Software :: Cleaning Up O/p Of Df And Migrating Bootloader To New Partition?
Oct 28, 2010Here is the o/p of df -h on my m/c
Code:
ubuntu:/$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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CentOS 5 :: 5.5: Migrating Root (and Any Other) Partition From Ext3 To Ext4?
May 20, 2010With the release of CentOS 5.5 ext4 is considered stable in this distribution so I decided to migrate to it. Luckily I started from migrating fresh server with CentOS 5.5 using some instruction I found on the internet. I think I shouldn�t say, that I screwed the whole thing up ;) After about 6 hours cursing, kicking, and crying I solved the task and figured the correct sequence of actions. The small problem with migrating root partition is that you can�t unmount it BTW.
During migration task, I found, that CentOS 5.5 rescue mode is somewhat broken a little in terms of ext4 support. It can mount ext4 partitions successfully. But its e2fsprogs package (tune2fs, e2fsck etc.) doesnt see ext4 partitions and say, that superblock is corrupted on a partition once is converted to ext4 (at least it did it for me. May be I should force filesystem type with -t ext4 switch?). Keep in mind, that if you screw your system up too badly, you will not be able to run tune2fs and e2fsck on it from rescue modeBut you will still able to mount it if it is not corrupted badly. In all below examples,Boot your system normally and login as root. Upgrade kernel if you wish (I usually use yum upgrade to upgrade all on new machines). Then upgrade/install some other packages
Ubuntu Installation :: Basic Reinstall (Partition And Bootloader)
Apr 15, 2010I installed Mint 8 on my sister's laptop (after her existing Vista, and I did so on a separate partition created during the normal setup process in Gparted) and she now wants to try out another distro and take off Mint, so how would I go about this? Would I boot from the distro's live CD, determine the correct partition, (I'm thinking of Gparted here) and then... what?
- Would I have to mark the partition to be deleted, delete it, then ask it to install on a similar-sized partition?
- Or would I not delete it, just mark to format it as ext4 or some other file system and it would then just install the OS of that live CD over the existing partition?
- What about the swap partition - does that need any changes at all?
- Will Grub/Grub2 et al normally be updated to reflect the replaced OS?
- I may do this on my own desktop machine in the future: I may want to consolidate all my existing partitions into one easy to manage massive partition. Is this also easy to do?
- How can I determine which OSs are on which partitions?
Ubuntu :: Installing Bootloader In Root Partition Does Not Do The Trick?
May 7, 2010I have installed unbuntu 10.04.. since i dont want grub to boot my linux distros , i have installed the bootloader in the root partition (sda9 in my case with no separate partition for boot). Subsequent to successful ubuntu installation i booted using the live cd and extracted the boot loader using the following.
dd if=/dev/sda9 of=/ub.bin bs=512 count=1
Finally i edited the boot.ini (win xp) to show ubuntu in the menu which points to ub.bin.
But this doesnt seem to work... the same had worked with Mandriva 2010
Where did i go wrong ?
Ubuntu :: Install 10.04 On A Second Partition Without Overwriting The Windows7 Bootloader
Jun 9, 2010Is it possible to install ubuntu 10.04 on a second partition without overwriting the windows7 bootloader and boot it using grub on a usb stick?
I would be happy with just the second option as I could fix mbr if I have to, I just don't want it to easily visible that linux is installed as well as windows.
OpenSUSE Install :: Bootloader Installed On Partition That Does Not Lie Below 128 Gb - System Might Not Boot
Mar 12, 2011I'm trying to install opensuse 11.4 but I got this error:
"The bootloader is installed on a partition that does not lie entierly below 128 gb. The system might not boot if BIOS support only lba24(result is error 18 during install grub MBR)"
What should I do before click next step to install? I installed opensuse with this error and some times opensuse can boot and some not. At least I was able to boot safemode.
Ubuntu Installation :: Grub Bootloader Picks Recovery Partition For Win7 As Vista
Aug 19, 2010I'm having an issue installing Ubuntu with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit through Wubi. The Wubi installation works great and Ubuntu seems to install after the first reboot after selecting Ubuntu from Windows' boot menu, however whenever I select Ubuntu from Windows' boot menu after Ubuntu installs and it reboots for the second time, it loads the GRUB bootloader, however Ubuntu isn't listed at all.
