May I ask why you used tar rather then just cp? At 13:46 06/09/01 +0100, you wrote: >Well my idea (which I couldn't see problems with) >was to tar off the data on the fly from /usr to /mnt/usr, from /var to >/mnt/var >etc. etc. >e.g.: >cd /usr; tar lcvf - . | (cd /mnt/usr; tar xpvf - )