From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Yeu Subject: Mounting a new partition Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:49:31 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D36028B.7060708@tulane.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux Newbie Just a quick question: If I create a new partition and mount it over a point which contains data (lets say /var), will all the data be copied over to the new partition, or will everything be destroyed? If the answer happens to be the latter, what's the workaround? Thanks, Dave Y. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs