On Saturday 31 July 2004 07:30, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > Hi > > I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp) > using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200). > > The family have 5 accounts. > > What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive the main one (using > ReiserFS) and use the 30GB drive for data. > > So, the plan is to install (via the sid installer) Debian on the 120GB > drive. I know > - to install the current packages I've got I can > install them via dpkg --get-selections|--set-selections > - use /etc/* file as configuration for new drive > Yes you seem to have the idea there. Don't forget you may have some stuff in /usr/local that you have accumulated.
> My question is - what is the easiest|best way of copying|moving all > the accounts and their data across? Do I simply have to recreate the > users on the new drive and then copy across their home drives? Or can > I just rely on everything being set up OK if I just copy across > /etc/passwd and /etc/group. The /etc/passwd /etc/group files contain information on numeric IDs which are what is stored in the files. I see no reason why copying over the home directories wouldn't work. Worse come to worse and it doesn't work, you can always delete and recreate the users, with userdel/deluser and useradd/adduser and then recursively set the owner of their home directories with: cd /home/ chown -R fred fred chown -R jim jim chown -R sally sally Hope this helps, Luke. > > Thanks in advance > Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]