I have a dvd that is 5 gigs and I want to put it on a dvd that is about 4.4 Gigs. Anyone have an idea of software that will reduce the size of one dvd so I can put it on a dvd of smaller size. My dvds at my house are always getting manged and destroyed so I want to burn a dvd that will take the fall and make another copy of the one I do have. I will never redistribute any burned dvds. I saw a recent supreme court ruling that deemed this and using libdvdcss legal. This really gets me going. When I have a file I want to burn thats 50 Megs bigger than than 4.4gigs on debian systems so it tells me to put in bigger storage, whatever.
I got a new hard disk for my laptop and I want to move my Gentoo installation from old HDD to new.
Most simple guides recommend use of dd to copy the whole partition byte by byte.
I'm moving to the new drive because I don't have enough space on the old drive, so I don't want to simply clone the partition. Instead I need the destination partition to be bigger. Would dd work well in that case?
Assuming that I use same partition types on the new drive, would I be able to use simple cp with appropriate settings?
I can take apart my computer and fix a problem and then re-install the partitions. Hopefully I won't have to re-install, but I want to make backups just in case
-HP laptop with a windows (NTFS) and an Ubuntu (ext3) partition ~ 500GB total -Iomega 1TB external hard drive partitioned into a 500GB NTFS storage, 250GH BLANK ext3 Linux Backup, and 250GB BLANK NTFS Windows Backup.
I want to copy my windows and linux to their respective 250GB spaces on the External HD.
1.) Can you direct me to places on the net that describes this in detail? 2.) Can I copy a partition while running that partition? 3.) Will copying C:/ in windows over to the external HD copy entire partition? 4.) Can I copy a Laptop partition to a external HD partition that is bigger? 5.) Do I have to use partition manager software or can I do this from terminal/cmd prompt?
I'm a linux user for some time now and most stuff I can figure out myself. Though, this one drives me crazy and I did not find any information on the internet.I have a partition, say, Code: /dev/sda1 , which is 128MB big. When I copy it using Code: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/home/me/backup_sda1.img , the resulting file is 134MB big. Now my problem is that I want to copy that partition as-is to a CF card, which does not work because the image is bigger than the partition on the CF card.Why does dd create bigger files? Shouldn't it be exactly same sized like the source?
I am about at the end of my patience with this. I have ran BUM and removed everything apart from the bare essentials stop most programs from starting with Startup Applications and just did a pretty violent clean up of programs I don't use.
I removed preload as I had that installed to see if that was the problem, but that made no difference at all.
I already know about the xorg problem but this should not affect me as I am running the property ATI driver.
This wouldn't be too much of a problem if it just sat at about 2 gigs when idle, but it doesn't. After about 3-4 hours of it being on it's using all my memory and the PC is unusable.
i doubt theres a fix for this as wine is emulating windows but is there any possible way to speed up wine a bit? I do need some windows programs to work properly but there soooo laggy. my system is a msi slim pc with 2 gigs ram and 500 g hd so i dont see why it would be running slow or is that just how wine is?
how can I format my Creative Zen Vision M and use it then as an external drive? I dont want to use it as an MP3 and as a hard drive, i want to remove everything from it and use its 30 gigs.I'd rather format it into fat32, but could also deal with ext3
10.4 install on ibm g40 failure. I'm trying to install U 10.4 on an IBM Laptop g40 with .75 gigs of ram with no luck. Workstation CD I use f6 and remove splash- from other options. When I select install option the screen goes black after moving through the Ubuntu dots then the screen goes blank.
i just downloaded the newest kde spin from fedora's web site.installed fine, but have noticed that only 3.2 gigs of 4 is being shown on the os.the bios see's 4.this doesn't happen on windoze but it happened on linux mint 64 bit also.why is linux distro's not seeing it?
Like the title says, I uninstalled wubi 10.04 last night and I noticed that my computer was running extremely slowly. I checked the amount of RAM and it said I only had 1 GIG which is definitely wrong. I have 3 GIGs. how I can recover that lost memory? I've tried searching google and haven't really found anything promising..
Also: I'm running windows 7 32-bit on a Sony VGN-CS190.
I'v downloaded the new versions of suse many times. I average 3 to 4+ times before it's successful, bad downloads(bad checksum) or download stops for no reason. I'v used direct link and bittorrent. Bittorrent takes 2-3 times as long. So, I usually use direct link. I can do the download in about 6-8 hours. The first time, it stopped at 334 megs, using direct link. Using bittorrent, it took about 16 hours. I got a bad checksum. Is there a way I fix the file without downloading it again? Suse 10.4
I have a UUID file that has grown to 8.4 gigs... and I don't know what to do. Its sucking up all the free space in the partition. I guess I will have to delete the file but I don't know how to do it properly.I suspect this is a backup of all the data I have been moving around between drives recently.
no disk detected when installing debian 5 on a msi P55-GD80 mother board 8 gigs Kinsgton Ram and 2 x seagate barracuda 500 gigs 9BD648-552, I get a list of drivers to choose from but dont know wich to choos
I have Fedora on SATA HDD 80Gb.Now I want to move all partitions to the 500Gb one.Some of partitions will remain the same size, some will increase. I tried that with Paragon Hard Disk Manager,but after it was done I found a problem, that they can't pass fsck checkup.It says something about cross linked files and on the root partition it failed at all with warning something about bad superblock.what is the easiest way to move to the big HDD? What soft should I use? Maybe it's sufficient to boot from CD, create new partitions and copy all files from source partitions to destination ones?
