Move Home from SSD to HDD; Guide? What happened to etc/fstab?

[pwrcul]

what's the output of ls -a ~/

Let me preface this by saying things got weird with the screen/desktop so I restarted than gave the command.
Is it possible I lost something temporary that would have been important?

Here's what I get:
. .bash_history Documents .gtkrc-2.0 .mozilla .thumbnails
.. .cache Downloads sam Music Videos
00sortmelater .config .dropbox .kde Pictures .Xauthority
.adobe Desktop .dropbox-dist .local Public .xsession-errors
.AMD .directory .gconf .macromedia Templates .xsession-errors.old

[pwrcul]

Hey!
I found the stuff.
It's in sam in the above post list along with OOsortmelater, etc.
I did cd into it and opened a second sam and there I found all the stuff I moved with rsync including, e.g. another Documents folder.
The Documents folder in the above list has 0 in it while the one in second sam has 141 items in it.

I'm baffled but grateful....

What do I do now?

[pwrcul]

Folks,

I'll answer my "What do I do now?" question with more:

Would it be enough to view it as a simple editing question so that I could move the directories in the second sam, including those starting with DOt up a level in the hierarchy and if prompted about replacing some that are there, answer yes?
That is, does place within the hierarchy determine how plasma chooses to execute the configuration items I presume are embedded?

Or is there a separate process, etc.?

I'll wait before doing anything....

[bobbicat]

Sounds like a plan pwrcul. I suggest getting everything except the dot-files copied into position, first.
You can do that by a simple copy and paste operation in Dolphin until you have things tidied up how you want them.
When that is done, copy and paste the dot files, replacing as you suggest. Then do a reboot.
...and again let us know how it went.

[pwrcul]

Sounds like a plan pwrcul. I suggest getting everything except the dot-files copied into position, first.
You can do that by a simple copy and paste operation in Dolphin until you have things tidied up how you want them.
When that is done, copy and paste the dot files, replacing as you suggest. Then do a reboot.
...and again let us know how it went.

bobbicat, thanks.

I tried it. In Dolphin I did not see how it is possible in Dolphin.
I can open the second sam in /home and select a directory, e.g., R, and R-click on it and select "copy" but back up a level in /home "paste" is greyed out.
Is there something I am missing? Googling did not help in the short term.

I could try cp -r from within the second sam as something like
cp -r R ../
then delete the old R directory in sam
Tha -r recursive gives me pause going up one level, but I bet there is a way,
I did not search the man page for cp.

[bobbicat]

run this in the console:

sudo chown -R sam:sam /home/sam

then try to again do the tidy up with Dolphin

[pwrcul]

run this in the console:

sudo chown -R sam:sam /home/sam

then try to again do the tidy up with Dolphin

I have not done your proposal on ownership, but meanwhile....

I can't explain it, but after reading up some on Dolphin, esp. in
https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin/File_Management
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...e_dolphin.html
I went back and successfully now copied and pasted R but 3 more directories.
I have not deleted anything in the second sam, the subdirectory.
I think that is what you mean by "tidying up."

I will keep on my regular directory work and then tidy up.

[bobbicat]

Once everything is in place you can delete your 'second sam' but make sure that you keep the backup on your external drive for now.
the ownership command is to make sure everything in /home/sam is yours to do with as you will.

[bobbicat]

Will you post the result for:

sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "TRIM supported"

also post the contents of:

kate /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim

I might have a suggestion for you

[pwrcul]

Once everything is in place you can delete your 'second sam' but make sure that you keep the backup on your external drive for now.
the ownership command is to make sure everything in /home/sam is yours to do with as you will.

I ran the chown command.
I completed copying the non DOT directories.

I will take a break to get some sleep.
I will come back when I am less error-prone and continue
I will need to rise and work out, etc.

Meanwhile thanks. I will be back on the air.
I will leave everything running.

[pwrcul]

bobbicat, oshunluvr, xennex81,

I am back in business with a separate partition on a separate drive in my system.
Thank you for your help and thanks to kubuntuforums as well.

I rested up, etc., then today reviewed what I had done last night and went on using Dolphin to select from the second sam multiple DOT folders and overwrite the upper level ones.

Then I rebooted.
I have back the plamoids, virtual desktops, Firefox bookmarks, etc. so my customizations as well as my documents were all recovered and restored.

I will need to come back and go over the fine points people have pointed out so I have a little more than a cookbook idea of the process

[xennex81]

Thank you for your support, I am glad it was sorted finally. I just let it over to the geniuses here, not sure a person as meagre as myself could have done this.

And you're welcome.

[oshunluvr]

bobbicat, oshunluvr, xennex81,

I am back in business with a separate partition on a separate drive in my system.
Thank you for your help and thanks to kubuntuforums as well.

I rested up, etc., then today reviewed what I had done last night and went on using Dolphin to select from the second sam multiple DOT folders and overwrite the upper level ones.

Then I rebooted.
I have back the plamoids, virtual desktops, Firefox bookmarks, etc. so my customizations as well as my documents were all recovered and restored.

I will need to come back and go over the fine points people have pointed out so I have a little more than a cookbook idea of the process

Thanks goodness! I was getting concerned...

[bobbicat]

To any reading this who might also want to move their /home folder, there is an excellent, step by step, up to date guide in this Forum, written by oshunlvr .

Click this link to view:

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...root-partition

Any time you intend to make fundamental changes to your system make the first step a backup of your settings and data. Even if everything goes horribly wrong there is then always a way back.