Dual drives in laptop seem to have merged into single partition
Hi all, I have an old Clevo laptop that I wanted to test Bazzite on. Things seemed to be going smoothly so far, except I may have messed up my drive partitioning during install.
I have to internal drives, a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD that both were part of the original Windows install that I wanted wiped. During the installer, I checked both drives, thinking they would be wiped and partitions would be set up. However, I think something got confused and now I have a partition that spans both the SSD and HDD. When opening files, it says that I have 1.1TB of free space. Screenshot of
lsblk attached, as well as ujust device-info pastebin below.
At the moment, it looks like /dev/sdb1 is unmounted, though in the KDE Partition Manager it says the mount point is /. If it's not mounted, then how does my system say that I have over 1TB of free space? What I'm hoping to do is to have a partition on my SSD for my OS and some games that I want to load quickly, and have my main files and games I care less about maybe installed on my HDD partition. /sda3 looks to be locked down, though, so if I wanted to do this, should I then be creating a /sda4 partition as well as separating out the partition on /sdb so that I can mount it properly?
I figured the installer would've had some more tools to specify how you wanted your partitions to go, or maybe I just didn't see where to do everything. I haven't done much with the system, yet, so a reinstall is not out of the question to fix it. I tried at one point during a previous reinstall to just select the SDD and hope to partition/format the HDD after, but it gave me an error about how both disks were being used or something. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
https://paste.centos.org/view/5288f91e
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sadly we cant remove that part from anaconda we just have to keep telling people "dont have more than 1 disk selected"
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you had both disks selected in the installer, only way to undo this is to re-install and make sure you only have 1 disk selected during install, the once done with the install you reformat the other disk.
but you might have to use a live usb like gparted live and undo the whole lvm raid that got setup in the installer. might be able to do that in the installer through tty
i dont use lvm so you might have to google how to undo an lvm setup though
Okay, awesome, thanks for giving me the term to start searching. Yeah, when I tried to wipe just one disk during install it said that it uses multiple devices and that both had to be selected. I'll see what I can do about undoing LVM. Alternatively I looked at doing Custom in the installer, but that was above my ability to understand and not mess up
might even work to do
sudo wipefs -a /dev/blah when the disks are unmounted and youre not booted into bazzite
it will wipe all fs labels from the disk
but i cant guarantee it will be enoughSince the Bazzite installer isn't a live CD I don't know if I want to spin up one to try and mess with cleaning everything up. I'm gonna try manually doing it for now, and even if it doesn't boot properly I think the partitions will be separated at least. Appreciate the help!
Yeah, I believe it got turned into a btrfs volume, which I might investigate in the future if I want to try turning the spare space on the SSD into a cache for the HDD, but for now I'm just gonna try to separate the partitions
it raided them into lvm and then used the new lvm disk/volume (this is not fine since thats not what people want) as the install location and partitioned it into btrfs (this part is fine)
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sadly we cant remove that part from anaconda we just have to keep telling people "dont have more than 1 disk selected"
Yeah, good to know. I don't think I saw anything specifically calling that out in the installation doc, so it was an easy mistake on my part
pretty sure we had a mention to make sure you only select the disk you want bazzite on
yeah it just says "select the drive you want bazzite installed on"