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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: There he goes again Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 23:33:10 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <v6hsvm$12f54$7@dont-email.me> References: <v69its$3dons$1@dont-email.me> <sG6s8v.B6nB@yahoo.com> <v6ar7b$3ngh6$2@dont-email.me> <v6ci5t$oq$1@dont-email.me> <v6cr5s$1kfb$1@dont-email.me> <leug5rFgsj3U2@mid.individual.net> <v6d3qp$6ida$1@dont-email.me> <leuictFjmlhU1@mid.individual.net> <v6f35v$gmj7$2@dont-email.me> <lf1052FudliU1@mid.individual.net> <op.2qls34exa3w0dxdave@hodgins.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 01:33:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="04bb535b0c0a3ec0d50e843b1924189b"; logging-data="1129636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18h476kxdtPmdQIoLV+J9aN" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qb/6o3vx1bWvHgq8p/6+nmjSygA= Bytes: 2324 On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:46:42 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote: > The command line tools work just as well. fdisk for setting up disk partitions, plus of course mkfs for actually initializing filesystems. And rsync for robust bulk-copying of files. Tip: download a copy of the latest SystemRescue <https://www.system-rescue.org/> and keep it on a handy USB stick. A friend, whom I had previously set up with a Linux Mint installation on his new MSI Cubi 5, came back complaining that it wasn’t booting any more. From his description, it sounded like it had run out of disk space. I booted it up with SystemRescue, and quickly discovered that, while there was still plenty of room on the main part of the terabyte SSD allocated to /home, the root partition (60GB or so) had been completely filled up with snapshots from some Time Machine type backup utility--I forget the exact name. It was easy enough to dump them all. If he wants to use that app again, I hope it has an option to choose a more sensible place to keep its backups.