From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 22: 1:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28E137B5D9 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:01:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@nwu.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23195 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:01:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-39-028059.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.59]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xmaa23118; Fri, 23 Jun 00 00:01:16 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA07320 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:04:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:04:21 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginner's question Message-ID: <20000622210421.A7111@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <016801bfdc7b$efb507d0$5531d5c6@coserve.org> <200006221949.PAA04196@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006221949.PAA04196@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:49:41PM -0400 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:49:41PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I'd boot as single user, or otherwise make sure no daemons, etc. > are running. > > Then > > cd /usr > mv * /mnt ---end quoted text--- What about cp -Rp ... Will moving preserve permission? -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message