending on inode
> numbers or anything except for the pathnames leading up to the files and
> the filesizes to be correct.
> 
> Jan

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