Xubuntu 20.04 disaster

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:24:33 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> If you run something like:
>>
>>    cd /
>>    sudo mount /home
>>
>> does it work and do the files come back?
>>  
>I will try that when the backup is complete.

That /home isn't mounted was my first and only guess, too.
The only thing else I can imagine is a package installed by a third
party repository was running a malicious script.