Moving the /Home Partition, Permission Issues.

[Tuxman]

accessys at smart.net wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Tuxman wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:56:25 -0500
>>>
>>> have you considered moving it to an external drive for the duration??
>>> when I upgrade I often will get a new hard drive, put the new stuff 
>>> on the new hard drive and run the second (original) drive as a 
>>> "Slave" in case of emergency you can then still just unplug the new 
>>> drive and boot from the old one.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It's the permissions I'm concerned about. I don't think it will 
>> matter if the NTFS drive is internal or external, I'm just concerned 
>> about it being NTFS.
>
>
> why does the external have to be NTFS. can be anything you want it to 
> be...
>
> Bob
What I have available is formatted NTFS and already contains 600G of data.