transfer home directroy to another machine (also running bazzite KDE)
I am trying to install bazzite on my deck while transfering over my main machine home directory (so i can keep the same kde theme and everything)
I setup up my steam deck with the same username and password as my main machine and tared my home dir
however I am having issues with permisions.
shouldn't the user on my deck have the same permisions as the user on my main machine?
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to tar the files I just right clicked on the folders I wanted to transfer and selected compress and then I just extracted it into its place with dolphin
i think that may have been my issue when doing it trhough dolphin it does not perserve permision so I instead did it from the terminal like this
and then extract with
hopfully that works had to use sudo to be able to tar the waydroid folder
Hmm not sure why but there aree still some folders that my deck doesn't have access to such as Ryujinx . config folder
Probably would be easier just to clone the disk from my main install to the decks SSD
permission is probably selinux?
Or mismatched UIDs
but then wouldnt i have issues with all my files not some?
from what I can tell its only certain files in my
.config folder that have issues
for example the ~/.config/Ryujnix folder its owned by root for some reason after extracting it to my second system
on the source system its owned by zany130 so no idea how it got owned by root.config/Ryujinx reports a perfectly normal 0755 deck:deck here…
Does ls -nl report the same IDs?no it was owned by root with no read permisions for any other user.
i dont rember the exact id because what I did was chown it to
zany130:zany130 but the problem with that approach is that I have to manually find all the folders that where misowned
i think only the .config folder was affected but i'm not sure
.... if only there was a way to get the permission id of all folder under the home directory and the grep for root ownership ...A recursive
chown on .config should be fineno yeah I got everything on .config owned by my user. but im not sure about the rest so far it all semms to have the correct permissions
It should be simple to spin up some script that checks the permission for each file recursively under ~ ig
thank you chatgpt !
this will list all files owned by root and give me detailed permision on them
ideally though I would like to figure out why tar is changing the ownership of certain files to root in the first place... it shouldnt be doing that
only certain .config files got owned by root. everything esles transfered with the corrrect permision execept the decky homebrew folder that should be owned by root and is owned by the user
To migrate settings you can just use https://github.com/Prayag2/konsave
GitHub
GitHub - Prayag2/konsave: A command line program written in Python ...
A command line program written in Python to let you backup your dotfiles and switch to other ones in an instant. Works out-of-the box on KDE Plasma! - Prayag2/konsave
I looked at that too it doesn't copy everything I need though.
Besides that uses tar so it would probably have the same permission issues
Turns out running tar without sudo does correctly transfer my . config files without root ownership
Idk why though it only affects certain folders and not all
Something strange is going on when it tries to tar those folders that it sees the sudo before the tar and taring the files as root
Solution
perfect this worked flawlesly
then to extract
and
everything now has the correct owner
still extremely confused why
sudo tar only breaks permissions on SOME files and not all. sounds like a bug somewhere ....