I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on half of my D drive about a year ago, but realized that I don't really need all the space on the Ubuntu partition. I have Windows Visa Home Premium installed on my C drive. Is there any way to re-size the drive on which I had installed Ubuntu without removing it?
View 4 RepliesI just purchased a new MSI WindTop AE2220 with a 320 GB hard drive running Windows 7. I want to dual boot until I know I have found all of the appropriate drivers. The confusing part is that the computer came with 4 partitions as displayed in the attached screenshot jpeg. How would you recommend I resize and partition my drive?
Current Partitions (in order):
Recovery Partition 14.65GB / 14.45 free
Active Recovery 100 mb / 100 mb free
OS-Install (c) 68.36GB / 42.06 GB free
Data (D) 214 GB / 213 free
Will install Lucid 10.04
linux newbie here -- there is a feature in windows 7 that I would love to make work here. I'm sure there is some way to do it, given how customizable linux is, but I have no idea how.
In windows 7, if you hit the Windows key + the left arrow, it will automatically resize the window you are looking at to fill half the screen, on the left side. Likewise if you push the right arrow, for the right side, Windows+up arrow maximizes, and windows + down arrow minimizes. Does anyone have an idea of how I can configure ubuntu to do the same thing?
I have tried the Netbook Edition as a live CD (SD card actually) and as a VMWare virtual machine - trying to decide if I want to use it rather than the "real" distro on my netbook. The issue which is bugging me at the moment is that all windows seem to open full screen. Granted this is generally appropriate with a small display. However, I do not need a full screen terminal window.
So, I right click on the titlebar and select Unmaximize (took me a while to figure out that one as there are no window close, min, max buttons displayed) and I set the window to the size I want it. I then close the terminal. When I launch terminal again it is full screen.
Is there a way to tell gnome to remember the last window size for an app? My 10.04 desktop seems to do this by default.
I have tried ntfsresize with the partition mounted and unmounted, and get the same error message: Illegal new volume size. I have also tried many different volume sizes and all get same message.
View 12 Replies View RelatedMy little server box running 11.04 currently has two drives configured in a LVM, a 160gb internal drive and a 1tb usb drive.I have three logical volumes root and swap on the 160gb and backup on the 1tb. I am going to be changing the internal drive for a 8gb SSD and would like to keep the data currently on the external, is it possible to do this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am running Debian Jessie with Gnome 3.14.2 on a Macbook Pro 15" with retina display. My resolution is currently set to 2880:1800 and any time I try to lower it, the whole screen goes to black (even if I change it to something in the 16:10 ratio) and I just have to keep force restarting when doing that. I want to lower it because a lot of stuff is really small. Certain aspects of windows in programs are so small, and in order to properly view stuff on my web browser I have to increase the magnification to around 250% for it to be reasonable.
Some things seem normally sized in the windows, and thus make things awkward on the screen, especially in chrome. Is there a way to fix this without having to change my resolution and/or font sizes? Making font sizes bigger on the gnome tweak tool makes things look a bit more awkward because it squeezes the text into small spaces. I would rather keep a higher resolution for a better picture, and changing it seems to mess things up. Here is what my browser looks like (without magnifying). Notice how the font size in the bookmark bar is disproportionately large compared to the buttons in the top right to close/max/min the window.
And this problem isn't just in the browser, but for example, in matlab everything is extremely tiny. I want to make everything larger, not just the text...
I have been attempting to load the latest version of Shotwell only to find that it is not available on 10.04. Consequently I attempted to load 10.10 and found that it would not load from my DVD. Similarly 11.04 fell at the wayside. Tried downloading both OSs again and again but each time failure to load.
Having come across reference to test drive I thought that I would give it a go and followed the instructions on this. It appeared to download OK but then would not display the OS. Decided to remove but despite it appearing to be removed (from the information displayed in the terminal) it still is loitering on the menu.
Since that failure I think that it could be related I am now being continuously asked to authenticate the keyring, something that from my initial install I have never needed to use.
The search function does not like "U3" so I cannot locate the latest in removing it. Has anyone figured out how to do so using Linux? (Explosive, maybe, but was the Stupix worm hidden in flash drives using the U3 tools?)
View 9 Replies View RelatedI did an installation of SUSE 11.2 on a new SCSI hard drive. Keeping the old hard drive separate. I remembered there was some info on the old hard drive I wanted.
I added this to the system and mounted a partition. I then copied the data over. Then I umounted the partition rebooted the machine and removed the hard drive.
However the machine will now not boot without this hard drive even though its not mounted. Not sure what the error message im given means I think it could be trying to fchk it.
Do I need to do something more like remove /dev/sdd ?
