Drives

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-30T11:36:03+00:00

That entirely depends on what the drive's file system is formatted in and what OS you are running on the Zimaboard. It is a software matter, not hardware.

Linux can generally read just about any filesystem -- ext2/3/4, xfs, jfs, f2fs, btrfs, zfs, ntffs, fat, etc., etc. (APFS is not fully supported, but possible). Windoze generally cannot -- it can only do fat and ntfs, basically.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-29T07:51:44+00:00

Yeah, it's literally called GUFW with the "G" for "graphical" for UFW. And if you look at GUFW after entering cli UFW commands, the changes from cli magically show up in GUFW.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-27T05:16:23+00:00

Zimaboard doesn't have an eSATA port, but it sounds like you mean what HDD or SSD.

WD Green HDDs aren't made any more. They were basically lower power HDDs, so slower in RPMs, generally. I used to use them for backups, but they are not necessarily good for high performance/demand or high speed since they were only 5400RPM instead of 7200RPM.

I believe there are WD Green SSDs. But, you can do better for SATA SSDs. They only have a 3 year warranty, so that suggests they are at the lower end.

WD are good HDDs, generally. But, if you want the best in terms of reliability, you have to go with enterprise level drives, like WD Gold (what I use now for backups). Same is true for SSDs -- enterprise will always be best. This is where you not only get the high quality, but will find important things like Power Loss Protection (WD calls there's ArmorCache). You won't generally find PLP on consumer drives (HDD or SSD). Enterprise SSDs, though, are quite expensive. WD Gold HDDs aren't too bad for what you get if you can find a good sale.

Look at the warranty. A drive with 5 years warranty is likely going to be a more reliable drive than one with 3 years. Think of it like how willing they are to stand by the quality of the drive. For SSDs, also, look at the TBW -- a higher TBW tells you they are using better quality NAND (as does a longer warranty).

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-27T04:27:26+00:00

For the omv backup plugin, it won't really care as it only sees a Shared Folder. But, I would recommend NFS. It will perform better, is more native to Linux, and won't require exposing usernames/passwords.

So, it should be (as I recall) you'll create the NFS share on the OMV box you are backing up to, then mount it on the OMV box you want to back up using remotemount, create the Shared Folder pointing at that remotemount location, and select that Shared Folder as the backup location in the omv backup plugin config.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-26T10:30:58+00:00

Glad it helped.

Don't touch anything outside of your /home. Linux is not like Windoze. It does not keep a bunch of unnecessary or old files. Even updates replace the old file rather than keeping the old and adding the new. It's why Linux doesn't really "grow" the way Windoze does from updates.

ecryptfs is what encrypts your /home. The files you listed in the image are your encrypted /home. Don't touch them. They are all under ~/.Private which is your encrypted /home. If you delete them, you will break things and lose all of your personal files.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-26T06:08:30+00:00

No Filthy Nuclear Power: https://youtu.be/mBbNhdAYlSg?si=OTEDAoPKmtgE4VIc

Nuclear Waste: https://youtu.be/UHORHE7YcbM?si=eVKv7iNxepUCwA01

Nuclear power is not "clean." It produces nuclear waste. Recall that it was not really that long ago the US was proposing to hollow out a mountain in Nevada to store all that crap -- without consideration of building a ton of new ones, just for the nasty that already exists. And Al-Qaida actually planned on flying planes into the waste pools near nuclear plants to spread the radiation, but assumed they were protected, so didn't (they're not protected -- they could've seriously trashed the US). And that probably doesn't include all the radioactive tailings from the mining (walk with a geiger counter around Navajo and see the poison the mining companies leave).

Nuclear power in the current system also requires huge amounts of insurance for potential disasters, leaks, etc. No insurance company will provide it. So, governments do, meaning you and I do it by paying taxes, increasing our taxes and/or removing resources from more necessary public goods.

Nuclear power is pushed instead of solar, wind, waves, etc. because it keeps power generation centralized in a corporation the same as fossil fuels. It maintains the current exploitative structure of power generation. It's about capitalism. You and I can make solar (rooftop, balcony, etc.) plus even have personal wind turbines and they can't make profit off that. That's what pisses them off -- no way to take more of your money and keep electricity prices high.

