Hello Ranjit,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I had installed MDV2006 and used my /home from MDK10.1.
Everything went nice, I did not find it so different. Though
on KDE3.4 it appeared slow to me, so i wanted to revert to
MDK10.1.
That's kinda weird, I find KDE3.4 fast, although I am not really a KDE user.
I'd recommend turning off all the fancy effects in the GUI from the KDE control
center. That does improve the responsiveness of KDE.
I again installed mdk10.1 and used the same /home
(on separate /dev/hda6) but this time user account could not
access this partition as well as none of the programs could
write to this /home/user. I tried resetting permission to 777,
but on reboot it used to revert.
Aha ! ..this is a classic mistake almost everybody makes at least once :). You
see during an installation most installer will prompt you to create users. Now
these users are assigned UIDs starting from 500 or 501.
The catch with installing a system while keeping the same '/home' is if you
do not create the users in the same order as in your earlier system (ie: if
your new users do not get the same UID/GID as your previous users), your file
ownership will change. Since eventually, the system looks at the UIDs/GIDs not
the user/group name to determine ownership.
In frustration i backed up my
data and deleted /home/ranjit. I failed to unhide hidden files.
Ouch !
My mail has been lost.
Yep it is !
Can anyone suggest some recovery procedure.
Well I know there are ways to do it, but most of them are tedious and in the
end they might not cough up much. Quick google gives me these:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recovering+deleted+files+ext3&btnG=Google+Search
Also where is kmail mail stored?(/home/user/.Mail/inbox/cur ?)
Yes that's correct.
Regards
Steve
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