Problem upgrading 14.03 to 14.04; and need help understanding directory structure

This is the same INUM, so it looks very much like a hard link.
I’m not 100% sure, but from what I read, it should be safe, to delete a hard link without loosing the data. I’d do a backup anyway.

Here is a Howto move the data directory after the installation:

However, if you just started the installation and there is no user data yet, I would start from the scratch. If you might loose data, you could still

  • backup all the user data
  • backup your config file /sharedfolders/www/nextcloud/config/config.php
  • re-create a fresh directory structure
  • copy the content of https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-14.0.3.zip to your NC folder (/sharedfolders/www/nextcloud/)
  • copy the backup of your user data to new data folder (I suggest /sharedfolders/ncdata/ then)
  • restore your config.php to /sharedfolders/www/nextcloud/config/ (make adaptions to the config file according to the howto regarding the moved data directory
  • perform the steps from the howto

Afterwards you should be able to login in again, see all your files and perform the upgrade successfully.

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