Awright, who had "giant sandstorm" for this week?

Yeesh.  I was expecting space squids, or maybe C.H.U.D.s.

Instead, the Flavor of the Week turns out to be sandstorm.  From the Sahara Desert.  Supposed to be blowing through here today, I think.

Maybe I should just go back to bed.

Update:  Maybe "just go back to bed" would have been the correct choice.  Not only is the air quality here today about like a really bad day in Silicon Valley, but... well... fiddling with Linux system configurations while not-entirely-awake turns out to be a suboptimal idea.

When I installed Debian on the new workstation, for some reason it made the root filesystem a measly 24 GBytes, out of a 2TByte SSD.  And, well, as I installed software it kinda overflowed, and I'd moved /opt and later /usr/local to the giant /home partition, via symlinks.

So, I figured, maybe I should try resizing the big partition, shuffling things around, and expanding the root partition to a more respectable size (though /opt sill probably belongs in the big partition).  So, after some fiddling, I ended up running a Kubuntu live DVD, and using the KDE partition editor... which somehow failed to carry out my sequence of operations, and ended up killing the var and swap partitions.

I think /var must have contained some important stuff, because now the system doesn't come up right.

Oh, well.  I'd refrained from trying to do any real work on that machine until it was fully configured, so there's noting irreplaceable on it.  And now I know what needs to come from buster-backports, and how to install it, so starting over on the installation isn't that much of a problem, and I now know that I want to do the partitioning manually.

But I'm not starting now.  It's time for a nap.