Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:03:46 +0100 From: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpio - Cannot extract through symlink Message-ID: <20170302190346.GA673@www.stare.cz> In-Reply-To: <5e3951af-1484-0089-cbe6-2349a77ab43f@FreeBSD.org> References: <20170302124428.GA70192@www.stare.cz> <5e3951af-1484-0089-cbe6-2349a77ab43f@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mar 02 12:56:30, matthew@FreeBSD.org wrote: > 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. This was a default partitioning, i.e. I let the installer use the entire disk and make up the default partitions. (I haven;t user FreeBSD in years so I took the easy route.) Apparently, that results in one big / partition. The home dirs reside in /usr/home and /home is a symlink to /usr/home. However, my $HOME is /home/hans. So apparently, /home is not a filesystem or a directory, it's a symlink by default. Does anybody know why? > 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. Why does the installer do something else then? Is that intended? > 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. I will probably reinstall with a separate /home filesystem, but I still wonder why that is not the default. > Or if you just want your cpio command to work, specify the destination > as '/usr/home/hans' Yes, that works, but is unportable. (And I cannot use $HOME here either.) Thanks for the clue stick Jan
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