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I notice that my home directory was in a small partition and that I had wasted a lot of space in the extend partition with no use. Also my swap partition was with only 1GB. I read about and I set a plan to recover wasted space and resize my home partition. Everything went well and seems the data and the system are ok. But when booting I have a few error messages. If I skip the errors I can login but the desktop environment don't loads.

the error messages - could not update ICEauthority file /home/kauberdi/.ICEauthority - configuration server /usr/lib/libgconfig2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256

If I skip the errors the login screen loads and after introducing the password I got this:

  • Nautalius could not create the following required folders: /home/kauberdi/desktop,/home/kauberdi/.nautalius

I try to use the live USB to restore the system and follow a few how-to but unfortunately I couldn't fix it. I had previously saved my data but I wish I could restore the home directory without re-installing the system.

Could someone please advise? Thanks

P.S. I had first instaled UBUNTU 10.10 then I update the system to version 11. And the system is dual boot. Windows is running perfectly.

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Can you provide some additional details about the problem? For instance, how did you perform the partition resize? What were the error messages printed on boot up? – James Henstridge Jun 22 '11 at 3:32
I use Gparted and initially the disk (80GB) was like this: /dev/sda1 ntfs /windows - 40GB /dev/sda2 extended - 25GB /dev/sda5 ext4 / - 4GB /dev/sda4 linux-swap - 1GB /dev/sda3 ext4 /home - 4GB – Amilcar Aristides Monteiro Jun 22 '11 at 22:04
I decided to create another logic partition inside the extend one and Copy there the /home partition. And I convert the sda3 as a swap one. Now I have the root partition (sda5) and /home (sda6). I think the system is recognizing the home partition. – Amilcar Aristides Monteiro Jun 22 '11 at 22:11
When the system is loading ubuntu screen comes up with the following error: "serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /home press I to ignore S to skip mounting M for manual recovery" if a I Skip the login screen opens. After introducing the password the errors that follows are described in the post above. Thank you. – Amilcar Aristides Monteiro Jun 22 '11 at 22:18
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