My linux install will no longer boot, and I am looking to copy an *encrypted* home folder to an external harddrive so I can have all my files when I reinstall Ubuntu. Does anyone know how I can access those files and put them on the external HDD?
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i installed my desktop environment from synaptic manager! so when i restarted my computer i couldn't log into the desktop environment. How can i recover from this? Also,how can i access my home folder from a live cd?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a dual-boot macbook with an OS X partition and an ubuntu partition. When I first installed ubuntu, I changed my home folder to my OS X home directory to synchronize all my files from both. My home directory is now /media/sda2/Users/username/. In a regular home folder, the icons for Documents, Music, Pictures, Movies, etc. are different (not just with emblems, but actually different icons). But when I changed my home folder, these subfolders' icons stayed the same as regular folder icons and I can't figure out a way to change that default setting. I know how to change the icons for each folder manually, but these changes don't appear everywhere (i.e. nautilus, places, etc). Furthermore, every time I change my icon theme, I would have to manually reassign icons for these folders. Is there a way to globally change the folder icons for these folders?
View 2 Replies View Relatedupon browsing the home folder in my ubuntu system, i came across a hidden cache folder..
it occupied around 700 mb of space..and im falling short of space..
can i delete the contents in the folder? are they safe to delete?
I have Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 updated to 9.10 and have downloaded Remaster from Remastersys. I followed all of the instructions, which were simple enough. However, there must be some instructions missing as the process failed. Working with Remaster through Synaptic Manager, the iso was downloaded into my "home" folder into its own Remaster folder. It was not the iso, like you get when downloading a distro from the Internet, which downloads just an iso onto the Desktop. Inside the folder were a bunch of empty files (I know, because I opened them) and an iso . At this point the Remaster instruction stop. They do not say what to do with the other files, or what they have to do with the iso of my Ubuntu layout. So, like any other iso (once I knew which one was the iso of my setup), I double clicked on it and it ran me through the process of accessing the DVD to burn it. Which I did. I tested it and it failed with some kind of message to the effect that certain files were missing or it could not read it. So, I thought, I would have to do the 'hunt and peck' method and experiment a few times like I did with the ordinary distro downloads until I get it right. But first, I would have to dump the Remaster folder in the "home" folder since it took up so much space on my hard drive. Wrong! I come to find out it is in something called "root" and that I do not have permission to do anything with it but "copy" it. Great. Just great! Now what do I do. I tried to change permissions, but was not allowed to do that either. The only thing I could think of - and dread - was the idea of having to wipe my hard drive and go through the whole reinstall procedures, which takes me days, just because Remaster has locked itself into my system - and there is no 'back door' to get out of it.
View 9 Replies View Relatedid like to lock a user into his websites folder not his home folder. and i dont want him to be able to veiw anything outside that folder, only be able to play with whats inside that folder. is this possible?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm not positive if this is in the correct section but I am hoping so. I am running dual-boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. I hunted down my files from Windows that I need for school (old papers, research, etc.) and found it under "file system" --> "host" --> "users" --> "zbollman". I can access all of my files and I'm happy now that I don't have to boot between the two constantly to get what I need. However, I tried to copy the file to my home folder, but it said I do not have enough room. I'm about 5GB short. How do I go about allocating more space so that I can copy this folder so that all of my information is easily accessible?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWondering if its possible to have a User's home folder that resides in a different partition (could be ntfs or ext). I don't mean mounting /home on a different partition. The home directory will still be available for adding more users but I'd like to have a specific User's folder away from /home
How can one achieve this?
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 RelatedHaving been converted to using "Linux" about 8 months ago, and gaining confidence to try different distros, and figuring out how to 'keep' my Home folder, I've had great fun trying them out and learning as I go. The latest distro I'm trying is Kubuntu, which I really like and will keep for a while. However, when I was partitioning in the set-up, I omitted to create my home folder. Instead I now have is a partition the size of my "old" home folder, and to which I have to sign into to gain access. The files are all there so that is no problem.
1. What i would like to know is if this set-up is OK, or should I change it so that it is actually in the home folder (if so how?( a re-install?))
2. If I should decide to try out another distro in the future will this be safe to change to "home"?.
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 RelatedInstalled karmic fresh a couple weeks ago.
After doing the last update I can only reboot to the BusyBox (intramfs) prompt -pic is attached. Other posts suggest there are some missing modules but I haven't figured it out yet.
There are some files I'd like to save to my external hard drive not to mention my evolution emails, Firefox bookmarks, etc. in case I have to reinstall 9.10.
find these things when I'm booted up using the Live CD? They must be buried somewhere in the file system but haven't been able to find them.
how to get past the BusyBox boot issue, attached is the RESULTS.txt file from the Boot Info Script.
I need to backup my /home directory on the HDD. I broke the current ubuntu installation, so I can not just boot up the system without the live CD. Is there any way I can access my user data in /home? I need to back it up so I can reformat/reinstall.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just installed ubuntu 11.04, and so far my only problem is that every time i click on home folder, nothing happens.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI can't believe I have a problem with something as basic as this. None the less here is my issue with getting to the home folder on 11.04 On the new side bar nav thing in 11.04 the very top item looks like a folder. Hover over it and it says 'Home Folder'. Clicking it takes you to the home folder. So far so good. Now, close the home folder and be on your desktop. Put in USB drive or some other external usb drive and open it.
Once it is open click the 'Home Folder' side nav link again. It does not open. As if that is not bad enough (and downright stupid) try this. Leave you USB drive or whatever it was open, and open another application. Your broswer will do (as it's already open). While your browser has focus, click the 'Home Folder' icon again. What do you expect to see? Yep, the USB drive is now your home folder. Must be, as 11.04 presents it when you click the Home Folder icon.
