On Sun December 4 2005 4:24 pm, Claude Jones wrote: > > cp -pr /home /mnt/my80gighome > To update myself, I used the above with one small addition: cp -prv /home /mnt/my80gighome Unfortunately, I had a problem. I edited and rebooted, and the machine came up fine, but when I went to log in, it just returned the login screen each time I tried to log in under my username. It did let me log in as root, so I changed fstab back the way it was, and rebooted, and now I'm back where I was. I did check before rebooting, to see if the old /home was not mounted, and that the new one was on sda1; sda1 was mounted as /home, and I could browse the folders. Presumably, something went wrong with the copy. I did notice there was a discrepancy in the two home folders after the copy. 62 files totaling about 5k in size did not get copied. Maybe some lock files or something? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
