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(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only
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