colintivy
March 27th, 2011, 11:52 AM
Hi folks!
I have got myself into a bit of a fix. Anticipating the delayed update to 10.04.2, I created a new partition (sda3) for /home on my laptop. Sadly,and in my ignorance, I formatted this to ext3. I carefully transferred my /home from sda1 and it all looked fine.The partition was duly labelled as /home. When I upgraded to 10.02.2 from Update Manager I found all sorts of problems, particularly with logging in. Username and password were all inherited from 8.04, were not rejected but failed to complete the Log-in, merely returned to the log-in page. I have got round this by using the FailSafe Gnome feature and 10.04.2 runs fine.But I want to get everything working properly.
As a by-product of my mistake, sda3 looks like another HD with all my data safely therein but is unseen by sda1 which has a normal /home in it but I now have two /homes of a sort. What I want to do is to save my old /home to a USB thumb drive to preserve it but cannot do so because of permission denial, probably due to two versions of names or something. Using root privileges does not seem to get over this. Any clues?
It has been suggested that I should reinstall 10.04.2 (for which I now have a LiveCD) which will involve setting up the partitions again (specifying / and /home). If I leave my sda3 as it is, will the original formatting be removed and will the data survive? (which will remove the need to save it elsewhere. Luckily I do have a back-up using Simple Back-up from late December which is not too stale which could be a backstop.
I see that the poorly documented FailSafe actually makes use of a different video driver to get going. This puzzles me because my laptop was quite happy with 8.04 (and experimentally 9.10) in this respect. Any advice on how to look further into this?
I have got myself into a bit of a fix. Anticipating the delayed update to 10.04.2, I created a new partition (sda3) for /home on my laptop. Sadly,and in my ignorance, I formatted this to ext3. I carefully transferred my /home from sda1 and it all looked fine.The partition was duly labelled as /home. When I upgraded to 10.02.2 from Update Manager I found all sorts of problems, particularly with logging in. Username and password were all inherited from 8.04, were not rejected but failed to complete the Log-in, merely returned to the log-in page. I have got round this by using the FailSafe Gnome feature and 10.04.2 runs fine.But I want to get everything working properly.
As a by-product of my mistake, sda3 looks like another HD with all my data safely therein but is unseen by sda1 which has a normal /home in it but I now have two /homes of a sort. What I want to do is to save my old /home to a USB thumb drive to preserve it but cannot do so because of permission denial, probably due to two versions of names or something. Using root privileges does not seem to get over this. Any clues?
It has been suggested that I should reinstall 10.04.2 (for which I now have a LiveCD) which will involve setting up the partitions again (specifying / and /home). If I leave my sda3 as it is, will the original formatting be removed and will the data survive? (which will remove the need to save it elsewhere. Luckily I do have a back-up using Simple Back-up from late December which is not too stale which could be a backstop.
I see that the poorly documented FailSafe actually makes use of a different video driver to get going. This puzzles me because my laptop was quite happy with 8.04 (and experimentally 9.10) in this respect. Any advice on how to look further into this?