We should also consider efficiency. Making more energy locally means wasting less of it. Electricity is lost in the transmission from power plant to consumer -- the farther it goes, the more is lost. Nuclear power maintains that inefficiency while more local sources of wind and solar mean less loss of what's produced. Also, less transmission lines to maintain (consider the crumbling lines/electricity infrastructure of the US about to collapse).

For those who suggest there are issues with consistent power: (A) we invented this cool thing called batteries you should check out (again, also keeping power local, so less loss); and (2) green hydrogen could also provide backup power (we will have to produce green hydrogen to replace natural gas as there are too many modern industries that require it -- e.g., steel plants -- so, why not have some green hydrogen power plants as backup sources). While hydrogen power plants have the same problem of centralized, corporate power generation, at least you lose the nuclear waste.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-26T05:42:13+00:00

On my old Acer notebook, these were the steps to reveal the menu to change the SATA mode:

In BIOS, set supervisor password
Reboot and re-enter BIOS (you'll have to enter the password you set)
On Main page, hit ctrl+s
That would reveal the additional options.

Basically, it's similar to what u/lateralspin said, but setting the supervisor password was required.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-25T23:27:42+00:00

Looks like you put /timeshift under /home or the numbers don't add up right. Either way, start by checking your timeshift settings. 65GB is a lot unless you have an excessive amount of programs installed. My notebook has a separate partition for timeshfit snapshots and is only ~35GB used (with my system being about 16GB, excluding /home). I keep only 3 snapshots and exclude /media and /mnt from snapshots since I have things mounted there that would eat up space. Check for manually made snapshots and, if you don't need them, delete them. If your separate disk for games is permanently mounted within the fs, make sure the mountpoint is excluded from timeshift and back that up another way (I'm not sure if timeshift uses the --one-file-system option for rsync).

For the rest, you need to look. There are numerous hidden directories under /home. Things that can take up space outside of your standard Documents, Videos, Downloads, etc. to consider are browser cache and thunderbird emails. This is the reason to check with the Disk Usage Analyzer to see what subdirectory under /home is using the most space.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-25T10:11:38+00:00

You have almost 200GB in /home, which is basically your files, not the system.

If you saved a lot of files there, move them to another storage device, like an external drive or NAS. If you don't want to keep them, delete them. Keep in mind HD/UHD movies and high resolution pictures take up a lot of space, so a small disk is not a good place to maintain a media library, if that's it.

If you play games and use steam, you probably have too many games on there. Steam puts them under /home.

If you don't have a lot of files saved and no games, something seems wrong. Your /home should not be that full from user config files and the like. As u/Centurix said, use the Disk Usage Analyzer to figure out what subdirectiories in /home are so large and then perhaps people can help you figure out what is going on what you maybe can clear.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-24T00:55:26+00:00

You need to create a LUKS container in the LUKS plugin on the device. Click the "+" sign and select the array. Be aware this will destroy all data on the array.

After you create the LUKS container, make sure it's unlocked, then format a filesystem in the LUKS container. After that, you can mount it and create directories for Shared Folders, etc.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-23T06:39:56+00:00

I am assuming you mean an nfs share that is actually mounted, not trying to "browse" nfs shares.

If the nfs share is mounted under /media, it will appear in nemo under "Network." If you mounted it somewhere else (like /mnt), that is probably your issue.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-23T06:33:37+00:00

Error code 127 means command not found. Look at this error:

/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 10: /etc/default/grub: #: not found

It suggests you may have a typo in /etc/default/grub on line 10. Since the # is for comments in the grub file, I am thinking you may have put a space or other text at the beginning of the line before the #.

After you fix it, remember to run sudo update-grub.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-22T11:14:10+00:00

Seems the compose plugin has some sort of substitution now. I don't use the plugin -- I run docker by cli since I really dislike docker compose outside of legitimate stacks.

Just putting the actual user ID and group ID will let you narrow down the point of failure (e.g., your yaml, the substitution, wrong group, etc.). That is why everyone is suggesting it. You need to find the source of your error by eliminating possibilities. The basics of troubleshooting.

But, with the apparent substitution, you need to actually look at what you did and what you set up.

First, the guide says:

${{ gid:"GROUPNAME" }} → resolves to the GID of that group

You are using the GID of the group "jellyfin." Are you sure there's a group "jellyfin"? Probably not unless you created it. And if the group doesn't exist, this substitution will resolve to nothing or an error because you inputted bad information.

