[olug] Newbie type question

[Carl Lundstedt]

Copying the home directories will get the user's data, what else you 
might want/need off those machines depends on what else you've put on 
them.  You *may* want configs out of /etc, you may need software out of 
/opt you may have logs and email in /var, I don't know.

I'd bet that you just need the /home directories, but that's a bet I'm 
making with your data...

I will say that this type of thing is what I love linux for.  By 
carefully setting up partitions you can remove, reinstall or upgrade 
OSes without touching user data.  Other operating systems seem to want 
to make that pretty tough to do.

Best of luck,
Carl Lundstedt
UNL
> I have a computer with one functional Windows install, and two
> functional Ubuntu installs.  I want to copy all of the important data
> from the two Ubuntu installs and delete those partitions and do one
> Ubuntu intsall there with all of the important user info from both of
> the current installs.
>
> Can I just copy the home directories, or is there something else I
> should copy in addition.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John Moran
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