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Some years ago in case of a wrong password the user name (with default user name settings) had to get entered or newly selected, before the password could get entered a second time. The appearance of clear text passwords was the usual case at that time. :evil: But this is exactly the *current* prob...

Hi, I've installed Mint 20.2 Cinnamon on several PCs in a Computer Pool with network login. Currently users have to input their user name, hit enter and then a password input mask appears: [user] -> <type&enter> -> [password] -> <type&enter> How can I reconfigure it so that the password inpu...

rene wrote: ⤴Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:55 pm Certainly. sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/mintupdate.desktop{.disabled,}

Thank you so much. Where can I learn more about using common commands in this smart(er) way?

It supposedly works to do e.g. sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/mintupdate.desktop{,.disabled} . Untested... ...works great, thank you very much (especially for providing the comand)! :) btw: Is there a way to revert /etc/xdg/autostart/mintupdate.desktop.disabled to /etc/xdg/autostart/mintupdate.desktop ...

1) btrfs check show that quota is enable on your PC. Maybe you enable, or maybe timeshift has enable it ( the default and "recommended" by timeshift ). It was enabled by default. I simply don't know why timeshift recommend it. This feature is not known to be stable, and also it has negati...

btrfs documentation is not very clear and there is no date/version associated with any documentation . So in theory one of the latest version, btrfs does self balance. I've been using btrfs for over 2 years and never balance any subvolumes. The reason why I suggested to balance, because the disk wa...

Something strange happened: Before proceeding I wanted to use the read-only state of the installed system to at least create a backup using BackInTime (rsync). So I booted into the installed system and started BackInTime. Because this backup took quite long I didn't touch the system for some hours. ...

Arg. During "apt upgrade" the file system switched back to read-only. The notebook is quite old. Could a hardware error be a reason as well?

Thank you for providing the script. Although each cycle ended up with... enabling repair mode WARNING: Do not use --repair unless you are advised to do so by a developer or an experienced user, and then only after having accepted that no fsck can successfully repair all types of filesystem corruptio...

I would suggest to re run the check repair ; and mount and test write to it umount /dev/sda5 btrfs check --repair /dev/sda5 Hm, "check --repair" finished successfully, but mounted sda5 is still not writeable: root@mint:~# umount /mnt/r2 root@mint:~# btrfs check --repair /dev/sda5 enabling...

Can you please post dmesg | tail -30 btrfs fi df /mnt/r2 # assuming that you've already mounted your /dev/sda5 on /mnt/r2 btrfs fi show /mnt/r2 root@mint:~# btrfs filesystem df /mnt/r2 Data, single: total=221.01GiB, used=155.20GiB System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=48.00KiB Metadata, single: total...

You can try the following 2 rescue commands. It may take very long to run. After each rescue you can try to mount and write to it. 1) btrfs rescue super-recover umount /dev/sda5 btrfs rescue super-recover /dev/sda5 Output reported: All supers are valid, no need to recover 2) btrfs rescue chunk-reco...

Please umount /mnt/r2 and try btrfs rescue zero-log /dev/sda5 Please post output mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/r2 Wait for 1 minute and try to write to it to see Again read-only: root@mint:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 1.7G 1 loop /rofs sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 7.6...

Can you please reboot your system with "linux mint installation media" and then recreate your /mnt/r1 and /mnt/r2 mkdir /mnt/r1 mkdir /mnt/r2 and try this mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/r2 -o recovery And post the ouput of there is any. No output, sda5 was mounted to r2 successfully: root@mint:~# m...

Oh, booting into the original installation "apt update" says that the file system is read-only. So I think the problem is still not solved. Should I proceed in a live system or in the installed one?

Can you post output of btrfs fi /mnt/r2 root@mint:/# btrfs fi /mnt/r2 btrfs filesystem: unknown token '/mnt/r2' usage: btrfs filesystem [<group>] <command> [<args>] btrfs filesystem df [options] <path> Show space usage information for a mount point btrfs filesystem du [options] <path> [<path>..] Su...

...oh shit, balancing stopped while I was writing my last answer: Starting balance without any filters. ERROR: error during balancing '/mnt/r2/': Read-only file system There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail root@mint:/# umount /mnt/r2 root@mint:/# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/r2/ && btr...

If the previous del attempt failed, then you can put the following in the script and execute ; the idea is to attemp to remove snapshots within the first 30 seconds following the mount command ; the theory is the /mnt/r2 is mounted read write for the first 30 seconds and then switched to read only ...

Sorry I made a typeo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/r2 ; btrfs device add /dev/sdc1 /mnt/r1 -f This should have been mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/r2 ; btrfs device add /dev/sdc1 /mnt/r2 -f btrfs fi show /mnt/r2 Please make sure that /dev/sda5 is not mounted before executing this "mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/r2 ; btrfs...

After mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/r1 -o clear_cache,subvol=@ ; btrfs device add /dev/sdc1 /mnt/r1 -f Verify if /dev/sdc1 is added to see if /dev/sdc1 is added. btrfs fi show /mnt/r1 So step by step: root@mint:/# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 1.7G 1 loop /rofs sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0...