move home from USB drive to new HDD on Laptop
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I have new install on HDD with separate home on my laptop. I have old HDD mounted via USB How do I move it's home to the new drive? I know to use cp -Rf. I want to avoid any permissions problems. I copied home to the new drive but have problems. Folder and file icons are not right. Icons have padlock on them (I can open them) some ordinary folders have padlock and X on them. I have to enter password to open them. For example, Dogs folder (just has info about or dogs, never had to have root to open it) Rather than fix problems I want to know how to do this operation w/out any problems. Is there any preperations I need to do on either drive before I start?
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I have new install on HDD with separate home on my laptop. I have old HDD mounted via USB How do I move it's home to the new drive? I know to use cp -Rf. I want to avoid any permissions problems. I copied home to the new drive but have problems. Folder and file icons are not right. Icons have padlock on them (I can open them) some ordinary folders have padlock and X on them. I have to enter password to open them. For example, Dogs folder (just has info about or dogs, never had to have root to open it) Rather than fix problems I want to know how to do this operation w/out any problems. Is there any preperations I need to do on either drive before I start?
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Only a bit different than this: To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving If owership or permissions, see this: help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors
– oldfred
Nov 20 at 3:38
I prefer the GUI Grsync makes it easy to see what is happening: sourceforge.net/projects/grsync . You could also use gparted to copy paste the /home partition and edit the /home UUID in etc/fstab. user names should be the same.
– C.S.Cameron
Nov 20 at 4:12
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I have new install on HDD with separate home on my laptop. I have old HDD mounted via USB How do I move it's home to the new drive? I know to use cp -Rf. I want to avoid any permissions problems. I copied home to the new drive but have problems. Folder and file icons are not right. Icons have padlock on them (I can open them) some ordinary folders have padlock and X on them. I have to enter password to open them. For example, Dogs folder (just has info about or dogs, never had to have root to open it) Rather than fix problems I want to know how to do this operation w/out any problems. Is there any preperations I need to do on either drive before I start?
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I have new install on HDD with separate home on my laptop. I have old HDD mounted via USB How do I move it's home to the new drive? I know to use cp -Rf. I want to avoid any permissions problems. I copied home to the new drive but have problems. Folder and file icons are not right. Icons have padlock on them (I can open them) some ordinary folders have padlock and X on them. I have to enter password to open them. For example, Dogs folder (just has info about or dogs, never had to have root to open it) Rather than fix problems I want to know how to do this operation w/out any problems. Is there any preperations I need to do on either drive before I start?
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Only a bit different than this: To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving If owership or permissions, see this: help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors
– oldfred
Nov 20 at 3:38
I prefer the GUI Grsync makes it easy to see what is happening: sourceforge.net/projects/grsync . You could also use gparted to copy paste the /home partition and edit the /home UUID in etc/fstab. user names should be the same.
– C.S.Cameron
Nov 20 at 4:12
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Only a bit different than this: To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving If owership or permissions, see this: help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors
– oldfred
Nov 20 at 3:38
I prefer the GUI Grsync makes it easy to see what is happening: sourceforge.net/projects/grsync . You could also use gparted to copy paste the /home partition and edit the /home UUID in etc/fstab. user names should be the same.
– C.S.Cameron
Nov 20 at 4:12
Only a bit different than this: To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving If owership or permissions, see this: help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors
– oldfred
Nov 20 at 3:38
Only a bit different than this: To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving If owership or permissions, see this: help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors
– oldfred
Nov 20 at 3:38
I prefer the GUI Grsync makes it easy to see what is happening: sourceforge.net/projects/grsync . You could also use gparted to copy paste the /home partition and edit the /home UUID in etc/fstab. user names should be the same.
– C.S.Cameron
Nov 20 at 4:12
I prefer the GUI Grsync makes it easy to see what is happening: sourceforge.net/projects/grsync . You could also use gparted to copy paste the /home partition and edit the /home UUID in etc/fstab. user names should be the same.
– C.S.Cameron
Nov 20 at 4:12
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Only a bit different than this: To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving If owership or permissions, see this: help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors
– oldfred
Nov 20 at 3:38
I prefer the GUI Grsync makes it easy to see what is happening: sourceforge.net/projects/grsync . You could also use gparted to copy paste the /home partition and edit the /home UUID in etc/fstab. user names should be the same.
– C.S.Cameron
Nov 20 at 4:12