Re: repartitioning without losing data

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:08:15AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> >P.S.  Sean/Rodolfo/Ed, if I've forgotten anything, please speak up.  I
> >need sleep.  ;-)

You're the RHCE, not me :-).  And it's morning for me now, and I haven't
had my coffee yet.

>         6) I think "rsync -avP /mnt/home/* /home/" be neater. Ownership, 
> permissions, creation and modification times will be more carefully kept 
> intact. And overall, I just trust rsync more than mv, since that's what I 

My personal preference has been cp -a, but that's just me.

> For the OP: rsync and mv are both very sensitive about trailing slashes. 
> Using "/home" means the home directory itself, and in some cases also its 
> contents. Using "/home/" with a trailing slash means the contents of /home, 
> equivalent to /home/*. So to illustrate:

Be *very* careful with this.  Syntax like /home/* isn't the right
answer, since dot files won't move/copy.  In /home, that probably isn't
an issue, but it would be if I were to move /home/ewilts/*

In any case, always double check with ls -Al and du to make sure you've got 
all the files you're supposed to have.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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