Thanks Paul,
Since the GUI was behaving badly, I decided to fix it in
Console/Terminal whatever. Then I had the inspired notion to use
Midnight Commander, and, joy unspeakable! It is doing a great job. I
think I may just load Linux Mint.
All happy and OK now.
Andrew
On 16/2/21 4:15 pm, Paul van den Bergen wrote:
aside:
most linux distros still seem to default to separate drive partitions
for boot and OS. and inadequately size the boot partition at that by
default - given how large drives are these days...
I'm increasingly wondering if this is legacy behaviour no one
understands enough to change, or if I'm missing something...
Mind you, it's not as bad as Windows that makes a C drive for the OS,
a D drive for the data, then puts all the data on the C drive...
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 13:51, Andrew Greig via luv-main
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Jason,
Thanks for your tips, I had wrongly ascribed the failure to the
introduction of the USB drive. I have a synched directory in Google
Drive so I copied everything from that directory to the USB drive
on my
main machine. Then I entered the shell and ran a delete on the
directory
in my laptop, and this has freed up the space for it to boot and
run. I
did have the rescue disk standing by, but it was not needed on this
occasion. Panic has subsided, calm is restored, I am grateful for
your
help. Thank you!!
Andrew Greig
On 16/2/21 4:36 am, Jason White via luv-main wrote:
>
> On 15/2/21 1:03 am, pushin.linux via luv-main wrote:
>> Ecryptfs_write_metadata: Errorattempting to write header
information
>> to lower file; rc= [-28]
>>
> If the system drive is full, as you indicate, then the error
message
> could be due to an attempt to write to an ecryptfs file system
on the
> full drive. Could you unmount any ecryptfs file system before
> attaching the external drive, or simply mount it from a console
> session and then move the files over?
>
> If this doesn't work, then it's time to resort to a bootable, live
> Linux distribution that will take you to a shell prompt from
which you
> can mount drives and move files around.
>
>
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