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a few weeks ago i returned home and found that my laptop HDD was operating in read only mode. discovered when attempting to save a file from the web and my local file server with errors. I ignored the errors at first until i could not rsync a file from my workstation to my laptop.

This prompted a deeper investigation and a reboot. Parts of my system were not able to load so I was dumped into recover mode #

today I booted the system with a LiveUSB (Fedora 29) to check the CPU, RAM, GPU, & HDD.

All looked "ok". I was able to successfully mount the LVM portion for my /home and perform a rsync backup of the files & folders I could not lose.

After the successful backup, I shutdown the laptop, used my workstation to create a LiveUSB running Fedora 31, and rebooted my laptop.

1st attempt to install the OS failed. It failed in setting permissions on the memory. See links above about trying to get something from the old HDD and figure out why it would not load the new OS.

As I already had a successful backup of my data, I did not care if I blew away the old HDD structure (LVM and more) so I used gpart + gparted to delete both volumes in the LVM (one for boot and one for the rest of the system).

At that point it took roughly 10min to install a fresh OS and be back up and running.

With help I was able to resolve my personal errors with my alias's and am successfully getting my system back to the user state I desire.

A few key points:

1. regular backups are a fantastic thing.
2. LVM's are great, but can be a bit of a pain to recover.
3. LVM's are GREAT for accessing portions of the data even when parts of the LVM (sorry folks do not know the correct names of all the parts, thats on me) are broken.
4. LiveUSB/CD running Linux can save the day, in my case it did.
5. When you ask for help, please try to perform some tasks on your own and indicate when steps you have taken to resolve the issue(s).
6. Please thank those who offer help and guidance.

To that end, thank you to all who have helped over the years, today, and I am sure will help in the future.

After recover steps taken:

1. Install RPMFusion RPM's
https://rpmfusion.org/

2. EasyLife install and run (yes stopped support years ago, but still works)
https://easylifeproject.org/

3. Install VLC
4. Restoring user data from backup (in progress as I type)
5. Thank folks here.

Done, and thank you.