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System Specs

Operating System – Linux Lite	Linux Lite 8.0
CPU / Processor	not sure
Memory (RAM)	16 GB
Storage	Other / not listed
Graphics (GPU)	not sure
Network device	Not sure / Unknown

Sorry, new non-technical user, first post.

Installation was fine. I have 2 SSDs and 2 internal ata drives. 1 SSD has LL and the second has Zorin. 

When using Grsynch, I noticed on LL it was slower than on Z. I asked AI. It told me to do things and I ran out of time allowed. 

Final status, when I boot, I include a startup instuction "sh -c "sleep 5 && udisksctl mount -b /dev/disk/by-uuid/b69fe174-b930-47dd-add6-5f154bb35a7e && udisksctl mount -b /dev/disk/by-uuid/8f5a9fdd-9386-4752-ad0b-3e75e50a5400" otherwise Thunar will not mount the drives until I click on them. And the AI did mention something about changing the timing.

How do I get back to mounting properly without the startup instruction? 

Thank you for any comments. Remember please I am a new non-technical user.

[stevef]

How do I get back to mounting properly without the startup instruction?

Undo/remove all the changes introduced under AI instruction.

Have you seen these two sections in the wiki ?
If not, they may be relevant.

https://wiki.linuxliteos.com/en/install....partdrives
Describes manually mounting drives.

https://wiki.linuxliteos.com/en/install....partdrives
Describes automatically mounting drives.

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How do I get back to mounting properly without the startup instruction?

Undo/remove all the changes introduced under AI instruction.

Have you seen these two sections in the wiki ?
If not, they may be relevant.

https://wiki.linuxliteos.com/en/install....partdrives
Describes manually mounting drives.

https://wiki.linuxliteos.com/en/install....partdrives
Describes automatically mounting drives.

Sorry, could not see where to paste a response!!!

I would reverse the AI if I remembered what it said.

The two urls are incomplete your post, but I now see that they are complete when replying. Strange. I will look at them in the morning.

Thank you

[stevef]

Sorry, could not see where to paste a response!!!

No problem, I can tidy up your post.  A quick look through the posting guidelines might help.
https://dfgkh547-jsdfv8.iyhkj.tk/forums/showt...php?tid=24

The two urls are incomplete your post, but I now see that they are complete when replying

For normal viewing, the forum software contracts urls (unless they are very short) to try to keep things visually consistent. The contraction is indicated by the three dots.  The contracted links should be clickable.

I would reverse the AI if I remembered what it said.

Can you remember exactly what you asked AI to do ?
Have you at least undone the startup instruction you mentioned as being your 'Final Status' ?
Was there much before that ?
Did the AI instructions improve anything ?

To revert (without knowing what was done) there are a couple of possibilities.
Do you have any System Restore Points (aka Timeshift snapshots) taken before engaging with the AI ?
Are you prepared to re-install ?
If no to both of the above, provided the system works as you want and isn't worse than before, leaving the AI induced changes is an option.

Thank you

You're welcome.

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Sorry, could not see where to paste a response!!!

No problem, I can tidy up your post.  A quick look through the posting guidelines might help.
https://dfgkh547-jsdfv8.iyhkj.tk/forums/showt...php?tid=24

The two urls are incomplete your post, but I now see that they are complete when replying

For normal viewing, the forum software contracts urls (unless they are very short) to try to keep things visually consistent. The contraction is indicated by the three dots.  The contracted links should be clickable.

I would reverse the AI if I remembered what it said.

Can you remember exactly what you asked AI to do ?
Have you at least undone the startup instruction you mentioned as being your 'Final Status' ?
Was there much before that ?
Did the AI instructions improve anything ?

To revert (without knowing what was done) there are a couple of possibilities.
Do you have any System Restore Points (aka Timeshift snapshots) taken before engaging with the AI ?
Are you prepared to re-install ?
If no to both of the above, provided the system works as you want and isn't worse than before, leaving the AI induced changes is an option.

Thank you

You're welcome.

