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Is this a thing? I'm running Slackware and mounting a disk is still done with good ol' `mount`, same as it ever was.

voltagex_ 10y ago
I was probably being a bit snarky. I have run into cases where getting a drive to show up in the GUI (so, mounting as a user) needed something via dbus.
- groovy2shoes 10y ago
  Ah. Well, I sympathize. When I first started using Linux, one thing I liked about it was the simplicity. Seems that simplicity has been getting eroded slowly but surely since I first started with it, but it has accelerated quite a bit in recent years. Slackware feels like one of the last holdouts, along with the likes of CRUX and Gentoo, but I fear that soon I will be forced to switch to some BSD -- which I wouldn't mind if my laptop hardware were better supported (I've been running various BSDs on servers for years, but Linux just seems to work better on my laptop; that said, I downloaded the 11.0-RELEASE ISOs a few days ago and I'll give it a shot on the lappy).
vacri 10y ago
I've been in the linux world for less than a decade, and I miss 'mount' being useful. It's full of spam now - so I've started using 'lsblk' instead... $ mount | wc -l 32 $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 698.7G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:2 0 690.3G 0 part / └─sda3 8:3 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP] # this was a mistake... sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
- twr 10y ago
  > # this was a mistake... That's not an unfixable mistake: sda3 is at the end of the partition table, so if it's deleted, sda2 can be safely resized offline. For example, parted /dev/sda rm 3 parted /dev/sda "resizepart 2 -0" resize2fs /dev/sda2 # for ext2/3/4 And then you can create a swap file or volume on sda2, so long as it isn't on btrfs.
- groovy2shoes 10y ago
  Cool! I didn't know about `lsblk`. Thanks!

I was probably being a bit snarky. I have run into cases where getting a drive to show up in the GUI (so, mounting as a user) needed something via dbus.

groovy2shoes 10y ago
Ah. Well, I sympathize. When I first started using Linux, one thing I liked about it was the simplicity. Seems that simplicity has been getting eroded slowly but surely since I first started with it, but it has accelerated quite a bit in recent years. Slackware feels like one of the last holdouts, along with the likes of CRUX and Gentoo, but I fear that soon I will be forced to switch to some BSD -- which I wouldn't mind if my laptop hardware were better supported (I've been running various BSDs on servers for years, but Linux just seems to work better on my laptop; that said, I downloaded the 11.0-RELEASE ISOs a few days ago and I'll give it a shot on the lappy).

vacri 10y ago

I've been in the linux world for less than a decade, and I miss 'mount' being useful. It's full of spam now - so I've started using 'lsblk' instead... $ mount | wc -l 32 $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 698.7G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:2 0 690.3G 0 part / └─sda3 8:3 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP] # this was a mistake... sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

twr 10y ago
> # this was a mistake... That's not an unfixable mistake: sda3 is at the end of the partition table, so if it's deleted, sda2 can be safely resized offline. For example, parted /dev/sda rm 3 parted /dev/sda "resizepart 2 -0" resize2fs /dev/sda2 # for ext2/3/4 And then you can create a swap file or volume on sda2, so long as it isn't on btrfs.
groovy2shoes 10y ago
Cool! I didn't know about `lsblk`. Thanks!