<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>A) nothing replaces having good backups. NOTHING.<br>
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B) the issue with having the OS, apps, and HOME in the same partition is why many folks place /home on a dedicated partition. Some distros do this by default. For anything besides a play install, I spend the time to setup partitions the way I like. That means /home either on a dedicated partition or an NFS mount.<br>
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This could be a great pre-meeting topic?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace; margin-top: 0px">Hi all,<br /><br />I just had a frustrating experience and want to learn how to avoid it <br />next time.<br /><br />Previously, I had set up all my machines to dual boot with ubuntu and <br />windows. I've now decided to move to Mint since I'm disenchanted with <br />ubuntu. Yes, I know they share the same core.<br /><br />The hdd in question had an ext4 partition which was ubuntu and an ntfs <br />partition which I use for data. I booted a mint live cd, mounted the <br />ubuntu file system by clicking it within the file browser, and copied my <br />ron folder to the ntfs partition. It complained about some files being <br />inaccessible, but still copied about 43 MB of data, which looked like <br />the right number.<br /><br />I then proceeded to install mint in the ext4 partition. When I started <br />the installer, I selected the option to erase ubuntu and install mint.
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/>I eventually got mint booting and working the way I wanted. Then, I <br />went back into the file browser and told it to copy the files back from <br />the ntfs partition to the new mint home directory and merge any <br />duplicate folders. I made the mistake of using a move command rather <br />than a copy command. At some point, it generated another error saying <br />it couldn't copy some files. I cannot remember the exact message. I <br />clicked skip all. The net result is that about 43 MB of data was copied <br />to my new home folder and about 387 MB of data wasn't copied. <br />Unfortunately, the files were removed from the ntfs folder even though <br />they were skipped, which I think is a design flaw.<br /><br />The net result is that I lost about 9/10 of what was in my original <br />ubuntu home folder unless I can find a backup somewhere. I don't think <br />there was anything too critical, but who knows.<br /><br />So, can anyone please tell me the prop
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procedure to move the contents <br />of my home folder from a ubuntu install to a mint install so this <br />doesn't happen next time I install mint on another computer?<br /><br />Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Ron<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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