how to change the home location

[Doug Stewart]

I just looked up rsync -- and maybe it is the way to do this.

sudo rsync -axS --exclude='/*/.gvfs'    /old_home/doug/.     /home/doug/.

My original copy of home  is   /old_home       and my new copy of home is
already mounted as /home,  this is the one with the wrong dates

I am new at this in Ubuntu so a little help (assurance) would be nice.
I am thinking that this will not copy all the files but will fix up the
dates and permissions, Is this correct?

Doug Stewart


2010/12/13 Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>

> Thanks again.
> Now one more observation. since I had to change all the ownerships, all my
> files have the same date :-(
> I think I will wipe it out and try copying again.
> Doug
>
>
> 2010/12/13 James <james2432 at gmail.com>
>
> That is true, two heads are better than one ;)
>>
>> 2010/12/12 Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
>>
>> Thanks James I think it is all working now. Thanks for the help.
>>> Somehow I ended up with it all being root so I used chown -R -P  etc.
>>> I will try it for a week before I delete the old Home.
>>>
>>> One comment about the widows swap file.
>>> I found that it was important to have the swap file on a second hard
>>> drive. What happens is:
>>> If ram is full and you startup a new program then the os is reading the
>>> new prog from one spot on the HD,
>>>  and writing old data to the swap file on a different part of the HD. So
>>> the head is doing many seeks.
>>>  But if it is two HDs then the head on the read HD will stay at one place
>>> and the swap file head will stay at one place and there is no thrashing of
>>> the heads.
>>>
>>> But now that we have much more ram they might have a better way of moving
>>> old info to swap area during idle time so that we don't get what I saw
>>> before.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/12/12 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> > 1. you can use gparted
>>> > 2. http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/
>>> > 3. doesn't matter performance wise swap is used kind of like the swap
>>> file
>>> > in windows
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>  I am about to add a second hard drive to my system (Ubuntu 10.04)
>>> >>  After I do the hardware installation,
>>> >> How do I:
>>> >>  1) format it.
>>> >>  2) make my home folder to be on this new drive.
>>> >>  3) should I also move the swap area to the new drive?
>>> >>
>>> >> Doug
>>> >>
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