[TriLUG] Moving user accounts

[David McDowell]

You can always make a clone your FC2 harddrive using dd
http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Knoppix_Uses.txt
That way if you mess up, you can restore the img and try again.  :)

make sure you clone, not zero  :)

happy father's day to all the fathers... 
David McD


On 6/19/05, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> I'm getting ready to move my server from Fedora core 2 to Cent OS. In
> preparation , I've installed a second hard drive, moved the home directories
> to it along with my mysql databases. I've copied /etc there as well to
> maintain a copy of all the configurations. I plan to remount the 2nd hard
> drive as /home after the OS upgrade
> 
> My questions are, have I missed anything in the saving copies of stuff?
> And
> After I install Cent.. can I restore the existing users from /etc info?
> 
> I only have 5 users and could just use adduser but I'm using this as a
> learning experiment.
> 
> THANKS in advance!
> 
> Dave S
> 
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