Gratitude to Perry Metzger for a twenty-minute phone call: my Linux box is now transferring \/home\/anton<\/i> to the new Mac Mini with scp<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Later:<\/strong> Apparently \/home\/anton\/.Trash<\/i> contained a recursive link; the copy of my home directory ended up nine times as big as the original. And I can’t delete the lump, because its owner is wheel<\/i>, an account which I did not create and whose password I therefore do not know. Does MacBSD as preinstalled have a superuser account with a standard password?<\/p>\n Later still:<\/strong> Perry to the rescue again (he saw this post!). I needed to say sudo bash<\/i> rather than su<\/i>. Twenty-seven gigabytes of color glossy emptiness have appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gratitude to Perry Metzger for a twenty-minute phone call: my Linux box is now transferring \/home\/anton to the new Mac Mini with scp. Later: Apparently \/home\/anton\/.Trash contained a recursive link; the copy of my home directory ended up nine times … Continue reading