axisofevil wrote: ⤴Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:10 am
It would be worth installing LMDE6 as a VM, possibly on a working LMDE6 system.
You could then try new kinds of things, such as BTRFS on the VM version in a non-destructive way.
The default install for LMDE uses ext4, the normal install seems to include the btrfs-progs package
This package contains utilities (mkfs, fsck) used to work with btrfs
and an utility (btrfs-convert) to make a btrfs filesystem from an ext3.
This isn't enough to run a btrfs file system, though.
@axisofevil:
OK, thanks for the thoughts on it . . . haven't done much with VMs as of late . . . . Essentially what you are saying would be to do a new "installation" of LMDE in the VM, at which time it could be formatted as btrfs . . . to then test the difference???
Might be worth fiddling with, not sure if just running a reinstall of "/" in the hard metal install, formatting as btrfs, would be any more time-consuming?? It's all about "time" in my world these days . . . .
So, just to mess with me a bit more, today, which would usually be "Trixie day," . . . but Faye sits just above in the grub listing, spontaneously I decided to try Ms Faye again . . . and . . . Faye decided to play . . . so either Saturday is the day that Faye wants to kick up her heels, OR, it's "third times the charm"???? Although sometimes it's the 4th or 5th time . . . ???
I'll try to run an apt and check some of the suggestions here in the thread . . . .
[edit:] I ran an apt, and ordinarily I would be happy with just two packages to upgrade, but, in terms of trying to apt my way out of a problem . . . not much changes . . . . Did run @xenopeek's suggestion . . . sdc9 should be the correct partition . . . . We'll see how that goes.
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sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-18-amd64
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
WARNING: Unknown key type PC_SUPER_LEVEL2
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdc9
I: (UUID=ee6d03c4-27ea-4218-8b30-36329d26cdd0)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
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MacPro '12 multiboot various linux OSs with some aging OSX's . . . .