Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 07:01:25 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving /home to a new hard drive Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000901070125.0089db80@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000831093249.00ad7350@mail.utexas.edu> References: <3.0.6.32.20000831122719.00874c20@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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At 09:33 AM 8/31/00 -0500, you wrote: >Is it at all feasible to just add the new hard drive to the existing >FreeBSD machine? You tar up the contents of what you want to move, extract >it to somewhere on the new drive, put in a symbolic link from the old >location to the new location, edit fstab if needed. > > >Oscar I'm afraid not. I need the old hard drive to put in a different (Win95) machine. Wish I didn't, because I'm already pressed for space. -- Roger > >At 12:27 PM 8/31/00 +0700, Roger Merritt, you wrote: >>I had FreeBSD 3.1 on a 3GB drive. I discovered the guy before me had >>installed so much useless junk that /usr was 94% full. /usr/home was in >>a separate slice, but it was 92% full as well. I was able to get my >>hands on a 4.1GB hard drive, and I've done a new installation of >>FreeBSD, and have gotten it upgraded to 4.1-STABLE. I still have a lot >>of tweaking to do, but I need to get the users' directories moved over >>to the new drive. >> >>OK, no problem copying the users' home directories, but what do I do >>about the usernames and their associated passwords? Many years ago I >>would have assumed I could just merge the /etc/passwd file. Can I >>accomplish this by merging both /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, >>then doing a pwd_mkdb? >> >>Actually, there are only a couple of dozen usernames involved here at >>this time (soon to increase). It would be feasible for me to add the >>names using adduser, copy the contents of the user directories over, >>and then make the users change their passwords, but I would like to do >>this without them even being aware of it. One complication I *don't* >>have to deal with -- we don't have Kerberos here, so I'm changing >>*only* the local password. >> >>Any advice/warnings would be appreciated. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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