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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > paul sutton wrote: >> >> i want to move user data from the first hard disk to the accounts on the >> 2nd hard disk, can sonmeone help me with regard to the best way to do this, > > What is wrong with mounting the old disk under a temporary partition and > copying "/home" ? I am sure the above step is correct but I don't understand it :-s Please could you explain?... Is it really necessary to create a temporary _partition_, in which to mount the old disk? Many thanks. > You want to ensure that the UIDs are the same, you can do that with a > simple "find" command invoking chown if needed, or just use usermod to > set the UIDs right on the targer machine before starting. > > i.e. if the UID of simon on the old machine is 109. Make sure the UID of > simon on the new machine is 109 before mounting and copying /home. > > Simon > Recently I have been thinking about which distros to try. I am likely to try out several. To facility this I was planning to keep data and distro on separate partitions. If this is a credible idea(?), then perhaps Paul may want to do the same and not combine your data and distro in the same partition? Of course, I could be totally wrong. I blame the study ;-) haha! Best wishes Roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html