renovate partitions without reinstalling

[thedogfarted]

thx for corrections

Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>for example i had to move all data form /dev/hda6 (my previous /home) to
>>>>/dev/hda3 (newly created)
>>>>
>>>>#mkdir /mnt/oldhome
>>>>#mkdir /mnt/newhome
>>>>
>>>>#mount /dev/hda6 -t ext3 /mnt/oldhome
>>>>#mount /dev/hda3 -t ext3 /mnt/newhome
>>>>
>>>>#cp -r /mnt/oldhome/* /mnt/newhome
>>>>   
>>>>
>>
>>Be careful here!!  In the shell the '*' does NOT find/copy hidden files 
>>or folders (those whose name begins with a "." such as " .bashrc".  
>>
>>To confirm that  a simple comparison of the results of "ls -d *"  and 
>>"ls -d .*" in your home directory will show the difference.
> 
> 
> I would recommend rsync for this
> 
> rsync -ap /mnt/oldhome/ /mnt/newhome
> 
> Satish
> 
>