On Sun December 4 2005 3:58 pm, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote: > Slip-up on my part - > To move file from /home (old) to /home (new) U need to temporarily mount > the /dev/sda1 in the first place. > > $ su - > password: ******* > > # mkdir /mnt/my80gigHOME ! this is a new folder in your old drive > # mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/my80gigHOME > # cd /mnt/my80gigHOME > # mkdir /home ! This is going to be your /home dir on 80 gig > > ! now transfer (copy) files from /home to /mnt/my80gigHOME/home > including all hidden files. Anil: Thanks for all the help - this is where my research was taking me, but your post helps my confidence that it would work. One last nail, er, I mean question. To copy the contents of /home to /mnt/my80gighome should this do the trick in terms of transferring all the attributes and links properly? cp -pr /home /mnt/my80gighome -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
