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pinnerite wrote:

I need to be able to identify the partition address and its file
address, particularly when I have two drives on-line.

I tried a variety of live devices. Antix was the only one that came
close.

But years ago I remember a file manager that would allow the user to
use a single click to switch the contents of the address line at the
top from say /home/fred to /dev/sdb2 or back. I could not re-locate it.

Does this strike a chord?

Could it be SpaceFM?

https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

It's available in Mint's software manager
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 11:26:26 +0100
Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> wrote:

pinnerite wrote:

I need to be able to identify the partition address and its file
address, particularly when I have two drives on-line.

I tried a variety of live devices. Antix was the only one that came
close.

But years ago I remember a file manager that would allow the user to
use a single click to switch the contents of the address line at the
top from say /home/fred to /dev/sdb2 or back. I could not re-locate it.

Does this strike a chord?

Could it be SpaceFM?

https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

It's available in Mint's software manager

It isn't but it may well do the job.

Thank you. Alan
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AMD Ryzen 7 7700, Radeon RX 6600, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, 2TB Barracuda
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On 06/02/2025 14:35, pinnerite wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 11:26:26 +0100
Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> wrote:

pinnerite wrote:

I need to be able to identify the partition address and its file
address, particularly when I have two drives on-line.

I tried a variety of live devices. Antix was the only one that came
close.

But years ago I remember a file manager that would allow the user to
use a single click to switch the contents of the address line at the
top from say /home/fred to /dev/sdb2 or back. I could not re-locate it.

Does this strike a chord?

Could it be SpaceFM?

https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

It's available in Mint's software manager

It isn't but it may well do the job.

Thank you. Alan

I just installed it in LM : sudo apt install spacefm

Frank in County Wicklow Ireland
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On 2/6/25 09:35 AM, pinnerite wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 11:26:26 +0100
Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> wrote:

pinnerite wrote:

I need to be able to identify the partition address and its file
address, particularly when I have two drives on-line.

I tried a variety of live devices. Antix was the only one that came
close.

But years ago I remember a file manager that would allow the user to
use a single click to switch the contents of the address line at the
top from say /home/fred to /dev/sdb2 or back. I could not re-locate it.

Does this strike a chord?

Could it be SpaceFM?

https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

It's available in Mint's software manager

It isn't but it may well do the job.

Thank you. Alan

It's in Mint 22.1 at least.
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Thunderbird 128.6.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 134.0.2
Alan K.
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On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:55:36 -0500, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
<snip>

One can also run "df" on the directory in question, and it
will tell you what the device is:

_[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(xxx@lm)🐧_
$ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3844518728 862344652 2786808504 24% /srv/Extreme_Pro

Lol. Thanks. That's one I did not know.

I now realize I had never bothered using "page down" while viewing the df man page.

Regards, Dave Hodgins
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On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:14:22 -0500
"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:55:36 -0500, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
<snip>

One can also run "df" on the directory in question, and it
will tell you what the device is:

_[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(xxx@lm)🐧_
$ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3844518728 862344652 2786808504 24% /srv/Extreme_Pro

Lol. Thanks. That's one I did not know.

I now realize I had never bothered using "page down" while viewing the df man page.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

My arrangement is not that simple.

My system is installed on a 1TB nvMe.
But all my data is on a separate partition on a 2TB hard drive

/home/Data The backup only has two partitions: Data and Mythtv so

just rsyncing from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb won't do it.

Anyway, running Antix looks like a temporary solution.
I hope I can organise persistence so that I can save a script toi the flash drive.

Regards, Alan
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Linux Mint 21.3 kernel version 5.15.0-131-generic Cinnamon 6.0.4
AMD Ryzen 7 7700, Radeon RX 6600, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, 2TB Barracuda
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On 2025-02-11, pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:14:22 -0500
"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:55:36 -0500, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
<snip>

One can also run "df" on the directory in question, and it
will tell you what the device is:

_[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(xxx@lm)🐧_
$ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3844518728 862344652 2786808504 24% /srv/Extreme_Pro

Lol. Thanks. That's one I did not know.

I now realize I had never bothered using "page down" while viewing the df man page.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

My arrangement is not that simple.

My system is installed on a 1TB nvMe.
But all my data is on a separate partition on a 2TB hard drive

/home/Data The backup only has two partitions: Data and Mythtv so

just rsyncing from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb won't do it.

You would never rsync from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb. they are not
directories and files. You would mount /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 say and then rsync between those mounted filesystems. (call them SDA and SDB if you want.)sda and sdb are the whole disk. sda# are partitions on sda where #
means some number . But you do not have drives sda or sdb You have
driver /dev/nvme0 and /dev/nvme1 say, with partitions like nvme0n1p2

Mount the partitions into your root filessytem and then you can rsync
between those mounted partitions.

Anyway, running Antix looks like a temporary solution.
I hope I can organise persistence so that I can save a script toi the flash drive.

Regards, Alan

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