Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

["Brian Blater (BBList)" <bblist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On Tue, Aug 1, 2006 at  2:10 PM, in message
<1154455841.24041.24.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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.

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