rhaynes Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Hi, I now have mandriva 2006 powerpack and mandrake 10.0 official installed on one machine. 10.0 is still my work machine until I get 2006 configured properly. I have a home partition on my 2006 "side". While in 2006 I mount my 10.0 /home partition to /mnt/home and I want to copy all the files (except the hidden files) to my 2006 /home/username partition. As root I mount the old partition and then copy * to /home/xyz. As I found out then all the files and directories (some 7GB) are now controlled by root. I then tried to tar all the files and move the tar file and untar. This worked but now all the files are owned by "501". How can I copy everything and keep ownership and group info from the old partition? Thanks, R Haynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Run the following command as root: chown -R username:username /home/username This will change the ownership of all files to the user you selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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