On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:08:15AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > >P.S. Sean/Rodolfo/Ed, if I've forgotten anything, please speak up. I > >need sleep. ;-) You're the RHCE, not me :-). And it's morning for me now, and I haven't had my coffee yet. > 6) I think "rsync -avP /mnt/home/* /home/" be neater. Ownership, > permissions, creation and modification times will be more carefully kept > intact. And overall, I just trust rsync more than mv, since that's what I My personal preference has been cp -a, but that's just me. > For the OP: rsync and mv are both very sensitive about trailing slashes. > Using "/home" means the home directory itself, and in some cases also its > contents. Using "/home/" with a trailing slash means the contents of /home, > equivalent to /home/*. So to illustrate: Be *very* careful with this. Syntax like /home/* isn't the right answer, since dot files won't move/copy. In /home, that probably isn't an issue, but it would be if I were to move /home/ewilts/* In any case, always double check with ls -Al and du to make sure you've got all the files you're supposed to have. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
