swab148
- 7 Posts
- 77 Comments
To stare, and be stared upon
Be the reason the Hazmat Compliance team has to get involved
swab148@startrek.websitetoFunhole@lemmy.sdf.org•thro@ts™ - put your skin in the gameEnglish4·2 months agoAh yes, the Thro@t Go@ts
You’re naming them out of the stuff that specifically isn’t space!
swab148@startrek.websiteto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloonEnglish6·2 months agoI just switched to Bitwarden for passwords
Someone needs to turn this into loss
swab148@startrek.websiteOPto Linux Memes@sopuli.xyz•Guess how I spent my morning...English31·10 months agoI’ll have to make a meme about the time I deleted my partition tables one day lol
swab148@startrek.websiteOPto Linux Memes@sopuli.xyz•Guess how I spent my morning...English3·10 months agoNah, we’re all good now, thanks though! I just posted the story!
swab148@startrek.websiteOPto Linux Memes@sopuli.xyz•Guess how I spent my morning...English8·10 months agoOkay, so here’s the recap:
I woke up this morning and decided my main drive (just a 500GB SSD) was too full, at about 85%, so I decided to do something about that. I go through the usual:
pacman -Sc
,paccache -rk0
, andpacman -Qqtd | pacman -Rns -
(which I’ve aliased to “orphankiller” because that’s too much typing for me). None of that did anything though, as I’m usually pretty up on this, and I expected it, so my next step was to find other ways of deleting unnecessary files floating around, and that meant a trip to the usually very helpful Arch wiki.On the page “pacman Tips and Tricks”, I find 1.7: Detecting More Unneeded Packages. “Perfect!” I thought, “That’s exactly what I’m looking for!” I enthusiastically type in the command
pacman -Qqd | pacman -Rns -
, and then quickly go check how much space I just saved. Nada. Or at least not enough to move the percentage point. “Oh well, keep looking,” I think and I go back to Firefox to click some more links in hopes that one of them will be the space saving ultra-script that I need. The first one I click, I get an error from my trusty browser, I don’t remember exactly what it was but it was something about not being able to verify the page. “Weird, let’s try another one.” Nope, same thing.Well, being that I had just deleted something, I figured I should go see what exactly it was that I did. It was a good thing I’d left the terminal window open, because after just a few scrolls I saw it:
ca_certificates
, which Firefox absolutely needs. “Great, I’ll just reinstall.” Nope! I just deleted my pacman cache, and pacman also needs those certificates to download from the Arch repo’s mirrors! “Fantastic,” I grumbled while I tried to think of how I could get this pesky package back on my machine.Then it occurred to me: I’ve been keeping up with my btrfs snapshots (for once, lol)! I can just backup to yesterday and forget this whole mess! So I bring up Timeshift, and we’re on our way back to a functioning system! Or so I thought. See, I don’t have a separate /home partition, but I do have a separate @home subvolume, so when Timeshift asked me if I wanted to restore that too, I clicked the check mark. Only thing is, I don’t think I actually have a separate @home subvolume, which brings us to the error in the meme. /home wouldn’t mount, and that meant I was borked.
Fortunately, our story has a happy ending! I DDG’d the error on my phone, and found a post from like seven years ago, about someone who had this same set of circumstances, and the one reply was my fix: just go into
/etc/fstab
and delete the “subvolid” part of whatever partition that’s giving you grief. Did that, reboot, and we’re finally fixed! And now, forevermore, I shall check what I’m deleting before I hit the enter button!The post-script is bittersweet though, because after all this trouble, and then the rest of the afternoon working on the original problem, I am down to… 81%. Oh well.
swab148@startrek.websiteto Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.works•which one is made up?English3·10 months agoHAMOOOOND!
But of course, African swallows are non-migratory…
swab148@startrek.websiteto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•A map of the British Empire in America (1746)6·11 months agoW I D E F L O R I D A
The proper term is Miniature Giant Space Hamster
AND I’M ALL OUTTA BUBBLEGUM