I have Debian 12 on a LUKS2 encrypted 500GB SSD and an encrypted 1TB SSD used for storage. At boot time I enter the LUKS2 passcode to unlock the two disks then enter my user / administrator password to log into the Gnome desktop.
Immediately after installation the Nautilus file manager showed the standard Home folder in the left hand pane, then under ‘+ Other Locations’ there were the Debian system disk and the 1TB 'Home' disk entry. To avoid the confusion of two items named ‘Home’ I changed the name of the 1TB drive to 'Data' using ‘Edit Filesystem / Change filesystem label’ in the Gnome Disks utility.
Everything was working fine, then after installing Thunderbird and VirtualBox, programs were suddenly unable to find files on the 1TB drive.
Investigation revealed that although the 1TB drive appeared in Nautilus as ‘Data’, its properties now showed the name as ‘Data1’.
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The parent folder shows entries for ‘Data’ and ‘Data1’.
The properties of ‘Data’ show an empty folder with 20 GB free. I have no idea where that came from. ‘Data1’ contains all the folders and files which were originally in the 1TB ‘Data’.
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The Disks utility shows the volume name as ‘Data’ and the mount point as ‘/media/kandc/Data1’
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df shows Data1 at the bottom:I hope someone can advise on how to fix the muddle, restoring the name ‘Data’ to the 1TB drive so that my programs find files at the expected locations.
Thanks.
Immediately after installation the Nautilus file manager showed the standard Home folder in the left hand pane, then under ‘+ Other Locations’ there were the Debian system disk and the 1TB 'Home' disk entry. To avoid the confusion of two items named ‘Home’ I changed the name of the 1TB drive to 'Data' using ‘Edit Filesystem / Change filesystem label’ in the Gnome Disks utility.
Everything was working fine, then after installing Thunderbird and VirtualBox, programs were suddenly unable to find files on the 1TB drive.
Investigation revealed that although the 1TB drive appeared in Nautilus as ‘Data’, its properties now showed the name as ‘Data1’.
The parent folder shows entries for ‘Data’ and ‘Data1’.
The properties of ‘Data’ show an empty folder with 20 GB free. I have no idea where that came from. ‘Data1’ contains all the folders and files which were originally in the 1TB ‘Data’.
The Disks utility shows the volume name as ‘Data’ and the mount point as ‘/media/kandc/Data1’
df shows Data1 at the bottom:
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted onudev 8071524 0 8071524 0% /devtmpfs 1621408 1800 1619608 1% /run/dev/mapper/Beauty--2--vg-root 28658596 7680600 19496884 29% /tmpfs 8107032 0 8107032 0% /dev/shmtmpfs 5120 8 5112 1% /run/lock/dev/nvme0n1p2 466026 155110 285931 36% /boot/dev/mapper/Beauty--2--vg-home 448711496 1666532 424178228 1% /home/dev/nvme0n1p1 523244 5984 517260 2% /boot/efitmpfs 1621404 2524 1618880 1% /run/user/1000/dev/dm-4 960287768 375533284 535900880 42% /media/kandc/Data1Thanks.
Statistics: Posted by Kevin1 — 2025-02-11 15:50 — Replies 3 — Views 114