On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:53:31 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/12/22 12:34, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:41:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > Thanks all, I think I'm making progress. But apparently I'm a new bee at > > > raid stuff. Hmmm, I just noted that htop is showing zero swap. Checking > > > fstab against blkid, shows swap with a totally different blkid. > > > I'll see if I can do a copy paste to fix that. Yup, a root swapon -av and > > > now I have swap. And /opt was missing too, its on the raid but empty so > > > that was added by copy/paste. A simple mount /opt fixes that. > > > > > > Now, are these bklid's stable enough I can mount the bigger drive and > > > just copy this fstab over the existing one? > > AFAIK, blkid is a command that lists attributes or messes up your > > system. Hence this, in bold, from its man page: > > > > It is recommended to use lsblk(8) command to get information about > > block devices, or lsblk --fs to get an overview of filesystems, or > > findmnt(8) to search in already mounted filesystems. > > > > So it's the attributes that should concern you, like LABELs and UUIDs. > > > > In your narrative above, you'll probably lose swap each time you > > reinstall, because you've set a swap in the partitioner. I always > > avoid that. Any 21st century PC should be able to install with > > needing to swap. > > That is a useful clue, I'll leave it out of the next install since > I've 32G of dram in this box. Swap is generally used only if I get > stupid with OpenSCAD. > > But as IUI, swap is cleaned out reboot, so theoretically I should be > able to the the same 60Gig /dev/md1 for both boots by adding it to > fstab, and issuing a swapon.
The cleaning out is not the point: you need to ID it, but can't use the /dev/sdX to do that. > And since both are bullseye, /home s/b > interchangeable too. But since I now have a working install with > effectively no tools except mc, I am blocked at every turn I try to > use to get around that blockade. If someone could tell me which x > desktop I could install, that doesn't crash and burn from un-fixable > dependencies trying to install tde-trinity, I'd be well on they way to > getting back to productive use of this machine. That's for others. I don't know where your tools are. In some cases, it's probably because you're using the wrong tool, as I just pointed out for blkid: you should be using lsblk. And you shouldn't need a desktop to install, configure and maintain your system. Cheers, David.
