A co-worker was asking me if there was a way to recuperate his child's baptism photos from his HD after it had been reformatted following a crash. I heard that this was possible and even downloaded a few trial programs, but have yet to try them.
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So I figure now is a good time to give Ubuntu a try. I plan to install the KDE version of ubuntu on the new drive, but once that's finished I will want to mount the old disk and copy as much as I can off of it onto the new disk (JPEGs, old documents, stuff under my home directory.
The old disk uses Reiser. I have read various threads concerning problems with mounting Reiser FS disks under ubuntu, but many of them are old so it's not clear to me what the current status of support for Reiser in ubuntu is.
I am planning to do the following:
1) Remove the old disk from the PC, put the new disk in its place.
2) Install kubuntu on the new disk.
3) Put the old disk back into the machine along with the new one with the old one being the slave/secondary disk so that when I power up the machine, it will be running ubuntu off of the new disk.
At this point I will want to mount the old disk so I can then start copying files off of it.
What do I need to do to mount the old disk, keeping in mind it uses the Reiser file system?
I've been having a problem with this "BusyBox", and unlike windows, my files are not able to be "stolen" to another operating system. I need to get my files back from /home back.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I had a problem with my ubuntu 10.04 on wubi. so i saved the root.disk and uninstalled it then reinstalled unbuntu 10.04 as another partition. I did the mount thing with the root.disk and now and trying to move files over. I need permission for that and its asking me for a sudo password and i didnt set one. i tried using sudo bash and its also not working.
Code:
igor@igor-laptop:~$ sudo bash
root@igor-laptop:~# mv '/mnt/usr/share/themes' '/usr/share'
mv: inter-device move failed: `/mnt/usr/share/themes' to `/usr/share/themes'; unable to remove target: Is a directory
I'm running CentOS 5.5.
A couple of weeks ago, my 500 GB disk crashed after suffering an accelerating error rate for a couple of days.
Now that I have a new disk in place, I want to mount my old disk, which is (was) an LVM disk, as a second disk and recover files from it if possible.
The question is, how do I go about this?
If I mount the old disk:
# mount /dev/sdb1 /sdb1
the top-level directory shows only two subdirectories:
lost+found, which is empty; restored, which is an image of files recovered from old disk's predecessor.
'df' shows (or appears to show) that the disk is 11% full. Sorry, I don't recall how full the disk was before it crashed.
How do I get the system to recognize the LVM structure on the old disk & mount it?
Or is the directory structure too corrupted? Do I need to send the disk out to a recovery service?
P.S. Have aleady done some poking around with lvmdiskscan, which shows the old disk whether it's mounted or not, and vgchange -ay, which doesn't appear to do anything.
When installing ubuntu on a dual boot system, I noticed that it had the import option for basically the documents and settings folder from windows, which is brilliant I think, but my question is, if during the installation of ubuntu, I tell it to use the whole drive, will that option still be available? It's basically asking if I can do that before formatting the box.
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View 2 Replies View Relatedi'm doing a fresh network install of f15 from a usb stick. the installation has now been stuck on the "retrieving installation information for fedora 15 - i386" stage for over an hour. on previous releases this stage has only taken a few mins. i can see from my router that there have been thousands of packets sent and received from the laptop. i've searched all the normal places but can't find anyone else reporting this. does anyone know if this is a known bug (and if there is a fix) or if this stage takes significantly longer in f15 to any previous release ? cheers.
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finally got to the next stage after nearly two hours. no idea why it took so long.
What format should I go with on an external HDD to ferry large files (up to 10Gb) between various Macs, Ubuntu and Windows machines?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI was trying to figure out how to generate compressed files in zip format and searched on here. The search produced a list of forum entries on the topic, but all of the instructions were on how to do it in terminal, how to download obscure programs and install them from terminal, then run them from terminal, with all these arcane sets of switches and parameters. Eesh.
It comes with Ubuntu, after all. In the case of zipping files, all you have to do is to go to the File Manager, find the file(s), select it or them, right-click on it or them, and select Compress and file type zip. It's so simple.
There have been a number of other tasks where I wind up spending hours figuring out how to implement the advice offered in these forums through Terminal. The folks who offer the advice often are so good at it that they leave out steps obvious to them, but that take a lot of work for somebody not as skilled at it to find out. After crawling through broken glass to get the job done, and normally screwing something up so it's not quite right once I get it going, I figure out how to do it through the GUI and find out it takes a fraction of the effort.
I need a tool or a script or something that will convert mkv files into vob or avi format.
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1. They play in xine straight off. Xine is in your synaptic
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Is there a file system that both Mac OSX 10.5 and linux can read/write for large files (like 4gb files)? My desktop is Ubuntu and I run most from there, but I want to back up my MacBook and linux box on the same external hard drive. Seems there are some (paid) apps for Mac that will mount NTFS but I'm wondering if there is just a shared files ystem that will work for both.
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Which I'm trying to split using sed to have each field/value pair on on line:
So far so simple, but some of the values might have commas in them, which means they'll be split up. Is there a way to change this so that only commas not within quotes will be replaced with ? (e.g. make sed count number of " and if it finds a , after counting an odd number of " then ignore it?)
i want to change the default format of open office files permanently. Like if i save a file it saves as .odt i want to change it to .doc
View 4 Replies View RelatedI use Linux for my everyday work but lately I've been faced with a trouble when I send out file printouts from my browser from my Debian system to (normally) window$ systems, where they are not readable. Is there a way for me to convert the postscript files into pdf format? Most window$ users will have some sort of pdf reader installed but I am still to find one user that has Ghostscript and Ghostview installed. where can I find the TTF fonts that are shipped with every standard installation of Debian? I'm sometimes forced to print files through a windows system and because the fonts loaded in that system are not the ones I use in Debian (URW Gothic L, as an example) I end up having my official documents disfigured. If I can carry around with me a ready-to-install fonts package I can get over this obstacle.
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make[6]: *** [sys_block.lo] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Codec/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1/common/video/iso-mpeg4/src'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Codec/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1/common/video/iso-mpeg4'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Codec/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1/common/video/iso-mpeg4'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Codec/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1/common/video'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Codec/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1/common'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/Codec/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
What work? For Play QuickTime format in linux what work?
How can I convert video files .mov format to .mp4?
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