Windows 7 is listed twice and Windows Vista is listed (seems it picks up the recovery partition for Windows 7 as Vista) and when I select the first Windows 7 from the GRUB bootloader, it just goes back to Windows' boot menu with Windows 7 and Ubuntu as the selections. If I select the second Windows 7 from the GRUB bootloader, it'll boot Windows 7 like normally. It looks like Ubuntu is nowhere to be found. Because of that, I just ended up uninstalling it.
Ubuntu :: Accidently Installed Bootloader To Mbr Of Hard Drive Instead Of Ubuntu Partition
Jul 17, 2011When I installed, I accidently installed the bootloader to the mbr of my hard drive instead of the Ubuntu partition.Is there any way that I can make it so that it shows the Windows bootloader first? (Windows partition is set to active, Windows is on hdd0,sda1, Ubuntu is on hdd0,sda4 with sda5 as swap)
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May 29, 2010Going from Fedora 12 to 13. Got to the point where I have to reboot to install, system reboots to 12. This is a triple boot system with Open Suse and Mint, and the grub2 bootloader from Mint is the bootloader for the whole shebang. In the "how to use preupgrade" instructions there's a line that says "dentify the drive and partition of your Fedora /boot folder." How? If that sounds odd, consider that in my set up "computer" shows 4 partitions (and with just three operating systems..?). I can mount them, but have a problem telling which sytem is Fedora, Suse or Mint. And getting the FEDORA bootloader to find the PREUPGRADE kernel ... Momma said there'd be days like this.
cat /etc/fstab just returned /dev/sda1 on /boot. I installed Fedora first, before Suse or Mint, so being on the first drive or partition sounds right, but the multiple drives throws me, and "just guessing" doesn't seem like the way to go.
OpenSUSE Install :: Borked Bootloader - "data" Partition Is Invisible In Win7
Aug 7, 2010borked the bootloader by my own doing. When I got this machine, I had a single HDD. I partitioned it with a primary partition for Windows, followed by an extended partition with swap, /home/ and /, as well as a FAT32 partition for "general" data. (this was before NTFS write support was common) This worked well with the Win2K install. Eventually, I added a second HDD, which became part data storage, and part Windows XP install. I eventually put Win7 on it, and pulled the other HDD during setup so that the boot order of the drives determines whether I boot Win7/XP or get GRUB.
However, my "data" partition was not visible in Win7... It shows up as an unknown FS in the disk management. OK, I thought. I used Paragon partitioning software to move the "data" partition out of the extended partition and make it a primary. I could now access it from Win7. I didn't realize I had GRUB set to boot from the extended partition, so now when I boot from that HDD, I get "no operating system". No problem, I thought. I'll pop in the install CD (NET), use it to boot the installed 11.3, and run the boot loader setup. Nope- setup just hangs. Tried it with an 11.2 DVD... doing a "boot installed system" nets me a few moments of searching, "evaluating root partition", and then "no valid linux install found". Trying the boot loader reinstall from there nets me an "error changing to target environment" and the install fails.
I can still mount the / partition via rescue mode and all files appear to be intact, so I don't think I've lost any data... just grub/the MBR is borked. I've already moved the data partition back in to the extended partition but no luck. Still the same story... thus I'm stuck booting Windows until I fix this.
Ubuntu :: GRUB2 Overwritten - Boot Into Windows Via TC Bootloader But "no Bootable Partition Found"?
Sep 11, 2010I'm using Truecrypt to encrypt my Windows 7 OS. I also have unencrypted Ubuntu 10.04 installed on /dev/sda6 on the same hard drive. Since Truecrypt bootloader must be installed in MBR, I have GRUB2 installed on /dev/sda6, so I can use TC bootloader to load GRUB2. When I first install GRUB2 on /dev/sda6, I can use TC bootloader to load Ubuntu. But, if I boot into Windows via TC bootloader, and then later try to boot into Ubuntu, I get the message "no bootable partition found". I have to reinstall GRUB2 onto /dev/sda6, every time after I use windows in order to be able to boot into Ubuntu. It seems that starting Windows somehow overwrites GRUB2. Is there a fix for this?
