I did a backup of my machine using tar commands and have then resized the various partitions. I reinstalled the OS from the original DVD and then started to restore the original files, extracting them from the various tar files - I wrote a separate tar file for each of the folders in starting from / such as '/opt-backup.tgz'
I took notice of what Brett said last week about not doing a backup of /dev so that should remain untouched from the install.
But now having restored everything, it comes up with the message 'No root device "block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/<disk-id here>" found and then 'resume device /dev/disk/by-uuid<another disk-id>'
If I start again with the install, which of the various tar files should I *not* restore to avoid this problem ad infinitum?
TIA.