I have two partitions on the laptop that are locked to user(s), and when I access them via root, they mount instead of reading what is there.
Both partitions look to be duplication of / and /Home. Are they possibly links of some sort to / and /Home?
Is this a product of my having set a partition as BTRFS during install?
How do I get them back to where they are empty, and mount at start up?
/run/media/bill/309ba3ef-0c6f-4fae-8d75-dd6620cbe745/ this is 80GB
/run/media/bill/058e1567-fd89-4bad-ac6e-7ba2f22bc43e/ this is 43GB
Lot of wasted space if actually populated.
Please share with us
sudo /usr/sbin/blkid
df -h
sudo fdisk -l
/usr/sbin/blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="687D-EC97" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="f1a8105f-315b-4ad3-b2e1-ce77aa42441b"
/dev/sda2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="d9dcaf84-d30b-40b1-a232-197011ad38ac"
/dev/sda3: UUID="058e1567-fd89-4bad-ac6e-7ba2f22bc43e" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="7107d173-82ee-11e8-a013-ac7ba1a7a868"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="Insider Preview" UUID="0B230D030B230D03" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="d7da5519-9b04-11e6-9108-ac7ba1a7a868"
/dev/sda5: UUID="023A986F3A986189" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="96544951-b4d6-4c77-9cab-0defe8ed1a20"
/dev/sda6: UUID="309ba3ef-0c6f-4fae-8d75-dd6620cbe745" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a8edc840-e1aa-4550-b387-1d8f9286c256"
/dev/sda7: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="CA9A-1FA9" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="757e1a39-cbbe-486d-b7f4-aec3fbb0123e"
/dev/sda8: UUID="fbe004f3-ef46-4091-9971-015a2b775959" UUID_SUB="2843b273-2828-4bbc-a09a-1049857c46db" TYPE="btrfs" PARTUUID="36d11ebe-4872-428f-bb3c-57ca09b95d06"
/dev/sda9: UUID="b4d34f2c-ef3b-4e08-8fe3-61edb02d0483" TYPE="xfs" PARTUUID="90449ff7-570a-4484-90d1-04b41e89364a"
/dev/sda10: UUID="8c75d846-5539-4b7d-ad31-b50ff35a6c37" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="ebc3f338-e073-4f3d-870d-a999b666d753"
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 3.6M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.9G 9.7M 1.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /.snapshots
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /usr/local
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /var
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /srv
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /opt
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /tmp
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /boot/grub2/i386-pc
/dev/sda8 40G 8.8G 30G 23% /root
/dev/sda7 500M 5.0M 495M 1% /boot/efi
/dev/sda9 42G 1.1G 41G 3% /home
tmpfs 388M 8.0K 388M 1% /run/user/1000
fdisk -l
**Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors**
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 036073BD-199A-4EDC-9D62-78837B4C2F1E
**Device**** Start**** End**** Sectors**** Size****Type**
/dev/sda1 64 204862 204799 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 204863 237630 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 237631 84123647 83886017 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 420597768 975743994 555146227 264.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 975745024 976769023 1024000 500M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6 84123648 241410047 157286400 75G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7 241410048 242434047 1024000 500M EFI System
/dev/sda8 242434048 326320127 83886080 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9 326320128 412659711 86339584 41.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda10 412659712 420597767 7938056 3.8G Linux swap
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Hi Bill, with your current system you are using:
sda7 as /boot/EFI
sda8 as /root
sda9 as /home
On the same disk you have two other Linux partitions (sda3 and sda6) that likely come from a previous install, likely one once used as /root and the other as /home.
You can mount both and inspect what’s in with your favourite file manager (or by command line) and yes, you need to enter the root password to mount them unless you insert their details in your /etc/fstab.
If you are sure that you are not going to use them again, you can safely delete them and reuse their space.
BTW, if you ticked the “Probe foreign OS” box during your last install, you should see another Linux system available for boot in your GRUB screen.
I somewhat understand what you said, but the problem is I only made one install that I remember.
I did abort the partitioner once because I didn’t like what was happening. But again, only one install.
I don’t understand why there are two EFI partitions of different sizes, and the grub2 screen shows Leap 15 and its ‘advanced’ options twice. I will take a picture and post it if ya’ll want to see it.
It’s complicated to explain. Various installers, specifications, BIOS and environments have their own peculiar foibles. All these are avoided by initializing partitioning with a single “oversize” EFI partition. 100MB is more than enough size for virtually everyone only until such time as 4k sectors are employed by operating systems and tools. That hasn’t happened yet. Nevertheless, it’s just as well to pretend it has, avoiding all the foibles. 500MB avoids them. So does 320MB, as I use and regularly suggest. Less than somewhere around 260MB is where the trouble lies.
Confusion abounds(again).
I have a half a mind (no surprise there), to clean Leap off and reinstall, this time paying more attention to what is happening. No Btrfs for one thing, and getting an EFI boot in one partition, not the two that are shown.
I have not invested a lot into it yet, so a ‘clean’ reinstall won’t really lose me much.
Since it was a problem with KDE and sddm with the hybrid graphics on the Toshiba laptop,
is there a way to install using Xfce (I know this answer is yes), and lightDM during the install?
I can always go get the KDE apps I want later.
Another question is how to tell if the content of the 80GB and 43GB volumes are real and not linkages to / and /Home?
