I have Ubuntu installed on my Macbook Pro but when I am mount my mac partition by clicking on it in Nautilus some of my user folders are not accessible unless I start Nautilus as root. Is there a simple way for me to make these folders accessible?
View 1 RepliesI have installed 10.04 on my MacBook Pro 6,2, and am trying to access some files stored in my User directory on the OS X partition of the laptop. I get a permission-denied error, but I figured this was a similar issue to the one mentioned in the stickied "How to Install Ubuntu 9.04 on Intel-Based Macs" thread.However, the suggest fix,Code:sudo usermod -u 501 -g 20 richarddoesn't exactly work for me. I tried this, but found myself suddenly logged out of my main account. On the log-in screen, only my second account showed up. Luckily, I was able to log into that, and re-usermod my main account back to it's original userid number.I am guessing that my strange error had to do with the abnormal (for ubuntu, at least) userid?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to access my music folder in my OSX partition but every time I click double click on it I get an error message that says "You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "Music".
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently my laptop broke down and wont start up. I'm currently trying to recover my files to my mac with an IDE to USB cable. It recognized my windows partition fine and I was able to get all my files off of that, but the majority of my stuff is on the ext4 partition that I have on it. Does anyone know how to access the ubuntu partition of this hard drive from my mac?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an Acer Aspire Netbook running a dual boot with Xp and Ubuntu Netbook Version (Lucid Lynx if I am not mistaken?) Anyway I plan on selling this netbook and I need to remove the Ubuntu Partition and go back to just a full Windows Xp partition with it's recovery partition also.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo I tried adding a new, 2nd hard drive to my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop for some additional storage and only managed to kill my system so that it won't boot up anymore (I just get a blinking cursor after the BIOS does its thing).I could sure use a little help getting back to a functioning system, and then adding the second drive. I tried following the instructions from this link to add the 2nd drive:
(So the forum rules won't let me post the link, neato. Here it is with spaces added):
h t t p s : / / h e l p . u b u n t u . c o m / c o m m u n i t y / I n s t a l l i n g A N e w H a r d D r i v e
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im installing ubuntu onto a friends ibook, but am first running it live off the disk. it runs well, except for one thing, the display has a problem,i guess it seems like its tiled on the monitor, instead of fullscreen, it has a full desktop taking about 2/3 of the monitor, a sliver of the same desktop right below it, and a line of black to the right.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu as shown in the wiki and when I went to restart it gave me a lovely blinking cursor and nothing else. So I held down option, loaded into osx, reinstalled rEFIt and got my menu on startup. Unfortunately, the partition sync tool doesn't seam to be working, it gives me an error: Status: MBR partition table is invalid, partitions overlap. Error: Not Found returned from gptsync.efi
View 9 Replies View RelatedSo I reinstalled ubuntu on my laptop, but my partition is full while it isn't. I launch baobab, it says I got 4.48 GB free of 60GB while there are only 27GB files on my partition. Here is my partition set-up if it's useful:
-PQSERVICE 12GB free 3.52GB
-DRIVE 1 142GB free 25GB
-DRIVE 2 71GB free 28GB
-Ubuntu 63GB free 4.48GB ?????
-swap 1GB
-SWITCH 6.5GB free 6.3GB
I have a Acer Aspire 7730ZG laptop, I don't know what else I should give for information.
I have a total of four partitions on my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) system:
sda1 = /boot
sda2 = /
sda3 = swap
sda4 = /home
My boot partition is 94 MiB which I was recommended would be more than enough space. Turns out my /boot partition is full and I now get a message every time I log into Ubuntu saying, 'The volume "boot" has only 0 bytes disk space remaining.' Also after installing GParted to check up on my partitions I got the following error in apt-get:
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Setting up gparted (0.4.5-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kpartx (0.4.8-14ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
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I have no experience messing around in my /boot partition besides modifying GRUB. I think most likely I just have too many kernel versions installed in the /boot partition?
