I absentmindedly didn't finish backing up my home directory before doing a clean reinstall. I also absentmindedly didn't set the partition mount point so the home partition was mounted at /media/user by default.
Instead of starting over the reinstall, I defined the UUID in fstab, mounted /media/user/, then changed /media/user to /home in fstab and mounted again. At first all the files disappeared from all the directories involved. After reboot, I saw the default empty directories in /home and nothing under /media/user. Even the partial backup I made in a new folder (/media/home) disappeared. The lines I added are at the bottom:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.## Use 'blkid' 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># / was on /dev/sda1 during installationUUID=39d20bad-b9bd-45ed-a709-531b9e3a5b66 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installationUUID=af6172b2-c4a3-443b-8a40-b21fb3cb6a97 none swap sw 0 0# (identifier) (location, eg sda5) (format, eg ext3 or ext4) (some settings)UUID=18eecef8-913b-4019-abce-3e06f69b10df /home ext4 defaults 0 2/home$ ls -alFtotal 12drwxr-xr-x 3 keizen keizen 4096 Mar 30 17:48 ./drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 30 13:11 ../drwxr-xr-x 19 keizen keizen 4096 Mar 31 09:40 keizen/df -Th gave the following, which worries me because I should have way more than 1.2 G used.
udev devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /devtmpfs tmpfs 785M 1.7M 783M 1% /run/dev/sda1 ext4 19G 6.5G 11G 38% /tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 115M 3.8G 3% /dev/shmtmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/locktmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup/dev/loop3 squashfs 92M 92M 0 100% /snap/core/8689/dev/loop2 squashfs 1.0M 1.0M 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/93/dev/loop1 squashfs 3.8M 3.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/135/dev/loop0 squashfs 45M 45M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1440/dev/loop4 squashfs 3.8M 3.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/127/dev/loop5 squashfs 161M 161M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/116/dev/loop7 squashfs 90M 90M 0 100% /snap/core/8268/dev/loop6 squashfs 49M 49M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1474/dev/loop8 squashfs 15M 15M 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/399/dev/loop9 squashfs 1.0M 1.0M 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/81/dev/loop10 squashfs 55M 55M 0 100% /snap/core18/1668/dev/loop11 squashfs 4.4M 4.4M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/704/dev/loop12 squashfs 55M 55M 0 100% /snap/core18/1705/dev/loop13 squashfs 4.3M 4.3M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/544/dev/loop14 squashfs 15M 15M 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/495/dev/sda5 ext4 202G 1.2G 191G 1% /hometmpfs tmpfs 785M 48K 785M 1% /run/user/1000$ lsblk -e 7 -o name,size,type,fstype,mountpoint
NAME SIZE TYPE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINTsda 232.9G disk ├─sda1 18.6G part ext4 /├─sda2 1K part ├─sda5 205G part ext4 /home└─sda6 9.3G part swap [SWAP]sr0 1024M romI have unmounted the partition to stop overwriting, but only the default home/ directories are visible.
The output of TestDisk (sorry I only have an image link) identifies two partitions that can't be recovered. They are identical in size (429786944) but the Start and End are off by 8 each. Does that mean there are two indices and can I recover my files? Additionally TestDisk says The harddisk seems too small! Check the harddisk size: HD jumper settings, BIOS detection...
Is it possible mounting to /home without deleting the directories there by default caused my desired content to be hidden under the default ones? Any help is appreciated.