[CentOS] Re: Login problem on CentOS 4.4 GDM

Mark Hull-Richter mhullrich at gmail.com
Tue May 22 23:41:46 UTC 2007


On 5/22/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> How did you copy the files from the old /home to the new /home partition?
> Did you preserve permissions and links (soft/hard)?
> Most login info for non-root users is stored in their home directories.
>

rsync -av from /home to the backup disk, then same in reverse.  All
userids and permissions were preserved (as far as I can tell...).

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