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[LUG] Ubu10.04 and keeping data from FF and TB

 

Hello

After managing to save my /home (on the LAN to my desktop - at 2MB/s
this took a while) and then moving it to a new partition using the
standard (arcane) instructions, I could not test anything as I could no
longer log in with Kubu8.04. So I soldiered on and installed from the
download. Alas, FF and TB seem to start again from scratch presumably
overwriting any files with history, addresses and so on.

Is it OK to just copy back the old .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird
files (I can rename the new ones) to give them and my add-ons back?

Nor can I access my desktop as I used to - I get the message 'wrong fs
type' and 'bad superblock' when I try to mount it over the LAN. There's
nothing in syslog if I do dmesg | tail (except pulseaudio problems). Now
I did change the filesystem in both the new /home partition and the
reformatted / partition from ext3 to ext4.

Can I get round this as it is useful to access certain files on the
desktop from my laptop? If I install 10.04 on my desktop, can I mix ext4
for / and leave /home as ext3? What's the best approach?

Thanks

James

PS my audio works well now, and it opens MUCH more quickly than 8.04
from suspend and connects to wi-fi very quickly now.

PPS I could not reduce the partition for the OS from 22 to 11 Gb as it
said it was too small! 
-- 
james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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