I have a Dell Inspiron with pre-installed Ubuntu 11.10. It has a huge root partition without swap, home etc. I have decided to repartition the system. Since I did not want to delete dellutility and os partitions, I have resized the root (sda3
) partition to smaller and then I have created an extended partition (sda4
) with 3 logical partitions for home (sda5
), storage (sda6
) and swap (sda7
). I could modify fstab
so after boot storage and swap are there and working.
Then I followed this description to move home
from root to the logical partition. I could reboot after step 2 then I could successfully rsync
home content, and modify fstab
again. After step 5 I have rebooted but even the grub menu does not appear what was there before.
I did not modify anything related to grub during these steps. The 512 bytes of MBR looks as before.
Booting from USB shows that there are no changes in /var/log
at all.
I have checked the UUIDs in fstab and they match the ids what blkid shows.
I have moved /old_home
back to /home
and I have deleted all the new lines from fstab
but the system still does not boot.
What is wrong with my procedure?
As it is a new machine there is nothing important in home I just want to have a separate partition before I start using it.