saving /home SOLVED

[ejt]

Is there a way to copy my home dir to a cd or flash drive from the CLI?

[jk4y]

Re: saving /home

For a flash drive,

sudo cp -r ~/ /media/*flash drive name without starts*

mine looks like this:

sudo cp -r ~/ /media/disk

I have no idea how you would do this for a cd though

[The Liquidator]

Re: saving /home

To do it to a CD I believe you would have to use a burning program, such as K3b

[toad]

Re: saving /home

To burn from the command line:

cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom ~/

[ejt]

Re: saving /home

will that burn just the home dir or what does ~/ mean?

and How can I find out what my flash drive and my cd burner is called and where it is?

[jk4y]

Re: saving /home

~/ is a shortcut for the home folder. I don't think that you need to find out the name of your cd burner, just use the command that toad posted. As for the flash drive go to /media/ and whichever folder is your flash drive should be the name you use.

[ejt]

Re: saving /home

I got the KDE woking before I had to try cp /home to a cd. But I would still like to cd things to a flash drive. When I ls the media folder here's what I get.
"cdrom cdrom0 cdrom1 floppy floppy0"

Could my flash drive be somewhere else or maybe it's not mounted? I really don't know what that means or how to do it but I've seen people say things like that

[jk4y]

Re: saving /home

hmm, it should automount, try this

sudo mkdir /media/disk (this makes a folder called disk in the media folder)

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/disk (this mounts your flash drive to the folder called disk)

sudo cp -r ~/ /media/disk (this copies the home folder to your flash drive)

That only works if your flash drive is at /dev/sdc. You should probably try and find out why it isn't automounting though.

[toad]

Re: saving /home

Yeah, I'm concerned about no automount. ejt (great name btw ), could you plug your stick in, wait a few seconds and then type

dmesg|tail

Please post the output. It should tell us whether the stick is recognised and where (if at all) it is mounted to.

[ejt]

Re: saving /home

I had the usb flash drive plugged in when I booted up this am so I went to console and typed dmesg| tail and this is what I got.

[ 117.320155] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 117.552129] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 117.552177] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 117.552183] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 120.063646] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 125.492491] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 125.494053] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 136.215040] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 3544.723509] usblp0: removed
[ 3549.400918] audit(1227378025.335:3): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" r equested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6196 profile="/usr/s bin/cupsd" namespace="default"

Then I unplugged it replugged it and waited a few sec and this is what I got.

[ 6496.807403] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 6496.807419] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[ 6496.807427] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6496.820384] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 16119808 512-byte hardware sectors (8253 MB)
[ 6496.823392] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 6496.823407] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[ 6496.823414] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6496.823435] sdb: sdb1
[ 6496.890722] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 6496.890864] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0

Then another window popped up and asked me what I would like to do with the "Store N Go" (the name of the Verbatim flash drive).
Now when I ls the media dir here's what I get.
/media$ ls
cdrom cdrom0 cdrom1 floppy floppy0 STORE N GO

So I guess everything is working properly now. Things must have been comprimised because of all my other issues.
Thanks for your help.
ejt