Re: newbie - migrating - home drive, UIDs, and etc/group, and such

2009-01-11 Thread jim barchuk
HiHi Vadim! You can specify exact UIDs for each user you create with adduser. Problems start to arrive only when existing (old) UIDs or GIDs interfere with (new) system ones. And even in this case something like this will do the job: set -e cd /home for U in alex joe paul; do I thought

newbie - migrating - home drive, UIDs, and etc/group, and such

2009-01-10 Thread Jim Barchuk
HiHi All! I've migrated bunches of drives under RH (yeah since 4.2) but I'm an OBSD xtreme-nooobeee. Been reading tons of docs and I think I've got my ducks lined up but want to double check with an opinion or two. Box has 3 drives, boot, home, and backup. I did the install with just the

Re: newbie - migrating - home drive, UIDs, and etc/group, and such

2009-01-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Jim Barchuk j...@jbarchuk.com wrote: /dev/wd1j /home-b ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0i /400ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 Sounds good? I would not recommend using ext2fs for long term storage. It's fine for migration, but not intended to be

Re: newbie - migrating - home drive, UIDs, and etc/group, and such

2009-01-10 Thread Jim Barchuk
HiHi Ted! /dev/wd1j /home-b ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0i /400ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 I would not recommend using ext2fs for long term storage. It's fine for migration, but not intended to be a primary store. Yep that's in my list of TTD but the more basic

Re: newbie - migrating - home drive, UIDs, and etc/group, and such

2009-01-10 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 11 January 2009 c. 06:46:59 Ted Unangst wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Jim Barchuk j...@jbarchuk.com wrote: /dev/wd1j /home-b ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0i /400ext2fs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 Sounds good? I would not recommend using ext2fs for long term