Dear linuxers,
If I copy the .kde, .gaim and .mozilla directories to my new home folder when I change distros, will the preferences be read properly on the new distro if they have the same version of the apps.
Thanks -Nikhil
On 11/4/05, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
If I copy the .kde, .gaim and .mozilla directories to my new home folder when I change distros, will the preferences be read properly on the new distro if they have the same version of the apps.
Try it out and let us know what happens. :-)
-- Rohan http://rohan.almeida.in
Sometime Today, NM cobbled together some glyphs to say:
If I copy the .kde, .gaim and .mozilla directories to my new home folder when I change distros, will the preferences be read properly on the new distro if they have the same version of the apps.
You have to worry about file ownership. Make sure your uid and gid are the same on both distros. If you do that, then you can just mount the same home partition from both distros. I've done this with 3 distros in the past, sharing swap, /home, /tmp and /var/spool/mail, with 3 common users. You just need to keep /etc/passwd and /etc/group in sync.
On Friday 04 Nov 2005 10:18 pm, Philip Tellis wrote:
You have to worry about file ownership. Make sure your uid and gid are the same on both distros. If you do that, then you can just mount the same home partition from both distros. I've done this with 3 distros in the past, sharing swap, /home, /tmp and /var/spool/mail, with 3 common users. You just need to keep /etc/passwd and /etc/group in sync.
I am wiping out my harddisk and just copying the files as a backup using K3B. Will it work if I keep the permissions the same.
-Nikhil
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 22:27 +0530, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
I am wiping out my harddisk and just copying the files as a backup using K3B. Will it work if I keep the permissions the same.
First copy the files and then wipe your hard disk :)
Copying the files with k3b will disable the "write" flag.
To keep the original file perms do a tar back up to a file and then write that file to a CD. To restore extract the files from the tar file.
Sometime on Nov 4, NM cobbled together some glyphs to say:
I am wiping out my harddisk and just copying the files as a backup using K3B. Will it work if I keep the permissions the same.
Again, I'm going to repeat what I said before. "Ownership". Permissions are different from ownership. You have to make sure that the files are _owned_ by the correct person, or the permissions make no difference.
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