Copying home directories after install/upgrade

[Alex Beamish]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:36:40 -0500, William O'Higgins
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 01:36:19PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote:
> 
> >OK, thanks, that's for the low level 'copy these files here' part --
> >but I'm also interested in finding out if Mandrake's going to be upset
> >that I overwrote the new version of some file in a user's directory
> >with an older version.
> 
> The files you are thinking about are probably the dotfiles, which on a
> new install should be pretty minimal.  If you want you can save them, or
> you can look in /etc/skel, which is the "skeleton" files included in a
> new users $HOME directory.
> 
> For a good tutorial on moving /home, take a look at this article:
> 
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-partplan.html
> --

Thanks, for anyone else reading this thread, I got "The document you
requested does not exist on this server." .. the correct URL is

  http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-partplan.html

though looking at it now I can't see any difference. So I just went
down to runlevel 1, saved the new home directory and copied over the
old home directory. Everything seems to have transferred over but I'll
know for sure when my step-son tries to access his mail. Oh, and the
desktop image that he had there isn't araound anymore -- not sure why.

Alex



> yours,
> 
> William
> 
> 
>
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