Yesterday, I was messing up with my packages and they got corrupted and now I am unable to access my DE (blank screen in KDE plasma after logging in).
I decided to fresh install arch (because of this issue and too much packages that I already had). Now, I want to move my hard drive data to somewhere before installing it. I used my bootable pen drive first to copy data there and then move somewhere else. It has capacity of 116G but it shows 778M as sda1 and 15M as sda2, which partition to mount here? I tried sda directly and it shows read-only permission.
So, what should I do here to move my data before going for an installation, if there is direct solution to first issue that will be helpful. (I am a beginner btw)
#Moving data from hard disk for fresh installation
radiant smelt
crimson nexus
Yesterday, I was messing up with my packages and they got corrupted and now I am...
If you're using ventoy, you can break to partitions your "Ventoy" partition, then have in one partition your iso file, then copy your data in another
@radiant smelt I'm not sure if it's gonna work, but it's better to try than do nothing
fallen grotto
you can make a third partition on the pen drive with something like cfdisk
and have it use up the rest of the disk space on it
wait a sec i'll try and make a step by step guide
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you'll actually have to have the drive not mounted to make a new partition on it
if you haven't wiped your PC's hard drive yet, once you're at the login prompt you can do Ctrl+Alt+F3 (if doesn't work try F4, F5 or F6) to get a command line
from there you can use something like cfdisk to create a new partition on the pen drive and have it use up the rest of the space on it
do not repartition it, that wipes the data on the pen drive
and format the new partition with mkfs.ext4 /dev/<something> for example sdb3