Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 2020-04-04 10:57, Bernard wrote:
> Le 04/04/2020 18:16, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
> > On Sb, 04 apr 20, 11:00:06, Bernard wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot for this reply
> > >
> > > The output of the proposed tests are shown on the following screen 
> > > picture :
> > >
> > > http://bdebreil.free.fr/IMG_0906.jpg
> ......................
> > Please post also the contents of /etc/fstab.
>
> http://bdebreil.free.fr/IMG_0907.jpg
>
> > It's curious that fdisk shows sdb has no partition at all. Is this
> > expected or does sdb contain your /home?
>
> There is no mystery about sdb ; I should have mentioned it before. This 
> is an additional disk ; my desktop has two hard drives. This extra one 
> had no part in the install process, I only used it later on as an 
> extension to save files, I mount it manually every time I want to use 
> it. I didn't see any point to partition it. I successfully mounted it in 
> my recovery boot, and everything seemed to be OK at first sight.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernard

To be blunt, if you just want to use video conferencing and not learn 
how video conferencing works (or does not work) on Linux, I would use 
Windows or macOS.


As for the broken Debian computer, I would back up the data, install a 
small SSD, install Debian, wipe the 1 TB drives, create an md mirror, 
create an ext4 file system, restore the data, install Samba, and share 
the data.


It is useful to have a USB flash drive with Debian installed on it, to 
use as tool for working on other computers.


It is useful to maintain a folder in a version control system for each 
host, with an administrator journal (plain text file), system 
configuration files, and anything else useful for setup, configuration, 
and maintenance.  I use Vim and CVS over SSH.


David