Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Tim]

leam at reuel.net wrote:

>> 2. As root, cp -Rp things over. Best to have as little activity as
>> possible. That is, not running X, not getting e-mail.

Mike McCarty wrote:

> Umm, this is not adequate. It does not preserve ownership,
> group membership, etc. The man page gives, perhaps,
> 
> --preserve=all
> 
> But it's ambiguous. I'd rather make a tarball and be sure.

You're doing a copy, not a move, so you can test what --preserve=all
actually does without doing any harm.  You can also do things
explicitly, saying that you want to preserve modes, timestamps,
ownership, etc.

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