Copying home directories after install/upgrade

[Alex Beamish]

Hello,

I've just re-installed Mandrake 10 on my step-son's computer, and I
want to copy his home directory from the small drive (6.4G, dual boot
with Windows 98) where I originally installed it to the new drive
(80G, Mandrake only). The previous installation was Mandrake 10
Community which I tried unsuccessfully to upgrade to 10 -- I think it
failed because there wasn't enough space.

I've managed to mount the drives with the old installation, but I
guess what I really want to do is

  rm -fr /home/matt/*   # force, recursive (new location)
  cp -apr /olda7/* /home/matt  # all files, protect
permissions/ownership, recursive

I'm just not sure it's going to mess something up .. are there files
that I shouldn't copy over, but leave from the original?

Thanks.

Alex
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