From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 8:46:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E67F637B403 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 08:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7704 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Oct 2001 15:46:00 -0000 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:46:00 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: transfer home dir Message-ID: <20011007174600.A24409@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200110071525.f97FP9w01032@wiers556.speed.planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200110071525.f97FP9w01032@wiers556.speed.planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:25:09PM +0200, Wijnand Wiersma wrote: > I'm a newbee to freebsd and I never noticed that I don't have a /home > directory like in linux. I didn't knew it was just a link to /usr/home. > But now my /usr partition is full. I have a free partition wich i want to use > for my home directory. How can I do this without screwing up my ownerships of > files? Just remove the symlink, mount that partition under /home, and copy the data using cd /usr/home; tar cf - . | tar xpf - -C /home or cd /usr/home; pax -rw -pe . /home This way ownerships, permissions and other stuff will be preserved -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@flutnet.org < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' Where's the DIR command? --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message