Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Pete Connolly <pete.connolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:10, Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 09:53 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > On 01/08/06 09:45, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > >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:
> >
> > cp --preserve /oldhome/* /home
>
> rsync -ar works a treat and preserves owner/modes.
>

Hi Ken

Yep, that's what I used frequently when preparing to move from my old 80Gb to 
the new 250Gb drive.  Worked a treat and was intelligent enough not to synch 
every file every time.  Took a bit of time on the initial synch, then I could 
take my time and, when comfortable with the contents of the new disk, do a 
final switchover.

Pretty painless.

Cheers

Pete