Looking at this in the morning, using Zorin, I am prepared to reinstall if required. Or go back to zorin? I have Z and LL on two different internal ssds. Can they co-exist? If have seen conflicting information about that. No to System Restore points and backups. I have backups now.

Thank you

[stevef]

Or go back to zorin?

That's not a question we can answer.

I have Z and LL on two different internal ssds. Can they co-exist?

Not sure what you mean by co-exist, but yes, at a basic level it is possible to operate a dual-boot (or multi-boot) system which can boot different operating systems independently.  You don't need multiple disks to do this.
Another possibility - if a system is moderately powerful - is to run the alternate OS you want to use on virtual machines under a single primary OS.  Alternate OS are installed virtually and run when required.  This method is preferred by many over a multi-boot set up.

I am prepared to reinstall if required

It's only required if the system has been so badly broken by the AI changes that we can't fix the problems effectively.  We need to understand what problems you actually have to determine if we try to fix them or go for the re-installation.  If the problem is just getting disks to automount then the instructions in the wiki should sort it.

If you absolutely want to undo the AI changes, but don't know what you did and don't have backups, re-installation is the way to go.  Reinstalling Linux Lite will obviously undo the AI changes. We can then get the disks to automount and look at the gyrnc symptoms properly.

If the system hasn't been broken by the AI changes and does what you want, then you can stick with it.

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I looked at sudo mousepad open recent and found that the last thing I did via AI was to modify fstab adding notime to uuid = 8dbd87etc

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>            <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=99CE-5DE8                            /boot/efi      vfat    defaults  0 2
UUID=8bd87de9-b9ff-4027-a4ce-ef3c61531c24 /              ext4    defaults,noatime  0 1
UUID=2bde0229-4f5f-4d44-ab35-5ce9ff3a2877 swap          swap    defaults  0 0
tmpfs                                    /tmp          tmpfs  defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

here ends the FSTAB file.

then reboot and had no access.

I have identified the following. The three above are the LL boot drive and the other drives:

fstab
UUID 99CE-5DE8- is p1 of LL boot drive WDS500G3X0C-00SJG0 (111110WD)  FAT (32-bit version) — Mounted at /boot/efi
UUID 8bd87de9-b9ff-4027-a4ce-ef3c61531c24 is p2 of LL boot drive  Ext4 (version 1.0) — Mounted at Filesystem Root
UUID 2bde0229-4f5f-4d44-ab35-5ce9ff3a2877 is p3 of LL boot drive  Swap (version 1) — Active

not on fstab?
the two internal drives
UUID b69fe174-b930-47dd-add6-5f154bb35a7e is WDC WD40EZRZ-22GXCB0 (80.00A80)  Ext4 (version 1.0) — Mounted at /run/media/steve/Storage    labelled Storage
UUID 8f5a9fdd-9386-4752-ad0b-3e75e50a5400 is WDC WD40EZAX-00C8UB0 (01.01A01) Ext4 (version 1.0) — Mounted at /run/media/steve/Storage2  labelled Storage2

zorin boot drive
UUID A1DE-0DD9 is Patriot P220 512GB (W0621B0)  is FAT (32-bit version) — Not Mounted  p1
UUID Patriot P220 512GB (W0621B0)    Ext4 (version 1.0) — Not Mounted  is p2

if this helps

[stevef]

Editing the fstab file can break things.
Did AI get you to make a copy of the file before changing it ?

then reboot and had no access.

No access to what exactly ?

What is the disk UUID=8bd87de9-b9ff-4027-a4ce-ef3c61531c24 used for ?

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fstab backup:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=99CE-5DE8 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 2
UUID=8bd87de9-b9ff-4027-a4ce-ef3c61531c24 / ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=2bde0229-4f5f-4d44-ab35-5ce9ff3a2877 swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

ends here

by no access I mean it did not mount. I added extra information to the post above. disk UUID=8bd87de9-b9ff-4027-a4ce-ef3c61531c24 is the boot partition of Linux Lite drive.

[stevef]

by no access I mean it did not mount.

What exactly did not mount ?

Does Linux Lite on your system boot ok ?