What is this "device" in Dolphin? The fact that's it's full is preventing me from doing some things (Fedora Aurora)
from flork@lemy.lol to linux@lemmy.ml on 16 May 01:18
https://lemy.lol/post/44620836

For some reason Calibre won’t let me do anything because “drive is full” which I assume has to do with this.

Update: I believe I “fixed” the error with Calibre by using FlatSeal to add environment variable CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR that changes the Temp directory to something else. So far that’s the only program I’ve seen give trouble.

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[deleted] on 16 May 01:22 next collapse

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Jumuta@sh.itjust.works on 16 May 01:24 collapse

dolphin is a file browser

solidgrue@lemmy.world on 16 May 01:27 next collapse

Yeah, I know.

Aurora is immutable, I fucked up. Oops.

Edit: unsubscribed. My life will be better.

ReakDuck@lemmy.ml on 16 May 11:04 collapse

What did he even write. Now im curious

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 16 May 01:31 next collapse

What’s the plug symbol mean?

Lojcs@lemm.ee on 16 May 01:57 next collapse

Not mounted by default I assume

flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 12:22 collapse

Not clear, the “drive” doesn’t show up in partition manager.

yaroto98@lemmy.org on 16 May 02:13 next collapse

Run:

df -h

in the terminal and find out.

warmaster@lemmy.world on 16 May 03:22 collapse
Offbus@lemmy.world on 16 May 02:22 next collapse

Launch Partition Manager and find out. It’s probably boot or efi.

warmaster@lemmy.world on 16 May 03:22 next collapse
flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 12:23 collapse

It’s not in partition manager actually!

ColdWater@lemmy.ca on 16 May 02:37 next collapse

It’s smol, probably your boot partition, or some rogue partition got created during OS installation

warmaster@lemmy.world on 16 May 03:22 collapse
warmaster@lemmy.world on 16 May 03:21 next collapse

That is your / (root) partition. You can’t write to it because Aurora is an atomic & immutable distro.

Source: I use Aurora & Bazzite.

Dremor@lemmy.world on 16 May 10:49 next collapse

While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments? They are not incorrect, it just makes you look like an ass.

Nerd joke

break;

MouldyCat@feddit.uk on 16 May 12:17 next collapse

While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments?

I’ve been stuck repeatedly asking myself this question ever since reading your comment 😩 Please be careful about throwing infinite while true loops around! Now I need someone to Ctrl-C me.

kurumin@linux.community on 17 May 09:28 next collapse

Lol

Sims@lemmy.ml on 17 May 15:02 next collapse

“Nerd Humor - the best kind of Humor”

Dremor@lemmy.world on 19 May 02:11 collapse

I added a break 😆

warmaster@lemmy.world on 17 May 04:31 collapse

Well, I replied to two comments. I was just trying to let them learn the actual cause of OP’s problem so they can help others in the future. I am sorry if I didn’t follow proper etiquette.

Dremor@lemmy.world on 19 May 02:21 collapse

I counted 3 of them.

Problem is that by doing that you are basically telling them “my answer is better than yours”. That not yours to decide, and that’s the reason you get downvoted despite having a part of what OP was searching for.

Just think of the obnoxious kid that’d boast for having half a point more than you did. You basically did the internet equivalent.

flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 12:15 collapse

How’d it get full then? And if it’s supposed to be 100%, any ideas on how can I get Calibre (so far the only app I’ve noticed that is giving trouble) to ignore it?

spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 May 12:34 next collapse

It comes full from the first boot, because you’re not supposed to be able to write to it. That’s kinda he point of an immutable distro

flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 15:20 collapse

Got it thanks, I think it’s weird it shows up in Dolphin this way but at least I know what it is now.

spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 May 15:30 collapse

Yeah, I get that. But also, the root mount point is a valid partition, and it is full, so it makes sense why it shows up that way.

I think a lot of the confusion is letting go to old habits and knowledge that don’t exactly work with the new system. In still going through that a lot myself (and will probably be making my own troubleshooting post when I have time), but it’s always good to experiment and see what you can learn.

Best of luck friend!

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 May 14:02 collapse

Are you trying to install the Flatpak? The native install probably won’t work on an immutable distro.

flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 15:19 collapse

Calibre installs fine (flatpak). I updated my post but I was able to change the temp directory which “fixed” it.

pewpew@feddit.it on 16 May 03:27 next collapse

That’s the root partition, which is the core system partition. It’s probably read only because Aurora is an immutable system, that means that it doesn’t let you write to the system partition by default

pewpew@feddit.it on 16 May 03:30 collapse

From docs.getaurora.dev “System updates are image-based and automatic. Applications are logically separated from the system by using Flatpaks for graphical applications and brew for command line applications. Workloads for development are containerized.” Correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve never heard of this distro before

SitD@lemy.lol on 16 May 04:00 next collapse

shout-out to my boys with non-immutable distros looking at the same usage plot ✊😔

BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com on 16 May 06:25 next collapse

Fedora Atomic Desktop 42 switched to composefs, which has a small full partition mounted to /. Your “real” filesystem is mounted on /sysroot

fedoraproject.org/wiki/…/ComposefsAtomicDesktops

flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 12:16 collapse

That makes sense, thank you! How can I clear up space in it?

spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 May 12:32 next collapse

You don’t, it’s the immutable root partition. You probably need to find the point it’s trying to write to and link it to a location it can write to.

Note: I’m still a newbie to atomic desktops too.

flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 15:17 collapse

You were correct, I believe I “fixed” the error with Calibre by using Flatseal to add an environment variable CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR that changed the Temp directory to something else.

thefool@sh.itjust.works on 16 May 12:53 next collapse

How are you trying to install Calibre? Is it via Flatpak? AppImage?

Did you try it from here? calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

I’m guessing that that method won’t work with atomic distros. I’m guessing that it’s trying to copy files to an immutable spot.

I would try looking for a Flatpak first.

I was going to suggest the portable one as a backup but that’s only for Windows :(

flork@lemy.lol on 16 May 15:18 collapse

Appreciate the response, I updated my post but I “fixed” this by changing Calibre’s temp directory.

thefool@sh.itjust.works on 17 May 13:12 collapse

Oh that’s a neat app! I hadn’t heard of it before

Glad you got it going!

BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com on 16 May 16:10 collapse

You can’t, it just part of how Fedora works now. Maybe Fedora should patch Dolphin to take /sysroot into account instead of /

marcie@lemmy.ml on 17 May 11:11 next collapse

+1 to op for posting the solution godspeed 🫡

polite_cat@lemmy.world on 17 May 12:37 next collapse

Fyi if you find it annoying to see this this everytime you open Dolphin, you can right-click it and set it to hidden

ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 May 13:06 collapse

This is completely unrelated to your problem:

The calibre website recommends extremely strongly against using their software packaged by anyone else other than calibre themselves as they are often (see usually) buggy or extremely outdated.

It may be worth it to manually “install” the app from their website somewhere in your ~/.local/ and see if you have less issues using the official package.