Practical questions about disk partitioning, moving the /home directory .... SOLVED!

[Bastiaan Gijsbertus Roufs]

Hello, Nils and others.

Thanks! Solved!
I am writing this message at /sda5/bas/home!


Op do 18 jul 2024 om 12:36 schreef Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:

    I would suggest the following procedure:

    Start Kubuntu 24.04 live system from the USB stick. Run konsole and
    become root with the command

    sudo su

    so you don't need to enter sudo for many of the following commands.
    Now check that sda is your 1TB SSD with

    fdisk -l /dev/sda


    /*This has worked.*/


    and then mount the sda3 partition to /mnt with the command

    mount /dev/sda3 /mnt


    /*This has worked too.*/


    Now you can check that the home folder exists

    ls /mnt

    (...)


    /*The empty home folder and  and home-ori popped up.*/


    Now mount the sda5 partition to the home folder:

    mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/home


    /*I did.*/


    then check the contents

    ls /mnt/home

    */Only home-new popped up./*


    there should be a folder bas but I think you will find the home-new
    folder here instead. If you really find the home-new folder instead
    of the bas folder, move the bas folder of the home-new folder upwards:

    mv /mnt/home/home-new/bas /mnt/home

    */I did not do this - see below./*


    If there is neither the folder bas nor the folder new-home, you can
    copy the bas folder from your home-ori folder:

    cp -a /mnt/home-ori/bas /mnt/home


    */I did this, because home-ori was most up to date./*



    Finally you could check that the fstab file is the new version:

    cat /mnt/etc/fstab


    /*I did. It was and is allright.*/


    Then reboot and please tell us that the system works now.


    /*Yes, thanks God, the system works now. Halelujah!

    Thanks for your efforts to properly advise me.

    I managed to get working again the Backintime backup system.

    I have removed home-ori from sda3 and home-new from sda5.

    Have a good weekend.

    Yours.

    Bas
    */



    Nils




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