I have used SUse some time now, and I return now to Ubuntu. In Yast cron jobs can be edited easily in order to keep the tmp-partition clean. I would like to do the same in ubuntu, as I know a full tmp partition prevents the system from booting. So, how to do it? I have tmpreaper installed, but this soft is not as handy as Yast. Tmpreaper.conf can indeed be edited, but I have no idea how. It is always "read only".
View 1 Repliesinstalled ubuntu 10.10 via wubi but no uninstall in add and remove windows 7 so how do i remove safely so to do a clean install of 11.04 by doing a partition
View 2 Replies View RelatedI made an upgrade from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and this upgrade generated a series of permission problems.
Considering that I have an individual /home partition, I am planning to make a clean install of Karmic (9.10) on a laptop with a 230GB hard disk and 2GB RAM.
The actual hard disk is mounted the following way:
In total there are some 230GB of Hard Disk available.
The fat 32 partition was not a good idea, because I can't access it from the file manager, so I will dump this partition on my next installation.
Now my question: What partitions would you recommend to mount and what size would you give to each partition?
I guess it's time to move up to Ubuntu 9.10 from 9.04 ...unless you would advise me to stay with 9.04. Either way, I would like to do a clean install. I managed to create a separate partition for /home almost a year ago ... now the only thing I want to keep inside /home is one big folder which I already had made a backup copy with several DVDs (larger than 4GB). Besides that large folder, I would like to start everything new. This would be my second time installing and it has been quite awhile. Here are my questions:
1. I know I have backup DVDs in hand. But sometimes DVDs are funky. I would restore my files with DVDs as last resort. So, should I just delete all files and folders (including hidden ones) under /home except a large folder that I would like to keep? If so, can I do that while on a normal gnome session or am I better off doing it while on Live CD?
2. I see a suggestion that when installing Ubuntu, I need to make sure to mount /home but NOT FORMAT IT. Is there a visual tutorial or step-by-step guide showing how to do this?
3. Are there other gotchas like I need to "create" user name the exact same spelling as old user name that is already created under /home on my harddrive?
My windows partition is infected and I recall that it is supposed to be possible from the linux partition with ClamAV. Now I'm running Fedora12 but this forum is much more active and I suppose that doesn't make a big difference. I tried to find something on google but most procedures seem to involve a Live CD but it would be more convenient for me to just do it from my linux distro running. Is there anything I have to be aware of or is it literally just scanning the windows partition with ClamAV?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a PC that has 10.04 installed and no other operating system. The 1 TB hard disk has two partitions:
* 940 GB NTFS for data storage
* 50GB ext4 (which has 10 GB extended and 10 GB sawp)
The system has become sluggish and slow and browsers and so on often "hang" for a few seconds prior to executing. There is an epiphany dependency problem that I cannot solve.
My questions are:
1. Is it possible to do a clean install on the 50GB partition from a live CD?
2. Is it better to do this than upgrade to 10.10 and thence to 11.04? [When I ungraded like this in the past, I had problems, so I would prefer a clean install].
3. If it is possible to do a clean install on the 50GB partition, should I reformat the partition and if so, can I do that from the live CD?
I have tried countless things and am at a complete loss. I'm pretty new to Ubuntu and Linux in general, just so everyone knows. Here's my problem: I can run the 10.10 install disc as a Live CD and have perfectly functional internet. However, when I install into a clean ext4 partition, I have zero internet support. I have Googled the heck out of this problem, too.I've tried tinkering with IPv6 settings, I've tried scouring my BIOS for anything relating to "Wake-on-LAN" (It's enabled in Windows 7, by the way, which is what I dual-boot into), and several other network-related ideas I've read online. None have had any effectEDIT: Additional details: ethernet worked like a champ in 10.04, and in 10.10 when I did an upgrade instead of a clean install. I had this same ethernet problem in a clean 11.04 install (which also worked in Live CD form), too, which is why I tried 10.04 to begin with.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've finally found a couple of useful tutorials on setting up RAID in Linux. However, because this is new ground to me, I have a couple of basic questions which I think the tutorial writers gloss over because of their familiarity with the process. My questions are these:
1. Most tutorials speak about setting up only one partition on clean drives. Can I set up more than one (e.g. / and home) to be mirrored as two partitions?
