/home/karl/

Karl Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue May 11 20:49:30 UTC 2010


On 05/11/2010 02:43 PM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 05/11/2010 02:33 PM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>>      
>>> Nevermind, have fun.
>>>
>>> ~SpaceGhost
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>          I am doing this now, takes a lot of time:
>>
>> karl at Lucid:~$ sudo cp -a .* /home/karl/newkarl/
>>
>>
>>      
> You'll need to make sure to get all the subdirectories except the one
> you just created as well. I woud've suggested -R, but the directory
> you're copying to is in the directory you're copying from. Just make
> sure all the subdirectories you want and their directories and files
> are copied as well.
>
> ~SpaceGhost
>
>    
     Big problem! the newkarl directory has 5.8 GB of files in it. I 
can't add this to the existing karl without making the 10.04 partition 
about 6 or 7 GB larger. This is why I am experimenting. I need to know 
these things before changing anything!

73 Karl


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