On Monday 29 April 2002 01:32, Hanan Shargi wrote: > Hi, > > Hi All, > > On my machine that dual boots Linux 8.1 and Win89 ( which I have no CD > burner on ) > I need to do the following: > > 1- tar and zip my /home folder and save it on the D: partition ( a win > fat32 partition ) > > 2- I'll split the partition I have linux on right now into two partitions: > / and /home > > 3- I'll do a fresh install > > 4- then I want to restore the /home I just saved on the win partition to > the new /home I just created. > > I need somebody to tell me what are the commands I need to run for the > taring and zipping, and then untarring and unzipping into the new /home > directory :) > > ( in details please, but not with the regular: do a "command -x option" > without the quots thing )
I don't know what you mean by that, but here goes .... su cd /home tar -cvf * home.tar # the -v option is not necessary, but I find it reassuring to see all those file names! gzip home.tar #actually, you can do these as one command, I think, but I always prefer the long way mv home.tar.gz /mnt/win_d # or whatever your D: drive is called after install ... mv /mnt/win_d/home.tar.gz /home tar -zxvf home.tar.gz Create a user for each home directory, then (as root, of course) for each directory chown -R fred /home/fred # or whoever chgrp -R fred /home/fred If you have a lot of users, it would be better to do this as a shell script > And If everything went fine,will my mail that I saved in a folder under KDE > be saved as well ? or no ? Yes Sir Robin
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