SysPart?
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After upgrading to Windows 10, I am out of disk space. Well, I was almost out before, and now I have recovery data in case I want to downgrade, this is not surprising.
I run an analysis:
...Other?
Dafuq?
Comparison of C:\SysPart\Default\Program Files with C:\Program Files reveals a bunch of software I had before the last time I reformatted... implying this is some kind of backup from back then? Which has been accidentally made visible by Windows 10 I guess? Google says it's a Lenovo thing.
I decide, fuck it, YOLO, I'm going to delete C:\SysPart\Default. I grant admin access and...
(More Details is not clickable).
Well maybe the command line can do it?
Okay, what the everloving fuck.
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del /F C:\SysPart
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reg.db is gone though.
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reg.db might be all you need, it was 1/2 Gig right? ;)
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Find the longest paths, and start renaming folders with single letters.
It's stupid.
But it works.
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Huh.
I assume selecting the contents of Default in Explorer and doing Shift + Delete does the same as trying to delete Default itself?
edit: Or try blakey's suggestion.
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Yeah, my first thought was that moving it to the recycle bin would cause the paths to be too long, so I shift-deleted, but I got the same error
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Based on this suggestion, I'm now trying to delete one folder at a time from Default until it finds something that contains the too-long path, so I know where to start looking
ETA:
wat.
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Remember there's two levels of Administrator now. Your shitty OEM used the higher one to create their install image.
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WTF Adobe?
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Folder Access Denied - ☐ ×
You need permission to perform this action
You require a Linux boot disk to make changes to this folder
Reader 11.0
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That may very well be your best option
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Download PSTools from MS, psexec -s -i cmd.exe to run CMD as system, delete away.
EDIT: Post #100
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Linux : the solution to most Windows problems
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LinuxLiterally any bootdisk : the solution to mostWindowsproblems that can't be fixed while the OS is running.Stop being so pretentious.
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Explain to me what other OS problems you can fix with a Windows boot disk ?
(Windows can't mount any filesystem other than Windows filesystem)Enlighten me on what problem in Linux you can't fix while the OS is running ?
Thanks
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Enlighten me on what problem in Linux you can't fix while the OS is running ?
generally you can't (or at least it is tricky and dangerous) to patch the kernel to a new version while the OS is running,
and if you need to FSCK the root partition it's better to do that when the OS is offline, or at least hasn't mounted the partition as the root partition.
Beyond that? can't think of much.
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generally you can't (or at least it is tricky and dangerous) to patch the kernel to a new version while the OS is running,
There is a program for that
@accalia said:and if you need to FSCK the root partition it's better to do that when the OS is offline, or at least hasn't mounted the partition as the root partition.
Yeah, but when is the last time you needed to do that ?Beyond that? can't think of much.
Me neither
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There is a program for that
hence the parenthetical.
Yeah, but when is the last time you needed to do that ?
when the VM host shutdown unexpectedly and brought the VM back up in a weird state.
I've got to look at why it does that, but since it's only my PLEX server and a FSCK fixes it when it happens.... -shrug-
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when the VM host shutdown unexpectedly and brought the VM back up in a weird state.
I've got to look at why it does that, but since it's only my PLEX server and a FSCK fixes it when it happens.... -shrug-
What FS are you using ?
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Enlighten me on what problem in Linux you can't fix while the OS is running ?
Any problem that involves being unable to boot, so either you screwed up the bootloader or the kernel/initramfs and you don't have a spare.
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Any problem that involves being unable to boot, so either you screwed up the bootloader or the kernel/initramfs and you don't have a spare.
If you can't boot, the OS is obviously not running.Try again
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Okay, what the everloving fuck.
Try
SUBST X: C:\SysPart\Default
and then work with drive X:.Windows can generate filenames it can't subsequently process if something that used to be the root of a drive ends up somewhere else.
In this case I'm thinking
C:\SysPart\Default
andC:\SysPart\Boot
are probably mount points for volume snapshots, but I've seen the same effect on file servers: a Robocopy backup failed whenN:\Longer\Pathname\Than\Anybody\Sane\Would\Ever\Use
as created on a workstation got accessed asE:\home\staff\teachers\gkotter\Documents\Longer\Pathname\Than\Anybody\Sane\Would\Ever\Use
on the server.
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Enlighten me on what problem in Linux you can't fix while the OS is running ?
A borked graphics driver while simultaneously the network is down, so no remote console?
Granted, I am stretching here, but, hey, you asked.
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A borked graphics driver while simultaneously the network is down, so no remote console?
CTRL-ALT-F(1 to 6) will give you a console, which doesn't need the graphic driver.Better luck next time
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CTRL-ALT-F(1 to 6) will give you a console
I've seen the Intel graphics driver b0rked in a way that seizes control of the display hardware and stops the console switch (as well as everything else display-related) from working.
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Enlighten me on what problem in Linux you can't fix while the OS is running ?
Fork bombs are also quite difficult to recover from without rebooting, assuming you've been careless enough to set your box up without per-user process quotas.
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Indeed. That's what I have run into as well, once. That time I was able to remote into the machine, however.
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Quoting @blakeyrat : It doesn't happen on my computer, therefore it doesn't exist.
Never witnessed this, but I guess it could be possible.
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It was on Intel 82845G integrated graphics hardware, in case you care.
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whatever the default was for Ubuntu 14.104LTS
on both the host and VM.
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whatever the default was for Ubuntu 14.104LTS
on both the host and VM.
Weird, pretty sure Ubuntu defaults to EXT4, which is journaled, so on reboot it should just verify against the journal and apply whatever was not.Never experienced this, and I am know to yank the power cord when a machine pisses me off too much
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-shrug- neithe have I, but it happens occasionally. i should look into it soonish.
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Isn't it also redundant? Current kernels have live patching built in.
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Now, the problem is writing the patches and that's not interesting anymore.