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fehlix - thanks that did the trick. the grub repair on the mepis tools sent me to the bios set up where I discovered that an option to also allow legacy booting (in addition to the uefi) so I unchecked that and was able to set up the partitions in a manner that worked. The Tools that the newer ...

Was able to determine that if I bang on F2 repeatedly the machine will enter bios update. Oddly the bios menu that came up was different from the one I'd used earlier to enable boot from usb but I was able to select an option to do so and was able to get the live usb to boot. Now I'm at the stage ...

I was trying to install MX-23.6 on a Dell Inspiron 15 using a live usb I had made earlier on that computer. The live CD booted as expected and everything seemed correct so I went to install only the root preserving /home. I think I made a bad choice when it came to installing grub. I know I did ...

I've been watching the /var/log files and as suggested by Stevo they are slowly ballooning. I think if one of the admins wanted to mark this solved that would be good. I know what the problem is and that was the purpose of the original post. I'll putter with this as I have time and if I come up with ...

I missed your reply Stevo. I'll keep and eye on this for a while and see about a new thread.

I took from your previous post that I could remove them so ran the rm command from the terminal and it certainly had the desired effect of freeing up a lot of space on root. I am curious as to how this came to pass, if there is anything else I should be looking out for. I leave this out there for a ...

So with Dolphin I see both syslog and kern.log as being 7.8GB which is what the disk analyser reported. I poked around a little but didn't see anything that caught my attention.. Can these two files be deleted. They seem to be just straight up files so it would seem to me to be all or nothing. I ran ...

Thank you for directing me to the MX Cleanup. If I interpreted this correctly the disk analysis tool showed that /var/log is taking up 16GB of the root partition. That is about equally spread between /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log The default option for deleting logs is not accessed for 7 ...

System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-28-amd64 [6.1.119-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-28-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23.4_KDE_x64 Libretto
September 15 2024 base ...

I recently did a clean install of MX-23-kde, 64-bit, which to all indications went very smoothly. The only changes I made relative to the previous distro (19.4) I was to expand the size of the root (20GB to 30GB) and the home partition from 50 to 65GB. After installation I updated all of the ...