Thank you all for your answers, i'm learning a lot with all guys and I appreciate a lot. I used the method suggested by Ed and let me say it works just great!!! With guys like you even a newbie like me can do anything in linux... For those who want to know, I'm installing different distros in my laptop and as I can't share the same home for every distro I prefer each distro has its own home within its own partition and add a soft link to other partition where my data is stored... just that.... Thanks again, Ed Harrison wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2007-06-18 at 07:13 +0200, Jon Clausen wrote:
cp -a /mnt/* /home/
I prefer rsync:
rsync -av /mnt/ /home/
It maintains stamps. It can be halted and restarted without copying what already exists.
I thought "cp -a" preserved time stamps. Take a look at the -p option, which -a includes.
Try this. I have used it for years.
Log out of X Change to a tty CTL-ALT-F2 Log In as root init 3 cd / mkdir home1 cd home find ./* -xdev | cpio -pdmv /home1/ umount /home cd / rmdir /home (it is now an empty directory) mv /home1 /home edit /etc/fstab to remove mounting of /dev/xxx to /home. init 5
You should be up and running.
Ed Harrison
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