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Hi JR. Great idea -- I didn't know private chat was available. So late yesterday, I rolled back my partitions to where they were and was able to log in normally to my 20.04 installation. (The one I want to update!).
So now I've got two partitions: 750gb for everything except swap and 10gb for swap.
What I really want is to be able to update to 22.04 with everything else as it was. I just did this on my laptop and it went smoothly.
What would happen if I did this (after selecting "Something Else" in the Install from LIveUSB process): 1) create an EFI partion; 2) create a 20gb partion for /home. Then install 22.04 on top of 20.04 in the current big root partition. I almost did this but got a warning about overwriting existing system files so I stopped until I could check with you.
I'm thinking that if I did that, I would still have my current 20.04 /home directory on the root partition and I could somehow configure that as my (current and future) Home directory. I would lose anything in the system directories (like my MySQL and PHP configuration files). What do you think? Or is there a better way?
I'm off to work for a half day today. Catch up with you later.
I was going to attach a screenshot of my GParted screen showing the partitions but how do I do that?
