Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:27:19 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Moving /home to a new hard drive Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000831122719.00874c20@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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I had FreeBSD 3.1 on a 3GB drive. I discovered the guy before me had installed so much useless junk that /usr was 94% full. /usr/home was in a separate slice, but it was 92% full as well. I was able to get my hands on a 4.1GB hard drive, and I've done a new installation of FreeBSD, and have gotten it upgraded to 4.1-STABLE. I still have a lot of tweaking to do, but I need to get the users' directories moved over to the new drive. OK, no problem copying the users' home directories, but what do I do about the usernames and their associated passwords? Many years ago I would have assumed I could just merge the /etc/passwd file. Can I accomplish this by merging both /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, then doing a pwd_mkdb? Actually, there are only a couple of dozen usernames involved here at this time (soon to increase). It would be feasible for me to add the names using adduser, copy the contents of the user directories over, and then make the users change their passwords, but I would like to do this without them even being aware of it. One complication I *don't* have to deal with -- we don't have Kerberos here, so I'm changing *only* the local password. Any advice/warnings would be appreciated. -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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