* Bob S. (usr@sanctum.com) [030510 23:53]: ->Hi SuSE folks, -> ->Just received my SuSE 8.2 distro. Planning on an upgrade. Want to do ->a new install because I want to change partition sizes and ->loacations, -> ->Running a dual boot system with two hard drives, hda is Windoze and ->hdb is Linux. Want to create a separate "home" partition for future ->upagrades on hdb. Am trying to copy my "home" partition to the ->windoze "F" drive on hda so I can reinstall my stuff after I ->configure the hdb drive. Tried two ways. Both unsuccessful. Both as ->root. -> ->First graphically, dragging from /home to /windows/F. (fat 32) Copies ->ALL of the directotries but NONE of the files. Seems to stop dead in ->it's tracks because a file cannot be copied. -> ->Second, command line: ex: cp -p /home/bob /windows/F ->get a message cp: omitting directory "/home/bob" or if I cd higher ->into "home" and I do a cp -p /bob /windows/F, I get this response: ->cp: cannot stat '/bob' no such file or directory. -> ->I know it is some simple stupid thing that I am doing wrong. ->Can somebody please get me on the right track? Why not tar up your home directory instead of all of /home? Log in as root and cd in /home then "tar cvf bob.tar bob" then copy the tar file over to the Windows partition. You can then copy it back over and just untar it..."tar -xvf bob.tar" into your new /home partition. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.