[X4U] Re: OS X on Rev. D iMac - moving user folders

[Randy Clark]

Thanks to Craig, Stroller & Eugene, I now have the kids' home directories
resident on the 2nd partition (& tested to verify they're working). Might be
unnecessary right now, but hopefully worth the little extra effort for the
future.
Randy


> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:59:35 +0100
> From: Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] Re: OS X on Rev. D iMac - moving user folders
> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
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> On Aug 27, 2005, at 5:25 am, Randy Clark wrote:
>> 
>> 6. Tried command: cp -pr /Users/caitlyn
>>> cp -pr /Users/KID . (copies all of the kid's files...may take a while)
> 
> You missed the .
> 
> Stroller.

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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:46:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Craig A. Finseth" <fin at finseth.com>
Subject: [X4U] Re: OS X on Rev. D iMac - moving user folders
To: hawkgx at planetkc.com
Cc: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
Message-ID: <20050827164658.34A4876C6F at isis.visi.com>

   6. Tried command: cp -pr /Users/caitlyn
   7. came up with following lines:
   usage: cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src target
      cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory

Sorry: different versions of the cp command.  Do:

    cp -R -p ...

The -R says to copy files recursively through all sub directories
(includes hidden ones) and the -p says to preserve permissions and
ownerships.
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Message: 11
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:56:05 -0500
From: Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net>
Subject: Re: [X4U] Re: OS X on Rev. D iMac - moving user folders
To: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
Message-ID: <20050827205605.GA5154 at user-12lmf9d.cable.mindspring.com>
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:46:58AM CDT, Craig A. Finseth <fin at finseth.com>
wrote:
: 
:    6. Tried command: cp -pr /Users/caitlyn
:    7. came up with following lines:
:    usage: cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src target
:       cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory

The command as typed above is incomplete.  The destination needs to be
specified, i.e. where do you want your copies to go.  For example, the
following makes a copy of a home directory in the /tmp directory:

    cp -pr /Users/caitlyn /tmp

-- 
Eugene
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

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Randy Clark
Kansas City