Moving Files Between Partitions?

Red Knuckles · 07-06-2006, 08:12 PM

I have a multiboot computer with 4 Linux partitions FC5, Kubuntu, Old Suse, and New Suse. Right now I can't boot into Old Suse but can the the other 3 OS's. See this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=461634

My question is is there a way to move things such as /home/me from Old Suse to New Suse? Can I move apps such as Azureus, Swiftfox, and Thunderbird?

pljvaldez · 07-06-2006, 09:05 PM

Yes and no. You can move /home/me by copying the contents to another partition. Of if it is already on its own partition, just edit your /etc/fstab to redirect it to that partition.

But you can't really move apps. You can reinstall the apps on the new Suse and then copy over some of the configuration and data files, but you typically can't just copy apps over.

dasy2k1 · 07-07-2006, 11:23 AM

yeh,
just mount your old suse partitoin somwhere then use MV to move everyting you want,

programs wont runn though so dont bother, just download the new RPMS and install them,

if your old suse is toatlly gon then i woudl reformat that partition after and mount it in all distros as /home then you wouldent have this trouble again