2. When starting with two identical clean drives, do I need to set up my partitions identically on both drives or is it only the partitions that I want mirrored to the second drive?
I used to be Novell admin/CNE more than nine years. Since Novell sunset, I study myself and move to Linux...... At daily work, I face a lot challenges of Linux. I really need to get help from experienced Linux people. How to clean up disk space on /var partition Red Hat 5.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have problem with my printer HP Deskjet D1460. My printer is configured and works. When I send a file on the print, the printer clings a sheet of paper and starts to print, but a paper as was clean so clean and remains, after printing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI configured cron to clean my /tmp directory, should I also add other locations to clean and especially /var/tmp.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any difference between apt-get clean and aptitude clean? Do they both remove the same caches? Should I know any other commands for cleaning up wasted space on my ubuntu laptop?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter the recently 2.6.31-20 kernel update, my 100MB /boot partition is starting to lack space. When I examine it, I have a lot of old kernel files all the way back to 2.6.31-14.
Is it safe to just delete all the kernel files except for the 2.6.31-20 ones?
The only files and folders on that partition is just the grub folder and all the kernel files anyway.
I installed Debian stable and I see these errors in the xsession error file
/etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
GNOMEKEYRINGCONTROL=/tmp/keyring-j0E6Br
SSHAUTHSOCK=/tmp/keyring-j0E6Br/ssh
GNOMEKEYRINGCONTROL=/tmp/keyring-j0E6Br
[code]....
I,m running ubuntu 10.04 and prior to that have ran a Linux op system for about a year now. I,m thinking its time to clean up amd tweak my PC. Any ideas how I can do this? In the other operating a defrag and :c drive "Clean Up" seemed to worked.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've had ubuntu installed on this computer, and I've updated it all the way up to Lucid from Dapper over the years. I'd like to clean out settings and old programs that might not be needed anymore to make it more like a fresh install, as I've noticed some problems that people with fresh installs don't seem to have. Two indicators for Empathy Computer Janitor freezes Weird system tools and wine entries, etc.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to get Samba running, but I accidentally deleted smb.conf. I tried reinstalling Samba through apt-get, but it does not create another smb.conf (which it did when I first installed it). I'm pretty new to ubuntu, and I'm just wondering if anybody knows how to get a completely clean install.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to learn more about managing my ubuntu system and I was wondering what the difference is between apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean; and if there is a general rule of thumb on when to use them.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI think i wanted to do something bigger than me...and now i want to clean everything and going back...
here it's what i did on this page: http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/126/ho...sors-in-ubuntu
i think i load a module when ubuntu startup,installed lm-sensors and made an executable script? right? how can i get everything back and cleaning ?
I see sometimes when you're compiling something to run, you do a make, install and clean. What exactly does clean do?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been using my 2TB external hard drive with Ubuntu with no problems for a while now, but recently there is one folder on the drive that I cannot access. Whenever I try to open the folder I get "error stating file: Input/output error". I scoured the forums and noticed that the folder might just be dirty because I failed to use the Windows option to "safely unplug" the drive (bolstered by the fact that neither avast! or Malwarebites found anything). My question is how do I "clean" the folder so I can use it again?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI need to change the language used by Ubuntu 8.10 (updated to 9.04) from English to Spanish. This does not refer to the keybord distribution. What must I do?Alternatively, I could remove Ubuntu so as to start from scratch again with a 9.10 CD. But I don't know how to make a clean uninstall. The 80 GB HD contains as well windows XP and boots with Grub. Originally the present Ubuntu was installed to an unallocated space left on purpose to receive Linux. Ideally this space ought to return to that condition to be able to receive the new installation.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI read somewhere that i can clean cache memory with this comand:
Code:
david@lap:~$ sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
The problem is that permission is denied as you see...
