No I didn’t. I havent rebooted as per instructions.
Regarding the unpartitioned hdd which is sdb? I didn’t plan to do it. I did my initial install on the sdd. I had a few troubles, reformatted once, did a disk image of the second attempt using rescuezilla,
Had troubles with rescuzilla, posted on the forum and the developer said I’d found a bug, nice guy btw.
I ran out of space and started researching how to add more space. I found this on the YH forums:
I had a lot of trouble but persevered, watched more youtube videos than I’d like to count.
Got it working eventually and didn’t want to F with it. It all worked fine and applied updates until I bookworm.
I’d have to say I’m a bit of a trained monkey and don’t always understand. I can follow the guides step by step. I have no programming experience and have picked up bits and pieces along the way.
When I said I was an extreem newby I was telling the truth. For what we have been doing here I have been running it through chatgpt to get it to explain whats happening at times as well as technical terms. They give the most trouble.
I didn’t even know how to post the logs properly till you showed me. That screen shot was very helpful btw 
My life story lol.
The outputs were
login as: root
root@****.****.****.****'s password:
Access denied
root@****.****.****.****'s password:
Linux ****.nohost.me 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.119-1 (20 24-11-22) x86_64
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Mon Jan 27 09:17:56 2025 from 192.168.50.4
root@****:~# sudo grub-install /dev/sda --skip-fs-probe
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
root@****:~# sudo pvscan
PV /dev/sda5 VG system lvm2 [476.69 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdb VG system lvm2 [<1.82 TiB / 563.01 GiB free]
Total: 2 [2.28 TiB] / in use: 2 [2.28 TiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
root@****:~# sudo vgscan
Found volume group "system" using metadata type lvm2
root@****:~# sudo lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/system/root' [<475.74 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/system/swap' [976.00 MiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/system/nextcloud' [1000.00 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/system/audiobookshelf' [300.00 GiB] inherit
root@****:~# ^C
If you are interested, here is an example of chatgpt take on the above.
Your setup seems to involve managing logical volumes using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) on a Debian-based system. Here's a breakdown of what you're doing:
GRUB Installation:
Command: sudo grub-install /dev/sda --skip-fs-probe
GRUB was installed successfully on /dev/sda for the i386-pc platform, with no errors reported. The --skip-fs-probe option skips probing for file systems.
Physical Volume Scan:
Command: sudo pvscan
It shows two physical volumes:
/dev/sda5 (476.69 GiB) is fully allocated to the volume group (VG) system.
/dev/sdb (<1.82 TiB) has 563.01 GiB free space in the same VG.
Volume Group Scan:
Command: sudo vgscan
The system volume group is detected.
Logical Volume Scan:
Command: sudo lvscan
There are four active logical volumes (LVs) under the system volume group:
root: Main system partition with 475.74 GiB.
swap: Swap space with 976 MiB.
nextcloud: Presumably for a Nextcloud instance with 1,000 GiB.
audiobookshelf: For audiobookshelf, a media server, with 300 GiB.
If you need help with further steps, such as resizing volumes, managing the Nextcloud or Audiobookshelf data, or troubleshooting, feel free to ask!
Best,
I