On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 11:20:19AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/01/2019 08:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...] > >To a first approximation: > > > > tomas@trotzki:~$ cat /etc/debian_version > > 9.6 [...] > My system reports 9.1 {as I thought it was} > It was initially installed from a purchased DVD 1. > My sources list now has a line > "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib". > The only packages I've added have been from that repository. Seems the first approximation is Good Enough, then. [...] > >>>Possibly non-existent device? > >>>e2fsck 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017) > >>>e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdc1 > >> > >>It is obviously *NOT* a "non-existent device" as it is readable on > >>another machine. > > Actually it is also readable on this machine. [...] > I just reran. Everything worked. Murphy did not take a holiday ;< OK. So perhaps your USB bus fainted for a short while. Still I hope you understood that going by the /dev/sdX names involves "some" risk. Cheers -- tomás
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