On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:17 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > > > > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs > > > > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directories > > > > in /home over to it, then unmounted it, mounted it on /home and > > > > logged in. Now almost every time I do anything I get a notice saying > > > > that gnome-settings-daemon has crashed. I don't even kwow if it will > > > > let me send this email, but I've attached the bug report. Please > > > > somebody help me! > > > > > > Were you logged in as a user when you moved the /home directories? > > > Maybe there were some open files that got messed up... > > > > I logged out of gnome, shut down xdm, and then logged in as root to > > move /home. > > Just to ask the obvious: you don't have both partitions mounted on /home do > you? And you have changed /etc/fstab to suit the new layout? >
camille ~ # grep home /etc/fstab /dev/sda7 /home ext3 noatime 0 1 baby:/home/michael/camera /mnt/Pictures nfs bg,hard 0 0 baby:/home/michael/BizarreBits /home/michael/BizarreBits/ nfs bg,hard 0 0 My original /home directory was on /dev/sda6, which is my /
