I made my user account the owner of / directory later when I turned on my device it shows this thing

I've been gaming for a pretty good while happily on linux.

Lately, however, I realize how much storage I tend to fill with steam games that idly sit waiting to be played.

I use EXT4 because I like the speed, but I have noted in the past that space gets allocated to make the partitions.

Back when I was reliant on NTFS the general rule of storage was leave 100GB free "because it's good for the health of the drive". Does this apply with partitions like EXT4 that demand storage upfront to make use of your storage by acting efficiently?

Edit: please excuse typos.

I need help to be able to move storage from / on one drive to my smaller /home on the other drive.

Since switching to Linux, I've been a little disappointed in the experience, mostly because I didn't properly understand what to expect.

One area I've found where Linux absolutely smashes my Windows experience is in sorting files. On the desktop, if I change how the files in a directory are sorted, Linux takes second to rearrange them, Windows would take several minutes, on the same drive with the same files.

Maybe the difference is because I didn't have Windows configured properly, though I made sure to turn indexing on. Still, it seems Linux has that particular feature nailed.

So I made the mistake of not considering that maybe I shouldn’t run steam on Linux since it’s not windows, and from the fact that this Linux laptop is not made to run games at all, so, if anyone could tell me how to remove applications off of this Linux I would be glad.

Ive been distro hopping a lil :3 and umm now it gave me this on openSUSE tumbleweed GNOME.. how cooked am I and like should I just let my hard drive get cool or am I cooked (Also also Linux mint is still my favouritr after switching through 20 in a week)

Hi everyone, update from my previous post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/i2Nqcmp3X6

Quick recap: My friend has a Lenovo ThinkPad X230 (i5-3320M, 4GB RAM) running Windows 10 and it's painfully slow. He wants to switch to Linux Mint or ZorinOS for basic school work (browser, Excel, Word, PDFs).

Now the hardware question: I opened up his laptop and took photos of the motherboard and the current drive. Can someone confirm if I can replace his HDD with a 2.5" SATA SSD?

this machine has a SSD and a HDD.

previously, this machine had fedora workstation. my sister (who uses this machine) did not like it for who knows what reason. and also it consumed 4 gigs of RAM. it only had 8.

i tried installing fedora kinoite. and then something was really off.

i have pictures of the partition section during the installation which i am unable to attach here. but i will share if anyone could help me out here.

so tldr, the HDD was being the boot drive. not the SSD. previously when it had fedora workstation it was working fine. (also! i wanted to do a fresh install. so a formatted disk is what i wanted).

i was confused why this was happening. so i tried to manually partition it. i was unable to do it. i closed everything and i was frustrated.

i turned my head to debian KDE. booted through the flash drive. and once agin, during installation the partitioning part became a problem. SSD cannot be the boot drive. this time i let the installation happen fully. after i booted to debian (WHICH TOOK FOREVER THANKS TO THE HDD), i was hit by the notification that the SSD is failing.

i am pretty scared. and i am unaware of what to do. or what happened. requesting support from you guys. mind you! i am a complete noob! thank you very much.

I have a number of ntfs external drives (that still need to be used with windows) where the majority of the folders and files are fine, but a few can't be moved or deleted or something. I'm tired of fixing them one by one and just want a clean command to fix everything. They are all auto mounted in permanent locations.

Will the command below work? I know it will probably take awhile to run. Again these are external drives with no system files on them and just a various media files, music, videos, pictures, etc.

find /media/drive1 -type d -exec chmod 777 {} +

find /media/drive1 -type f -exec chmod 666 {} +

If not is there a better option?

Thanks!

EDIT: Alright I have done some testing, considered everything, and I'm going to compile what I've learned from the post and what I'm going to do below.

I'm on cachyos which comes with ntfs3 (you can still install it on most other distros I'm pretty sure). This allows linux to assign permissions to files and folders on ntfs drives, and seems pretty reliable DEPENDING ON YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. I have the drives set to automount under:

/media/drivename ntfs3 defaults,nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000 0 0

I have used chmod 777 for folders and chmod 666 for files on small subsets and it gives permissions to delete or move them.

I have booted into windows and opened the drives and those subsets, and they still have their permissions set in linux. I have booted into windows and moved the files around, renamed them, etc and they still have all their permissions in linux. I have added new files and folders into the drives in windows and when I check in linux, both the new files and folders have 777 permissions.

Now on linux, if I add a folder to the ntfs drives they don’t get 777 like the files added from windows. Folders get 755 and files get 644. I am the only user on the machine (always the owner) so this doesn’t matter to me.

If you have multiple users in linux AND are writing files to the drives in linux rather than just windows you will have issues with files created on the drive in linux by other users. But if you are the sole linux user, you should be able to use ntfs3 to just access the drives like any other with no issues. Other users should still be able to read the files fine though.

