Home Partition mounted as separate volume for some reason
by wormy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4TGB9)
Hi all,
I have a new installation of Linux Mint 19.2 on a Dell Inspiron 13 5368. It has a 120GB SSD for storage so I partitioned the disk as usual with 32GB for root, 2GB for swap and the rest for the home partition.
I'm not sure whats happened but Mint created my user area in the root partition and it is saving all of my files here, while it also created a duplicate user area on the home partition. The home partition is also mounted as a separate 90GB volume.For example Code:mv ~/Desktop/deleteme.txt ~/Documents moves the file to the home partition and not the root partition.
The terminal output of Code:fdisk -lis showing an additional volume (dev/sda6) there should only be 3:
Code:Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x748132dd
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 68359469 68357422 32.6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 68362238 250068991 181706754 86.7G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 68362240 74287103 5924864 2.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 74289152 250068991 175779840 83.8G 83 LinuxCan anyone make sense of what has gone wrong here please?
Thank you for your time.
I have a new installation of Linux Mint 19.2 on a Dell Inspiron 13 5368. It has a 120GB SSD for storage so I partitioned the disk as usual with 32GB for root, 2GB for swap and the rest for the home partition.
I'm not sure whats happened but Mint created my user area in the root partition and it is saving all of my files here, while it also created a duplicate user area on the home partition. The home partition is also mounted as a separate 90GB volume.For example Code:mv ~/Desktop/deleteme.txt ~/Documents moves the file to the home partition and not the root partition.
The terminal output of Code:fdisk -lis showing an additional volume (dev/sda6) there should only be 3:
Code:Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x748132dd
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 68359469 68357422 32.6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 68362238 250068991 181706754 86.7G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 68362240 74287103 5924864 2.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 74289152 250068991 175779840 83.8G 83 LinuxCan anyone make sense of what has gone wrong here please?
Thank you for your time.