Re: Authentication is required to mount /dev/fedora_localhost-live/home

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On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 19:52 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 20-02-03 17:56:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>   ...
> > $ sudo pvs
> >   PV         VG                    Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
> >   /dev/sda3  fedora_localhost-live lvm2 a--  <128.00g <17.80g
> >   /dev/sda4  fedora_localhost-live lvm2 a--   <16.00g <16.00g
> > $
>   ...
> 
> It's very unusual to have two partitions on the same device provide
> Physical Volumes for a single Volume Group.  It may be that none of
> the space on sda4 is in use, and it might be removed and the space
> used for something (like extending sda5).
> 
> Earlier you showed the output of `mount` and the output of `lvdisplay`.
> fedora_localhost-live/home does not appear to be in use, though swap
> and root are used.  Whatever is asking for a password for home appears
> to be failing.  Possibly any password would work as well.  Mounting
> home might show that it is empty and simply a waste of 33 GB.
> 
> This all seems confused enough that starting over might be best.

Following Ed's suggestion, I removed the LVM and the pop-up no longer
appears. Now I have to figure out how to recover the space.

Thanks.

poc
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