Merging home directories

Question

Here's the thing. I did a fresh install of 11.10. I created a separate partition for /home and another for /. I then installed 11.04 on the / partition. Now I still have the /home on the separate partition and the home dir that came with 11.04. How do I merge the two or replace the 11.04 home directory?

Answer 1

Try this command:

sudo rsync -vaEW /path/to/old/home /path/to/new/home

This will effectively sync the two directories.