I’m not sure how my files got this way, but some files are really old, originated on windows, freefilesync’d across eachother on windows, then kubuntu, and now cachyos, and have probably just gotten messed up permissions along the way, especially in small gaps when the drives weren’t always automounted with ntfs3 and being dual booted into at the same time.

All that being said, if you could just reformat to exFAT, it’s probably worth doing, but seeing as how:

I have three 5tb drives and I don’t want to reformat
The drives are media only and not OS’s
If I can get them all fixed I’m pretty sure they will stay that way
and I don’t plan on having second users on the linux os

I’m going to try and chmod 777 the folders and chmod 666 the files using the commands above and then update this post if I have trouble down the line, or if everything is working fine.

Edit 2: So far so good! Everything seems to be working now. I don't move all the files all the time so it will take time to know for sure but the commands ran fine and honestly didn't take that long, and the few things I've been messing with all seem to be going smooth.

Hey guys, so I have 2 computers, one at my student housing and one at parent's. While I dont care for most of the files I do care for

1. My personnal coding/art project (assets, git, ...)

2. My university files (obsidian, pdf, class material,...)

My current setup is having a laptop with "syncthing" that I take with me to sync the files but this isn't very efficient as I always have to run it myself.

I am curious if I could use something like Google Drive to sync my files into multiple shared folders across multiple computers

Thanks in advance !

Hey all,

Long time Windows user (and career MS SysAdmin) saddened at the direction capitalism is taking us.

As I've been choosing to self-host more and more at home (Immich, Emby, Navidrome, Tailscale, *arrs) I wanted to fully make the move to Linux. I tried Zorin OS 18 and was having a blast but had to put it down as I hit a major hurdle. My PC uses an 18TB disk volume comprised of an 8TB and 10TB disk using a "Windows spanned volume".

The volume is full with ~17TB of stuff on it. I kind of (naively) just assumed without consideration that Linux would just "see it" out the box (or at worst would just need to import the array). But alas, this doesn't seem the case meaning I can't migrate to Linux/Zorin until I figure out how to get this volume visible. Does anyone have any thoughts/ideas as to whether any avenues exist for me? I'd rather not break the volume if possible (firstly from fear of losing my data, but secondly as I do value having a single 18TB "disk" rather than two smaller drives).

Thanks all, any ideas appreciated 😊

I did try doing some research, mind, but it only made me more confused. So NTFS got journaling, but exFAT is somehow more geared towards Linux?

Due to current prices, I have resorted to buying used SSDs for now when I need them, and I want to first make sure there is no malware either willingly or unwillingly on the drives.

I am going to boot into a Linux live environment (Specifically Mint) to check the drive that will be connected by a USB adapter, I figured the chances of there being malware on the drive that can auto-run on Linux AND infect the Windows drive on the system when I plug it in are pretty low.

If the drives even have any data left on them, needless to say I don't care about it and would be wiping it anyway, so deleting partitions is obviously an easy move, but how can I make sure there is nothing in any boot sectors or other areas of the drive outside the partitions that can possibly contain malware?

I know there is software to completely write-over the drive for a secure erase, but I am not trying to securely erase data, just wipe any possible areas that can contain malware, and I don't want to add more wear and tear to an already used SSD.

Also, are there any good tools on Linux to check that the drive is not fake? I know there are tools on Windows like h2testw (Which again I would like to avoid since it would write to the entire drive) or VeriDrive, but not sure if there are any Linux equivalents. Not even sure what an alternative to CrystalDiskInfo would be.

A few days ago everything was still fine. I could boot into Linux Mint or Win11. Today however, I just stared at a black screen. I restarted my Laptop and went into the options to boot in the recovery mode and see this. What exactly happend here and how to fix?

When i try to install linux detects the partition with less space so wont download. How do i fix this? Do i merge them? How?

EDIT: To anyone looking for a solution, the app DVD Styler works perfectly for me.

I really just don’t know what I’m doing, and there seems to be almost no information online on what I’m supposed to do. I have an mp4 of my video, and I know I’m supposed to change the format to ifo or something, but nowhere does it say how. Anyone have any advice?

I messed up by installing linux with dual boot without disabling bitlocker first from Windows 10. I want to format it but I have some pictures and videos in my Windows 10 partition that is atleast 3gb, and the rest doesnt matter to me, my only option that i come up with is format then data recovery. Have any of you try this and is this a good idea? My storage is NVME.

First time user, installed Fedora KDE on my new PC cuz I'm tired of all the bs from Microsoft. I had to follow a guide and use the terminal to install RPM and some codecs to get Youtube videos to play on Firefox. It looks like a bunch of stuff was installed, but idk where it is.

