Re: moving /home , no joy

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On Tue, 6 May 2008, Tim wrote:

> Tim:
> >> I don't recall you saying how you copied /home over.  A file copy, a
> >> disc block copy, something else?  "dd"ing a partition between drives
> >> with different sizes might be a cause of your troubles.
>
> Michael Hennebry:
> > As root:
> > cp -a /home/* .
>
> Then that shouldn't have caused any problems with partitions.  Unless
> you had strangely set up ones in the first place, and simply writing
> files to one overwrote an important part of another.  But that seems
> highly unlikely.  I suspect the partition errors came from something
> other than the move/copy of the home files.

For some reason, FC8 no longer likes it,
but Knoppix does.
Is there a way I can ask each what it thinks the magic number is?
What is the magic number supposed to be for ext3?

> > When it was there it was *a* swap partition.
> > There was one on each disk.
>
> You only need one.  If your new drive is in addition to the old drive,
> you can carry on using the old swap partition.

The one I still have is the one I had before the new drive.

> > Until I get things fixed, I'd like to make as few changes as are necessary
> > to distinguish between problems and between problems and nonproblems.
>
> When I moved drives around and had to make another initrd, I backed up
> the prior one, made a new one, and that was it.  If I got it wrong, I'd
> have just deleted the new one and reinstated the old one.
>
> > If the resume complaint isn't actually a problem,
> > can I just omit resume= to make fedora quit looking?
>
> Putting an resume= parameter just tells it where to look, if the
> information isn't specified elsewhere (or perhaps it'll look in both, I
> haven't tested for that).

So, if I tell it to look in the still-existing swap partition,
that will cure that problem?

> Not having a resume parameter won't stop it looking.  I don't have one,
> and mine checks.  If you're not hibernating and resuming, it doesn't
> matter.  Let it look for one and fail, it's not important.
>
> But not having a swap partition *might* be a problem for other things
> that you do with your computer.  It'll depend on how much memory they
> use to do their jobs.

Fortunately I still have a swap partition.

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