Mark Annandale wrote:
Hi GuysI have installed debian (via a Knoppix CD), and overwritten a previous Linux distro. My /home folder exists from the previous distro and I have added myself as a user. However I cannot seem to be able to access all my old data on /home.Has anyone experienced this, and if so, did you find a solution.
If you used useradd to add yourself, that script will create a directory for you if it doesn't exist. Since it did exist, it didn't do anything. But the directory ownership is going to be wrong. You can fix it with 'chown' -- I'm typing this from a Windows box so I don't have the exact command line. 'man chown' should give you the right info.
BTW, when I did this recently I renamed my old directory before calling useradd, and then added data from my old directory as needed.
HTH Josh