I have installed ubuntu 10, 3 weeks ago, and was wondering if there is a way to make, the min - max - close buttons slightly larger, as I've got a neurological problem, also how can I slow the mouse down.
I have uploaded a load of files and now found there a bug when i try to zip the file thats over 2gb in size. I am a quite a notice with this so need easy instructions on how i get it to work.
I followed this tutorial: [url]
And the error i get is Quote:zip warning: name not matched
I have fedora 11 and window installed. I reduced the windows partition in order to enlarge the fedora. The fedora partition is widespread, and puts gparted lvm2. I can not enlarge nor palimpset or with gparted, I can only delete or format it.
I just install the desktop 10.04 version. I have a viewsonic 27" monitor.What I get is the screen size is bigger than the actual monitor.I can't find a way to fix this. In other words, when max-size a window, I can't see the edges. It goes beyond the monitor size. My monitor don't have any way to fix the vertical or horizontal size.
trying different backup methods far it saves my OS into an ISO file (Remastersys). Now, about Remastersys, I hear it cannot save the OS if it is bigger than 12 GB, but why is that the limit?Is it possible to install a Linux distro directly onto a USB device such as this:[URL]Any other Linux distros that can be installed and run (or is it ran) from a Flash Drive or External USB Hard Drive?Any suggestions for external hard drives, looking for around 320 to 750GB of disk storage space.
80 gb harddisk, using double boot XP/ubuntuUbuntu 'got' 14 gb free space but on the 'XP side' of the harddisk there's about 40 gb of free space left, how can I partion this to Ubuntu?
This is my first attempt at upgrading a live ISO file.
Things seem to have worked OK, but the resulting ISO is four times bigger than the original:
I followed the LiveCDCustomization HOWTO: 1. In home directory, mount ISO to explode squashfs in ~/edit, and the rest of the ISO into ~/extract-cd 2. chroot to ~/edit (ie. exploded squashfs), upgrade kernel + applications, and build new initr.gz 3. exit chroot, and rebuild ISO
Does someone know why the ISO ends up being so much bigger?
I would like to do thunderbird (I think is a gtk app) look bigger (from the windows bar, the menu's font size and so on). I am connecting through svn and I got only an xterm. From the xterm I can launch the thunderbird which looks too small.
If I can somehow alter the settings so to appear a bit more visible. For that I would to ask you what I can do. I recall that in kde control center that there was an option for gtk apps. How can I launch kde's control center from xterm (I have kde 4.6)
I have created an incremental backup of a Windows-client folder on a SLES 11 server using find and tar. The resulting file is about 615 MB, but inside the archive is only one file which has a file size of only 9.061 Bytes. BTW: it's a "The Bat!" config fileHere's the backup script:
I have read several manuals and online html on how to clone a partition to a greater one, I am still not sure about what to do.
Code: Select all# df -k /srv /usr Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md5 38445384 195236 36297128 1% /srv /dev/md3 8648896 1088016 7121540 14% /usr
What is the recommended procedure to clone i.e. /dev/mdx (/usr) partition to a greater one, say /dev/mdy, to accommodate for growth, whilst preserving attributes including timestamps (and yes, that means also including ctime).All of # cp -ax SOURCE DEST, # rsync -ax SOURCE DEST and # cpio modify ctime.Some sites recommend dd, i.e.:
URL....However, I am not sure what will dd copy do with end of partition, and will it see the remaining space on /srv (it's contents are dummy and will be overwritten).
When I first switched from windoze to Fedora I trimed a bit of space off the end of the HDD, formatted it to ext3 and installed Fedora 14 there. I have now completely rebuilt the machine and put a 2TB drive in. My intention was to upgrade to Fedora 15, but after a few weeks trying to get the new gnome to anything resembling useful, I gave up and decided to go back to the reliable 14.
I tried the old drive, and everything worked great, so I though no problem, clone that over to the new drive, and job done, no need to mess about for weeks getting all my settings back. I booted from the old drive with both connected and ran gparted, It sees both drives but won't let me copy the old partition. It complains about 'LMV is not yet supported' I tried booting from a gparted ISO with the same result.
How can I get this sorted? I've got work needing done, I don't have time to start from scratch (*AGAIN*),
I can't delete any files bigger than 4 Go. I got a message telling me that my trash is full and I should empty it. But there is nothing in it. Is there any thing I can do to be able to delete files over 4 Go?
