Moving the /Home Partition, Permission Issues.

[Tuxman]

Aart Koelewijn wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:29:09 -0500, Tuxman wrote:
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>> 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
>>     
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> 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.
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> Aart
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User ID is something I hadn't thought about or seen any reference to. 
Thanks for bringing it up.

If this is a complete new install, is choosing the same user name 
sufficient?


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