Why I hate updates ...

[Michael Butash]

I'm sitting here installing a couple of new 1tb samsung m2 980 disks to try
and resurrect my desktop, can't tell if hardware or software got corrupted
after an update or something died, but something went to hell, and I've
ignored it a bit just moving to my laptop.  I'm experimenting a bit here
with raid, cryptsetup, and lvm atop it at various block sizes to see how
things work, but anyway recommend LVM's at a baseline approach, or
btrfs/zfs.  I'm debating playing with those too, but right now doing xfs
atop m2.drives/luks/lvm/xfs.

I used to do luks/lvm/ext4, but figure I need more grief in my life, I'll
try something new.  Feedback welcome here.

-mb


On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 2:27 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

>
> >Yesterday, I did another update on my Linux Mint 17 system
> >and today numerous things that previously worked fine
> >no longer work, including Libre Office.
> >
> >And, I now see that all the space on sda1 is filled
> >so I have zero space available.
> >
> >Also, I tried to download a pdf file which should have
> >gone to sda6 and I got a message "No space available."
> >
> >What can I do to remedy this nightmare?
> >
> >I am willing to pay for help if one of my PLUG
> >friends would be willing to help me fix this.
> >
> >Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >udev             4006644        4   4006640   1% /dev
> >tmpfs             805480     1560    803920   1% /run
> >/dev/sda1       19091584 18141912         0 100% /
>
> Save your consultant money and buy a new /dev/sda1. 19GB is 2005
> territory: Programs are much bigger now. You can buy a 512GB for under
> $100.00, usually substantially under $100.00. If your current /dev/sda1
> is not SSD, you'll see a dramatic speedup of program loading and
> booting.
>
> If you fill up your root partition, of course nothing will work. I'm no
> Mint fan, but this isn't Mint's fault.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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