Unable to re-install grub after re-size

[yelojakit]

You mention encrypted. Is your partition encrypted? That makes for a whole different can of worms. (Laurel and Hardy phrase?).

It was encrypted using eCryptFS, the one that came with Ubuntu.

So I went with YannBuntu's advice to just upgrade. It copied over some config files (ThunderBird and others, including Chrome). The re-install caused me to not be able to log in, but was fixed by http://askubuntu.com/questions/65852...y-user-account.

I've lost all the applications and software that I've downloaded from what I can tell, including Chrome and it's bookmarks and whatnot (computer broke before I logged onto Chrome and could keep bookmarks).

[iamuser_2007]

I found some useful topics on http://www.NoobsLab.com, hope this will help you.

Noobslab.com - Install Grub2 from live CD/USB
Noobslab.com - Grub2 customizer/editor for gnome and kde

other grub tweaks from NoobsLab.com
Noobslab.com - Add image to grub
Noobslab.com - Remove unwanted entries from grub

[oldfred]

If you are using encryption you have to have a very good backup policy. The purpose of encryption is to prevent recovery of data from a device. So good backups are your only way to salvage data after system issues.

discussion of alternatives/strategy:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem

I like rsync but do not know if encryption creates any issues.