mv while retaning permissions?

[Pierfrancesco Caci]

:-> "Senectus" == Senectus  <senectus at gmail.com> writes:

    > How do you move and retain permissions.

mount the new home partition somewhere temporarily, let's assume it's
under /newhome

as root(*), do 
cd /home
tar cvlSp . | (cd /newhome; tar xvf -)

that's all. Umount the new partition, get rid of the old one, correct
/etc/fstab to mount the new partition on /home and you're all set. 

There's a similar thing using cp or cpio. All work the same, I just
happen to remember this one better. 

Pf

(*) yeah, we all have learnt ubuntu doesn't have root by now. 
    "sudo -s" will do.




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