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Dec 19, 2009Can i safelly clean up /var/tmp? it contains 730mb of files
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Nov 16, 2010Can anyone clean up, and thus free up space on, my hard drive. i've tried -computer janitor, constantly empty the trash, and delete stuff from the download folder. where is the stuff i've installed going, not in synaptic- i've searched for programs i want to delete there and cannot find them. meanwhile i've got like 400mb left on a 13 GB HD and cant do a thing about it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: TMP Folder Not Cleaning Up?
May 29, 2011After figuring out that this is happening on my brand new 10.04 install, I've suddenly realized it explained what was happening on the 9.10 install I'm replacing.
I'm finding out on the internet that /tmp in Ubuntu is typically a Ramdisk, thus cleared automatically on reboot - but that's not how I was ever taught to setup a linux box; I *always* create /home var et al and mount them separately, including /tmp.
So on my new 10.04 install I am informed my tmp partition is down to 12 Meg, and find K9Copy crashed last night (I initially thought this was due to a crash, but testing shows it just - leaves them there. K9Copy!) leaving a 4.5 Gig file sitting in tmp. I add a couple Gig to the tmp partition (LVM rocks btw.) and reboot. Files are still there.
I finally went in via gksu nautilus and manually deleted the data.
More research find this results in exactly the kind of issues I was having previously in my 9.10 install (albeit without the helpful warning that helped me figure it out) of Firefox and various other programs acting glitchy because they right to tmp and it's full.
I'm a n00b, and really don't know how to fix this - the 'proper' way to clean tmp seems to involve dropping entirely out of X to userlevel 0 and running from the commandline?!?! . . /tmp is supposed to be for temporary files; ideally a program should clean up after itself, but it's actually Ubuntu's job to clean this.
My going in and manually cleaning out files is insane if gksu nautilus is involved, nevermind if that's the *wrong* way. I'm certainly not the guy to write a cronjob to clean this. On the other hand - this only started in the last week or so (on 9.10) so it has to be a recent change.
CentOS 5 :: Tmpwatch Not Cleaning Up /tmp?
Jun 10, 2011We have the standard tmpwatch installed (via yum) and it creates this script in /etc/cron.daily:
root@##### [/etc/cron.daily]# cat tmpwatch
flags=-umc
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix
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Fedora :: Cleaning Old Packages From Yum Cache?
Mar 12, 2010I have enabled the option to keep the yum cache when updating Fedora 12 and I was wondering if there was a way in which I could remove old versions of the same package from the cache?
I have Fedora installed on more than one machine and I make them share a common update location for their updates to avoid downloading the same packages twice (bandwidth quota expensive in Australia).
how I could accomplish that? yum clean doesn't seem to have any options to only remove old packages!!!
Example: The yum update cache has:
wireshark-gnome-1.2.5-3.fc12.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm
I wish to only keep the most recent version that is wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm, but for all the packages.
OpenSUSE :: How Can I Do Manually Cleaning Of The Trashcan
Jun 9, 2011Recently I moved to trashcan a big amount of data to be erased, but when I tried to erase the data it refuses to do it and keeps telling me I have to manually clean the trashcan, so anyone can tell me how I do it? opensuse 11.4 KDE 4.6!
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Jan 9, 2010I'm writing a script to clean my computer.
Everything is good to go except i have no clue how to clear firefox's history and whatnot from the command line.
This is one of the commands i found...: rm .mozilla/firefox/linux-blog.default/cookies.txt
It tells me no such file or directory.
Ubuntu :: Cleaning Up GRUB & It's Implications?
