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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
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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...