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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username



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Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com> writes:

> I always just say 'cp -a .* <destination dir>' in addition to what you already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. If there are switches to do this, I've missed them in my reading of the man page.
Hope you will be combled when you will see my previous message.


> (Where 'a' here means 'archive mode', not 'all' as it does with ls
> :-)
Nice to specify it. :-) One always takes his desires for reality. 
>
> It might also help if you think of mounting as "on" rather than
> "in". Mount doesn't merge 2 directories / filesystems; it 'covers'
> (replaces) the contents of the destination with the contents of what
> is mounted.
Nice. I will remember, then, thanks to you.


Waiting for an answer concerning my last message (and
obviously-related subjects),
- -- 
Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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