From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 10 18: 6:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post3.fast.net (post3.fast.net [209.92.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E543C37B401 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparky (maxtnt02-sdf-377.fast.net [209.92.171.123]) by post3.fast.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03659 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:06:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200110110106.VAA03659@post3.fast.net> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:08:18 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jud Subject: Dumb Question re Dirprefs Reply-To: jud@fast.net X-Mailer: Opera 5.12 build 932 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been using FreeBSD (my first Unix) for a year or so, but have managed to shrug off most actual knowledge of how to use it like water off a duck's behind. So please forgive in advance the newbie nature of the following question(s): Currently I'm running a snapshot of -stable from the early days of 4.4 (updated via cvsup from 4.3). Dirprefs is apparently a wonderful thing, and I want it. :) However, I don't think I have a slice to spare for the backup/restore process (nor do I know exactly how to backup/restore, though I've read a bit in the man pages - but I digress, first things first). I have a 20 gig and a 2 gig HD. 20 gig uses 7.5 gig for W2K, 12.5 for FBSD. About 10 gig is /usr, 1 gig swap, root is well less than 1 gig, rest is /var. 2 gig HD is a FAT32 space I use for ease of swapping files between FBSD and NTFS. No tape, no Zip, no CD-RW. I don't mind replacing the filesystem and starting fresh, but downloading the whole shebang is out of the question on my dialup connection, I think (28.8k is best the rural phone lines can do). I gave my 4.3 disks to a friend from Ireland, and 4.2 won't boot because my HD controller is too new for it. Would any setting I could pass to "make world" enable the reorganization of my directories by dirprefs? Do I assume correctly that plain old "make world" would update, but not enable dirprefs to reorganize, my current filesystem? Is there something I can grab from the 4.2 CD, or via CVS or FTP that won't take forever on my connection? Or should I (more or less:) patiently wait until November-December for my 4.4 disks to arrive in the mail? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message