Need help expanding partition

[HotTunaCartel]

Sorry mean umount

[HotTunaCartel]

Still can’t log in.
Went back and ran lsblk /dev/sda5
No home is not under mountpoint

[gm10]

Still can’t log in.
Went back and ran lsblk /dev/sda5
No home is not under mountpoint

But are your user folders there?

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ls /home

If they aren't then you had successfully moved them... somewhere. So

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sudo mount /home

again and then

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ls /home

to see if they are there now.

[HotTunaCartel]

Sorry trying to find the best solution to reply to you.

When I put in ls /home it just goes to a new blank line.
OK now I see all the folders, so I should try to log back in now?
Edit:
Tried logging back in and no go still
Just reloads the login page

Still can’t log in.
Went back and ran lsblk /dev/sda5
No home is not under mountpoint

But are your user folders there?

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ls /home

If they aren't then you had successfully moved them... somewhere. So

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sudo mount /home

again and then

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ls /home

to see if they are there now.

[gm10]

OK now I see all the folders, so I should try to log back in now?

I need to know after which step you see them so I know what went wrong exactly.

For the graphical login to work you might need to restart the graphical environment first:

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sudo service lightdm restart

Also don't reboot, we haven't made any permanent fixes yet, so it certainly won't work after a reboot.

[HotTunaCartel]

Ok I gotcha. After I did sudo

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umount /home

then typed in

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ls /home

I was able to see all the files.
Did

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sudo service lighten restart

And same thing with login

I need to know after which step you see them so I know what went wrong exactly.

For the graphical login to work you might need to restart the graphical environment first:

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sudo service lightdm restart

Also don't reboot, we haven't made any permanent fixes yet, so it certainly won't work after a reboot.

[gm10]

Ok I gotcha. After I did sudo

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umount /home

then typed in

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ls /home

I was able to see all the files.

Ok. So that means you never actually moved the files to the other disk. You either forgot or it produced some error that you ignored, not sure.

What's your priority right now, shall we go back to the way things were or shall we try to move the files again?

Did

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sudo service lighten restart

And same thing with login

Just in case you mistyped that command not just here: it's lightdm. You may have to log out of the terminal session and its temporary home folder first btw., not sure, I never broke my system like that.

[HotTunaCartel]

Oh I just mistyped it. Pain in the ass with big thumbs and small phone lol.
For now I’m fine with going back at least I can use it for now then figure out what I did wrong after.

[gm10]

For now I’m fine with going back at least I can use it for now then figure out what I did wrong after.

Thought so. Run

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sudo nano /etc/fstab

and add a # in front of the last line so it looks like this:

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#UUID=845b3a87-013f-402b-9460-d3198ed62604	/home	ext4	defaults	0	2

Then Ctrl+S to save and Ctrl+X to exit. After a reboot you can hopefully log in normally.

[HotTunaCartel]

Damn, still can’t log in.

[HotTunaCartel]

Alright so I’m going through what we discussed. Seems now a lot more info is coming up than prior.

lsblk /dev/sda 5

is now coming up as lsblk :5 not a block device. /home is no longer under mountpoint. I’d i do

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sudo mount /home

I get mount: /home: can’t find in /etc/fstab

[gm10]

Damn, still can’t log in.

Not even in the terminal? Next to impossible. Does

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ls -l /home 

still show the user folders with the correct owners and is the one for the profile you're trying to log in to included?

Also we removed /home from fstab so that's expected, and the sda 5 thing is a typo you made, you added a space.

[HotTunaCartel]

I can get into control alt F1 but I think that’s all I can do

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ls -l /home

Total 0

[gm10]

I can get into control alt F1 but I think that’s all I can do

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ls -l /home

Total 0

So it's empty again? You must have given me bad information previously, seems the files are on the other disk, after all. You have no idea how much I'd like to just get a remote login to your system and quickly fix this,..

Ok, temporary solution to get you graphical again:

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sudo mkdir /home/$USER
sudo chown $USER:$USER /home/$USER

There's no way that won't be able to log in after that, but it will be with a fresh profile. Your other profile should be on /dev/sda5 (which is not currently mounted). Frankly it might be faster to just restore your backup than us going back and forth with all this miscommunication/mistyping in between.

[HotTunaCartel]

Lol I’m sorry. Just having a lot of trouble doing this on my phone.
Ok that method got me logged in.
I hate to keep asking easy stuff for you but. How do I get my backups

[gm10]

I hate to keep asking easy stuff for you but. How do I get my backups

I take that question to mean that you didn't actually back up anything. These things don't happen automatically.

Anyway, let's mount your other drive somewhere:

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sudo mkdir -p /mnt/newhome

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sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/newhome

and then you can just go check what's there:

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nemo /mnt/newhome

[HotTunaCartel]

I thought the system restore was the backups? My last snapshot was last night at 11PM

Nemo-Share-Message: 15:53:19.842: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: mkdir failed on directory /var/run/samba/msg.lock: Permission denied
net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

Checked the newhome folder. Seems to be from 2017.
As long as I have internet and can get some stuff done for now. Take a break, didn't think I would rainbows up this bad lol.

I hate to keep asking easy stuff for you but. How do I get my backups

I take that question to mean that you didn't actually back up anything. These things don't happen automatically.

Anyway, let's mount your other drive somewhere:

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sudo mkdir -p /mnt/newhome

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sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/newhome

and then you can just go check what's there:

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nemo /mnt/newhome

[gm10]

I thought the system restore was the backups? My last snapshot was last night at 11PM

If that is timeshift then no, that doesn't include any user data by default.

Checked the newhome folder. Seems to be from 2017.
As long as I have internet and can get some stuff done for now. Take a break, didn't think I would rainbows up this bad lol.

Oh, me neither, this should have been trivial. The instructions I gave you were sound, I don't know where it went wrong. I think you'll just have to search your file systems for where your profile folder went. It should be somewhere after all:

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sudo find / -type d -name $USER

Good luck.

[HotTunaCartel]

Thank you for your help.

[HotTunaCartel]

I ended up not being able to find the /home but its ok, I didn't loose much and most was saved to my dropbox and google photos so no harm done. I did end up formatting both of those partitions and made them into one 160 gig where i just finished installing mint 19 mate which I am enjoying more than cinnamon, less flavour which is nice.
I do have to see if I can backup to a ssd from now on lol.
Thanks again for all the help.