New hard disk

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 17:00:40 EST 2006


On 11/28/06, Kjel Anderson <kjel.anderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> My main concern is permissions on the home directory.

  The "cp -a" should take care of that.  It causes "cp" to make as
exact a copy as possible, including all timestamps, permissions,
modes, etc.

> I do have everything backed up, although I can always
> use the encouragement.

  That's good.  I did see a computer lock-up (known hardware problem)
in the middle of a partition resize once.  The results weren't pretty.

-- Ben


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