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Thread: Accidently lost /home during resizing process

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    Re: Accidently lost /home during resizing process

    The install disk is necessarily a fresh boot. Before doing anything to the file system of /home again, first make a backup of your data. After that you can play with the disk utilities and if you are lucky you may still have your data intact.

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    Re: Accidently lost /home during resizing process

    Quote Originally Posted by niclasrieger View Post
    but when I enter /home it's just empty.
    Of course it is empty. You unmounted it!

    I agree with the others: Please reboot a live CD / live USB-stick and use "gparted" from there. In that state none of your harddrive partitions should be mounted and they are a lot safer to manipulate that way.

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    Re: Accidently lost /home during resizing process

    Well, that's definitely another lesson learned for me Thanks for all your helpful comments, it seems I managed to resize my partitions without (obviously) corrupting my data.
    1. unmounted again my /home
    2. expanded my /home to its original size via resize2fs /dev/my_home
    3. reboot and start from live USB
    4. resize via gparted
    5. reboot

    I actually expected to reinstall GRUB because I had to move my /home partition to increase the space of /, but surprisingly my computer boots normally without complaining + I can access all my data without problem.
    Thanks again

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    Re: Accidently lost /home during resizing process

    Whenever looking at LVM stuff, use these commands to get an overview:
    Code:
    sudo pvs
    sudo vgs
    sudo lvs
    lsblk -e 7 -o name,size,type,fstype,mountpoint
    They make nice text tables/graphs of the layout. Also, I'm confused that /dev/my_home worked at all. Normally, the location for LV links to the device-mapper "devices" are either:
    /dev/mapper/{vg}-{lv}
    or
    /dev/{vg}/{lv}
    For example:
    Code:
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 20 01:35 /dev/hadar-vg/root -> ../dm-1
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 20 01:35 /dev/hadar-vg/swap_1 -> ../dm-2
    VG name = hadar-vg
    LV names = swap_1 or root

    On a different system:
    Code:
    $ ls -l /dev/vgubuntu-mate/
    total 0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 20 01:15 home -> ../dm-2
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 20 01:15 root -> ../dm-0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 20 01:15 swap_1 -> ../dm-1
    VG name = vgubuntu-mate
    LV names = swap_1 or root or home

    The dm-[0-99] values can change with every boot. There are other symbolic links generated by the device mapper that point to dm-[0-99] under /dev/disks/* too. That's where the LABEL and UUID links are placed.

    Regardless, happy that you seem to have found an answer, though it is unclear how from the data posted. If this is solved, please use the "Thread Tools" button near the top of the page to mark it that way so other people don't waste time.

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    Re: Accidently lost /home during resizing process

    Quote Originally Posted by TheFu View Post
    Whenever looking at LVM stuff,
    But the OP wasn't looking at lvm stuff, as is mentioned in the first post:

    Quote Originally Posted by niclasrieger
    Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of the differences between standard partitions (which I use) and the logical volume management (LVM) which the walkthrough is based on.
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