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. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called Software." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
