Heres a strange one Copy home to other partition

[ka9qlq]

Ok I

rcp -r -p -v /home /media/sda5

and it copied (as far as I can tell) everything including hidden files and subdirectories. Then I changed fstab so home was sda5 from hdb2 and rebooted. Everththing seemed to work fine but when I got KDE up it was like I was a new user, all my customization gone and the KDE wizzard to set up a new user popped up. So I put fstab back and reboot and everything is back. What happened? I need to copy home over so I can split hda2 in to hdb2, 3, & 4 then put home back on hdb4 with no data/customization lost. Help.

[lowey23]

Re: Heres a strange one Copy home to other partition

This is part of aysiu's instruction on creating a separate home partition. I don't know if it is what is required in your case, but it may help nonetheless.

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Next, we're going to specify to use the new home partition as /home:

sudo cp /old/etc/fstab /old/etc/fstab_backup
sudo nano /old/etc/fstab
You'll then be taken to the nano text editor. Add in this line:

/dev/(new home) /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2
Then save (Control-X), confirm (Y), and exit (Enter)
After you reboot, you should be now using your new /home partition.
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Hope this may help.

[Rog131]

Re: Heres a strange one Copy home to other partition

This is how i copy Kubuntu:

Example: moving/copying kubuntu from hdb1 to the sda1

Start kubuntu from cd.

Choose:Start Kubuntu in safe graphic mode


Make directories and mount them. In the konsole:

sudo mkdir /media/old
sudo mount /dev/hdb1 /media/old

sudo mkdir /media/new
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/new

Copy kubuntu:

sudo rsync -a /media/old/ /media/new

Note:

A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating an additional directory level at the destination.

Edit fstab.

This is from HOWTO: Copy kubuntu system
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=11116.0

[ka9qlq]

Re: Heres a strange one Copy home to other partition

Well when I change

/dev/hdb1 /        ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro 0    1
/dev/hdb2 /home      ext3  defaults    0    2

To

/dev/sda5 /home      ext3  defaults    0    2

it mounts the partition as home and not the /home directory I copied to the partition so it doesn't see the user directory in /home so I'm going to try this

/dev/sda5 /home/home      ext3  defaults    0    2

I know there are linux wizzards out there that will pop rolaids over this but we'll see.

[ka9qlq]

Re: Heres a strange one Copy home to other partition

Got it done by putting the user directory to the root of sda5