rsync a *bunch* of git repos

All,

I have a home directory with a lot of git repos in it. Possibly over a hundred. This is a good thing. :-) However, I'm in the process of changing OS's and need to move my home directory out of my root partition into its own partition.

The nuts and bolts of this aren't difficult, the problem is I don't have a complete understanding of how git stores data. I've heard in the past that it uses a lot of hardlinks and softlinks. I need to make sure, that once I transfer the data, and reboot the machine with the new partition mounted under /home, that all my git repos will be okay.

Going through the git repos one by one would be long and prone to errors, so I'm looking at alternatives. Does this look ok?

## From single user mode, or live cd $ su - # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3 # mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home # rsync --progress -avu /home/ /mnt/home/ # umount /mnt/home # mv /home /home.orig # mkdir /home

### Sanity check? # mount /dev/sda3 /home # rsync -avun /home.orig/ /home/

That'll check that rsync thinks things are ok, but what about git? Is there a git sanity check I could run to detect that three hardlinks still point to the same inode?

One alternative may be to boot to a live CD, delete everything from the root partition except /home, then mv /home/* -> / . Basically, use my current root partition as the new /home partition.

thx,

Jason.