On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:18:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 6/8/20 9:35 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:07:29 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> It's not a file. It appears to be an lvm volume, kind of like a
>>> partition. It's mounted at /.snapshot, so what does "ls -a
>>> /.snapshot"
>>> show you?
>>
>> Now it gets weird. I tried that command both as user and as root,
>> and got only
>>
>> ls: cannot access '/.snapshot': No such file or directory
>
> Not weird, just my mistake. I retyped from memory instead of looking at
> it or doing copy and paste. "ls -a /.snapshots" (It's plural...)
# ls -a /.snapshots
. .. alpha.0 lost+found
> Also, what about "lsof /.snapshots"?
# lsof /.snapshots
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/65536/
gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
It says "incomplete"; but the lines above are its whole output.
>> For most of my time, there has been no question whether I would
>> snarl up a machine, but only when. So every time I bought a new one, I
>> kept the old one and the one before it, in order to be able to holler
>> for help.
>
> Sounds like a good plan. :-)
>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 1.84 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Disk
>> model: WDC WD20EZRZ-00Z Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector
>> size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size
>> (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk
>> identifier: 772CAD71-6AAB-4868-9D69-C46B183C9581
>>
>> Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048
>> 251903 249856 122M Microsoft reserved /dev/sdb2 251904
>> 3907026943 3906775040 1.8T Linux filesystem
>
> Was this drive brought over from a windows system? But anyway, there's
> your storage.
It's my wife's previous machine, a System76 PC from several years
back. (She thinks five to eight years.) Being from them, it arrived with
Ubuntu (only, afaik). But I had so much trouble installing Fedora
(trouble I had not had with an early System76 netbook) that I had to call
a friend here, who came and did the install for me.
All I can think of, and it seems unlikely, is that System76 might
for some reason have started with a Windows machine, not bare metal.
Maybe that's why.
> It appears like you took a large hard drive and set it up for some
> backup system, but I have no idea what one would work like that.
I don't know what the friend did. The whole PC is now a backup; so
I'd have no hesitation to DBAN it, install F32, and recopy data from my
present #1 machine. I did think it seemed to have surprisingly little
storage when I did that df -h; but if I understand better now, that 1.7T
is real -- and, I hope, available for other uses. Is that so? Maybe I
don't need to wipe it?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.
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