Re: ghost partition
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:50:06 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:41:59AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 11:05:13AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > Hi Haines,
> >
> > > I had thought that the "sde1" in your ncdu output was some sort of
> > > header representing the / device, but having installed ncdu and run
> > > it myself I am inclined to agree with Juergen that it is actually a
> > > file.
> >
> > And so it is. I must have seen /sde1, but it failed to register on my
> > octogenarian brain. I moved it into storage and my full disk problem is
> > gone. Hard to know what that file is. The file command says it is data.
> > It may be an ISO. I'll eventually delete it.
>
> A cheap shot: try to mount it. Either as loopback:
>
> mount -o loop /sde1 /mnt
>
> or by dd'ing it first to a suitable storage (e.g. a stick).
>
> If that suceeds, then it is a file system image *and* you can nose
> around in the mount directory (/mnt in the above example) to refresh
> your memory.
>
> Of course you gotta do that as root, either by sudo magic or whatever.
Not necessarily; udisksctl (install udisks2) and udevil are two programs
which will do this for a user.
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