[CentOS] Mounting /var directory to a new HardDisk

Fri Jan 18 10:05:06 UTC 2008
Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>

>> but not before you boot single user and copy all the contents across manually and then modify /etc/fstab to reflect the new location of /var.
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> If I boot from single user mode and copy /var directory to new
> hardiisk, What will happent to permissions?
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use rsync to copy the data over - this will preserve all perms etc very 
nicely - yes tar will also but i prefer rsync