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On May 28 Emilio Perea wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:13:48PM -0500, Denny White wrote:
I've been running a snapshot from several months back & got my
new 4.1 cds finally. Uname shows OpenBSD 4.1 Generic#0. I want
to keep my existing /home & /data partitions, delete all the
rest, recreate them & finish the install. After I reboot, I was
hoping I could copy over the old users from the old /etc/group
into the new one, copy the old passwd over & run pwd_mkdb. Just
want to know if I've reasoned it out correctly or not, if it is
right if there's anything else I need to run to synchronize
things, & so on. I've tried looking up that kind of scenario with
google, in the mail archives & so forth & just don't seem to come
up with what I need. The point of what I'm trying to accomplish
is not to have to copy so much from the 2 aforementioned partitions
to another drive & then copy it all back after recreating users.
Thanks for any help.
In these situations I usually keep a copy of /etc in /home/etc.tgz and
just do a new install, skipping the /home and /data partitions when
running disklabel. It's never a bad idea to have a full backup, though!
Just did a dump on all & backed up /etc to the extra hard drive.
That's why I mentioned being able to copy the old files over.
Just wanted to know if I had it right, the way I said to do it.
Thanks for the info.
- --Denny White
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