[ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

[Jonathon Fernyhough]

On 18 September 2010 11:38, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/09/10 11:27, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>>
>> Another handy trick after copying /home/user to the new install is to do
>>
>> $ sudo chown -R user:user /home/user
>
> Just a hint.
>
> sudo chown -R user: /home/user
>
> will do the same thing. You do not need to add the group name after the
> colon.
>

Ah, yes. I did think of putting that in but thought the colon might get lost!

Jonathon