/tmp directory & QTParted.

[baldyeti]

hda3 does have /home on it when I'm done, including copies of my /home directories, BUT upon reboot, and trying to login to KDE the screen just goes blue, and then I get error messages about not finding DCOP. The only way out is to boot into safemode, and comment out the new line I added to fstab.

What do you mean when you say it has /home? It has /home contents, but no home subdirectory, or the contents would move to /home/home once mounted! Can you clarify?

You could check that everything was well copied; at the very least "du -sk /home*" should report the same size twice.

[ibrewale]

Thanks,
I was not aware of du -sk /home * command.

Here is the clip, and there is a difference in my normal account 'jerry'.

root@box1:/home# du -sk /home *
142764  /home
60208   jerry
62064   kris
20488   kyle
root@box1:/home# cd /mnt/hda3/home
root@box1:/mnt/hda3/home# ls
jerry  kris  kyle
root@box1:/mnt/hda3/home# du -sk /home *
142764  /home
59180   jerry
62064   kris
20488   kyle
root@box1:/mnt/hda3/home#

Here lies the problem maybe?

Thanks again

Jerry

[ibrewale]

Well, when doing this again, here is the outcome:

I cannot log into KDE as jerry, but I can log into icewm, for instance. I can log into KDE while root though.

I did find that now I have the following directory structure, /home/home. Anotherwords I have /home and then I have to go down 1 more level to /home again.
The first home is mounted to /
The second home, which contains the folders for the users, lists that it is mounted under /home, with the 15GB I would have on hda3. That part is correct.

How can I back out, and recopy the directory contents of /home to hda3, without copying /home folder itself?

Here is my current fstab:

dev/hda1  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
/dev/hda3 /home auto rw,auto,user,exec 0 0
proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
usbdevfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbdevfs  defaults  0  0
sysfs  /sys  sysfs  defaults  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdrw /cdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0

Here is the output from the command, mount:

/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/pts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid454) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=454,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev)

Thanks

[Markus]

Hmm, first of all in fstab this: /dev/hda3 /home auto rw,auto,user,exec 0 0
should be: /dev/hda3 /home auto rw,auto,users,exec 0 0

When you did sudo cp -Rp * /mnt/hda3/ are you sure you didn't do sudo cp -Rp * /mnt/hda3/home/
or perhaps cp -Rp home /mnt/hda3/ as that would copy the home dir too.
Do you now have a home directory under hda3, check with ll -d /mnt/hda3/*
If you have the dir, to minimise confusion do:
sudo mv /mnt/hda3/home /mnt/hda3/homedir
sudo mv /mnt/hda3/homedir/* /mnt/hda3/
check that the directory structure is ok and do rmdir /mnt/hda3/homedir , the command won't remove the directory if it's not empty.

PS: I've used the howto myself so I know it works if you follow it closely. An extra / character in the wrong place will bork it up so if the old home dir under / is intact you might just want to remove the home under hda3 and start over just to play it safe.