System fails to start up after resizing my Manjaro partition

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It seems that I’m still experiencing that mount point issue.

sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi                                                        
mount: /mnt/boot/efi: mount point does not exist.
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Did you do it in the order listed above?

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Yes, I did this first

sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p5 /mnt

Then this

sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi                                                        
mount: /mnt/boot/efi: mount point does not exist.
45

Uh oh…

ls -laR /mnt/boot
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ls -laR /mnt/boot                                                                          
ls: cannot access '/mnt/boot': No such file or directory
47

Did you hose your entire boot directory somehow?

Did you at any point used to have a separate boot partition?

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If you’re referring to dual-booting into Windows, then yes.

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No, I mean during Manjaro’s installation.

Your root partition should either contain the working boot directory, or if it does not, it’s because you’re using a separate boot partition. But there’s no hint about having a separate boot partition right now. Unless you deleted it when working with GNOME partition editor to resize and move partitions around?

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I don’t believe so. It might have only been on the root partition. As for the resizing, I moved unallocated space to the right of my root partition so that way I could extend my root partition into it.

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ls -l /mnt
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ls -l /mnt                                                                                   
total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 24 17:51 lost+found
53

WHAT DID YOU DO? :flushed:

That’s an empty ext4 filesystem!

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uhhhhh honestly, I have no idea, other than doing that resizing and trying to follow along with the grub reinstall tutorial lmao

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I seriously think you formatted a new ext4 filesystem during your resizing adventures.

Here, check this out:

sudo dumpe2fs /dev/nvme0n1p5 | grep created
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sudo dumpe2fs /dev/nvme0n1p5 | grep created                                                    
dumpe2fs 1.46.4 (18-Aug-2021)
Filesystem created:       Tue May 24 17:51:37 2022

Whoops. I don’t remember doing that :frowning:

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So according to dumpe2fs, this ext4 filesystem was created 4 days ago.

Did you install Manjaro 4 days ago?

58

I did not. I’ve had this dual-booting alongside Windows for a good couple of months now :sob:

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You reformatted your root ext4 filesystem.

I hope you didn’t have important data on it.

60

and can you access the files on the partition on your drive from the live usb?

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There are no files to access. @Cyb3r formatted a new ext4 filesystem 4 days ago (by accident). Everything is gone.