Hi Guys @RedGreen925, @rolfie and @steve_v,

Thanks!! for all your input.

My I.T. invovlvement began in December 82 in a Mainframe Operations environment. NCR and then IBM. After 5+ years of fkn shiftwork, I got into the programming side of things starting with COBOL and Wang Procedure Language.

My vision is currently stuffed (screwed, fucked, whatever vernacular tickles your facncy) you could say. So, I'm always looking for quick but sound solutions with easily sourced comprehensive technical documentation where necessary. One of my pet peeves is lousy and incomplete documentation.

My use of Linux began in 2014 after I got my first Laptop (Lenove B590 with no OS) on which I installed Windo$e 8 (what a disaster). Was installed without Secure Boot from the beginning in preparation for dual-booting with Linux. I began with a version of Linux Mint that was only valid for 3 months which caused me some upgrade problems. I learnt about the systemd crap during that year as well as other nefarious crap going on. I switched to a non-systemd Manjaro based distro for a while which became defunct unfortunately.

I dabbled with Debian a bit also before the systemd takeover was done. I even made a persistent version installation of it on a USB Flash Drive.

I eventually got onto MX Linux and started looking at Devuan when it became available. Stuck with MX Linux because there were teething issues when migrating from Devuan1 to Devuan 2 but good to see it has now matured.

I was helping make improvements with luckyBackup mostly with English to Spanish translation at one time. I had dabbled with YAD also to improve the interface and some basic expected functionality but can't remember the exact details now.

I think my fstab configurations are based on what was orignally created by the installation of Linux Mint.

I had already started on the page, suggested by @RedGreen925 in Post #7, before I submitted my Post #6.

I also looked at the following 2 pages.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/mount.8#F … NT_OPTIONS

https://wiki.debian.org/fstab

It would be great if the manuals were more comprehensive. For example, I had to do a string search on character or block special devices on the filesystem to learn what the dev and nodev options are for.

The following pages gave better insight but unsure if needed for my use case.

https://sebastien-copin.com/posts/the_n … unt_option

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000020660

Does what Sebastien describes present itself for my scenario for a tech illiterate user, who just needs to store their own media and document files on the partition? What would you all suggest?

Similarly, suid and nosuid are not expanded on in the first 3 pages I mentioned. Am I correct in guessing that it was the nosuid that was preventing the default rw option from being enabled?

If such a partition is to be shared between 2 Linux installations, can both installations own the partition or would it be better to give the user Read and Write access to the Root directory of the Data partition within each OS?

Thanks!!, MTB.

Adding the rw option after defaults appears to have it fixed it but is that the correct way to do it?

If I had allowed the installation process to format things, how would have fstab have been configured?

Should I chown the partition to the User account or only its root directory or should I only give Read & Write Access to the Group with the same name as the User Name?

Thanks mate, I will give it a go mañana.

Should I comment out the lines referring to gamma?

Ah, I see, I think. You are only using select_brightness in the Main Procedure.

Thanks for reminding me about those. It must be like 7+ years when I did something with those when I bought a Micro$oft Natural Keyboard with the "Wave" style key layout. It has 5 extra keys that can be programmed for whatever. I stopped using it because I prefer the layout of the Home-End-Delete-PageUp-PageDown and Multimedia Keys of my 2004 Micro$oft Natural Multimedia PS/2 keyboard for which I bought a Perixx PS/2 to USB adapter. It also has much better Build Quality.

I may even have it setup on this MX 19.4 installation I'm on and still using as my Daily OS. I will look into it later. What would be good is to be able to prompt the User for a value.

Interesting page:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/127611

My Sister's Laptop has a Phoenix BIOS 1.70.

I noticed today that the Laptop seems to be running cooler now.

In Post #29 I had deleted /etc/init.d/fnfxd.

Why was it not installed again?

What's the best way to do a complete removal and purge so that I can reinstall using apt instead?

sudo rm /etc/init.d/fnfxd produced no output and the file was deleted.

sudo apt remove fnfxd produced the following output:

It is no longer shown as installed in synaptic.

fnfxd_0.3-18_i386.deb file still resides in /var/cache/apt/archives.

Run from the / directory, sudo find -name *fnfxd* | grep fnfxd produced the following output:

sudo /sbin/modprobe toshiba_acpi produced no output.

sudo /sbin/lsmod | grep toshiba_acpi produced the following output which has some extra flags(?) compared to your example:

toshiba_acpi           53248  0
industrialio           65536  1 toshiba_acpi
sparse_keymap          16384  1 toshiba_acpi
rfkill                 20480  6 toshiba_bluetooth,bluetooth,toshiba_acpi,cfg80211
video                  57344  3 amdgpu,radeon,toshiba_acpi
wmi                    24576  2 video,toshiba_acpi
battery                24576  1 toshiba_acpi

Happy New Day,

Are you referring to extraction of the deb file?

The postinst script is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installinit/13.11.4
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-deconfigure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-remove" ] ; then
	if [ -z "${DPKG_ROOT:-}" ] && [ -x "/etc/init.d/fnfxd" ]; then
		update-rc.d fnfxd defaults >/dev/null
		if [ -n "$2" ]; then
			_dh_action=restart
		else
			_dh_action=start
		fi
		invoke-rc.d --skip-systemd-native fnfxd $_dh_action || exit 1
	fi
fi
# End automatically added section

Thanks!!

P.S.

synaptic doesn't indicate any Broken packages.

Do I use apt or dpkg to remove it?

fnfxd is still installed.

When I attempt to remove it or I install other packages (e.g. apt-file), I get the following responses:

The following dialogue window is displayed:

After closing the above window, the Changes applied dialogue window appears and the following details are output:

After closing the Changes applied window, fnfxd is still marked with an icon indicating "Marked for complete removal".

Should I attempt to run the modprobe and lsmod commands with the fnfxd package in this state?

Thanks!!