Re: Moving A Linux Drive. Please Help!

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:56:59 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:

On 2007-09-04, droptop.girl@xxxxxxxxx <droptop.girl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One last question, will I have any kind of permission problems with
kmail and my stored email if I move the stuff over to the new Linux
install?
I seem to remember trying this once a long time ago and while I could
SEE my messages, when I clicked on them they just disappeared from the
window.

You might have some problems with ownership, if the two different
installs assigned a different numeric UID to your user. Check
/etc/passwd in each distro to see what UID you were assigned. If
they're not the same, you will need to do a recursive chown to match the
UIDs before you can do anything.

The problem you describe above doesn't sound like a permissions or
ownership issue, but it could be. You should probably retain backup
copies of everything in your old /home until you've tested it in your
new /home and are satisfied it works properly.

--keith

Ownership issues are trivial to fix. Do an ls -l on our old directories,
that should show you as the owner, If they don't just do a chown -r and a
chgrp -r on your old directories.
.

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