I’ve been using timeshift for over a year. Today timeshift has lost contact with external drive and timeshift backups on it. It keeps saying there is no “linux partition on drive”. Same drive in use for a year. Device is /dev/sdb6
Verified that the external drive is mounted has not lost any partitions on it or the partition table. In fact, I did a successful rsync restore using the timeshift files on the external drive to see if going to earlier system would fix timeshift. It did not.
What I have done.
1 Reinstalled timeshift from zypper multiple times
2 Compiled timeshift fresh and installed
3 Added external drive linux partition to fstab
4 Checked drive and partition table in gparted
5 Restored a file from “backintime” that is located on the same drive.
For reference, see below:
(base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Disk model: TOSHIBA HDWE140
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: 04F040ED-92C0-4D0B-B201-2192DE39FD0C
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 34 34 1 512B unknown
/dev/sda2 35 35 1 512B unknown
/dev/sda3 36 36 1 512B unknown
/dev/sda4 37 37 1 512B unknown
/dev/sda5 946567168 948310015 1742848 851M Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 948310016 952530943 4220928 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda7 952530944 1259751423 307220480 146.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8 1259751424 7814035455 6554284032 3.1T Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9 2048 923647 921600 450M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda10 923648 1128447 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda11 1128448 1161215 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda12 1161216 946565864 945404649 450.8G Microsoft basic data
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.64 TiB, 4000786153472 bytes, 7814035456 sectors
Disk model: My Book 25ED
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: 4610E1A9-71AF-4B43-884D-9720E5D0E70F
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 34 34 1 512B unknown
/dev/sdb2 35 35 1 512B unknown
/dev/sdb3 36 36 1 512B unknown
/dev/sdb4 37 37 1 512B unknown
/dev/sdb5 2048 1453412351 1453410304 693G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb6 1453412352 7814033407 6360621056 3T Linux filesystem
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
(base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $
nano /etc/fstab
UUID=be8570c4-cde5-4c16-afb7-4c71118bbed9 / ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=e748b401-3a8f-4152-a9ea-ef540efb0230 /home ext4 data=ordered,acl,user_xattr 0 2
UUID=C93A-C87E /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 2
UUID=732223f6-b4fa-4fa0-9d5a-78ced9984c72 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=ED4CBA99-D0B7-4320-91DC-5ACFFC51A178 /run/media/tom/WD_book_linux ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2
(base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $ sudo blkid
/dev/sdb4: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="a2dd91d0-3226-47d4-8ccc-bd75c4c7fde5"
/dev/sdb2: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="75641740-cd71-44ec-8111-1830b030a1ea"
/dev/sdb5: LABEL="WD_book_windows" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="394DB398420355FF" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="WD_book_windows" PARTUUID="061d6392-39ab-477f-88a5-c523e8821de1"
/dev/sdb3: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="fc498acf-eae6-4dd2-ad58-7ee6f3fe4762"
/dev/sdb1: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="b762325c-1adc-0068-95e2-55de7f3c19f0"
**/dev/sdb6: LABEL="WD_book_linux" UUID="3fe3c45f-e738-43a3-9642-bffa759074f4" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="WD_book_linux" PARTUUID="ed4cba99-d0b7-4320-91dc-5acffc51a178"**
/dev/sda4: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="0749e399-d356-491f-94b5-85d02ecf8477"
/dev/sda2: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="c7bb88d3-9b14-46c2-a8af-da1a224480df"
/dev/sda12: LABEL="Windows 10" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="6ABE22FBBE22BF85" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="d32c7d2d-0674-43a5-98b9-2b4327787708"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="Recovery" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="8C9C1F589C1F3BE0" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="3868f79f-be91-4232-afda-cf3036549c08"
/dev/sda10: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="C93A-C87E" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="62a93150-d01f-4f32-b4fd-c24a31f3e258"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="Linux - Root" UUID="be8570c4-cde5-4c16-afb7-4c71118bbed9" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="e052dc80-65b7-11f0-a00f-80a58916e18e"
/dev/sda5: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="7C80FB8780FB45E4" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="e052dc7e-65b7-11f0-a00f-80a58916e18e"
/dev/sda3: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="bf625028-7a64-4e89-992e-b7eab2990238"
/dev/sda1: PARTLABEL="EasyRE volume attributes protection" PARTUUID="0ea6d7d6-5c61-00b2-95d2-5fc4e9758443"
/dev/sda11: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="1734fefa-4e75-482b-b151-3f56d9560a27"
/dev/sda8: LABEL="Linux - Home" UUID="e748b401-3a8f-4152-a9ea-ef540efb0230" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="home" PARTUUID="e052dc81-65b7-11f0-a00f-80a58916e18e"
/dev/sda6: UUID="732223f6-b4fa-4fa0-9d5a-78ced9984c72" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="swap" PARTUUID="e052dc7f-65b7-11f0-a00f-80a58916e18e"
(base) tom@mydesktop: ~ $