Installed Manjaro a few weeks ago after years with Ubuntu. Having problems I suspect are related to errors I made in disk partitioning.
Startup slow, displays BIOS log 3 times;
Distinction between / and /home fuzzy, for example in left section of Thunar, [user name] “chas” in “Places” location is /home/chas but should be /. /run/media/chas/Home/chas/mervin but should be simply /Home/chas. Under “Devices,” “Home” location is /run/media/chas.
[chas@chas-pc ~]$ sudo systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the “@” character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the “+” character.
First boot of the day, or first boot ever? There have been many first-boots since installing Manjaro about three weeks ago and it was and remains slow to boot.
Right now I am researching the observations contained in your first message – will probably take me a while. Will definitely take me a while. Thank you.
Please re-edit all your posts to make command outputs be between the codeblocks as mentioned in above link.
What exactly do you want “cleared up” in what way
As far as i could understand from the conversation so far is that your real request is about improving slow booting and not with the partitioning, so i’m changing the topic title to reflect that (to prevent other readers in future from being misguided)…
Note: That the timings you posted are not slow at all for any version of Linux…
This time jump (+ ~4s) is related to your network speed because it tries to check for updates, which is not slow at all either
There is not much you can do to make your system faster.
My workstation takes about 2 minutes to be ready - some systems takes longer than others - despite being highend. The hardware has a lot of initializing selfchecking stuff when being powered up for the first time every day.
I appreciate your efforts and willingness to help but you have wasted your time because of TriMoon’s injudicious changing of my title. I listed boot time primarily as a possible symptom of my partitioning, not the major problem. I was hoping to get some suggestions for ways to re-partition the disk, or some links to good tutorials on how to re-partition an in-use disk without losing data.
You cannot modify mounted partitions and you cannot repartition without loosing data.
Before venturing into adjusting partitions you must ensure you have a valid backup of your preciousss
Partitioning on ssd is merely setting up fences to separate data.
Back in the days with spinning disks - it could be an issue if you didn’t get the parameters right - with todays SSD there is no need - and it will not affect the read/write speed of your ssd as it is memorycells not magnetic plate.
When you - as you state - has been using Ubuntu for years - you should know that automounted removable devices end up in a volatile structure
/run/media/$USER/some-name-or-guid
Everything else is inside your home.
If you are used to Ubuntu then you are used to Nautilus - unless you used Xubuntu - then you wouldn’t have to state the above - as Xfce uses Thunar and this work the same no matter the distribution.
The gvfs packages is handling all the underlying stuff and pulls in the necessary dependencies.
If you want your removable devices to show up with a name instead of UUID - then use gparted to label the partiion - just remember - not all filesystems can be labelled with mounted.
The you should have specifically said that boot time was not the issue because partitioning of SSD does not affect boottime and as such you have yourself put emphasis on boottime which is also my impression from the content of your OT.
I’m sorry if i misunderstood then, but that’s what i understood between all the text because of wrong markup…
Feel free to undo my rename, but please be more specific and CLEAR about what you want…
What should be /? The user’s home directory should be in /home, if the username is chas then it should be /home/chas. Not even root uses / as a home directory (it uses /root). Perhaps I’m missing something.
You’re auto-mounting the partition because it’s not configured to be mounted at /home during boot.
If that is the only partition named “Home” then this will configure your home partition to be used.
echo "LABEL=Home /home ext4 noatime 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
# if you have a problem then use the live USB, mount / and
# post the contents of fstab here, comment out the line
# we added and reboot
It looks like you already have a chas directory in your home partition, but the files may differ since you’ve been auto mounting it. Make sure all your files have been copied to the Home partition before rebooting. Be careful not to overwrite new files with old, if in doubt copy it all to a new directory (eg /run/media/chas/Home/chas/oldhome) and sort it out later.
Make sure you have a live USB just in case something goes wrong. Once you’re absolutely sure everything works and is where it’s meant to be, then you can use the live USB to delete the original files, it doesn’t hurt to leave it for a few days or weeks just in case you missed something. Be very careful!
If you’re unsure about doing any of this then read and ask questions.