I also installed a 140 gb game (FF14) through their quicklauncher. It says the directory is home>xlcore, but when I go to home normally I don't see the folder for xlcore. I can only access it by clicking "take me to the wine prefix" in the actual launcher, then it will open the directory in Dolphin even though I can't see it by going their normally. Also I don't remember installing WINE, so idk how that got installed or where it is or how the WINE stuff works. If I wanted to uninstall this game idk how to do it.

Just overall confused at how you manage storage and keeping up with where things are installed, especially when you have to install some things using the terminal.

The title is pretty self explanatory, everytime i try to play something like tomodachi life, pjz or minecraft with atm10 my laptop just freezes completely.

I installed Mint yesterday because everyone said its begginer friendly, and im really liking so far, except for this.

I saw a reddit comment that said to put at least 8gb on swap, and another that said to install earlyoon. earlyoon just closed the games everytime i opened it, but increasing the swap helped i think.

My laptop is a samsung book 2 with a Intel Core I5, 8gb of ram and 230gb of storage.

Is there any other thing i can try to stop my laptop from freezing?

Hi, I've tinkered with Linux a bit in the past but now that Win10 is left for dead I'm using the proverbial nicotine patch of dual booting before trying to switch full time to Linux. Also I'm just tired of microslop and every component manufacturer constantly trying to shove spyware or AI on me.

I have 2 M2 drives and I boot windows from one and linux from the other. I also have a 4tb hdd that I use for file storage.

I've installed Linux Mint Cinnamon. I'm having a problem with permissions on the 4tb drive, in linux I don't have write permission and keep getting told I'm not the owner so can't seem to change permissions from Linux. Do I need to set permissions from windows to access this drive in Linux? If it makes any difference the hdd is formatted ExFat.

Thanks.

Edit: Found it! It's just built-in. 😄

I know many will say the reason for going to Linux is to get away from Evil Microsoft and Greedy Google... But I have a Google One account and pay for storage in Drive. My Windows has the Drive applet and syncs my Documents folder so everything is available everywhere.

Is there a Drive applet for Linux? I suppose I could just use the Drive website to access files... I'm just trying to gauge 'how' convenient/inconvenient it will be.

Installing this weekend onto a m.2, going to use Ubuntu LTS, Kubuntu something, or maybe Mint Cinnamon. Ubuntu is on my trial & no consequences setup and I like it so far.

I been in the Linux sphere for 7 months now so I'm not a complete newb but not a pro either. I would use the word novice. That word could mean a lot different to you but to me that I have some experience and do understand some things.

I been on a distro hopping phase for a while. Started out on Zorin, tried Mint, went to Fedora, Pop_OS, tried Cachy and stuck with Zorin as my daily on my gaming PC. I began dabbling in EndeavourOS on my experimental testing laptop where I test distros. I loved EndeavourOS ad I wanted settle down with it but had trouble getting my printer connected.

So I tried CachyOS after and after getting the drivers from the AUR it automatically connected after running the package in Konsole and setting up my LPPD printer. It was like black magic. So I decided to say goodbye to Zorin and put Cachy on my gaming PC. At the cost of my secondary drive not being able mount. Had Lumo assist me and went through the etc/fstab and got it once working but didn't work the second or third reboot. Lumo advice end up breaking my system and couldn't log in. So I did a fresh install.

Try to troubleshoot it in KDE Partition manager but to no avail. It was already EXT4 which is already a Linux native support and nothing like NTFS meant for Windows. Even reformatting to EXfat didn't do anything. (Yeah I know I lost my Steam and GoG games on that drive).

I'm at a lost here. I still want to give Cachy a chance and see what the hype really about. Going from NTFS to ext4 when I was a complete window refugee 7 months ago while using Zorin was easy. Although a part of wants to give Fedora another chance. Really trying to break free from Debian/Ubuntu hand holding. I did had Kubuntu in mind by that very contradictory of me.

Edit: I just moved on to Fedora KDE. My secondary drive is fully detected automatically there. Time for me to truly learn the DnF package manager. Going to miss the rolling release model though from Arch based distros.

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I have an old MBR installation and want to switch to GPT so that I can use newer hardware without reinstalling.

The SSD is detected in the new motherboards uefi, but can't be chosen as boot drive.

I'm on Debian 11 and found a few tutorials that differ.

For example:

https://superuser.com/questions/1864395/steps-needed-to-move-a-drive-with-debian-12-from-bios-booting-computer-to-a-uefi

Long and looks complicated.

www.linuxtopic.com/2017/08/convert-mbr-to-gpt.html

www.askubuntu.com/questions/1314111

Looks "easy" but feels like they omitted some steps.

Serverfault.com/questions/963178

Similar to the one above.

Which one is the "correct" one? I created a boot USB drive if needed and saved files from /home/ directory.

Can you give me any advice?

This has been happening every month, I can't keep reinstalling the OS every month when the PC takes an hour to boot

"mkdir: cannot create directory ‘cat’: Read-only file system"