No, they’re actual partitions and pertain to
/dev/sda3: UUID="058e1567-fd89-4bad-ac6e-7ba2f22bc43e" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="7107d173-82ee-11e8-a013-ac7ba1a7a868[/FONT][FONT=monospace]"
/dev/sda6: UUID="309ba3ef-0c6f-4fae-8d75-dd6620cbe745" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a8edc840-e1aa-4550-b387-1d8f9286c256"
Your / and /home are /dev/sda8 and /dev/sda9 respectively.
I don’t think XFCE fits on the regular installation media, but you can specify XFCE and LightDM and anything else you please during installation if you do a net install.
Another question is how to tell if the content of the 80GB and 43GB volumes are real and not linkages to / and /Home?
Content of /etc/fstab and output from lsblk might help with that.
… or if you configure network and repositories when prompted to do so by the DVD installer.
@OrsoBruno seems I owe you an apology. You said up top that it probably found another OS(that being an earlier Leap 15 install), and those two partitions prove you right.
Gotta go in as root, rename them,then reformat(parted or Gparted or YaST?) and chown to my user account.
Once again folks in this forum pulled my rear out of the fire.
Let us know when you want a bucket of water Bill. 
Yes, there is. When you see the install summary, click on the software heading and click on Details.
In there, you can choose the Xfce pattern, which will automatically pull in the LightDM Display Manager with it.
… and, yes, it IS on the DVD Installer, made it in at the last minute before official release.
I ‘reclaimed’ (or thought I did) two partitions that were needing root to mount.
They are still there but not showing in file manager.
I did it in the YaST Partitoner.
Partitions /dev/dsa3 and /dev/sda6 were the two concerned.
I set them as EXT4, and named them data1 and data2 respectively.
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 40G 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 264.7G 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 500M 0 part
├─sda6 8:6 0 75G 0 part
├─sda7 8:7 0 500M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda8 8:8 0 40G 0 part /
├─sda9 8:9 0 41.2G 0 part /home
└─sda10 8:10 0 3.8G 0 part [SWAP]
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
New fdisk -l
fdisk -l
**Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors**
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 036073BD-199A-4EDC-9D62-78837B4C2F1E
**Device**** Start**** End**** Sectors**** Size****Type**
/dev/sda1 64 204862 204799 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 204863 237630 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 237631 84123647 83886017 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 420597768 975743994 555146227 264.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 975745024 976769023 1024000 500M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6 84123648 241410047 157286400 75G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7 241410048 242434047 1024000 500M EFI System
/dev/sda8 242434048 326320127 83886080 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9 326320128 412659711 86339584 41.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda10 412659712 420597767 7938056 3.8G Linux swap
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Now the partitions do not show up in the file manager, and before I changed they did.
More importantly I don’t have file manage access to them.
<<need that bucket of water>>
You may have erased or damaged the file system. It won’t mount or show in the GUI unless it has a function file system
Further to gogalthorp’s advice, you probably now need to reformat them (for the filesystems to be valid again)… but what you really should be doing IMHO is delete both those existing partitions, then decide how you want to use that space. That might involve moving/resizing other partitions.
As I see it, the two partitions to be deleted (sda3 and sda6) are located between the Win* boot and Reserved partitions (start sector **237631 **) and the current set of mounted partitions (end sector **241410047 **).
With that layout it should be impossible to move/resize anything from within the currently running system.
Something should be possible from a Live DVD (openSUSE or PartedMagic or the like), but please be aware that moving/copying the current / (root, sda8) or /home (sda9) will upset your current install and might require editing of /etc/fstab and/or the boot command line in GRUB if you want to continue using your current “good” install.
Wiping sda3 and sda6 and replacing them with a new partition to be used for storing data would be easier and should be possible from within the currently running Linux.
Anyway, just in case, buckets of water abound here (see the current weather forecasts for Northern Italy 
)
Hah. Bill already has a bucket from deano.rotfl!
Is that true if the partitions are rearranged to be in disk order? As in:
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 036073BD-199A-4EDC-9D62-78837B4C2F1E
Device Start End Sectors SizeType
/dev/sda1 64 204862 204799 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 204863 237630 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 237631 84123647 83886017 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6 84123648 241410047 157286400 75G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7 241410048 242434047 1024000 500M EFI System
/dev/sda8 242434048 326320127 83886080 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9 326320128 412659711 86339584 41.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda10 412659712 420597767 7938056 3.8G Linux swap
/dev/sda4 420597768 975743994 555146227 264.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 975745024 976769023 1024000 500M Windows recovery environment
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
**Partition table entries WERE not in disk order.**
Just asking…
Tried reformatting and setting new mount points in YaST partitioner, and they come back as part of my /Home/bill/ directory and owned by root, which I have not been able to chown to me.
I hate to think I am a ‘quitter’ but everything I try leaves ‘bill’ without access to 40G+75G space.
So I am considering just stripping Leap off the laptop and starting all over. And not just for this reason.
I put in a gob of DE’s trying to get around the hybrid graphic problem, and with each came a much bigger gob of things I don’t want. I settled on Xfce, and want it alone,(and it’s gob of things) along with a few apps from KDE I liked. (RANT> too bad removing a DE doesn’t automatically take all the dross it put in RANT OVER>