From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 05:00:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA12245 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA12236 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id NAA25309; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:46:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by klemm.gtn.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03097; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:17:48 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:17:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Sergios , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help on newfs and a new partition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-try-apsfilter: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz X-Fax: +49 2137 2018 X-Phone: +49 2137 2020 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Sergios wrote: > > > please somebody help me. I have a 700 Mb free space on wd1 and I > > want to move > > /usr/local there. with other unices I have made a mount > > /mnt and > > (cd /usr/local; tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt; tar xfv -) > > That'll work once the filesystem exists. I recommend using the tar's p flag when extracting the stuff to get the same permissions after extractimg ;-) otherwise you might wonder why permissions of all files changed to root regarding to root's umask settings ;-) > Take a look at the disklabel(8) man page for details. Wasn't this covered by the handbook ?! Or wasn't the recommendation. to use the /stand/sysinstall program, that has an easier handling ?! Maybe I'm wrong. just a guess... For the programs in /stand to run, you need the gzip pseudo-device in kernel ... Andreas /// -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<