From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 10:09:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0E316A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 10:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane.co.uk [82.152.23.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEF243D55 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 10:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by unsane.co.uk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4CH9KZD000523 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 12 May 2004 18:09:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from localhost (jhary@localhost) by unsane.co.uk (8.12.11/8.12.10/Submit) with ESMTP id i4CH9Khw000519; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:09:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:09:20 +0100 (BST) From: Vince Hoffman To: carvin5string In-Reply-To: <20040512164909.5157.qmail@web40410.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040512180016.H493@unsane.co.uk> References: <20040512164909.5157.qmail@web40410.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looks like i've dug my hole too deep, plz help quick. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:09:21 -0000 On Wed, 12 May 2004, carvin5string wrote: > I may have screwed up big time - I tried moving /var to /usr/var and > accidentally was in root when I ran the command > tar cf - . | ( cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) if it was simply that then nothing was deleted. tar cf - just tars up the files and sends it to stdout. nothing is deleted. the only files i have in / are COPYWRITE and entropy. dont need any others you may need to delete the files you created in /usr/var but you shouldnt need to copy them back. > now when I look at root it has some directories but no files at all. I > look at /usr/var and see directories and no files. When I try to > reverse the process with this command, from /usr/var, > tar cr - . | ( cd /; tar xf - ) > I get lots of errors about file system full. > This is on my company web server. What can I do to fix this? > -- > Chip > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' > http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >