Dear guixers.
Yesterday I installed my 1st complete guix! :D
It is an i5 desktop machine with 3 years, quite standard and
almost
everything run well, except for a small confusion around disks
that I
share here not so much for me, but to understand and a future
reference
for others...
The machine has 1 500 Gb SSD disk. When installing (all in
Spanish) I
choose everything on 1 disk, no separation between system and
home, with
encryption.
Again, everything run well, the machine boots asking the
encryption key twice
(don't know why) and I landed in the classic bare i3 working
condition
desktop.
However, when I opened the file manager I can see what appeared
to be 2
disks/ partitions:
- one has the root system, including /home and inside there, the
only
present user. It has 105 Gb approximately.
- another, encrypted, with the rest of the space (~400 Gb) that
I
couldn't access, not even with the same key that allowed me to
go
until that moment (that is, the one used to decrypt the disk
that it
seems the one I was already using).
Everything is working, and the partition that supposedly has 105
Gb
reports a lot more available, as if the (apparently
un-accessible)
partition is really mounted there too.
So, I am confused:
- if I selected all in 1 drive, why the file manager shows 2?
- if the system could open the encrypted partition with the
password
upon boot, why it cannot access it afterwards?
- if the space reported is the total disk (as I choose during
the
install), why the system reports those 2 partitions?
I don't know what more information could be useful and will be
happy to
run whatever command you tell me to expand on this. Or maybe it
is a
known thing and just explaining it solves the mystery. ;P
As always, thank you very much for your kind attention and time.
:)
Best...
--
eduardo mercovich
Donde se cruzan tus talentos
con las necesidades del mundo,
ahí está tu vocación.
(Anónimo)