I have a flash drive that I used on my old netbook to temporally hold a copy of ubuntu as the netbooks internal drive was dead. I have since got a new netbook and wanted to return the flash drive to simple removable storage. I've re-partitioned it back to 14gb fat32 2gb ext2 and everything is working fine. Except that if I try to boot with the key inserted grub loads then errors imminently (sort of obvious if grub is still in the MBR but there is no menu.lst file anymore...) Googling for removal of GRUB just gives me loads of hits for how to restore windows mbrs when you dont want to keep linux anymore. None of these methods seem to have any targeting. I need to remove grub from sdb while keeping it intact in sda. sdb shouldn't even be bootable, so that when boot from usb is higher in the bios than boot from hdd the usb key is ignored and the hdd is booted as normal.
View 3 Replies View RelatedServer (LVM):
500GB
320GB
I want to install a new 500GB and remove the 320GB, of course moving the data on the 320GB to the new 500GB. I have an external 1TB in enclosure that I can plug in to move the data over, but how do I move only the data on the 320GB to it?? I found this [URL]. But that is only to move the data to a new replacement disk, but my external is only temporary to move the data from the 320GB until I remove it+install 500GB, then move the data back. Not enough space on the 500GB already on server to move everything from 320GB to it, just in case that seemed the obvious thing to do.
I tried to install Ubuntu on an external drive, but it doesn't boot, but it installed GRUB on my main HD, and now I can't even boot Windows. I only get a "grub rescue" prompt. I need to remove GRUB. How to do it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a way to quickly remove all data/partitions/boot records from my hard drives while running linux (distribution is irelevant). There are lots of ways to do this that I know of, but they all have some problems. Here's a list of what I've tried/thought of already. The most obvious is fdisk: Simply delete all the partitions. This usually works just fine and is very quick, but there are times it just doesn't....I'm realy not sure what gets left behind...I remove the MBR as well..but whatever it is, it's in the way. A couple other options are:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
shred -vfz -n 1 /dev/sdb
Both of these approaches are great if you're selling the components and want to make it very difficult for anyone to recover data. The draw-back is they take so very long to run. I've got four 1.5 TB drives that I've been writing zeros to for 2 days now. If you thought watching grass grow or paint drying was boring. A hundred years ago or so, when I was doing tech support for Windows 95 users we used this nifty dos-based debug script to wipe the hard drive. It was sort-of a last resort thing, but it worked beautifully, most of the time. If the customer had already formated, fdisked, fdisk /mbr, reinstalled Windows, but still couldn't get the thing to work, this would clean the drive so you could do a fresh install.
Just in case someone wants this, I'll post it. To use: first boot to some type of DOS environment in which you have the program "debug".
debug
-F 200 L1000 0
-A CS:100
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80
NOTE: Type 80 for the primary hard drive - HD 0,
or type 81 for the secondary hard drive - HD 1.
In most cases, the primary hard drive is required 80.
xxxx:010C INT 13
xxxx:010E INT 20
xxxx:0110 (Leave this line blank. Press the <Enter> key to continue.)
-G
The message Program terminated normally appears. How to do something like that while running linux?
After a couple of years, I decided this weekend to replace my old slackware 10.2 with the latest stable version 13.1 64 bit. The change log tells me that with the new kernel 2.6, the old IDE/ATA system has been removed and the libata is used instead. That /dev/hda become /dev/sda and so on. No problem sofar, however ...
My FIRST hardware configuration was:
One SATA drives connected to the onboard SATA controller [A]
Two PATA drive connected to PCI IDE controller 1 [B & C]
Two PATA drive connected to PCI IDE controller 2 [D & E]
One PATA drive connected to the onboard IDE controller [F]
So initially the system had 6 disk drives. Booting from the Slackware install dvd, I found out that the drives are detected in the following order.
Onboard SATA controller
PCI IDE Controllers
Onboard IDE Controller
And the drives are get names in the following order:
/dev/sda : SATA disk @ Onboard SATA controller
/dev/sdb : first PATA disk @ PCI IDE controller 1
/dev/sdc : seconde PATA disk @ PCI IDE controller 1
/dev/sdd : first PATA disk @ PCI IDE controller 2
/dev/sde : seconde PATA disk @ PCI IDE controller 2
/dev/sdf : PATA disk @ Onboard IDE controller 1
sda upto sde are configured to us with LVM, so 4 disks are added to the volume group.
sdf is where Slackware is installed (sdf1 = swap; sdf5 = /boot; sdf6 /; sdf7 = /usr; sdf8 = /home; sdf9 = /var; sdf10 = /tmp)
Here is the problem:
When a 7th disk is added (another SATA drive @ Onboard SATA controller) then all names are changed like:
sda remains the same
sdb new added SATA drive
sdb -> sdc
sdc -> sdd
sdd -> sdf
sdf -> sdg
Obviously booting without LILO parameters results in a kernel panic, so I booted with: Linux boot=/dev/sdg root=/dev/sdg6. This does not give the kernel panic, but results in an option to check a drive and gives an option ctrl+d to boot normally. However it reboots and I get stuck at the same again.
