On 10/19/22 14:22, William Torrez Corea wrote:
My hard disk have the following partition:
/dev
/run
/
/dev/shm
/run/user/1000
I want to improve my partition; my OS is very slow.
*Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)*
*Xfce 44.16*
*Intel Core i7-4500 CPU @ 1.80Ghz x 4*
*7.7 GiB*
On 10/19/22 14:51, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> lsblk /dev/sda
> I have the following output:
>
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
> ├─sda1 8:1 0 922.7G 0 part /
> └─sda2 8:2 0 8.8G 0 part [SWAP]
>
> I have 770.83 GB free memory
On 10/19/22 15:33, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:13 PM Felix Miata wrote:
>> lsblk -f /dev/sda
>> df /
>> apt autoremove
>> apt clean
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 908G 90G 772G 11% /
>
> NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL
FSUSE%
> MOUNTPOINT
> sda
> ├─sda1
> │ ext4 1.0 3c44736e-ad10-4049-ad2d-b59662b923cb 771.3G
10%
> /
> └─sda2
> swap 1 eae7aff2-a9ff-4fd9-8c14-596ee93282d4
> [SWAP]
On 10/19/22 15:57, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby wrote:
>> du -h /home
> 39G /home
> What command gives this information (HDD, MBR or GPT)?
When posting to a support mailing list like debian-user, it is good to
provide the make and model of your computer, processor(s), memory
module(s), and system disk. Providing URL's is helpful.
When posting terminal sessions to a mailing list, please post the
complete terminal session -- prompt, command(s) entered, and output
displayed. For example:
2022-10-19 17:33:17 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian-version ; uname -a
cat: /etc/debian-version: No such file or directory
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
It is good to run the above commands and post the terminal session when
posting to debian-users. This lets readers know what versions of Debian
and Linux you are running, which is critical information for
troubleshooting.
Are you aware that most Unix and Unix-like systems (including Debian)
provide an online manual that you can access from the terminal?
Commands and their manual pages are conventionally notated as the
command name followed by the manual section number in parentheses --
e.g. fdisk(8). To read a manual page, run the man(1) command and
provide the command name:
2022-10-19 17:58:19 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ man fdisk
There are certain system calls and commands with the same name. Provide
the manual section number in such cases:
2022-10-19 17:58:19 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ man 8 fdisk
If you want to see what manual pages cover a given topic, you can use
apropos(1) to search the manual:
2022-10-19 17:57:49 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ apropos disk
...
df (1) - report file system disk space usage
...
fdisk (8) - manipulate disk partition table
...
smartctl (8) - Control and Monitor Utility for SMART Disks
...
fdisk(8) is the traditional tool for partitioning disks. The '-l'
option lists information about a disk (please run the following command
and post the terminal session):
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Note that this command is only available to the superuser. If you try
to run it as an unprivileged user:
2022-10-19 18:06:30 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ fdisk -l /dev/sda
bash: fdisk: command not found
Note '#' vs. '$' in the above prompts. '#' means root. '$' means an
unprivileged useruser. This is yet another reason why you should post
complete console sessions.
The system configuration files /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab tell Linux
which partitions are encrypted and how the partitions and/or volumes are
utilized (please run the following commands and post the terminal session):
# cat /etc/crypttab
# cat /etc/fstab
df(1) is the traditional tool for measuring filesystem usage. Run the
following commands to get filesystem block and inode statistics (please
run the following commands and post the terminal session):
# df /
# df -i /
Please elaborate on "my OS is very slow". Specifically, what
applications are open on the desktop? What input are you providing?
What happens?
Have you tested your power supply?
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=atx+power+supply+tester
Have you tested your memory?
https://memtest.org/
Have you tested your system disk? To start a long test:
2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~
# smartctl -t long /dev/sda
Wait for test to complete, then get the report:
2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~
# smartctl -x /dev/sda
Are you backing up your data to a HDD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BD-ROM, etc.?
(USB flash drives are risky for backups. SSD's are fast, but expensive.)
David
