[ale] Help me build a new /home

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> Evan Pitstick wrote:
>   
>> Not a very good play on words....
>>
>> Anyways I am trying to make an exact copy of my /home to a new HD I 
>> installed so that I can replace my old home partition with a fancy new 
>> 400GB drive of its very own. I dont want to use cp -r as I dont think it 
>> will get the drive done and I tried find . -depth -print0 | cpio -pvd0 
>> --sparce but I get a two many arguments error. does anybody know of a 
>> good way of getting a good exact copy?
>>     
>
> I'd try rsync -a; I'm sure someone will pipe up if that's not a good idea.
>
> -Brian
    If you hadn't mentioned it I would have... rsync should maintain all
the permissions and ownership and do it without having to pipe it
through any other commands. Why make it harder on yourself when it's
easily accomplished.