I few months ago I was forced to do a fresh clean install of Karmic becasue my root partition (then 80 GB) was full. I shooulkd have used a LiveCD to resize partitions then but I didn't so when I installed Karmic this time I ended up with a 160GB partition for /.Color me surprised when last night I got a message that / was at less than 5% free space.
1. I routinely do a apt clean so the cache is not an issue.
2. I do not store backups on /. I use rsnapshot to same backup on an external hard drive.
3. I use Virtualbox but all my hard drives (VDI) are on /home.
ubuntu 10.04
kernel 2.6.36
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 17301912 4858836 11564180 30% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
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hb lost+found
"home" is partition with 8gb
"hb" is my space With baobab disk usage analyzer the size of "hb" folder = 1.8 gb
Why partition home is full
I mount /home on its own partition that it is 20GB wide.I used 8GB in /home/b. /home contains just /home/federico & /home/lost+found (which appears to be empty).Strangely the partition appears to be full. I kept deleting files (and deleting also the Trash) but after I while my partition was full again.I do not use a swap file on this partition.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running Lucid server (for a Moodle install) and have sucessfully mounted a cifs partion that resides on a Win 2008 Server to be used for backup purposes.I fist tried using Webmin to backup files but have subsequently also tried using rsync.Whatever method I try to use to copy files across I am getting an error "No space left on device 28", yet the Windows partition has over 800Gb free. The root partition on my Ubuntu server also has over 25Gb free. I have also checked /tmp and /var/tmp and am unable to find anything that might cause the problem. The Windows share is mounted as follows:
//windowsserver/share$ /mnt/backup cifs credentials=/pathto/.smbcredentials,rw 0 0
I've noticed in Ubuntu that a lot of applications like to make use of the strip of menus that go at the top of the screen; I think it's called a menu strip in Visual Studios.Anyways, the only way I can see it (that I've figured out thus far) is to drag the window to the top of my screen, thus maximizing it, then use the menu, and put it back.What I want is a less... tedious way of accessing those commands, preferably without changing my window position. Is there a trick to it? In windows, unlike Ubuntu, that strip is available regardless of window size; is there a reason it disappears in my Ubuntu?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am currently trying to set up a small network in which my first computer has a NFS share going to three other computers. I have been able to set up this share correctly, however I am having problems in granting full Read/Write permissions to all user accounts across the computers.
At the moment I am not using NIS or any-other account synchronization tool and I am wondering if there is another way, without the need of the mentioned tools.
I just installed Fedora64 12 on my laptop. When I tried the Live CD all wen well. Now that I am running the full version I can only access internet pages linked to fedoraproject.org...?? not other pages work like google or yahoo or anything else. This is bizarre. How can I get access to the full internet?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am running Ubuntu in WUBI inside Windows, my first question is, can you do a full install to a new partition through the WUBI installation? Or would it be better to partition the disk, and just install Ubuntu, then deal with the MBR issue (been a while since I had a normal install, maybe the boot problems are gone?)? And is there any actual advantage to doing a stand alone install, while still dual booting Windows? Is there any gain from it versus the WUBI install I am running now?
View 3 Replies View RelatedGot problems with apt. So I discovered if I remove some stuff from root partition apt works normally again.
So I tested to copy 1GB file to root, but in the middle says disk is full, but there should be 1.8GB free if I type df -h.
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Select alldf -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 4.0G 2.2G 1.8G 56% /
tmpfs 10M 4.0K 10M 1% /dev
/dev/md0 4.0G 2.2G 1.8G 56% /
tmpfs 492M 0 492M 0% /dev/shm
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df -h reports that my /var partition is full..
