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On 06/05/16 11:19, Tom wrote:
I was going to set up my home directory on the old Xubuntu 15.10 on it available to the new one via NFS and then just copy the whole thing over to my new home directory. This should be OK shouldnt it? Or will I need to chown?Behind the scenes, permissions are handled using ID numbers. If your user name is the same on both computers and the ID those user names were assigned are both the same, you should be fine with just a copy. If you know NFS, then you'll know about the pitfalls of IDs being different for the same User ID across NFS shares.
Just to be safe, I'd run chown anyway. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq