I have a dual boot with Arch linux that share a /home partition. Whenever ubuntu starts tho it tries to do a check on the /home partition and fails.... it gets an error saying unable to check then drops into a shell. I have to run it in recovery mode frequently then start it up and it usually works, but i have to type startx after logging into a shell before that
View 8 RepliesI want to create a logon script (or somesuch) that creates a file (if it doesn't already exist) and checks the file for some info otherwise. If it finds a given trigger in that file, it logs into a local database and does some operations.
Now my problem isn't with creating that file or even getting it to function as a logon script -- it's with permissions. After the logon script creates the file, I want that user to have read access on it ONLY. Further, I don't want to give the user any kind of root access so that they could do the database operations in question or chown/chmod the file.
What's the best practice here? I'm noticing that whenever the script runs (in .bashrc right now) the script runs with the current user's permissions. Ideally, I'd like to make it so the login script can run at a higher level of permissions, (higher than the user has). Is this even possible? What's the best way to do this?
Trying to clean install 11.2 dual boot with Win xp already installed. How do I create a new home partition, don't want to preserve the existing home partition from a previous attempt. DVD installation and automatic config keeps saving the thing.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have my Media Center running Ubuntu 10.04, and it's annoying to have that "Your disk drives are being checked for errors" message every so often. And ofcourse, as Murphy's law states, it usually happens when I'm in a hurry to quickly watch something.
Ofcourse, I can press 'C' (cancel) all the time. But I guess Ubuntu set up this file check interval for a reason, right? I was wondering if it's save to change the interval so it's less often. Or is it easy to configure the check to occur at SHUTDOWN? That's when most people don't care what the computer does anymore.
Also, although it's a pretty fresh install, any Ubuntu on my machine has never ever ever ever worked flawlessly and neither does this one. More often then not, on shutdown, the computer doesn't shut down but just sits there with a black screen or with the ubuntu logo. So I just power it off. Does this scenario make it unwise to tone down on the number of file checks?
I'm trying to use the 'at' command to run a file that checks ALL process running at 5:00pm and does a system load check? Any advice on where to start?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have an Acer Aspire ZG5 which I have installed Ubuntu on. There is a 8Gb internal harddisk which has the system files on (i.e. / ), and a SD flash drive of 16Gb that has the /home partition on.
The /home partition successfully mounts on boot. However, when the netbook resumes after sleep the /home partition is not mounted. Closer inspection with Disk Utility, and attempting to mount the disk within Disk Utility gives the following error:
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Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: according to mtab, /dev/mmcblk0p1 is already mounted on /home mount failed
recently i made a backup of my home directory in 10.10 before reinstalling 10.10. again.This time I chose to manually define the partitions (50GB Root, 25GB Swap, 325GB Home)Now i wish to migrate the old home into the newly installed home, which is on a separate partition.I have found the following documentation URL...Still, as a beginner I am not quite sure about the necessary steps to perform.As the new home is located on a separate partition is it possible to simple delete all directories there and copy all directories from old home to new home with rsync?
Do I have to install all the software that corresponds to the old home first followed by migrating home or first migrating home followed by installing the software such as thunderbird, Texlive2010 etc.Guess that migration should take place at a later stage. Otherwise my old profile files from firefox and thunderbird will be overwriten by new ones?
Been digging around and not finding anything that quite works.
Background: I had an existing 10.10 install and 10.04 on another partition. When I installed the 10.04 I told it to use the existing /home partition which is also being used by the 10.10 install. All good, both users have directories with all their data in the same /home partition.
Issue: So, as the 10.04 was 32bit (experimenting but another story) I decided I would replace with 10.04 64bit. All went well except when I did the manual partitioning I screwed up and instead of setting the existing /home partition to 'use but don't format' - which I think is what I must have done last time - I left it as 'don't use and don't format'. So, obviously, now the new 10.04 install has its /home inside /, which I don't want. I want it on the existing /home partition as it was with the previous 10.04 install.
Question(s): Is there any simple(ish) way of doing this without a reinstall? Not a major problem as I have only just installed and can do it again without losing anything but time, but I would like to figure out a way to do it without if possible.I want to essentially move the /home/user directory (rather than the /home) and make it /media/home/user inside the existing partition. Seems easy enough on the surface but becomes involved as I investigate.Ubuntu 10.04 minimal install with Xfce DE.
i have instaled ubuntu 11.04 wubi on my pc with windows 7. i installed and everything was going ok i navigate on ubuntu already. but the problems star here i went on my ubuntu to the partition section and i format my windows partion to be the home partion and changed the nfts to ext, i did the upgrades but i forgot that theyr running yet and i restart my computer when it boot again it gaves me an error:
try (0,0) : nfts5 : wubildr
try (0,1) : ext2 :
and the windows7 says that i have to instal again. so i went to another pc and i made a cd boot and a pen boot. i burned the iso (downloaded from the ubuntu oficial site the 11.04 32 bit version) image to the cd and pen drive prperly, i adjust my boot options to star from usb or cd rom and nothing im struck.
I was wondering what the best way is to partition multiple distros to share one home partition.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have finally been convinced to partition my 500GB hard drive from a two partition setup with root and swap to a three partition setup with root, swap, and home. I found a nice tutorial about how to do this, but here is my question:
A) How much space do I leave for the root partition and the home partition?
Installed Ubuntu along with Debian on my Notebook and use Grub Manager to choose between them on startup. Since i like Debian now a lot (in past days it was a very hard system to handle, but there has been some progress i noticed), i have to change some things (want Debian as main system now) For Ubuntu i have: (was meant to be main system on Notebook) "/", "/home" and a "swap" partition, but since i am now going to use mainly Debian, i wanted to store my files all in the "/home"-folder of my extended Ubuntu partition (has much more space available) not in the "/home" folder of the Debian system. So i want both (Debian and Ubuntu) to use the same extended partition ("/home") which i created for Ubuntu to save their files like downloads, videos, and so on.
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy debian 5 is up and running smoothly and act as file-server in the middle of windows network jungle using samba the only problem is, after backup an external hdd (213 GB) to my /home partition, I end up with message say that I'm running out free space. Fyi my debian installed on 1TB SATA disk, and I separate my /home partition from system what happen to my free space ? here is screenshot of my disk, using disk usage analyzer: is there is a way to get my space back or something missing on my setup.or I have to reinstall my debian and use LVM when partitioning my disk?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI installed fedora 13 64 bit and it works great but I encountered several issues when setting up guest OS with KVM. The problem seems to be related to selinux. But let me first ask question about logical volume. By Default fedora created logical volumes:
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"If you expect that you or other users will store data on the system, create a separate partition for the /home directory within a volume group. With a separate /home partition, you may upgrade or reinstall Fedora without erasing user data files." seems to suggest I have to create a separate physical partition and assign that to /home. But reading elsewhere it seems to suggest logical volume acts like a partition. My goal is to make it easy in case fedora is hosed and I have to re-install it without affecting /home where my cirtical data resides. Given above do I need to create a separate physical partition or I am just fine?
I have a second hard disk that originally had windows and all my data. Windows is hosed but I can see my data from within Fedora and Windows is gone and I created created new partition in its place which used ot be the C:/ drive appears as 53 Gb filesystem. My data which was originally D drive appears as 215 GB filesystem. As given in [URL] I want to create a new logical volume in 53 Gb filesystem which I want to use as space for virtual disk to install guest OS's in KVM. Currrently 53 GB filesystem is mounted as /media/3467BH89JK789 but this does not work well with KVM. how do I create this logical volume out of 53 Gb filesystem partition and add proper selinux info and do I add to vg_vostrolx volume group and in a different volume group?
KDE 4.6 - opensuse 11.4.
I have a separate ext4 partition which contains all my data (music, movies, etc). When I delete files from this partition it is very slow because it copies files from my data partition to the Trash folder in my home partition. How can I avoid this? Can't the trash be configured so that it uses a trash folder in each partition instead of copying files to another partition (which is slow).
I'm trying to migrate my LVs over to a Luks volume (prompt on password at boot). Unfortunately, as soon as I add my luks-encrypted physical volume to my volume group, I'm no longer able to update my grub configuration. I've detailed my steps below:
I've created and unlocked my encrypted partition with the following:
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sudo cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -y -s 256 luksFormat /dev/sdb1
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 crypto_agilityssd
My /etc/crypttab looks like this:
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I have a system which previously have 3 OS installed on one physical HDD; WinXP on sda1, Win7 on sda2 and Slackware linux on sda3. Lilo is used as the boot loader.
Recently I bought another HDD and decided to reinstalled my Win7 on it and I use GParted to move Slackware to the original Win7 slot on my first HDD so now my Slackware partition has been move from sda3 to sda2.
I modified the /etc/lilo.conf file so that it reflects the new Slackware partition and run lilo to installed it.
The lilo installed correctly I can boot into WinXP and Win7 without problem but when I try to boot into Slackware, it fail at the root filesystem check, apparently the e2fsck still try to check sda3.
Is there anything that I can do to correct the problem without having to reinstall Linux?
i installed fedora kde 32 bit and iam realy loving it. but i want to resize my home partition as i got a message there is no space in my home folder i downloaded a Disk utility application .... to try and resize .... but looks like i dont know what to do
View 3 Replies View RelatedI now have Windows XP installed, with 30GB of free space on the end of my hard rive. If I install linux there, will it cause Windows XP to fail? Last time I tried this, it says hal.dll was not found. However, that may have been caused by having five partitions. Do u think its safe now that I'll only have 4? Will Windows XP fail if I put in a partition in the free space?
Why does it says I'm using Safari in Windows, I'm using Google Chrome
Sometimes openSUSE boot ends with these errors:[url]
(I do not know why it prints an error on Ext2 filesystem when the disk is formatted Ext4...)
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Here is my Fstab:
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I was surprised not to find an existing thread on this anywhere, as I would expect this to be a common problem: I have the following partitions on my eee PC 100HE:
10GB Windows XP
5GB Linux Mint 8
5GB Ubuntu 9.10 NBR (awesome distro by the way!)
130GB Home partition shared by Linux Mint and Ubuntu NBR
2GB Swap partition shared by Linux Mint and Ubuntu NBR
I installed Ubuntu NBR after Mint. Immediately after install, the panel layout, menus and colour scheme were slightly messed up - presumeably because they had been "adopted" from the Mint settings in the home folder. I corrected them easily, but now I have the same problem in Mint. Is there any way I can get both distros to use the same /home folder, but different settings (i.e. the /home/username/. folders)? Can I get these settings folders put on a different partition for example?
And is this problem due only to the fact that these are 2 Ubuntu-based distros? Or will I have the same problem if/when I replace Mint with another distro, such as Fedora or Moblin?
When I try to boot into Ubuntu I get this error message:t of filesystems failed.3d82d6-5dcb-494b-b2f0-fe9f157e9430Any ideas on how to fix it? I have a duel boot with XP and Ubuntu 9.10.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a Windows 7 partition, a fat32 partition that I use for moving data between Windows and Linux, and an Ubuntu partition. On the Ubuntu partition, I can right click on a text file and the top of the menu says "open with 'gedit'." On the fat32 partition, the same action says just "open," and the "open with" submenu doesn't include gedit.
If I right-click and choose properties on the same file, the "open with" tab shows gedit as the default file association. So that's weird... anyone else seen anything like this?
have been using karmic studio for around a month now, and have been recently experiencing some boot issues where 1 of 3 things are happening;1) failed to mount filesystem, where maintenance shell is initiated2) insert boot media and press any key to continue3) i get to log in and everything looks ok until i click the application menu, where nothing appears and all logos (shutdown/log off etc) appear as red crosses
View 9 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded my file/media server to Fedora 11. After doing so, I can no longer copy large files to the server. The files begin to transfer, but typically after about 1gb of the file has transferred, the transfer stalls and ultimately fails with the message:
"Error writing to file: Input/output error"
I've run out of ideas as to what could cause this problem. I have tried the following:
1. Different NFS versions: NFS3 and NFS4
2. Tried copying the files to different physical drives on the server.
3. Tried copying the files from different physical drives on the client.
4. Tried different rsize and wsize block sizes when mounting the NFS share
5. Tried copying the files via a different protocol. SSH in this case. The file transfers are always successful when I use SSH.
Regardless of what I do, the result is the same. The file transfers always fail after approximately 1gb.
Some other notes.
1. Both the client and the server are running Fedora 11 kernel 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64
I am out of ideas. Has anyone else experienced something similar?
I installed the server and client from the repositories. I got version 1.8:
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Got everything running, apparently normally, but then I noticed the GUI Installation tab. This helped me optimize the php.ini file so the pretty front end could be used. I got the step 7 where it says
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I have tried making this substitution using both of
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Sed operates with no comment but does nothing. awk objects to the variables content because they include the occasional non-breaking-space. The presence of these is essential so that bash will properly distribute the content of each line to an array.
The content of "orc" and "orch" is as follows (the non-breaking-spaces show as *).
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Summary: I want to have /var (and perhaps /tmp and/or /etc) to be on the same partition as /home.
Right now I have a simple setup. 7.4 GB /dev/sda2 mounted as / and 137 GB /dev/sda3 mounted as /home. /var is important, because that's where I have tens of MySQL databases. This setup causes several problems: * I'd like to have /var separately from / so that I can freely erase everything on /dev/sda2 and start over. * I'm running out of space (~800MB free) and I'm afraid that it might not be enough to dist-upgrade to Lucid.
I tried copying /var to /home/var and making a symlink to it, but that didn't work (had to reverse it from LiveUSB).
How should it be done properly? I've read something about bind in fstab, but haven't found a straightforward solution.
that's my fstab:
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# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=6aaab958-6d51-41f1-8c07-e1139fc9b222 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
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I am laying the groundwork to set up a separate /home partition as this seems the best way to safeguard all my settings and files from disaster.
I have read a number of howto's on the subject but they haven't used the same method - it seems to me.
Firstly I'm quite happy about the partitioning element of the process. I need to shrink my current Ubuntu partition and create a new one for my /home folder, after making a note of the uuid (as I will need that later).
How big does the root partition need to be to accommodate any future updates/kernels etc?
Is ext4 advisable for the new /home partition?
The process after partitioning seems somewhat complicated, from what I've been reading. Basically the process involves copying my existing /home folder to the new location, telling the OS to mount that new /home partition instead of the old /home, then deleting or renaming the old /home.
However, in practise it doesn't look that simple. There seem to be many terminal commands involved that I don't understand.
I'm getting ready to do a new install & looking for some tips about how to add a home partition. I've done a bunch of installs starting at 6.x but have never used a home partition. I was even wondering if you could put a home partition on a completely separate drive too. Does it mean that if I upgrade at a later time I can use the same home partition for the upgraded version?
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