Which drive is my OS installed on
First off this is my very first time with linux and I have just about 0 prior knowledge with the operating system, now I installed it following the written guide and a video and so far everything is up and working.
But for some reason when I tried installing a game with steam I could only choose one drive (/var/home 1.4TB) even though I have 2 drives one ssd thats 500gb and one hdd with 1tb, I chose the ssd to be the drive where the OS should be installed on, I chose delete all on both of my drives during installation and pressed reclaim all space (I assume that was my mistake?). So is there any way to fix it? and I believe the OS actually got installed to the hdd since when I view that device in the partition manager theres 3 partitions
partition: /dev/sda 1 type: fat32 mount point: /boot/efi partition name: EFI system partition size: 600mb
partition: /dev/sda 2 type: ext4 mount point: /boot size: 1gb
partition: /dev/sda 3 type: btrfs mount point: / size: 929.93gb
The other device that I assume is my ssd only has one partition
partition: /dev/nvme0n1p1 type: btrfs mount point: /sysroot size: 465.76gb
Im sorry if my explanation isnt the best im still trying to understand how linux works since ive only ever used windows before.
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when you installed bazzite you accidentally selected both your disks which wipes both of them and set them us as a weird shared linear drive (effectively a weird raid 0)
only way to fix this is to reinstall
see https://canary.discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1347287742777655389
literally the same thing
I see so I just use my boot stick and do the installation all over again but only wipe the ssd?
you will need to wipe both, but you can wile the 2nd one when you have bazzite installed properly.
as i said in the previous thread im not super familiar with lvm so you might need to go into the command line and unmount the lvm volume and run
wipefs -a /dev/whateverdiskyouwanttoblankoutthepartitiontableofokay I will try that, thank you very much!
sorry i cant be of much more help with this 😅 but iirc wipefs should be able to wipe the lvm bits off the disk at least
Back in the installation menu, when I select the ssd as the destination there is an error telling me I must select both disks as a set. But if I do that isn’t it going to do the exact same thing to both disks during installation?
yeah thats what i feared, you will have to undo the lvm manually in the command line or get them unmounted and do wipefs on them
can you get to the command line with
CTRL+ALT+F#
F# being one of the F1-F12 keys, idk which ones are available in the installerThis?
Or the all black one
all black one with a command line
Okay I’m in that
ok, so i dont remember much lvm but can you tell me what
pvs tells you
you might have to do sudo pvs
i need the VG nameIf this is the wrong window then the only other different one that’s all black with only the line I can’t type in it it’s just making my screen flash slightly
ok hmm
lvs thenSame thing nothing shows up and with Sudo before it it says command not found
if thats empty too then try
pvremove /dev/sda
hmm
lsblk
ok lets go nuclear
wipefs -a /dev/sda
try that
That did something
wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1
then you can do a reboot and try the install againAlso a success so I just ctrl alt delete now?
yep
i dont trust anaconda at auto detecting the filesystems being gone :clueless:
And then only install it on the ssd
yes make sure it is the only disk selected
Alright I hope it works now, thank you so much again for your time!
np
I will still have to wipe the hdd after I’m done installing right?
we just wiped the filesystem table from that one at the same time
Ohhh I see
It’s installing right now so I think it worked :)
🎉
I can’t thank you enough I would have never been able to do this on my own