directory "/old" in the root directory

[piete]

Hi! I have a simple problem that is very difficult to find answer with search engine.

In my root directory, I found a directory called "old". It seems to be a copy of all the other directories. I would like to know if this is something Kubuntu has done because I can't find that directory in root directory descriptions.

I transferred my system from another hard disk by mounting the old root to /mnt/old and the new root to /mnt/new and copying everything using instructions found in the internet (cp --recursive --verbose /mnt/old/* /mnt/new/). At this time I hadn't noticed if "/old" was in the old hard disk. I only noticed it later. However, the new Kubuntu installation seemed to be a bit smaller (whatever the reason) so the directory may have been already in the old system.

Could this have something to do with the recursive option of the copy command or is this a backup that Kubuntu makes? It would be nice to know since the directories consume almost 2GB of hard disk space.

I'm sorry if this has been already answered but I couldn't make a search for "/old", at least Google ignores the "/".

[opie]

Re: directory "/old" in the root directory

"Could this have something to do with the recursive option of the copy command or is this a backup that Kubuntu makes?"

To my knowledge kubuntu doesn't typically make a backup like that. I don't know about upgrading from earlier versions.

I think your suspicion about recursion is a good one though I don't have a clear vision of how, or at what point, that may have happened(you say you aren't sure if the directory was there from previous operations).