Of ETH1 and SDA1
Oct. 20th, 2013 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzEver since the last update of my laptop my wireless internet had been broken. Hoping this was just a fluke, I rebooted it a couple of times, but alas. The wireless was gone.
I should probably elaborate a bit. The wireless of my laptop has been wonky for a good long while. There was a little bug that had me manually re-enter the wireless password every time I had booted my laptop. The complete workaround was that before shutting down the laptop, I had to turn off the wireless (there's a hardware button between screen and keyboard), after booting I could re-enter the wireless password and turn it back on. There was an error message in between there somewhere (bus not giving a reply), but in the end, a work-around is a work-around and I had internet despite being out on my ass.
Here in Lindenlust I've been recently added to the wireless user community, since I used a cabled internet connection with my pc, and I had to share the cable from my pc with my laptop. Being allowed on the wireless is so much nicer, even if you have to manually enter the password every time.
But after the update, suddenly my wireless was gone. I should rephrase: eth1 was gone. My wireless connection (eth1) had just disappeared.
I figured my wireless network card had just broken, none too strange with a seven year old laptop, and thought no more of it. I only use my laptop for some minor music anyway, since I use my pc for all internet browsing, website fiddling, etc.
Until I booted it to watch a movie and it warned me my disk was full.
I df-h'ed my way to an overview (it displays disk usage in human language) and lo' and behold, sda1 (my primary partition, also known as "/") was at 100%. I removied a movie or two, but there was no improvement. Actually, anyone a little more familiar with linux would have seen something I comepletely overlooked at that point: the other partitions were missing too. There was no boot, no root, no /tmp...
I deleted and deleted all my music, images and movies (the laptop is a major entertainment system only because I don't have room for my stereo), but the disk was full and remained so.
I finally hijacked the internet cable from my pc and dove onto the internet. O wise Google, pls tell me, whatsup?
After a few phrasings, I finally arrived at a few handy commands. Apt-clean and apt-auto-remove would probably do the trick, and everything that was on my laptop and was important had already been loaded onto my pc anyway. I had even tried burning a new bootable CD to re-install the damn thing, but I needed a DVD because the image was too large and I didn't have one.
For a moment there I was just very scared the deleted files were still taking up space, but although Firefox's cache was in that list (I just copy-paste commands from linux forums if they look helpful), that was luckily not the case.
After apt-auto-remove was done, I had to restart and I did the df-h again.
Lo and behold. Next to sda1 and the other partitions I had not even missed yet, there was an sda3. It was only 17% full and was labeled "/home" (my Home Directory, which holds everything including a used pair of panties).
Not only that, my eth1 had also miraculously re-appeared.
Go figure.
So, next up for my pc is to run the apt-clean command and see how that increases performance, because what happens on one system can happen on the other (even though /home is on a different harddisk and partition and I have a lot more space on Pumilius).
There, I fix!
I should probably elaborate a bit. The wireless of my laptop has been wonky for a good long while. There was a little bug that had me manually re-enter the wireless password every time I had booted my laptop. The complete workaround was that before shutting down the laptop, I had to turn off the wireless (there's a hardware button between screen and keyboard), after booting I could re-enter the wireless password and turn it back on. There was an error message in between there somewhere (bus not giving a reply), but in the end, a work-around is a work-around and I had internet despite being out on my ass.
Here in Lindenlust I've been recently added to the wireless user community, since I used a cabled internet connection with my pc, and I had to share the cable from my pc with my laptop. Being allowed on the wireless is so much nicer, even if you have to manually enter the password every time.
But after the update, suddenly my wireless was gone. I should rephrase: eth1 was gone. My wireless connection (eth1) had just disappeared.
I figured my wireless network card had just broken, none too strange with a seven year old laptop, and thought no more of it. I only use my laptop for some minor music anyway, since I use my pc for all internet browsing, website fiddling, etc.
Until I booted it to watch a movie and it warned me my disk was full.
I df-h'ed my way to an overview (it displays disk usage in human language) and lo' and behold, sda1 (my primary partition, also known as "/") was at 100%. I removied a movie or two, but there was no improvement. Actually, anyone a little more familiar with linux would have seen something I comepletely overlooked at that point: the other partitions were missing too. There was no boot, no root, no /tmp...
I deleted and deleted all my music, images and movies (the laptop is a major entertainment system only because I don't have room for my stereo), but the disk was full and remained so.
I finally hijacked the internet cable from my pc and dove onto the internet. O wise Google, pls tell me, whatsup?
After a few phrasings, I finally arrived at a few handy commands. Apt-clean and apt-auto-remove would probably do the trick, and everything that was on my laptop and was important had already been loaded onto my pc anyway. I had even tried burning a new bootable CD to re-install the damn thing, but I needed a DVD because the image was too large and I didn't have one.
For a moment there I was just very scared the deleted files were still taking up space, but although Firefox's cache was in that list (I just copy-paste commands from linux forums if they look helpful), that was luckily not the case.
After apt-auto-remove was done, I had to restart and I did the df-h again.
Lo and behold. Next to sda1 and the other partitions I had not even missed yet, there was an sda3. It was only 17% full and was labeled "/home" (my Home Directory, which holds everything including a used pair of panties).
Not only that, my eth1 had also miraculously re-appeared.
Go figure.
So, next up for my pc is to run the apt-clean command and see how that increases performance, because what happens on one system can happen on the other (even though /home is on a different harddisk and partition and I have a lot more space on Pumilius).
There, I fix!
