moving /home [Solved - Corrected HowTo]

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:31 PM -0600 12/5/05, Jeff Vian wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:41 +0500, Sergey wrote:
>> Claude
>>
>> This is a prolix but a valid step-by-step instruction. You may want to
>>publish
>> it in a faq.
>>
>> One note: your command 'cp -a/home/* /mnt/mynewhome' would not copy
>> the /home/.* entries. I don't really think there are chances such entries
>> exist, however having such a job to do you've got to ensure.
>>
>You are correct *if* there were any .xxx entries in /home.  I have never
>seen any there, only within the users actual home directory
>(/home/user), and the command he gives will handle all of those. It is
>important when doing something like this to make sure all the
>possibilities are covered so another way to do it and verify everything
>was copied could be:
># cp -a /home/* /home/.[!.]* <dest/directory>
>In this command it explicitly asks for anything beginning with a '.',
>but since both '.' and '..' match they need to be excluded, thus the
>[!.] (not dot) part. For clarity read up on regexps.
>
>Tim's recommendation is (I believe) actually a better command.
># cd /home
># cp -a . <dest/directory>
>This form of the command will handle even the .xxx files in the current
>directory properly.

While we're beating this to death, doesn't:

    # cp -ar /home /mnt/mynewhome

do the job, copying everything, even stuff that "*" wouldn't match, without
having to try to force it?
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