On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 11:23 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > Could you please suggest me the best way to copy the home directory > to a new computer?
If you want a simple long-term solution to this problem, take your old hard drive, and add it to your new computer, after you have installed your OS to the new computer. Then set up new user accounts to use the old drive's home directory, or modify any existing accounts to do that, or simply use /etc/fstab to mount /home onto the directory tree from the second drive (I think the latter is the easiest approach). If you plan to use a computer across several different releases, and don't want to work out how to transfer user's homespaces across each release, it's easier to *not* do that. Have the OS and home on separate drives. Each new release installation can be done over the top of the old OS drive without losing any data on your home drive. And if you're wary that you might accidentally install to the wrong drive, you can always unplug it for the installation period. There's probably a few other directories that some people might want to keep on the second drive, for the same reason. Such as /var/www, if they serve websites. Likewise with databases. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.9.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 6 15:49:49 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
