<HTML> After fooling around with rdiff as su I've fouled up my installation of Kubuntu. No worries as I've reinstalled in a newly created partition sda6 mounted as root. The old root partition, sda1 is visible and mounts at /media/disk. Now before I foul up again I'd like a bit of help with the command line to rsync the user files from the old home directory to the current home directory without copying any hidden or system files. It'll be along the lines of rsync "?" v /home /media/disk/home Next step how to reclaim the space in sda1? also Derek mentioned a way of getting nntp access to this list, how to? Andrew Heggie </HTML>