I am currently running 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate, with a VMWare 32-bit Windows XP virtual machine, and I know how to use both OS's fluently. I have a 16 GB FAT32 USB drive which I use for document storage, to run portable applications, and to boot Ubuntu. I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 Live onto my USB with a 2 GB rw casper storage file. I would like to find a containment option where I can put all the Ubuntu system files currently exposed on my flash drive, into a folder, or a partition, where one click access to them is not available.
When they are in this folder/partition I would still like to be able to boot from the USB. I tried simple drag and drop of files/folders into a new folder within the USB drive, but I had a SYSLINUX error when I tried to boot from the USB. As soon as I removed the Ubuntu files from the folder I created, I was able to boot from the USB sans problems. These files don't have to be encrypted or hidden, I would just like them to be in a folder or some other container where they are not accessible as soon as you open the USB drive.
I can't access the home-folder. There is a problem with ecryptfs
computer@computer:~$ cd /
computer@computer:/$ ecryptfs-mount-private
Enter your login passphrase:
Inserted auth tok with sig [ ] into the user session keyring
mount: Operation not permitted
Nothing is shown on the desktop and trying to access home or any folder inside gives me an error which says:
Could not open location 'file:///home/lisandro' No application is registered as handling this file
I installed ubuntu 10.04 LTS few weeks ago, I formated old system file to ext4 but I didnt format my old /home (in ext3 format). So after, the installation I went to Home folder.. the ubuntu created defaults folders (Pictures, Documents, etc) But there isnt my old files!, all my pictures or settings gone!..
Now, I thougth all my old data gone forever. But watching my /home partition in gparted, I see have the same Used space like before. Means the files are there but cant see them, even with Ctrl + H.
And my account name is the same like old Distro's.
I've just decided (as you do!) to rearrange all my OSes. I now have Ubuntu and Windows 7 on one hard drive and all my data on another hard drive formatted as FAT32 so that both OSes can read it.I've seen plenty of tutorials on how to move your home directory to another hard drive but I just want the contents of the DATA drive to become my Home directory.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have successfully changed the usernamebut now I want to change the name of Home toreflect the new username
View 3 Replies View RelatedI can't remember if i choose encrypt my home folder when i first install ubuntu.
is there a way to know if it's encrypted?
I installed Ubuntu yesterday, ran into quite a few problems but I managed to fix all of the bigger ones, and so far I LOVE Ubuntu. Way better than Mac or Windows IMO. However there's also a few smaller problems I'd like to take care of, and I decided to start a separate thread for each one. So I don't know what happened, but everything in my home folder disappeared. So, I recreated the folders with the respective names. However, they just don't function the same. The icons look different, they don't register the same way ex: Cairo-dock's shortcuts... the links don't work, they don't show up under Places, and they show up on my desktop. I can't delete them from desktop either because they will simply disappear from the folder as well, which isn't like the real folders. So my question is how do I get those folders back and get them to look and function the same?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen clicking on the Home Folder, K3B opens up. This also occurs on all icons under Places.
We have tried uninstalling K3B and the system is ok. But when you install K3B the problem comes back.
My desktop is set to my home folder and I can't seem to get it to change. It happened because accidently dragged Desktop icon into a hidden folder. Then when I copied it back it's set to the home folder. Even changing it back in gconf-editor does nothing. how to get it back to normal. I hate having my home folder as the desktop.
View 1 Replies View RelatedTwo month ago I accidentally deleted my home folder (yes, very stupid idea but it wasn't on purpose).
I managed to recover the home folder from /home/.Trash-0/tobias by copying it back to where it belongs and changing the file ownership from "root" to my user (tobias).
After this recovery I tried to delete /home/.Trash-0/tobias but it wouldn't work. Whenever I tried, a new folder appeared in /home/.Trash-0/ (root home) named tobias.2, tobias.2.2 and so on. (see first screenshot). This means I had two copies of my home folder on my hard disk (2 x 156.1 GB at that time).
At that time I didn't care since I had enough disk space left (33.8 GB, see second screenshot) and thought Ubuntu would take care of this some time by removing the files in /home/.Trash-0/.
Fast forward to today, I get warnings of low disk space. My home folder today is around 160 GB but together with the deleted one in /.Trash-0/ I only have 1.3 GB disk space left in my home folder.
Any ideas how to delete the unused second home folder copy? Or is there some other way to free the disk space occupied by .Trash-0/ ?
(Ubuntu 10.04. LTS on vaio VPCEB1S1E btw)
my home folder does not seem to open this is the same with all my other folders if you try to open the folder in docky it look like it going to open but does no
View 4 Replies View RelatedLike I said my home folder is massive, 98GB. But Disk Usage Analyzer shows that everything in /home/nuggie as small and equaling no where near 98GB.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI followed this guide: [URL]...to customize my launcher. When I tried to add an smb share, my home folder disappeared from the launcher, as did my /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop file.I can't get my nautilus-home.desktop file working again. I have replaced it with:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Home Folder
Comment=Open your personal folder
TryExec=nautilus
Exec=nautilus --no-desktop
Icon=user-home
Terminal=false
[Code]...
but it has no effect. When I sign out of Ubuntu and sign back in, the Home Folder icon is still missing from the Unity Launcher. I realize I can open Nautilus and then right-click it and select "Keep in Launcher", but this would not enable me to add the customizations I want from the link above.
I have also tried "unity --reset" and "unity --reset-icons", but this doesn't return my default home folder to the launcher. How can I restore my original home folder to the launcher?
How to fix the icons on home folder? Changing icons not changing these icons but everything else. as you can see below icons inside folders are changing but not the home folder ones.
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