On 02/03/2014 12:20 AM, John Andersen wrote:
On 2/2/2014 2:07 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 02/02/2014 02:02 PM, ellanios82 wrote:
Hello List
os-prober seems to have taken control of my system !!
it has created a huge directory under :
/var/lib/os-prober/mount
- the mode is 0555 : it seems impossible to change mode and impossible to delete
..........
what to do please??
thanks
Wait for more os-prober specific answers, but worst-case, boot from the install cd/dvd and boot the rescue console, then you can take care of the file/directory permission my simply mounting the partition and manually chmod to whatever you need.
If needed you can also chroot your entire install under /mnt and fix it that way as well. If you get to that point, report back and we'll help you thought it.
I've never messed with os-prober, so for now wait on some specific advise. There may be a magic fix that will work without doing it the old-fashioned way.
It is not a file.
It is just another partition on the hard disk mounted there. It is not taking up any actual room from this linux machine.
os-prober is used by Grub2. It came from the Ubuntu world.
It attempts to figure out all the other bootable partitions on the system and determine what OS is installed there.
If you don't dual boot you will never see it.
It simply mounts other partitions in that directory, (read only) and then it goes rooting around in there to find out what OS is there.
It should Unmount it when it is done. Its been known to fail and leave it mounted. It can be unmounted by root.
If you boot via a rescue CD it won't be there, because OS-Prober won't have mounted it.
Its not taking up room. Worst case is it causes a system backup to balloon in size.
What ever you do, don't start trying to make it write-able. You will hoze one of your other dual boot OSs if you succeed. (But you probably won't succeed).
Treat it like a scabbed genital. (Don't F__K with it).
- many thanks all ! - i do not dual boot thus do not understand what triggered this crisis - grub2 had mounted something ............. eventually used oS 13.1 Live on usb stick to mount root partition and also mount a backup of that partition : then used tar to restore : tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /; tar xvf - ) ............... - i have no idea what caused grub2 to mount something consequently causing os-prober crisis : again - do not dual boot. thank goodness . . . system seems ok now many thanks regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org