On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 01:52:14PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I have two Linux partitions on my computer (but in different hard > disks) and I would like to transfer some files from my Mandriva > partition to my Fedora Core 4 partition. I have tried > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mandriva > > and I can access to the Mandriva partition, but my files in my home > directory (in Mandriva) do not show up. I guess this problem is > related with my permissions. Is there a different way of achieving my > goal? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul This may be covered in other posting but if you login in such a way that the Mandriva partition is your home partition and your userid is the one that allows you to read the files you can use: scp <files> <user-id on the other system>@<machine-name):/<directory name> and that should work. If nothing else works tar the files on one disk and untar them on the other. Files can't just disappear short of they are hidden files (name starts with .) or permissions don't let you see them (but in this case I would expect a permission denied. One other possibility is the operating system that created one partition does not recognize the formatting done on the other partition. -- ======================================================================= "Yo baby yo baby yo." -- Eddie Murphy ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
