copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-08-17, James Hogarth wrote:

> On 17 August 2010 14:09, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:

[backing up $HOME and repartitioning]

> Doing it from live CD not only means that you ensure your /home/<user>
> is up to date but also means that you have the tools immediately at
> hand to do your resizing of partitions without any issues of a
> partition being mounted etc The live CD suggestion was more for your
> partition shuffle than the backing up of data... but if that isn't
> needed and you have no issues with open files in /home/<user> then no
> worries ;)

OK, I was going to use the gparted live CD for repartitioning, since
I'm more familiar with it than the non-g parted tool.  AIUI, the
Ubuntu live CD includes parted but not gparted --- is that still
correct?