Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:46:00 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen <alm@flutnet.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: transfer home dir Message-ID: <20011007174600.A24409@md2.mediadesign.nl> In-Reply-To: <200110071525.f97FP9w01032@wiers556.speed.planet.nl> References: <200110071525.f97FP9w01032@wiers556.speed.planet.nl>
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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
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