Boot into emergency mode after changing mount point of external HDD

[YugiBearx]

Hello my fellow penguins. I seem to have made a severe lapse in judgement.

It started when I was trying to make my external HDD which I formatted to ext4 to a usable partition for my Linux steam games (Cant seem to figure it out and the “guides” I was shown in my other topic were to complicated for a newbie like me).

Anyway, I had the bright idea to go into Kpartition manager and change the mount point from /run/media to /home. After doing that I started getting notifications that services not responding (even the basic stuff like login and apps stopped working), being scared I turned off my laptop and turned it back on without the HDD, and then was put into emergency boot.

I did lsblk and fsck (and got an error). From what error it seems it tried to mount the correct partition but then was aborted.

Please just dont send a guide, If im dumb enough to do this I can’t seem to understand the stuff said on the tutorials.

I’ll be active if I need to do commands or logs.

Thank you (Sorry if there’s any typos I’m on my phone)

[Nachlese]

@YugiBearx

and change the mount point from /run/media to /home.

By doing that, you effectively hid (as in: you did hide it, you masked it …)
your /home
and thereby also your own /home/user directory

But that is just going by your description.

Your picture does not really help (me).

Why don’t you just revert what you did?

Boot from USB, access the file system and revert what you did …

likely /etc/fstab was altered - but that is just speculation on my part

Who knows what you did through

@YugiBearx

Kpartition manager

[Arrababiski]

I suppose you know little about partitions and /etc/fstab…

Try sudo nano /etc/fstab, find the line with /home, put a # in first position, save (Ctrl+O) and reboot.