From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 14:48:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9585616A468 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:48:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0125913C465 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) id l4OEmPNr067226; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:48:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:48:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Grant Peel Message-ID: <20070524144825.GH98411@dan.emsphone.com> References: <007a01c79df6$e8f71110$6501a8c0@GRANT> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007a01c79df6$e8f71110$6501a8c0@GRANT> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server Move - Quotas X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:48:41 -0000 In the last episode (May 24), Grant Peel said: > I am about to migrate about 250 domains from 1 server to another. > > The OLD server is running FreeBSD 4.7 and the new one is 6.2. > > Every domain has a real UNIX user whos home is in the /home directory. > > We are using user quotas to manage disk space. > > Can I directly copy the user.quota file in the /home directory from > the old server to the new one, or will I need to redo all the quotas > manually? If the uids are staying the same, you should be able to just copy the files and run quotacheck to update the accounting info. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com