Slacko pup sees Mint's /home contents blank

[fleamour]

Hi

I need a copy of Mint's /home but Slack pupp sees no contents?!?

My Mint /home is XFS so cannot be resized so plan to manually copy /home to back up HDD then nuke partition, recreate/resize root & home then copy back home contents. This could be a permissions mess but need byte for byte copy of XFS home. Is this possible with pupp?

Have tried chowning recursively as root... XFSsprogs is not available...

[Flash]

I guess I'd ask how do you know there is anything in Mint's /home and why can't Mint do the copying? Also, are you sure that Slacko Pup can even see the XFS filesystem?

[fleamour]

Files are present in live system. Need to move files offline. Mint USB sees but not permitted to mount internal /home BKF XFS even though tried to chown as root.

[fleamour]

Asking the wrong questions:

Impossible to shrink an XFS partition so not enough room in / to upgrade Mint 17.3 => Mint 18.

Bum.

That'll teach me.