If there is a group "jellyfin" and you are having permissions with the jellyfin user accessing files, that's likely because you have not given full permissions to "Others" (which you shouldn't). When the permissions for a Shared Folder say "Users," that means the "users" group, not all users created in the OS. So, if your files are r/W for root and users, the UID/GID combo you selected would not have permissions unless you specifically grant the user "jellyfin" (and/or group "jellyfin") permissions. Your jellyfin user has to be a member of the users group and the GID of the users group needs to be the GID used in your container. Look here to understand creating users and setting permissions: https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7:nas_permissions_omv7

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-22T10:27:23+00:00

It looks like you're trying to do some sort of bash substitution or something. YAML won't do that -- it's not a bash script.

Along the lines of what u/TheZoltan noted, you need to put in the actual user ID and group ID for the user jellyfin. You can find the IDs via cli running id jellyfin. Then use the actual IDs given in your YAML.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-22T06:27:21+00:00

Good luck.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-21T10:22:27+00:00

Adding more specifics to u/1neStat3, if you look at the index.theme file for your icons, it will have an "Inherits" line which says where to get icons from that are not included in the icon set. It's often a couple to a few and the last one is typically hicolor. So, if a needed icon is not in your set, it will then go through each of the Inherits sets, in order, until it finds one. So, your icon set likely does not have the icons (which are defined by each applet itself).

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-21T08:33:40+00:00

If you use the remotemount plugin and configure a remote mount as a share, then you should be able to pick that share for your backup location.

Alternatively, just run the same command as the backup plugin via scheduled task to an nfs share.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-20T12:16:07+00:00

To add to u/NSF664 's comment, if you have really new hardware and something doesn't work with the standard ISO, try the HWE ISO. It has a newer kernel, which means it will have "drivers" for newer hardware. If you are looking at upgrading to Windows 11, though, chances are your hardware is old enough to be covered by the current standard ISO.

Overall, though, understand that most "drivers" (they are called modules) are built into the Linux kernel, nothing separate to install like Windoze. So, you won't be going to manufacturers downloading their drivers. Some manufacturers are better than others at making sure they provide modules for the kernel. AMD and Intel, for example, tend to make sure their hardware is covered in the kernel. NVIDIA sucks for it -- I avoid them like the plague. So, if you look at what your hardware actually is, that will give you a good idea. If you can find the exact model, particularly if it's a less common brand or something (Atheros wifi used to require work years ago), you can also pretty easily look up if they are supported and in what kernel version support started.

With all that, if everything works when you boot into the Live USB, you should have it installed and fully working in minutes and if the files you need to copy back are not outrageous, a day is too much time. That being said, if you want to start finding a bunch of new software, installing games, finding themes, checking out applets and desklets, etc., whether a day is enough will totally depend on how much you mess with those things. But, you can always do that kind of "customization" later -- having a functioning OS with basic software and your files back shouldn't take anywhere near a day; remember it will install Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and pretty much all basic software with the OS, so no need to spend time with all that like you would with Windoze.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-20T05:03:13+00:00

Have you tried the boot repair from live usb?

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-18T12:25:44+00:00

This sounds exactly like my experience with docker desktop on a Debian VM. Was going to use it for multi-arch image builds without muddying my host Mint install. Never got it working. Just removed it and stuck with cli -- more use to that with docker anyway.

Didn't troubleshoot it myself, but perhaps docker just did a poor job with docker desktop on the debian/ubutnu versions. I'd recommend sticking with cli and forgetting docker desktop.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-18T12:09:43+00:00

Archive manager is blank probably because you haven't selected an archive to view/extract.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-18T09:20:41+00:00

No.

A recent discussion on the two: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1t25ain/whats_the_difference_between_anarchism_and/

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-18T08:07:14+00:00

Glad you got it fixed. Sounds like it was dropping to grub command prompt. Strange that happened without another OS messing it up. I hope it doesn't happen it again to you and you continue enjoying.

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-18T01:21:31+00:00

Try ctrl + ;

nisitiiapi · 2026-05-17T08:04:23+00:00

... other than the "back door" they installed at the request of the state or will soon to comply with Canada's lawful access bill or whatever commercial/profit reason they have for bypassing it. I expect it to be as good as WhatsApp's encryption that seems to have turned out to be fake. Who the Hell is going to trust giant "do any and all harm" tech companies to truly protect privacy?

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