On 5 Oct 2018 at 18:30, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Date sent: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 18:30:57 -0500 From: Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: copy /home on one laptop to another Organization: Mailbox Ignored Send reply to: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi, > > I have a new laptop and have installed F28 on it. The old laptop is also running F28. I would like to copy /home from the old laptop to the second. What would be the best way to do this? Both are on the network, but I am hoping for a solution that does not go through the network. > > Any suggestions? Couple of questions. 1. Is this one user or many users? 2. Do the user(s) have the matching user numbers on the two machines? 3. Are you copying just data files or everything? There are a number of directories with start with . and they are not copied automatcially by some processes. Some files might be in use if running from the hard disk OS, so might be better to boot from type of live cd, and do the copy, and then do the reverse on other system as well. Could also use a cross-over cable, and connect machines directly, and transfer files. Would also recommend a full backup before in case something doesn't work. In imaging machines, there are some files that link to the MAC of the network card, and they would cause minor issues, but those are not in the /home directory. Do an ls -a in the individual /home directories, and you will see the number of these special directories. > > Many thanks for any help and best wishes, > Ranjan > > -- > Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 65921454.270086 | ABC 16613838.513356 SETI 109583638.490525 | EINSTEIN 141504762.499240 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
