Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.debian.user > #232184

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

From Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk
Date 2021-02-27 13:30 +0100
Message-ID <BN6Tn-4Xk-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <BMP6a-2GA-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <BMPpv-2MU-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <BN3iO-2N3-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <BN3LP-3c9-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <BN6Tn-4Xk-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

One potential extra information that could be relevant is that I did use
the flash drives in a university network, and using shared wifi in a hostel
and before in a public library.

Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com>, 27 Şub 2021 Cmt, 15:19
tarihinde şunu yazdı:

> Should I then be suspicious of a possible attack on the system in case the
> system fails, if both debian and ubuntu are fairly stable? The usb flash
> drives themselves are still functional in the sense that I can view the
> files in them after plugging them in. I backed up the data on them. But
> when I try to boot from 64 gb usb flash disks (one with ubuntu 18 04 the
> other debian 10 point something installed on them) the boot process does
> not complete and the login screen does not appear. The two recovery modes
> (I guess those are the snapshots no?) do not finish booting either.
>
> Joe <joe@jretrading.com>, 27 Şub 2021 Cmt, 12:02 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:30:08 +0300
>> Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry I can not read emails very often. No I am not new to linux I
>> > have been using it for the past 6 or 7 years starting mostly with
>> > ubuntu. I had CENTOS and Ubuntu and debian installed on some machines
>> > before.  Most of them stopped functioning. Some of them in less than
>> > six months.
>>
>> OK, that simply should not happen. I don't know if either Centos or
>> Ubuntu can do in-place version upgrades, but if not, they should
>> certainly run from release to unsupported status. My current server
>> installation is a new one, but previously it ran through several
>> Debian stable version upgrades and many years, and a couple of changes
>> of hardware. There is such a thing as software rot, and it certainly
>> affects applications, but the OS of Debian stable should run pretty much
>> forever.
>> >
>> > I am new to the debian users group, because I found out that a user
>> > group existed much later. During this time I had a lot of issues with
>> > computers. The new computer that I got, originally the store claimed
>> > that the insurance on my machine would be invalidated if I installed
>> > another operation system on the machine.
>> >
>> > The reason for hesitating to install debian right now is simply that
>> > the machines may become unusable again, and the invested time and
>> > machinepower to installing a machine may end up being wasted. The
>> > other reason was the claim that insurance may become invalid which
>> > later turned out not to be so, but only after asking the company that
>> > sells the computer several times.
>>
>> No software carries any kind of warranty, not even the famous Windows,
>> but the warranty should certainly cover the hardware if it isn't
>> physically abused. Software warranty service is pretty much limited to
>> reinstalling Windows with loss of all data and applications, which any
>> user can do themselves.
>>
>> > The third reason is I simply do not
>> > at the moment have the time to backup the existing hard drive before
>> > installing a new operating system on it, and also that should it
>> > become unusable or stop functioning (I had debian installed on a usb
>> > 64 gb of size that stopped booting)..
>>
>> Ah, USB sticks *do* stop working or lose bits without warning. Well, so
>> do spinning hard drives, but not usually in less than about five years,
>> often much longer.
>> >
>> > Yes I did figure out that it was lvm2 package that was needed, and
>> > lvs is actually one of the internal commands for lvm2 as well so it
>> > could be run from the console lvm2 prodives. I am looking into the
>> > option of using lvm.
>>
>> That's fairly painless to use, as Debian will set it up during the OS
>> installation. To be honest, I've had it installed for many years, and
>> only occasionally used it. Drives are now large enough that I don't
>> outgrow them in the lifetime of the hardware. In addition to adding
>> and removing drives, LVM does allow online backups, if you've left
>> enough unused space. Read about snapshots.
>>
>> --
>> Joe
>>
>>

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems  and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-22 21:10 +0100
  Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-02-22 21:30 +0100
    Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-22 22:00 +0100
      Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-22 22:20 +0100
        Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-22 22:40 +0100
          Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-02-22 23:20 +0100
          Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-02-22 23:20 +0100
            Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-23 00:10 +0100
              Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-02-23 00:20 +0100
              Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2021-02-23 17:20 +0100
              Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-02-23 17:20 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-02-23 17:40 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-02-23 18:00 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-23 18:20 +0100
          Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-23 09:30 +0100
            Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 15:50 +0100
              Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-25 16:00 +0100
              Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 16:00 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 16:20 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 16:30 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 16:50 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-25 17:00 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 17:10 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 17:00 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 16:50 +0100
  Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-02-23 04:10 +0100
    Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> - 2021-02-23 11:40 +0100
      Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 07:00 +0100
        Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-02-26 08:00 +0100
          Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 08:40 +0100
            Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-26 13:30 +0100
        Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 11:00 +0100
          Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-02-26 18:30 +0100
            Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-26 18:50 +0100
              Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 09:40 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 09:40 +0100
                About keeping a Debian installation happy [was: is it possible to  add a secondary disk to an existing debian] systems and install programs to  the secondary disk <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-27 10:20 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-27 10:10 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 13:30 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 13:30 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-02-27 14:50 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-27 15:20 +0100
                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-03-01 01:40 +0100
        Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> - 2021-02-27 09:30 +0100

csiph-web