Bazzite Data Recovery
I have a dualboot setup and shrunk my Windows partition by almost 200GB. I have done this countless times in the past with no issue to make more space for my Bazzite installation, but this time Bazzite refuses to boot. It boots in emergency mode and is read-only. Accessing the ostree filesystem via a live Linux USB doesn't give me access to my home directory; it appears as a file in Dolphin. I am assuming this is a result of the ostree nature of Bazzite.
How can I access my home directory and retrieve my data from my Bazzite installation?
Solution:Jump to solution
In the Bazzite docs there is a video guide https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=970 under "Emergency Mode After Following This Guide?" right at the end. Have a look and see if that will get you out of emergency mode.
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I assume it boots in emergency mode because the exFAT partition with my games on it also moved, and might cause issues with fstab.
you are correct
you need to remove the bad line from your fstab
and then it'll boot
I'm looking for a way to access my fstab outside of Bazzite itself, haven't had any luck. Do you have any pointers?
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Location of /etc/fstab in Silverblue/Kinoite?
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I can't browse the files in the home or root directory in my Live USB, for example, they all appear empty
Let me look at this
ignore the OP, last comment
Solution
In the Bazzite docs there is a video guide https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=970 under "Emergency Mode After Following This Guide?" right at the end. Have a look and see if that will get you out of emergency mode.
I'll look at that tonight as I am at work right now. I was able to access my fstab but it is read only. Does the video address that?
yup it should be editable
removing that fstab entry worked, thanks
That's great :). Please mark the tread as solved when you get a chance.