Everything regresses on restart
by pconrad from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5PQ30)
I have Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 4. It was fine, then I let it sit for a while, so naturally when I started it up again I had to do things like pull from my Git repos, change to my new WiFi network, and so on.
But now, every single thing I do on the main partition - files I add to ~/ directory, or git pull, or settings like my WiFi password - persists until I reboot. Then it's all gone.
In other words, if I go to ~/ and say touch test then ls will show me test. If I go to WiFi settings and tell it the password for my WiFi network, it can connect automatically from then on. If I do git pull, it tells me I have some things to merge, then I merge those things, and I can get to a clean git status.
But then if I reboot, ~/test is gone, my network settings are gone, and my merge conflicts are back.
What's happening?
But now, every single thing I do on the main partition - files I add to ~/ directory, or git pull, or settings like my WiFi password - persists until I reboot. Then it's all gone.
In other words, if I go to ~/ and say touch test then ls will show me test. If I go to WiFi settings and tell it the password for my WiFi network, it can connect automatically from then on. If I do git pull, it tells me I have some things to merge, then I merge those things, and I can get to a clean git status.
But then if I reboot, ~/test is gone, my network settings are gone, and my merge conflicts are back.
What's happening?