Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> >logout all users
>>> >login as root
>>> >mv /home /oldhome
>>> >make /etc/fstab entry for /home
>>> >mount /home
>>> >move contents of /oldhome to /home
>>> >delete /oldhome and contents (rm - R /oldhome, IIRC)
>>> >
>>> Oops, to preserve permissions, links, etc more easily, "move contents of
>>> /oldhome to /home" should be:

I do not know what happened to your `mv` but mine certainly keeps 
permissions and stuff. And, I'd say that's default because mv does not have 
a -p option.

>>> cp -- preserve /oldhome/* /home
>> 
>> rsync - ar works a treat and preserves owner/modes.

You certainly want -HSa. (And note that -r is in -a)

>Thank you everyone for filling in the blanks. I will give this a shot later tonight and see how it goes. Luckily /home does not have a bunch of data. I will try the rsync -ar and if not that the cp --preserve.
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
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Jan Engelhardt
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