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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.hol.gr!news From: sergios@prometheus.hol.gr (Sergios) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: new partition, newfs Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 12:02:55 GMT Organization: . Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3253aa2d.117458@news.hol.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp80.ppp.hol.gr Summary: . X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Please bear with me and my lame questions. I want to move the /usr/local into a new partition, the 3rd in disk1 (wd1) I suppose after creating the filesystem, I can copy everything with (cd /usr/local; tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt; tar xfv - ), right? but how do I use the newfs. man page is a little cryptic. It says I must use disklabel first...