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 2.0G 1.4G 454M 76% /
/dev/sda1 99M 16M 79M 17% /boot
/dev/sda2 9.7G 2.2G 7.1G 24% /usr
/dev/sda3 7.7G 7.4G 0 100% /var
/dev/sda7 989M 17M 922M 2% /tmp
/dev/sda8 52G 9.0G 40G 19% /home
none 493M 0 493M 0% /dev/shm
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Does anyone know of anything that might be on the /var partition and taking up space that I can't see, or just why df -h is reporting that it's full?
I am having trouble logging into my ubuntu 11.04 desktop. When I type my username and password to login my screen goes blue, as if it is going to next show my desktop wallpaper, but then it loops back to the login screen. I had no idea why and so I went to ALT-F1 and typed in "df" and it turns out that my root partition is full. This is strange since I set aside 40GB for it and I didn't install anything or that many programs that would fill it up. Anyhow, is this fixable by booting to a live cd and using gparted to make root bigger or is there a better way to fix this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a 10gb partition I use for data. The /home is there, and I mount any other data partitions (like /music stuff) onto /data. These other mounted partitions add up to something like 60gb of diskspace, but since they're just mounted on /data, I believe they only take up 4096 bytes per mount point.
Some time ago, I found that the /data parition was full. There was only 330mb of data in /home, so I was perplexed. I found a cache dir under .opera that reported itself as having 132TB (yes, that is terrabytes) of files. I thought deleting the offending directory was the answer, so I deleted that cache dir and every file or subdirectory in it, but the /data partition is still like 99% full. I am a wee bit confused.
This very full /data partition is my only jfs partition. The other mounted filesystems are either ext3 or ntfs. Is it possible that the journal of this filesystem is corrupted? Or is hidden somewhere on the /data parition, taking up a bunch of space? (I obviously don't know enough about filesystem to know whether or not this is a likely scenario.) Is it possible to zero out (or delete and re-create) the journal, if so? The only other thing I can think of is to move all the /home data off, delete the partition, then re-create it and move /home back. I will do that if need be, but I'd rather learn something from the experience, weird as it is.
I have an ububtu server that up and running pretty well. I can share folders to other ubuntu boxes and PC.
I just got my first mac. How do i access the shares from OS X.
I used "GO" -> "connect to server" but that isnt working...
I set up a Windows partition and an Ubuntu partition in my laptop and each partition has about 60 gigabyte of disk space. Recently I keep getting messages that the disk space in my Ubuntu partition is almost full. How is it possible since I only have computer programs which I absolutely need?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOk my girlfriend has mac and she wants to play games and we will be useing the wineHQ. I've already looked up games thatwork for it and its good. Well is there away to install ubuntu through bootcamp?
her specs is-
Could i get some instructions? We were currently gonna install windows but it wouldn't work cuz we didnt have the original cd. Bootcamp already has a partition setaside already. Her mac is a Macbook pro
I recently installed Lenny and used the "Guided - Use Entire Disk" option.I made separate partitions for root, /etc, /var, /home, /usr and swap.I trusted that the auto partitioner would choose sensible sizes but possibly that was a bad move, root is only 340Mb and is full.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to write a script for getting an automatic alert when a particular partition is full ?
Should we use crontab for this ?
Is any template is available in net for above scenario ?
accessing the BIOS on a Powerbook G3 Lombard (1999).
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy dell notebook runs Ubuntu (Karmic Koala). I want to be able to remote access my mom's Mac notebook (I believe it's an Airbook?), so that I can assist her with problems on her computer.What would I need to do on my computer (and how?)What would I need to do on her computer (and how?) to set this up?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOne day I was using Gparted and following this I rebooted and had this came up
"Install problem! Configuration defaults for Gnome Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator."
Initially from reading the forums I figured it was because my Ubuntu partition ( I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.4) filled up for some reason.
I used a boot CD and cleared some files in /media. It seems like I kept about 17 GB of backups there for some reason.
The problem is that even though I cleared this out, I still have the same message.
I could just reinstall, but I want to try to keep my data for once, especially my virtualbox harddisks, unless someone can suggest a way to save it and reuse it.