System won't boot after failed upgrade from 23.10 to 24.05

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 26 May 2024 at 12:09, Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> wrote:

> > Is `/usr` on a separate partition then? (And if so: why?)
>
> Yes. When I built the machine in, I think, 2018, I gave it a small
> (by today's standards) SSD as a boot drive, along with a much bigger
> HDD. I setup some partitions on it to try to manage the limited
> space.

Er, right.

I personally always keep `/home` separate and on a very few
installations I use separate `/boot`. So my stock installation pattern
is 3 partitions:

`/` - root, about 16GB is modest and 32GB typical now due to the
extreme bloat of the last few years.
swap -- typically the size of RAM these days and that's rarely used. A
couple of gig if the machine has lots of RAM and won't ever need to
swap or to hibernate.
`/home` -- all remaining space not used by OSes and swap.

But IMHO moving `/usr` is some advanced stuff for experts only. Why
that? Moved to where? How big? How much was used/free?

>  I wouldn't do it again, but what's done is done.

Not really. Spent $10 on a ~200GB used SSD, amalgamate all of them
into one, then fix it or reinstall over the top.

I am puzzled because:
1. You're not telling us the whole story
2. You did something which implies serious expert-level knowledge but
you don't give me the impression of having that
3. You say you want to fix it but you don't seem willing to do the
legwork to do so.

I find the combination of these things really odd.


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