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| From | Davey <davey@example.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.os.linux |
| Subject | Here we go again |
| Date | 2025-09-02 11:03 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <1096fcr$dp58$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
I need more help, please, folks. I often feel that I am floundering around with insufficient knowledge, but usually with help, I get where I want to go. Hopefully this is another of those times. After what I thought was a successful conclusion to the Lost Partition saga, which had finished in a sensible, understandable boot, when I went to shut down the laptop last night, it warned me that my working partition was running out of space. It offered to let me scrutinise it, which I did, and it showed that the biggest folder was the Videos one, which I understood because I had not been using the separate old m2SSD partition while I could not access it, but I now can. I noted that today's first job would be to do a massive house-keeping job on my Videos. This was not a surprise. But today, I can't boot the laptop. It hangs after the initial splash screen phase, with the line at the top left of the screen showing 'clean: /dev/dsa2....' and various file quantities. The only way I can get it to return to any control is to use the old favourite Cntr-Alt-Del combination. I can boot into emergency mode, and I tried reverting the /etc/fstab file to earlier versions, but that doesn't change the boot failure. I have booted from a Live USB, but I'm not sure what to do next. One thought is that I need to empty the Rubbish Bin, and research shows some guidance on that, but it seems a little inconclusive, and fraught with danger. I read that it is possible to mount any partition on the PC's HDD (or SSD) from the Live USB, but I have never done it, and I cannot seem to find the magic combination to mount the /dev/sda2 partition that currently is my working, and almost full, partition. I think I do it, but then it shows no files, so it isn't going where I want it to. Please help! I will provide any information that I can get, such as blkid, mount etc displays. I won't do that right here, this is to establish a path to get my laptop back on the road. All help most welcome! -- Davey.
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Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-02 11:03 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-03 08:57 +0100
Re: Here we go again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-09-03 16:49 +0100
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Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-03 17:48 +0100
Re: Here we go again Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-09-03 18:20 +0100
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Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-03 20:50 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-04 11:35 +0100
Re: Here we go again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-09-04 17:30 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-04 19:52 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-05 23:49 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-08 11:50 +0100
Re: Here we go again "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2025-09-08 16:11 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-08 17:28 +0100
TRIM (Was: Here we go again) Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-09-15 16:00 +0100
Re: TRIM (Was: Here we go again) Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-15 17:30 +0100
Re: TRIM Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-17 08:43 +0100
Re: TRIM Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-09-17 10:30 +0100
Re: TRIM Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-17 11:05 +0100
Re: TRIM Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-09-17 15:12 +0100
Re: TRIM Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-17 15:54 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-09 09:04 +0100
Re: Here we go again "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2025-09-09 12:19 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-09 18:03 +0100
Re: Here we go again "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2025-09-09 22:02 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-10 00:14 +0100
Re: Here we go again -Update Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-11 17:12 +0100
Re: Here we go again -Update Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-21 16:10 +0100
Re: Here we go again -Update "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2025-09-22 01:41 +0100
Re: Here we go again -Update Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-22 09:29 +0100
Re: Here we go again Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-09-10 12:43 +0100
Re: Here we go again Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-09-08 21:33 +0100
Re: Here we go again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-09-04 20:07 +0100
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