Also even though I have been using linux for a while, that still does not mean that I would know everything about linux or that there would be no details that I miss...
Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxu...@gmail.com>, 27 Şub 2021 Cmt, 11:30 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > Sorry I can not read emails very often. No I am not new to linux I have > been using it for the past 6 or 7 years starting mostly with ubuntu. I had > CENTOS and Ubuntu and debian installed on some machines before. Most of > them stopped functioning. Some of them in less than six months. > > I am new to the debian users group, because I found out that a user group > existed much later. During this time I had a lot of issues with computers. > The new computer that I got, originally the store claimed that the > insurance on my machine would be invalidated if I installed another > operation system on the machine. > > The reason for hesitating to install debian right now is simply that the > machines may become unusable again, and the invested time and machinepower > to installing a machine may end up being wasted. The other reason was the > claim that insurance may become invalid which later turned out not to be > so, but only after asking the company that sells the computer several > times. The third reason is I simply do not at the moment have the time to > backup the existing hard drive before installing a new operating system on > it, and also that should it become unusable or stop functioning (I had > debian installed on a usb 64 gb of size that stopped booting).. > > Yes I did figure out that it was lvm2 package that was needed, and lvs is > actually one of the internal commands for lvm2 as well so it could be run > from the console lvm2 prodives. I am looking into the option of using lvm. > > > > Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org>, 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 20:42 tarihinde şunu > yazdı: > >> Charles Curley (charlescur...@charlescurley.com) wrote: >> > I also made the mistake of figuring that getting lvs installed would >> > help solve the problem. I later realized that getting lvs installed >> > would be irrelevant: the fact that it is not installed tells us what >> > we needed to know: M. Ozlem isn't running LVM, so the solution to the >> > problem is not simply to expand the current volume group (VG) onto the >> > new hard drive. There is no current VG to expand. >> > >> > So where do we go from here? >> >> Yes, all of that is true and useful. >> >> The real problem, though, is that the OP apparently *does not have* a >> Debian installation at all. They're just sticking a Live USB thingy >> into a computer and running Debian from that. Debian is not installed >> on their computer, and they've stated that they have no intention of >> installing it on their computer -- at least not on the current hard >> drive which is dedicated to Microsoft Windows. >> >> Once we learned that, I pretty much stopped paying attention to anything >> else they said. >> >> I'm guessing that their goal is to keep booting from their Live USB >> thingy, but to use a second hard drive (which does not exist yet) as >> some sort of auxiliary storage that will magically hold whatever they >> want to install. >> >> I might suggest that a *better* goal would be to install Debian on the >> new hard drive (once it exists), and stop booting the Live system. >> >>
