[ubuntu-studio-users] Need a CLI command to recursively copy my home folder.

[Mike Holstein]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Alex Armani <alex.armani at rocketmail.com>wrote:

> Hi folks. Happy Halloween! I've been ''playing'' with my system,
> installing the 64 bit Ubuntu Studio 13.10 distribution, and have ended up
> with the following:
>
> sda2 - ntfs, 181 GB
> sda6 - ext4, 73 GB
> sda7 - ntfs, 63 GB
>
> sda2 is my Windows 7 Home Premium partition, working perfectly.
> sda7 has no OS installed on it, and has been created because sda2 is
> getting full.
> sda6 has UB Studio 13.10 installed, but I can only login as guest. I can
> Ctrl Alt 2 and login as alex, so I know my password is being entered
> correctly, but then startx doesn't work.
>
> What I'd like to do, is copy all the contents of home/alex to sda7 then
> remove sda6, move sda7 so that it is next to sda2 and install UB13.10 from
> scratch.
>
> So I figure I can login as guest, CTRL ALT 2, login as alex, mount sda7,
> and then use a single cli command to copy everything in my home partition
> to sda7, but I don't know what the commands to do this are.
>
> I'm not looking to have my home partition on sda7, I just want to backup
> all my pics / videos /music / downloads so I can start again. I figured
> this would be easier than fixing the password issue.
>
> Any help appreciated; thanks in advance, from Alex.
>  --
>  Alex Armani - Digital Musician
> www.newmatrixism.com
>

i would probably just use grsync from a live CD, and sort the permissions
out if needed afterwards.. cheers


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