moving /home

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 18:09, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sun December 4 2005 6:11 pm, Claude Jones wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Talking to myself, again, I rebooted into runlevel 1 and redid the copy using 
> the same command as above after mounting the new SATA drive. Unfortunately, 
> the results were the same. At least I'm managing to do all this without 
> causing any damage. I've reverted back to my old setup, now. If anyone has a  
> suggestion, I'm all ears - could this be a permission issue? 

I would use 'cp -av' for the first copy or 'rsync -avH' and
repeat the rsync command to verify or do a last-minute
update just before the switch.

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  Les Mikesell
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