Moving $HOME to a separate data partition?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi,

I'd definitely recommend testing what will happen during a copy - before
doing that copy.

Here is the info on the --dry-run option from the rsync man page which I
believe will tell you what would happen when running rsync.

      -n, --dry-run
This  makes  rsync  perform a trial run that doesn’t make any changes (and
produces mostly the same output as a real run).  It is most commonly used in
combination with the -v, --verbose and/or -i, --itemize-changes options to
see what an rsync command is going to do before one actually runs it.

The output of --itemize-changes is supposed to be exactly the same on a dry
run and a subsequent real run (barring intentional trickery and system call
failures); if it isn’t, that’s a bug.  Other output should be mostly
unchanged, but may differ in some areas.  Notably, a dry run does not send
the ac‐
tual data for file transfers, so --progress has no effect, the "bytes
sent", "bytes received", "literal data", and "matched data"  statistics
 are  too
small, and the "speedup" value is equivalent to a run where no file
transfers were needed.

BW,


Ian

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