Home folder empty and Login Screen loop

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The question is how and where was the separate HDD (portable?) installed/mounted?

The device in question was an internal SATA HDD's logical sub-partition mounted as

Code:

/mnt/home2/

.

Can you remember the actual command line you used (check history)?

It might have been

Code:

rsync -avhW --no-compress --progress /home /mnt/home2

. About whether there were trailing slashes, I am uncertain.

Have there been any error messages while you run rsync?

No error messages appeared. Is there a chance of rsync having only simulated a transfer without my knowledge?

Can you still see the ext3 partition? If yes, are there any files on there?

The partition is existing, but empty (no hidden files either).

How did you search for the copy of your home folder?

I looked in the root of the new part, of course.

In Puppy, I also edited fstab and deleted the old home after, if that matters.