I am having similar problems to the login thread. I am trying to move my home partition to another partition on another drive. I used cp -ax ..... to copy the files but I notice that hidden files did not appear to be copied across. When I mount the partition through fstab I get dcop server not found. What must be done to get this working correctly?

Are you using cp -ax *? Are you using the bash shell?

If so then hidden files, those starting with a dot, are not normally included when bash expands a pattern. You can turn this on and off by setting bash's 'dotglob' variable. Using the shopt command.

Instead of setting 'dotglob', because mostly you want it off, just include dot.files explicitly. cp .* should work.

Also, you say you are trying to copy over a partiition. Don't you want cp to recurse into directories? If so use the -r option. Also, you might find rsync better at doing this.

Yes I figured as much. I corrected the situation by restoring from the backup. Am now using rsync for backups. A really excellent tool.