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Files gone missing for new user

#1 Post by Wal »

Hello I have probably forget something again, gettin old it seems, but:
I wanted to reinstall MX-23 Xfce and moved all my /home files to another partition on the old installation that was named xtra and was used as such.
Then I reinstalled MX to its former partition and used the old xtra-partition as home. I did NOT format it!
However thoose old 40 Gb of files are not visible to the new user allthough G :turtle: parted says theyre there. Sudo Thunar cant see them neither. What to do?

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-17-amd64 [6.1.69-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-17-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.3_x64 Libretto January 21  2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 840 G3 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8079 v: KBC Version 85.6F serial: <superuser required> UEFI: HP
    v: N75 Ver. 01.10 date: 07/31/2016
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0% condition: 24.2/24.2 Wh (100.0%) volts: N/A min: 8.4
    model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-6200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake gen: core 6 level: v3
    note: check built: 2015 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x4E (78) stepping: 3
    microcode: 0xF0
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 500 min/max: 400/2800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave
    cores: 1: 500 2: 500 3: 500 4: 500 bogomips: 19200
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Hewlett-Packard EliteBook 840 G3
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 04f2:b51c
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x14c0 built: 2015 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158
    gamma: 1.2 size: 308x173mm (12.13x6.81") diag: 353mm (13.9") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard EliteBook 840 G3
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-17-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:1570 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24f3 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wg0-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Integrated System Solution KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-2:26 chip-ID: 1131:1001 class-ID: fe01
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 8 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: hardware: no
    software: yes address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 678:8 sco-mtu: 48:10 link-mode: peripheral accept
  Device-2: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-7:3
    chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001
  Report: ID: hci1 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.49 GiB used: 43.95 GiB (18.4%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: MZ7PC128HAFU-000H1 size: 119.24 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5H1Q
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SanDisk model: SD9SN8W-128G-1006 size: 119.24 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3006
    scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 29.3 GiB size: 28.67 GiB (97.86%) used: 9.37 GiB (32.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 500 MiB size: 499 MiB (99.80%) used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 119.24 GiB size: 116.81 GiB (97.96%) used: 34.57 GiB (29.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C pch: 36.5 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2104 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2098 libs: 1050 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 6
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
  Processes: 230 Uptime: 1h 4m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 2.46 GiB (32.3%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#2 Post by Eadwine Rose »

In disk manager you might be able to mount the partition and gain access to it.
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#3 Post by Wal »

Its mounted allright
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#4 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Oh wait.. you're talking about home xtra now being reused. Question.. so upon installing you selected to use the old xtra as home. You did select to REuse it in the dropdown, right, so not reformat?
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Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.247.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#5 Post by Wal »

Its mounted as /home to the new installation and all new standard /home-files and folders are there and visible. And Gparted also sees that my 40Gb of old files also are there but I cant.
Yes i chosed the reuse option
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#6 Post by Wal »

Oh wait, no the reuse option didnt show up because it wasnt my old /home folder, but I used Preserve during install.
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#7 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Ah preserve, yeah that is what I meant, sorry.


Folks in the know (not me ;) ) likely will also need the output (in code tags) of:

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lsblk -f
MX-23.6_x64 July 31 2023 * 6.1.0-39amd64 ext4 Xfce 4.20.0 * 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 2700
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.247.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 870EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#8 Post by Wal »

The drive was NOT encrypted
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#9 Post by Wal »

Maybe I have to do a new install and mount that partition as xtra again.....?
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Re: Files gone missing for new user

#10 Post by Wal »

$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
└─sda1 ext4 1.0 Extra bc26ba3d-d21a-4220-970e-1832e7b9a27d 76.2G 30% /home
sdb
├─sdb1 vfat FAT32 UEFI F1D4-4BDC 498.7M 0% /boot/efi
└─sdb2 ext4 1.0 rootMX23 935dc6b8-963c-45bd-aa29-6bb327b003bb 17.8G 33% /
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