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From: loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: OKAY!  I really screwed something up!
Date: 31 Jan 1996 18:21:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
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Okay, here's what I did..  I have a 2.0.5 box and want to upgrade to 
2.1.0.  However, the 2.0.5 is a production machine so I created a new 
box, got 2.1.0 on it and mounted all filesystems from the 2.0.5 machine.  
I copied over /home and /usr/local.  Then I copied over /etc.  Here's 
where the mistake happened, I suppose.  my passwd and master.passwd file 
do not work now.  I can't log in.  WHAT DO I DO?  am I screwed? 


Also, how do add hard drives afterwards?  I mean, I want to put a new 
hard drive in and make that hard drive be /usr/local since it is my 
biggest filesystem.  How would I go about doing that?  I thought about 
moving /usr/local to /usr/oldlocal, then creating the new filesystem as 
/usr/local and copying everything over.  Is that the best way?

Loren