[plug] new lappy, just move "home" ?

[Richard Meyer]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:11 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> Looks like I _may_ be getting a new laptop (cause this new one is
> utter crap), I'd like to transfer my home environment with minimal
> fuss.. do you think it should just be a case of :
> logout and login as root
> kill X and GDM

Wouldn't bother - the files that they use aren't on /home AFAIK.

> Copy it over... ??
> or is there something that I'm not thinking of that will cause a
> godawful mess on the new machine?

I've done it before, and it worked fine.

Make sure you use options to preserve links and keep ownership and
permissions.

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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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