Re: [LUG] New Laptop question

[Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/05/16 14:23, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2016, Tom wrote:
>
> > I've just got me a new laptop and set up Xubuntu 16.04 on it.
> > I was going to set up my home directory on the old Xubuntu 15.10 on it
> > available to the new one via NFS and then just copy the whole thing
> > over to my new home directory.
> > This should be OK shouldnt it? Or will I need to chown?
>
> If the UID (in /etc/passwd) on the new one is the same as the old one
> then you're fine. Use cp -a old new
>
> Or if NFS gives you issues just use rsync (with or without the
> --numeric-ids option)
Presumably I'd still have to export the files system some way for the 
other machine to rsync from it?
Tom te tom te tom


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