Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:19:42 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> To: Jud <jud@fast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dumb Question re Dirprefs Message-ID: <20011010191724.A10406-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> In-Reply-To: <200110110106.VAA03659@post3.fast.net>
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See: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dirprefs+freebsd&hl=en&lr=lang_en&scoring=date&rnum=8&selm=200109300039.f8U0d7b98204%40cwsys.cwsent.com And: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dirprefs+freebsd&hl=en&lr=lang_en&scoring=date&rnum=1&selm=9prhu2%242oq2%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Jud wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD (my first Unix) for a year or so, but have > managed to shrug off most actual knowledge of how to use it like water > off a duck's behind. So please forgive in advance the newbie nature of > the following question(s): > > Currently I'm running a snapshot of -stable from the early days of 4.4 > (updated via cvsup from 4.3). Dirprefs is apparently a wonderful thing, > and I want it. :) However, I don't think I have a slice to spare for the > backup/restore process (nor do I know exactly how to backup/restore, > though I've read a bit in the man pages - but I digress, first things first). > I have a 20 gig and a 2 gig HD. 20 gig uses 7.5 gig for W2K, 12.5 for > FBSD. About 10 gig is /usr, 1 gig swap, root is well less than 1 gig, > rest is /var. 2 gig HD is a FAT32 space I use for ease of swapping > files between FBSD and NTFS. No tape, no Zip, no CD-RW. > > I don't mind replacing the filesystem and starting fresh, but downloading > the whole shebang is out of the question on my dialup connection, I > think (28.8k is best the rural phone lines can do). I gave my 4.3 disks > to a friend from Ireland, and 4.2 won't boot because my HD controller > is too new for it. > > Would any setting I could pass to "make world" enable the > reorganization of my directories by dirprefs? Do I assume correctly > that plain old "make world" would update, but not enable dirprefs to > reorganize, my current filesystem? > > Is there something I can grab from the 4.2 CD, or via CVS or FTP that > won't take forever on my connection? Or should I (more or less:) > patiently wait until November-December for my 4.4 disks to arrive in > the mail? > > Jud > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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