Lost data in /home after new install

[landsg]

Hello All:

I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 from 9.04. I already had a separate partition for my /home directory, and was careful not to reformat that during the install. I tagged it as /home during install.

When I booted up to 10.10, there is nothing in my /home directory. All of the normal folders are there (i.e music, pictures, video), but none of my old data. Below is the output from running fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=63cd9c37-0a0c-4ba9-bf41-1cf1e68dcc1a none swap sw 0 0

Can I used G-Parted to correctly mount the old home directory? Thanks in advance for your assistance!

[Bucky Ball]

Are you saying you now have two /homes? Old and new? One in the new install which is a folder and one which is a partition (which is visible in your output)?

[landsg]

Thanks for the reply. No, only one /home shows up when I run G-Parted. However, it's about 2 .39 gig in size, which makes me think my old data is still there but I just can't see it.

[landsg]

Here is fdisk output:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x24837113

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1217 19457 146520802 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1217 19088 143556808+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19089

[Bucky Ball]

Hmm. How about the output from:


sudo blkid

[landsg]

Hmm. How about the output from:


sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="6ac7c078-784c-4096-8571-9259dbb026c9" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="182ce36f-0550-4432-9190-3759ee164875" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: UUID="63cd9c37-0a0c-4ba9-bf41-1cf1e68dcc1a" TYPE="swap"

[Bucky Ball]

Try this:


sudo mount /dev/sda5

... but probably already mounted by the looks.

[landsg]

mount: /dev/sda5 already mounted or /home busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda5 is already mounted on /home

[md_jk]

same problem here!
I did a clean install of Ubuntu Maverick over an old lucid , I had a separate home partition so i thought the files on this partition would not be affected. However after install completed , i found lost and found folder on the old home partition ( have no access to this folder ) but it seems to be empty , together with a new home directory (now 24gb in size
My home partition is 125GB but only 80 GB is free thus a deficit of 20gb,that i cannot seem to find


My laptop is toshiba satellite c-650