I’m not disagreeing but if it were as easy as that to be happy, then a lot more adults would be.

That’s fine. I’m use to being unrepresented in the arj, lha, and uc2 crew

Btrfs and df don’t get along. There are all sorts of internals to btrfs that non btrfs utils ignore. You should run

sudo btrfs filesystem df /
sudo btrfs device usage /

It will give you a better picture of what is going on.

Balancing my help as someone above pointed out, or you may need to boot to a live media of some kind and rebuild the free space cache. Especially with btrfs I encourage people to join their mailing list for help. The devs are awesome and can help you get sorted out.

Btrfs uses subvolumes instead of traditional partitioning. It takes some getting use to but it is totally normal for btrfs.

Duh… Fedora not Ubuntu/Debian/Et al.

sudo dnf clean

It’s been a while since I have run a redhat derivative… I think that was either the last iteration of mandrake or the first iteration of mandriva.

And the journal isn’t garbage persay, it’s a bunch of logs and whatnot that can be useful in certain diagnostics… Especially with op running all those snap packages. But in this case, clearing it is probably a better option then not clearing it

Fedora is systems, right? The easiest way to gain some (temporary) space is to clean out the journal and whatever logs you don’t need. It can grow quite big.

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

Will shrink it to something manageable. This will buy you some time to clean up until the journal grows again.

Also, clearing the apt cache will probably help free up some root partition space

sudo apt clean

Your root partition where packages are stored and all the logs and transactional databases might be full even if your home directory has tons of free space.

Sure. With raspberries you can use dried berries, leafs, roots. It’s a pretty versatile plant.

You can also make tea out of gummi bears too https://www.thesweetsbarn.net/product/gummy-bear-tea/86

Again: put stuff in hot water and let it soak. Strain said stuff and you have what is loosely defined as tea.

I probably wouldn’t do used radial tire tea, but if that’s what floats your boat, knock yourself out.

I suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf <tar_name.tar.{z,gz,xz,etc}> and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.

But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.

Never! But honestly she would probably love the adventure

Purple cables go in, blue cables go to the cloud as you can see.

Or - hear me out - or it is a bit of cotton on the end of an Ethernet cable.

Can you plug the drive in directly and test it? You might also just have a dead drive. Either way if you were planning on using it as a backup medium I would tell you it’s probably not a good idea. If you are trying to recover data from it, good luck. Is it making any sound? You could try buying the same, old but good hard drive and swapping the control board on it. You may also have to swap the nvram chip on it to make sure you have the same sector mappings. Either way there is a lot of stuff you can try, but hopefully this is an educational experience for you (as in learning how to recover a dead drive, not as in learning about the need for proper backup methods) as opposed to a desperate attempt to recover data that is most likely unrecoverable.

You should be able to use smartctl on a USB drive. I’ve never had an issue anyway. You may need to specify the transport type tho. I had a drive that it couldn’t figure out on its own, but since it was an sata drive in an external enclosure, atapi is the transport protocol to use

sudo smartctl -a -d ata /dev/<devid>

Using the same switch you can run a long test. It’s sort of a pain as it will kill the test on finding a bad sector. But you can take that sector number and plug it into hdparm to rewrite the sector hoping it will remap it. You won’t be able to recover the data in a bad sector, But There are these extra sectors on the drive that firmware can replace the bad one with. It does this on a forced write command.Something along the lines of

hdparm --repair-sector --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing </dev/<driveid> <sector number from smartctl>

Again, you have data loss, you can’t go back to no loss. All you can do is rescue anything important. You may (probably) need to run a long smartctl test again, and fix another sector. I have saved data off of drives with 100+ bad sectors this way… It’s tedious and eventually I scripted it but it does work.

Sure! I’ll hire you without even answering the questions. Of course I’m not the op, I dont work in the it field (any more) and none of my open positions involve programming… But you have a job with my company whenever you need one.

Not one person in the comments has attempted to answer any of the questions either.

That is using messaging for the web through Google Fi. But there is little reason to do that now as Google messages the app itself can be used through messages.google.com. there are several stand alone computer applications that use the portal as well (messages in the windows store, messages or google-messages package in most distros. Dunno about Mac. Either way, instead of fi being the backend, the app connects directly to your PC. You just have to pair your phone using the app directly.

Err kali isnt particularly privacy focused or piracy focused. It has its palace but it’s not really a daily driver imo

Most likely you need to create a keys file but even with that I was never able to get wux files to work. I ended up using the wiiudownloader thing in order to get stuff to work