[SOLVED] Recover my /home after a failed recovery

[JeSuisFlaneur]

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mark@lexington:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 232.9G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0    28G  0 part /
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part
├─sda5   8:5    0     8G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda6   8:6    0   197G  0 part
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

Is it possible to make / know that /sda6 is /home? How do I do that?

Longer version:
I tried to install nvidia drivers and the OS blew up. My USB live could not execute to recover the display. I decided to reinstall Deb10 onto / and it's fine, but seems to not know that /home is there (or could be accessible).

[LE_746F6D617A7A69]

Is it possible to make / know that /sda6 is /home? How do I do that?

Normally You should do this during partitioning stage of the installation, by selecting mount point for sda6 to be /home.

But in Your current situation, You can use the following instructions:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/20287/how-to-re-mount-a-different-partition-as-home

Those instructions are from Ubuntu forums, but they are valid also for Debian.

[JeSuisFlaneur]

Thank you, Linux Community.

I did the minimal "fix". Using lsblk, I obtained the UUID of the (now) /dev/sda6 ( old /home ). Using sudo nano to edit /etc/fstab, I entered the line per the suggested post, above. Upon reboot, the /home is back.

The cpu temp is going to need some work, but all is good and minor tweeks are no problem.

[sgosnell]

If you have multiple choices of partitions, you can mount all of them and see what is in them. You can mount them anywhere you like, creating new mount points if desired, and after you find the correct partition, fix fstab as you did, then unmount the temporary mounts.

[Brucedg]

Not really good at this but thanks for this!