Apr 18, 2010Would like to ask for some advise regarding GRUB. I have been using Windows for a long time and recently have finally decided to switch to Linux. A good friend recommended Ubuntu and I have installed it on an 8GB USB thumbdrive for test drive. Nowadays, I mainly boot from this thumbdrive for my personal computing use. [I am a supporter of the "Immersion Learning" school. The only way for me to really learn is to force myself to use the system ] as I frequently updates my Ubuntu 9.10 via the Update Manager, I found my GRUB screen now have multiple entries like below:
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I would like to remove the last 4 lines but:
1. I'm not sure how to do it?
2. And do i just delete the entries or do i also have to delete some system files? {this is important as i am running this on a USB thumbdrive and would like to remove any files that are no longer necessarily and keep the installation as lean as possible}.
Ubuntu :: Cleaning Up The Grub Menu?
Jul 4, 2010I see too many entries upon turning on my laptop: [URL]..There should only be 3 entries: Windows partition, Ubuntu partition, and the memtest thing, I believe. The *doubling* up of Windows and Ubuntu is due to me wiping Ubuntu, then reinstalling Ubuntu. The third entry for Ubuntu is due to re apt-get install'ing gnome-desktop. How can simplify the menu?
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Aug 24, 2010I was installing a few programs when my computer froze, I rebooted, and the installations never finished. I didn't log in to ubuntu for several days, and forgot the exact programs that I was trying to install. Now when I try to open up Synaptic Package Manager, I get this error:E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. E: _cache->open() failed, please report.I can't install certain programs, etc.Something is screwed up. I think it has to do with the failed installations.
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Feb 4, 2011I am planning to completely clean up my windows xp version and install ubuntu. I've decided to clean up win xp coz my system is under serious virus attacks. Will this installation of ubuntu version speed up my system?
View 9 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Cleaning Up Kill Command?
Jul 19, 2011Using Ubuntu 11.04. I use this command to kill frozen Flash processes ...
Code:
pgrep -P1 -f 'npviewer.bin' | xargs kill -9
IF there are no hung processes, I get the error ...
Code:
Usage:
kill pid ... Send SIGTERM to every process listed.
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Slackware :: Uninstalling Grub - Cleaning The Mbr
Dec 14, 2010I'm dualbooting Slackware and Gentoo on my homeserver. Some weeks ago I built grub with a slackbuild-script, it was the new version of grub but it did not install properly. Since then I could only boot Slackware but not Gentoo. Today I tried to install grub from the Gentoo-partition (I chrooted to Gentoo). This did not work due to an errormessage of grub that "stage1 could not be read".
Afterwards I tried to install lilo, this failed at first attempt, but the with some warnings lilo executed. When I rebooted after the lilo-install, I had grub again at the bootscreen without the option to boot Gentoo. I decided that I have to clean the mbr of /dev/sda and found a solution with the dd command. Here my
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Fortunately I have a second disk /dev/sdb in the server and have now installed the bootloader on the mbr of /dev/sdb. But in the long run I want to change this.
Fedora :: Cleaning The Orphaned Files Automatically?
Oct 26, 2009If we update or remove some packages (in addition manually installed software), some files such as previous version dynamic lib files are left, so it may conflict with new stuffs sometimes. Is there any efficient way to remove these kind of orphaned files all, automatically?
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Jul 14, 2010Is there a way to deep clean the supposedly "empty" areas of HDD. I've found "shred" and similar tools by googling, but they allow either deleting a file or complete wipeout of a HDD. What I'd like to do is clean up what's left of already deleted files (which can probably be still "undeleted") on a live HDD (with useful data, which doesn't need to be destroyed).
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Dec 16, 2010My current installation setup has a separate partition for /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, and /var. The problem I have is the root partition / is 98% full (4.3GB full). Cleaning temp files and log files won't help since they are on their own partition (and clean). I've removed all but two linux-images. Linux images seem to run at a size of roughly 105M. My root partition is 4.6GB. I can't seem to find any other options for cleaning up space on this partition. I have no idea what is taking up 4.6GB of space.
Disk Usage Analyzer has not been helpful since I have not been able to reconcile 4.6GB of memory with what it claims the total size of the remaining directories occupy. I've tried localepurge, gtkorphan, apt-get clean, apt-get autoclean, apt-get autoremove. I've removed all packages listed under Status -> Not Installed in the package manager. My root file system is still 98% full (4.3GB full).