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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:56:30 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cpio - Cannot extract through symlink
Message-ID:  <5e3951af-1484-0089-cbe6-2349a77ab43f@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170302124428.GA70192@www.stare.cz>
References:  <20170302124428.GA70192@www.stare.cz>

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From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <5e3951af-1484-0089-cbe6-2349a77ab43f@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: cpio - Cannot extract through symlink
References: <20170302124428.GA70192@www.stare.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20170302124428.GA70192@www.stare.cz>

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On 2017/03/02 12:44, Jan Stary wrote:
> but I would very much like to avoid the unportable --insecure.
> How is /tmp/foo supposed to get copied to $HOME 'via symlink' anyway?
> Am I missing something obvious?


By default, there is a symlink from /home to /usr/home.  I'm not
entirely sure why -- historical reasons, probably.

You can mount home directories directly as /home -- this works well, and
it's how the system seems to be expecting things to be laid out.  If
you're on ZFS, it's fairly easy to just remove the symlink at /home and
then rename ZFSes and play with mountpoints and various other properties
to get /home directly mounted.  For UFS, so long as you have a separate
partition for /usr/home, it's doable to re-arrange things in a similar
way, but remember to update /etc/fstab appropriately.

Or if you just want your cpio command to work, specify the destination
as '/usr/home/hans'

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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