rob2uk
October 7th, 2009, 01:15 AM
Hi there,
I think I've done something really daft...
I left my LinuxMint 7 PC on while I was at work, and we had a power cut, which completely hosed my install and left me with a non-bootable system.
Luckily I had a seperate /home partition, which seemed unaffected when I booted using the Mint 7 livecd.
I tried re-installing Mint using Ubiquity, but due to a known bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/258603), I couldn't use the same login name as the original install, so I was forced to think up something else (ie - I added a 2 to the end of it ;) )
Once I had a bootable system I opened a terminal window, and used
gksu nautilus
to copy everything from the old user's home folder to the new user's home folder.
Now what I need to do is take ownership of every folder, subfolder and file in new user's home. I'm certain it can be done with a single chown command in the CLI, but it's bloody late in the evening and I don't want to risk having to do yet another re-install or possibly losing all of my files.
Any help would be very much appreciated :)
I think I've done something really daft...
I left my LinuxMint 7 PC on while I was at work, and we had a power cut, which completely hosed my install and left me with a non-bootable system.
Luckily I had a seperate /home partition, which seemed unaffected when I booted using the Mint 7 livecd.
I tried re-installing Mint using Ubiquity, but due to a known bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/258603), I couldn't use the same login name as the original install, so I was forced to think up something else (ie - I added a 2 to the end of it ;) )
Once I had a bootable system I opened a terminal window, and used
gksu nautilus
to copy everything from the old user's home folder to the new user's home folder.
Now what I need to do is take ownership of every folder, subfolder and file in new user's home. I'm certain it can be done with a single chown command in the CLI, but it's bloody late in the evening and I don't want to risk having to do yet another re-install or possibly losing all of my files.
Any help would be very much appreciated :)