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?

Solution

perfect this worked flawlesly

tar --exclude='.local/share/polkit**' --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/waydroid' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='**waydroid**' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/ >> tar.log

tar --exclude='.local/share/polkit**' --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/waydroid' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='**waydroid**' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/ >> tar.log

tar --exclude='.local/share/polkit**' --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/waydroid' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='**waydroid**' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/ >> tar.log

tar --exclude='.local/share/polkit**' --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/waydroid' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='**waydroid**' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/ >> tar.log

sudo tar -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar homebrew .local/share/waydroid .local/share/waydroid-settings.py/ .local/share/waydroid-settings/ .local/share/applications/ .local/share/polkit-1/  >> tarroot.log

sudo tar -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar homebrew .local/share/waydroid .local/share/waydroid-settings.py/ .local/share/waydroid-settings/ .local/share/applications/ .local/share/polkit-1/  >> tarroot.log

sudo tar -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar homebrew .local/share/waydroid .local/share/waydroid-settings.py/ .local/share/waydroid-settings/ .local/share/applications/ .local/share/polkit-1/  >> tarroot.log

sudo tar -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar homebrew .local/share/waydroid .local/share/waydroid-settings.py/ .local/share/waydroid-settings/ .local/share/applications/ .local/share/polkit-1/  >> tarroot.log

then to extract

tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar >> log.txt

tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar >> log.txt

tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar >> log.txt

tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar >> log.txt

and

sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar >> log2.txt

sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar >> log2.txt

sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar >> log2.txt

sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar >> log2.txt

everything now has the correct owner

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zany130OP•8/15/24, 12:48 AM

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

zany130OP•8/15/24, 2:30 AM

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

 sudo tar --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ homebrew/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/

 sudo tar --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ homebrew/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/

and then extract with

 sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar

 sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar

hopfully that works had to use sudo to be able to tar the waydroid folder

zany130OP•8/15/24, 2:45 AM

Hmm not sure why but there aree still some folders that my deck doesn't have access to such as Ryujinx . config folder

zany130OP•8/15/24, 2:46 AM

Probably would be easier just to clone the disk from my main install to the decks SSD

Zzany130 I am trying to install bazzite on my deck while transfering over my main machine...

asen23•8/15/24, 3:27 AM

permission is probably selinux?

Linus Xu•8/15/24, 3:29 AM

Or mismatched UIDs

LLinus Xu Or mismatched UIDs

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:16 PM

but then wouldnt i have issues with all my files not some?

from what I can tell its only certain files in my .config.config folder that have issues

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:17 PM

for example the ~/.config/Ryujnix~/.config/Ryujnix folder its owned by root for some reason after extracting it to my second system

on the source system its owned by zany130zany130 so no idea how it got owned by rootroot

Linus Xu•8/15/24, 3:22 PM

.config/Ryujinx.config/Ryujinx reports a perfectly normal 0755 deck:deck here…

Linus Xu•8/15/24, 3:22 PM

Does ls -nlls -nl report the same IDs?

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:28 PM

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:zany130zany130:zany130 but the problem with that approach is that I have to manually find all the folders that where misowned

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:28 PM

i think only the .config.config folder was affected but i'm not sure

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:30 PM

.... if only there was a way to get the permission id of all folder under the home directory and the grepgrep for root ownership ...

Linus Xu•8/15/24, 3:30 PM

A recursive chownchown on .config.config should be fine

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:31 PM

no 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

Linus Xu•8/15/24, 3:35 PM

It should be simple to spin up some script that checks the permission for each file recursively under ~ ig

Zzany130 .... if only there was a way to get the permission id of all folder under the ho...

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:35 PM

thank you chatgpt !

find ~ -user root -exec ls -ld {} \;

find ~ -user root -exec ls -ld {} \;

this will list all files owned by root and give me detailed permision on them

zany130OP•8/15/24, 3:43 PM

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

zany130OP•8/15/24, 4:55 PM

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

Potajito•8/15/24, 5:34 PM

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

PPotajito To migrate settings you can just use https://github.com/Prayag2/konsave

zany130OP•8/15/24, 5:38 PM

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

zany130OP•8/15/24, 7:26 PM

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

zany130•8/15/24, 7:45 PM

perfect this worked flawlesly

tar --exclude='.local/share/polkit**' --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/waydroid' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='**waydroid**' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/ >> tar.log

tar --exclude='.local/share/polkit**' --exclude='.local/share/containers' --exclude='.local/share/Steam' --exclude='.local/share/chezmoi' --exclude='.local/share/waydroid' --exclude='.local/share/trash' --exclude='**waydroid**' --exclude='.local/share/flatpak' --exclude='.local/share/winapps' -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar AppImages/  bin/ CE-Tables/ Desktop/ .config/ .gnupg/ .themes/ .var/ .webcatalog/ .wine/ .local/share/ .local/state/ .local/rEFInd_GUI/ rEFInd_GUI/ >> tar.log

sudo tar -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar homebrew .local/share/waydroid .local/share/waydroid-settings.py/ .local/share/waydroid-settings/ .local/share/applications/ .local/share/polkit-1/  >> tarroot.log

sudo tar -cvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar homebrew .local/share/waydroid .local/share/waydroid-settings.py/ .local/share/waydroid-settings/ .local/share/applications/ .local/share/polkit-1/  >> tarroot.log

then to extract

tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar >> log.txt

tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder.tar >> log.txt

and

sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar >> log2.txt

sudo tar  -xvp --acls --selinux --xattrs --same-owner -f homefolder-root.tar >> log2.txt

everything now has the correct owner

zany130OP•8/15/24, 7:49 PM

still extremely confused why sudo tarsudo tar only breaks permissions on SOME files and not all. sounds like a bug somewhere ....

transfer home directroy to another machine (also running bazzite KDE)

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