[TriLUG] Ubuntu reinstall and copying over /home

Alan Porter via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Wed Jun 23 10:00:51 EDT 2021


> 2. Untar your old homedir as the current homedir. Your tar file 
> should
> show where you should be untarring from (you can also feed a
> destination dir but this is the lazy list).

You'll probably also need to chown the directories, since the old users
and the new users might have different ids in /etc/passwd.


Alan





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