I recently tried the package "pysdm" to mount a data partition but didn't care for the way it handled things so I opted for editing fstab which I'm much more satisfied with.I did then purge pysdem and it's config files but something lingered, finally I got things working by using a UUID designation in fstab but I know there's an old symlink to a /dev/sdb7 that has since been deleted and later recreated with a new UUID.
I have "googled" enough to find that the package "fslint" should be able to handle this but since one gui got me in trouble I'm reluctant to use another, I'd prefer just being able to find where symlinks live and ripping them out by the short hairs
My Ubuntu partition is just about out of memory, and I need to do some cleaning of the windows.I couldn't find a lot on here (maybe I wasn't using the right terms), and when I looked on google it seemed like the only results I found were from people that wanted to remove linux from windows.What I'd like to do is create a very, very small partition for windows for when I need it (burning MP3s to CDA and my printer only).I wouldn't mind re-installing windows and starting from scratch (I have all my software backed up) and then installing Ubuntu a backed up version of Ubuntu. Except I can't get Clonezilla to install for the life of me after several attempts.So is their any (hopefully easy) way to clean up windows without going to extremes?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI noticed its my hardive that has problems and wont boot any of my operating systems not letting me get to my desktop. Is there a way i can clean it or a disk to do it but without doing it at your desktop?
View 7 Replies View RelatedEver since I first discovered alacarte (gnome menu editor) I have been creating lots of menus and submenus for gnome menu so I can always find what I want. To avoid having to redo them, whenever I try another gnome based distro or do a fresh install I always copy ~/.local/share/desktop-directories and applications (and a couple of other files, I forget right now) so I can use the same menus in those.
Well, I don't use these custom menus so much lately so have gone for a much simpler solution of creating a "Favourites" submenu and just adding apps I use a lot. It was while rummaging around .local today I noticed there are hundreds of left over files from long since deleted custom menus (like 18 months+) that I have been copying from one distro to another all this time. Why on earth doesn't alacarte delete all these deleted menus and applications files?
I just did a little experiment: I deleted everything out of these folders so I was basically left with the stock gnome menu with no customizations. I then added a new submenu and then added 3 random apps to to it. I then went and deleted two of those apps and when I went to check, sure enough ~/.local/share/applications contained the 3 files instead of one.
I uninstalled Chromium including config files through synaptic, but then after doing a file search, I found lots of Chromium and Chrome files laying around. So then I used that search list to delete them, but I believe there are still Chromium/Chrome files somewhere on my Ubuntu 9.10.To regress a bit and for a little background on this problem, I wanted to uninstall Chromium because I want to see if I can correct this problem that I have with the browsing history file. I want the browse history feature to work and it doesn't - the archive has all of the activity from only one day in history, 8 Apr 2010, and when I try to delete that day of history, it says that is has been deleted, but it is still there, and it won't record any of my browse history.
So I thought if I could do a clean install from scratch, maybe I could get the history feature back.Anybody know where I can find the file containing the history files and/or tell me how to clean reinstall of Chromium?
I downloaded and installed k3b from the software center and remember seeing that after it was installed, an additional 180MB would be taken up. so the installation process took about 2-3 minutes after unpackaging or whatever it does. But when I went to uninstall it, it took like 2 seconds. Is there a way to clean up packages that hasn't been uninstalled all the way or haven't been used? Is that normal?
View 4 Replies View RelatedThis is kind of a odd request but I figured I would ask before just poking around and messing something up!
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7. I have 80 gigs of my HD dedicated to ubuntu the rest of my 500 gig HD to Windows . Heres my issue when the initial boot screen comes up asking me what OS I want to use. Theres like 4 versions of Ubuntu and then the Windows selection. I was wondering if theres a easy way to go in and clean it up so only the most recent Kernel update is showing, it's recovery mode option, and then Windows?