Previously I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and used an external hard disk, which its partition format was NTFS
, as its /home
. Recently I tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04
by installing a new one and removing old one. Although I wanted to keep data that are stored in /home
. So during the installation I selected Something else
option and did delete/format /root
, boot
and ... . But wrongly I select use as ext4
from drop down list when I wanted to set mount point of external hard disk as /home
. After completing the installation the I saw the problem: grub rescue error
. At first I tried to fix that by reinstalling grub; bit the problem was not that. Because when I was unplugging the external hard disk the OS could boot (although in a long time) and when it was plugged, I saw grub rescue error
.
Now I installed Ubuntu 20.04
for using temporarily and backing up data from external hard disk by connecting it to a machine with MS Windows
OS and using ext2explorer
. But want to reinstall Ubuntu
and use external hard disk as its /home
again. I think it may be possible to be done by selecting Something else
and deleting/formatting hard disk and setting it as /home
. But it takes a long time for restring backed up data from MS Windows
to the external hard disk after installing Ubuntu
. Is it possible to install Ubuntu
and set external hard as /home
without doing those?
/etc/fstab
yourself after installation.