[SOLVED] Where did my old home directory go?

I just copied my home folder over to a bigger partition for lack of space, and edited my fstab file accordingly.
Then I logged out, renamed the old user folder from /home/myuser to /home/__myuser just to be sure I was not operating from the old directory anymore.
I rebooted, and all seem to have went well - except now I have no idea where that __myuser folder has ended up residing? it is not in the /home directory anymore, but I can tell it still exist by looking at the disc usage on my root partition.
Where to look?
Last edited by jerik (2015-05-15 21:43:13)

When you mount a partition to "/home" is "goes over top of" what is already there. Most likely your old user is underneath that old mount and can't be seen because the new mount is sitting on top of it. You could boot off the Arch ISO, make sure your new /home isn't mounted, and move your old user out of /home and then mount your new /home and copy the user onto that partition.

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