Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:51:07 +1100 From: Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org> To: Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving /var/mail Message-ID: <4570A3CB.6010004@webanoide.org> In-Reply-To: <001a01c7157d$cb9feee0$d5b9bfcf@lisac> References: <001a01c7157d$cb9feee0$d5b9bfcf@lisac>
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Lisa Casey wrote: > 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. You could do something like this[1]: # tar -cvf - -C /home/kellyw . | tar -xpBf - -C /usr/kellyw Regards, Mikhail. [1] - Taken from 'man tar', EXAMPLES section. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B
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