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Moving a partition on a Sun box

To move /var, do these steps in order: 
   # mkdir /foo ; mount c0t0d0s6 /foo
   # cd /var ; tar cf - . ; (cd /foo ; tar xfBp - )
   # umount /foo
   # mv /var /xvar
   # mkdir /var
   # mount c0t0d0s6 /var
You can move /opt similarly. But note that you CANNOT move /usr this way on a running machine... it's like trying to saw off a tree branch while you're sitting on it. You must boot from CD to do that.

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