Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:20:42 -0500 From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Moving /var/mail Message-ID: <001a01c7157d$cb9feee0$d5b9bfcf@lisac>
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Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work right. Good thing I did... I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/ to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/ When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in /usr/kellyw/ So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax right on that: # cd /home/kellyw # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf -rw------- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile -rw------- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc # cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/* cp: No match. # cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/ cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied). # cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.* cp: No match. Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on this system. Thanks, Lisa Casey
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