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@Larry78723 Thanks for your comment on the space in /. I am wondering why LM 20 Cinnamon needs so much more space the LM17.3 KDE. On my LM 17.3 machine the root contains 29 GB data, where as on the LM 20 machine it contains already 36.1 GB. On the LM 20 machine there are several bigger applications ...

@ LanceM I tried several ways you proposed to see where the Timeshift files could be; however I was not able to identify the location. rost@ROSt-X230:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 8011896 0 8011896 0% /dev tmpfs 1611516 1720 1609796 1% /run /dev/sda7 42872180 3713242...

@pbear Thanks for your reply and thoughts. The outpur of your proposed command is: rost@ROSt-X230:~$ LC_ALL=C inxi -SMDpo System: Host: ROSt-X230 Kernel: 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2306CTO v: Thi...

@kelevra

Also thanks to you for sharing your experience.

i will now see if I can possible replace my 500 GB HDD with a 500 GB SSD. I prefer the SSD because I am using the PC on a boat thus have vibrations.

@BenTrabetere - Thanks for your advice!

@JerryF Your comment made me looking into details: The attached screenshots show what is in /run/timeshift/backup/timeshift, thus in the root partition. Checking Timeshift's settings shows the /home partition is checked. However, I did not find any folder or file related to timeshift. Now I wonder w...

@LanceM After having posted the result of Karl's command. I run your first command: rost@ROSt-X230:~$ sudo du -sh /var/cache/apt/ [sudo] password for rost: 354M /var/cache/apt/ rost@ROSt-X230:~$ I also had a look at the files in the /var/cache/apt/archive and saw that they are all of type "xxxx.dep"...

@ karlchen Hi Karl, this is the output of the command you proposed: rost@ROSt-X230:~$ LC_ALL=C df -h | egrep "^/dev/|Filesystem" Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 41G 36G 3.5G 92% / /dev/sda1 511M 4.0K 511M 1% /boot/efi /dev/sdb1 7.3G 1.8G 5.5G 25% /media/rost/ROSTBoot rost@ROSt-X...

When I ran today in the frame of the recovery of LM20 Cinnamon machine, "System Summary", I got the message ==LVM state== Physical Volume: not OK (Bad) Volume Groups: OK (Good) I learned from @diapason that this means there are some damages on the HDD (8 years old). How can I evaluate how big the da...

LM 20 Cinnamon When I, with the help of @diapason, recovered my LM 20 installation i got, after running "dkpg repair broken packages" the message that I don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives I first thought that the Timeshift files are stored in the /archives/ and that they caused ...

What a long and great list of advises! Thank you so much! It is copied to the other notes on this matter for hopefully no usage at all in the future.... but who knows what will come up tomorrow. 1 & 2 I will follow this up in separate questions 3 kernel - I will take care to have not more than 2. sp...

Manual Backups - Thats what I did with my LM17.3 system. Now as Timeshift is integrated I wanted to use it. However, I now see the issue with a huge space requirement. Right now I am change the partitions. /home has only a few data and they are backed up. At the end I will increase the root by 7GB a...

I assumed that the number is the kernel number and used the highest one. I used the highest version and recovery mode, In the menu I selected first System Summary. At the end I got the information ==LVM state== Physical volume: not OK (Bad) <=== don't understand what this message really means especi...

Thank you VERY much for this detailed guideline. I copied it already into a text file to add commentsand keep it for the future. I see a list of versions and don't know how to identify the right one. What I am seeing is from top down: Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon, with Linux 5.4.0-48 then the same with th...

Yes I have an LMDB4 Live stick and Tims shift is set to regular backups. Thus I could use the back up of yesterday morning. How can I get there? And what do I need to do? This is my first attempt to gat a Time Shift back up to work and now I need to do it from a live stick. Do you see my knees shaki...

Thanks for your reply!

Timeshift is the trouble maker; I don't use time shift on my old LM17.3 machine. Thus I need to add the time shift space to my "normal" size of the root partition

Helpful answer! Thanks!

Thanks for your reply; - User name is displayed - every thing looks completely normal - Typing the password, asterix (actually dots) appear - one for each character entered - After pressing Enter: ----- screen turns black for short moment (1/2 sec?) ----- then a white hyphen appears in the left top ...

LM20 Cinnamon Suddenly I cannot log into my PC anymore. - Password is correct, I use the same password in another PC several times a day. - Caps are checked an correct. - On-screen keyboard gives the same result. - PC several times restarted even with keeping power button pressed until a forces shut...

On my old but still workhorse PC I am still running LM 17.3 KDE with follwing partitions: root: 30 GB used 22.50 GB swap: 8 GB home: 400 GB Performance is fine I installed on another PC LM20 Cinnamon root: swap: 8 GB home: 400 GB Having not yet all installed I am using on my LM 17.3 KDE PC, I am get...

@ Kirara

Thanks for consideration. I can use Jitsi perfectly for another applicatioin where I don't need remote control: webinar.
Thus I really thank you for all your help!
Have a nice weekend and stay safe!