From: pinnerite@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:40:10 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:46:58 +0100, pinnerite wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:37:09 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D’Oliveiro   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:35:05 +0100, pinnerite wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> > After an update yesterday, it would not complete a startup.   
   > >> > I tried booting from a flashdrive and trying to repair the hard drive   
   > >> > but that didn't seem to find any filesyatem errors.   
   > >>   
   > >> Maybe too obvious, but ... did you check free space with “df”?   
   > >   
   > > Only about 1,4TB   
   >   
   > Did you have a separate OS partition, or was it all together?   
      
   I had around 30Gb for / and the balance of 2B on home.   
      
   Anyway, more up to date, I removed the battery, returned it and can now get   
   into the boot menu (F12).   
   Running fsck from a flash drive showed no filesystem errors.   
   I made a complete copy of the recordings and associated directories.   
   I now want to back off a copy of the database.   
   In the absence of alternative suggestions I will copy the whole of   
   /var/lib/mysq to the backup SSD before reinstaling Linux Mint 21.3   
      
   Alan   
      
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