Moving the /Home Partition, Permission Issues.

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:29:09 -0500, Tuxman wrote:

> I'm getting ready to install 10.4 (8.04 currently), and I need to
> rearrange some partitions in preparation.
> 
> I need to move my /Home partition out of the way temporarily and the
> only place I have to move it to is an NTFS drive that can't be changed.
> I can handle all of the repartitioning with GParted without a problem,
> but I'm weak when it comes to Linux file/folder permission issues.
> 
> Are there issues here? How do I do this safely? If you can point me to a
> guide, that would be great. The more cookbookish the better.
> 
> Thanks

Make a *.tgz file of it. When you have your new /home partition you can 
move the *.tgz file there and extract it. That will keep the permissions 
as long as you make sure the users keep the same uid.

Aart