I'm running this command to increase the available storage area of my ext3 drive but It has no effect.
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I would like to get more storage space out of this drive since it's only use is a backup mirror of the ntfs drive.
I think that drive size might be related to something else.
Is it true that I can safely set reserved blocks percentage to 0% on some ext4 partition which contains only my personal data but no OS files?
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1) Isn't 5% way too much for the size of most hard disks nowadays?
2) Is that number or anything greater than 0 really necessary in ALL file systems? For example, is it necessary in a /home partition or any partition that contains no OS, just storage data?
How do you access preferences for changing size of the launcher bar or icon size, etc? I looked through system settings and could not find it.
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I'm trying to boot windows 7 on virtual box, but it seems to demand quite a bit of memory. The "recommended" amount is 512MB, and upon checking my kernel only has 488MB total ram with not much room to spare:
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billy@billy-desktop:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 488 462 25 0 53 193
-/+ buffers/cache: 216 271
Swap: 1939 17 1921
I've tried giving the virtual machine memory sizes in the area of 192-256MB, but that's way too much and the system locks up and aborts from it. Memory sizes in the area of 128MB is just too small and it throws an error that there just isn't enough ram to boot. So the only thing I can do to make this work is to increase the size of the ramdisk for my host OS so I can give more to the virtual machine (not to mention things like flash animations are horribly slow and I'd like to see them get more fluid).
I see that I have 16 ramdisks available to me:
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billy@billy-desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/ram*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 2010-02-17 09:54 /dev/ram0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 1 2010-02-17 09:54 /dev/ram1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 10 2010-02-17 09:54 /dev/ram10
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I looked at some guides here and there, but apparently my setup isn't quite the same. I don't have a menu.lst file in boot/grub, and I don't have a grub.conf file anywhere. So I don't know what file I'm supposed to edit for this.
Whenever I try to change the sizes of the windows on my screen I get a cursor which is a double arrow. There seems to be only one X- or Y coordinate on the screen where I can pick the side of the window, it seems to be only one pixel wide. This makes it hard to get hold of the side to change the size of the window. Is there a way to enlarge this location to a few pixels so it is easier to point the mouse to the right location?
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But I have a slight problem. The cadidate popups are TINY on my 1080p 15" screen. I have to get right up to the screen to see the characters.
Is there any way of changing the size of these popups?
i have changed my monitor from crt to lcd and find the fonts to be a little out of focus,
so far i have achieved native resolution of 1280x1024 in gnome which is great! i have configured grub by adding the vga=xxx appropraite for native resolution of my monitor which is great !.........but herein lay the problem, everything is so small and stuck up in the left corner , so small that i cant read it very well.
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don't say "disable compiz", i need the cube ...
using a ati mobility radeon HD 2400.
I find that changing the window size is extremely difficult. The area to click and then drag is very tiny and requires very precise arrow positioning. Is there a way to increase this area?
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I have a ubuntu linux working in TEXT mode. I would like the change the font size (or if possible, get my terminal with inconsolata font). How can i do it?
PS: i don't have a GUI or X Windows running.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
My laptop has a 60GB hard drive, which my ex-husband set up with a 20GB partition for Windows XP and a 40GB partition with Suse 11, which suited me fine at the time. However, I'm now finding that I need to install a whole bunch of extra Windows programs relating to my work, and the 20GB partition is no longer sufficient, while I'm hardly using any space at all under Linux.
how I might go about redistributing the space between the two partitions (any other solutions to my lack of space problem also welcome)? Please bear in mind that I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this kind of thing!
if its possible to change font size or style on CLI.
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for i in `ls *.gzip`
split -b 500K $i $i
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I'd like to change the font characteristics (size, colour) on initial login screen (list of users) however I cannot find the configuration options.
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NB:-I have only one FAT32 partition in my pen drive...
i have a 700GB ext4 partition for storage purposes. By default it has 5% of the space (35GB!) reserved for root, which does not make sense for this partition. how can i reduce this percentage? there is already a lot of data on the partition and i'm afraid that mke2fs would erase all the data. is there a way to change the percentage without touching the data?
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In my webpages I use different commands to send mails:
- The phpMailer class
- The mail() command
The phpmailer is working, but not mail()
When I try mail() I've these messages in /var/log/mail.log:
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Dec 30 09:42:31 zeus postfix[3829]: error: to submit mail, use the Postfix sendmail command
Dec 30 09:42:31 zeus postfix[3829]: fatal: the postfix command is reserved for the superuser
Terminal mail command is not working either.
In my /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini I've this configuration:
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[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; [URL]
;SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; [URL]
;sendmail_from = dstreich.girona.ics@gencat.cat
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; [URL]
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/postfix
I also tried sendmail -t -i without luck.
Is there anyone that can tell me what the above error is all about. When I beet my Centos5.3 server I get the error it doesnt effect the bootup and the system is working fine but the error I am assuming isnt a good thing.
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