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Re: how to add a /home partition

From Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: how to add a /home partition
Date 2017-11-04 00:40 +0100
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Hi,

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 22:34:02 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> 
>   - copy the contents of /home to its future location:
(...)
>     or cp -a /home/* /mnt

to be nitpicking, shouldn't this rather be

         cp -a /home/. /mnt

just to cover the (admittedly unlikely) case there is some hidden
file or folder in /home ?

Best regards

Michael

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how to add a /home partition Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2017-11-03 22:10 +0100
  Re: how to add a /home partition Pol Hallen <deben@fuckaround.org> - 2017-11-03 22:40 +0100
  Re: how to add a /home partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-11-03 22:40 +0100
    (solved) Re: how to add a /home partition Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2017-11-03 23:30 +0100
    Re: how to add a /home partition Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-11-04 00:40 +0100
      Re: how to add a /home partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-11-04 08:50 +0100

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