I am retarded. Plz help.

[Snaxib]

Its true. Im dumber than a box of rocks. So I wanted to expand my linux partition. I chop 10 gigs off of my NTFS using the GParted Live CD. Then I went and mounted the new EX3 partition on my home directory. Baisically I cant login using a GUI... I can still access my origional home directory (its now under local....lonc story). Can i just copy this over to the now empty "home" directory? I've tried the following already:

# cp /home/snaxib /local/snaxib/* (snaxib was the main part of my home directory)
# cp /local/snaxib/* /home/snaxib

Neither did anything visible, and didnt copy over the stuff in snaxib to the home folder.

[CodeRoot]

I believe the question of the hour is, "What was under '/home' before you mounted the new partition?" -- just 'umount /home' -- whatever was there originally should still be there...

umount /home
mv /home /home.old
mount /home   # Assuming '/home' is defined in /etc/fstab as new partition...
cp -a /home.old/* /home/  # Assuming no 'dot' files in '/home.old/'

Of course, you could use 'mv' instead of 'cp -a'...

[devils casper]

if you are moving Home then you should preserve symlinks and permissions too.
cd to old home folder and execute this

find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd  <path_of_new_home_folder>

[CodeRoot]

if you are moving Home then you should preserve symlinks and permissions too.

I believe 'cp -a' will accomplish this quite nicely...

[Snaxib]

Ok, I tried this"

find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd  <path_of_new_home_folder>

It copied everything fine. However i still get an error when logging in (in runlevel 7 only)

this is the error:
"User's $HOME/.dmrc is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and wave 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users"