Boot confusion

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 13:42, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:

> To close the loop on this.  I first tried rsync (don't recall the
> command I used), but somehow I just filled up the existing root
> filesystem disk.  I think I copied home back to it.

Rsync is deadly for that kind of thing. That is why I recommended GParted. ;-)

> I installed 20.04.02 to the 1tb SSD.  Then remapped in FSTAB the
> exisiting home directory on the 14tb spinning disk.  But then it
> wouldn't accept my password on login.  Back to live usb, edited fstab to
> comment out that home directory.

No no no!

During install, you can click "something else" on the partitioning
screen and point the partitioner to whatever existing partitions you
want to use.

E.g. I point /windows to my Win10 partition.

This was it sorts out all the permissions for you.

If you do it after the event, as you discovered, you 100% *will* get
access and permissions problems.

Very glad to hear it's all working, though!

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