On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Well, this should be dead easy...and I've read the man & info pages, but I > still get this problem: > > I'm upgrading from 6.2 to 7.3. I have both installed and running on > separate HDDs on this computer. I want to copy all of each user's files > from the old system to the new. I have the new drive's home directory > mounted as /mnt/new. So, I want to > cp /home/user/<all files and folders> /mnt/new/user > > I used this command from either the /home directory or from the > /home/user directory: > > #cp -rvp /home/user/.* /mnt/new/user > > and what happens is below /mnt/new/user I get all of the files (and > sub-directories)being copied from the /home directory. > > Now I know that I'll have to run cp again to get the files that are not > "dot" files, but that's not the issue. The problem is that I get all of > the other user's files on the system being cp'ed into /mnt/new/user. > > Help, please! > > Mark
Try using cp -ax to move the files. You should be able to cp -ax /home /mnt/home to make an exact copy of everything in /home to /home in the new drive. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
