Thank you all for your answers, i'm learning a lot with all guys and I appreciate a lot. I used the method suggested by Ed and let me say it works just great!!!
With guys like you even a newbie like me can do anything in linux... For those who want to know, I'm installing different distros in my laptop and as I can't share the same home for every distro I prefer each distro has its own home within its own partition and add a soft link to other partition where my data is stored... just that.... Thanks again, Ed Harrison wrote: > James Knott wrote: > >> Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> >>> The Monday 2007-06-18 at 07:13 +0200, Jon Clausen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> cp -a /mnt/* /home/ >>>> >>>> >>> I prefer rsync: >>> >>> rsync -av /mnt/ /home/ >>> >>> It maintains stamps. It can be halted and restarted without copying what >>> already exists. >>> >>> >>> >> I thought "cp -a" preserved time stamps. Take a look at the -p option, >> which -a includes. >> >> >> > Try this. I have used it for years. > > Log out of X > Change to a tty CTL-ALT-F2 > Log In as root > init 3 > cd / > mkdir home1 > cd home > find ./* -xdev | cpio -pdmv /home1/ > umount /home > cd / > rmdir /home (it is now an empty directory) > mv /home1 /home > edit /etc/fstab to remove mounting of /dev/xxx to /home. > init 5 > > You should be up and running. > > Ed Harrison > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
