On Monday 27 April 2009 11:26:21 am Stan Goodman wrote:
At 22:34:14 on Saturday Saturday 25 April 2009, "Carlos E. R."
<robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-04-25 at 20:32 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
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I elected to use Midnight Commander, which has a UI that I recognize (but apparently imperfectly) from elsewhere. In principle, the operation preceded like duck soup, except for my imperfect recollection. As follows:
I did everything from a maintenance partition that I keep on the machine for purposes like this when it seems wise not to operate from a partition that I am trying to change. This is an openSuSE v10 on sda8.
1) I formatted the target partition (destined to be v11.1 /home), which is sdb7, to ext3. (sda7 is the source partition to be copied to sdb7).
2) I made two subdirectories in the maintenance machine, called /mnt/homeSource and /mnt/homeTarget, mounted sda7 and sdb7 to them respectively.
3) I loaded Midnight Commander, and but the sda7 in the left panel, sdb7 in the right. I can see that what is iin each is exactly what should be there. I make the left panel (the source) ACTIVE.
Right here my memory betrays me. I remembered that pressing F5 would copy the left (active) panel to the right panel, but 'tain't so. What happened is that the copy took place to the /home directory of the the maintenance machine, that was supposed to be outside the game altogether. File managers of the commander type are, unfortunately, so ubiquitous that everyone is assumed to now instinctively how to use them, and developers do not trouble to write documentation for them.
F1 is not up to today's standards, but it is still good help.
I do not find anything helpful through Google.
Not even http://en.opensuse.org/Midnight_Commander http://en.opensuse.org/Midnight_Commander/Tips :-) I recommend to use Lynx Like Motion. It is not enabled by default, and IMHO it is one of things that make mc my file manager of choice for all operations except those that benefit from image preview. Basically only multimedia files browsing is what I'm doing using Dolphin. The only assumption, after years of Midnight Commander use, is that your destination panel was /home on sda8. F5 never did unexpected copy. It was always copy from active half to inactive. Though, I did mess source and target directories not once. The most recent was backup of old home, where I moved around picking files, checked something in new home and forget to go back to old, so continued "backup" was from the new one.
Please remind me how to perform the required copy from one panel to the other. I am embarrassed to have to ask this question.
I can only advice to check twice where you are. It is showed at the top of each of the panels, which is not always useful for long paths, as you can see only the last part, but the command line at the bottom is longer and most of the time it has whole path. Switching with TAB key between panels you can check both. HTH -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org