2mo ago

What is this "device" in Dolphin? The fact that's it's full is preventing me from doing some things (Fedora Aurora)

For some reason Calibre won't let me do anything because "drive is full" which I assume has to do with this.

Update: I believe I "fixed" the error with Calibre by using FlatSeal to add environment variable CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR that changes the Temp directory to something else. So far that's the only program I've seen give trouble.

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That is your / (root) partition. You can't write to it because Aurora is an atomic & immutable distro.
Source: I use Aurora & Bazzite.
- While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments? They are not incorrect, it just makes you look like an ass.
  
  While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments?
  I've been stuck repeatedly asking myself this question ever since reading your comment 😩 Please be careful about throwing infinite while true loops around! Now I need someone to Ctrl-C me.
  
  Well, I replied to two comments. I was just trying to let them learn the actual cause of OP's problem so they can help others in the future. I am sorry if I didn't follow proper etiquette.
- How'd it get full then? And if it's supposed to be 100%, any ideas on how can I get Calibre (so far the only app I've noticed that is giving trouble) to ignore it?
  
  It comes full from the first boot, because you're not supposed to be able to write to it. That's kinda he point of an immutable distro
  
  Are you trying to install the Flatpak? The native install probably won't work on an immutable distro.

Fedora Atomic Desktop 42 switched to composefs, which has a small full partition mounted to /. Your "real" filesystem is mounted on /sysroot
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ComposefsAtomicDesktops
- That makes sense, thank you! How can I clear up space in it?
  
  You can't, it just part of how Fedora works now. Maybe Fedora should patch Dolphin to take /sysroot into account instead of /
  
  You don't, it's the immutable root partition. You probably need to find the point it's trying to write to and link it to a location it can write to.
  Note: I'm still a newbie to atomic desktops too.
  
  How are you trying to install Calibre? Is it via Flatpak? AppImage?
  Did you try it from here? https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
  I'm guessing that that method won't work with atomic distros. I'm guessing that it's trying to copy files to an immutable spot.
  I would try looking for a Flatpak first.
  I was going to suggest the portable one as a backup but that's only for Windows :(

shout-out to my boys with non-immutable distros looking at the same usage plot ✊😔

That's the root partition, which is the core system partition. It's probably read only because Aurora is an immutable system, that means that it doesn't let you write to the system partition by default
- From https://docs.getaurora.dev/ "System updates are image-based and automatic. Applications are logically separated from the system by using Flatpaks for graphical applications and brew for command line applications. Workloads for development are containerized." Correct me if I'm wrong, I've never heard of this distro before

This is completely unrelated to your problem:
The calibre website recommends extremely strongly against using their software packaged by anyone else other than calibre themselves as they are often (see usually) buggy or extremely outdated.
It may be worth it to manually "install" the app from their website somewhere in your ~/.local/ and see if you have less issues using the official package.