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

 

On Tue, 04 May 2010 14:45:26 +0100
james kilty wrote:

> 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.

Sorry?  What are you trying to mount over the lan, and how?

Grant.

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