How does LVM handle the naming shift of the drives? The 4 drives that are part of the volume group contain critical data!!! If needed, I can reinstall Slackware again from dvd with all 7 drives attached (to avoid naming shift), but how do I recover my volume group? What if one of the drives dies or is removed, then naming shift happens again.
I have a 7.9 TB logical volume I've created from 8 1 TB RAID 0 devices. The volume is formatted with XFS so I can resize when ready. However, I think I want to do something that is not possible. I have 2.5 TB free on my logical volume. I'd like to shrink the volume down to be 6 TB by getting rid of 2 of the 1 TB devices in the physical volume. However pvmove seems to require free extents in order to work. Do I need to add 6 TB of storage, pvmove everything onto it, and then decommission the original 8 1 TB physical devices from the volume?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a nightly scheduled script which creates a $vhostname directory under /mnt, mounts a windows box pointing to /mnt/$vhostname then rsyncs (pulls) some files/folders from the mount point. After this, I want to unmount the drive and remove the /mnt/$vhostname directory. Problem is that removing the /mnt/$vhostname directory sometimes ends up deleting all the files on the source! Example of script (stripped out lots of superfluous stuff):
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vHOSTNAME='testhost'
vRSYNCFLAGS='-ahvz --inplace'
/bin/mkdir -p /mnt/${vHOSTNAME}
/usr/bin/rsync ${vRSYNCFLAGS} /mnt/${vHOSTNAME}/KAVSHARE /backups3/${vHOSTNAME}/
/bin/umount -l /mnt/${vHOSTNAME}
/bin/rm -Rf /mnt/${vHOSTNAME}
It seems that my umount line isn't disconnecting the mount, leaving the following line to literally delete all directories, recursively. Is there a way of safely just deleting the directory (ie: mount link) without linux accidentally trashing the whole source?
I took some videos off a usb flash drive, then went and selected " safely remove usb" and the light continued to blink on the flashdrive, I pulled it out any way, and the root folder turned red... everything seems ok, but how do you know when it's ok to safely remove a usb devise ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install freeBSD on F14 (with LUKS encryprion). freeBSD doesn't detect hard-drive, probably coz of LUKS? Now what can I do within F14 to format harddrive and remove LUKS to get in a shape that I can install freeBSD or other OS.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a seagate SATA hard drive that was running a mythtv distro. It had 3 partitions, EXT3, swap, and XFS. I started having I/O errors on boot and saw error messages on both the EXT3 and the XFS partitions. I also heard some clunking sounds on the drive when it was reading, so I thought hell, the drive is dead.
I have since replaced the drive and everything is back up and running on the replacement drive. I thought hell, the seagate drive is toast, but I just want to verify it with some sort of tool. I have the hard drive in a Vantec NexStar external hard drive case (SATA->USB) and found there was a tool called badblocks. Ran badblocks on it, which ran for 24ish hours and found no bad blocks. I also didn't notice any clunking sounds while it was running.
I ran
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badblocks -n -v /dev/sdb
Is badblocks a proper test to run on external hard drives or was I just wasting my time? Is there any way that I can really test it without removing it and connecting it with SATA to the motherboard?
what i did was, remove evolution mail from synaptic, what i wanted to do was just remove the indicator applet from the task bar. i read a bunch of bad stuff about removing evolution from synaptic vs just removing the applet.
im worried. did i break anything or put my security at risk. after, i used a command (older) (sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop)to install ubuntu desktop. because i thought that it would fix evolution. then i went to synaptic and installed a package called evolution. i rechecked evolution in applications menu. however, i notice that i have both a checkable evolution and two evolution icons. nothing 'seems' broken. im not sure if it ever was. and evolution calender pops up as normal, as does the the installed plain evolution. they both seems to be an exact copy of the other.
all i really wanted to do was remove the indicator applet. did i make a serious mistake. since ive had ubuntu, ive reformatted a lot because i was worried i made a mistake of some kind. however now im into the more "make a mistake and fix it stage' as im pretty happy with my current desktop and have worked hard to customize it. the command, sudo apt-get remove indicator-messages removed the mail icon. i still am worried that i broke something, or put my security at risk. also, now i have two mail icons. evolution mail and calendar, and another just called evolution.
I know a bunch of commands and I am comfortable using the terminal, I even set a powerpc server but I can't figure out how to remove epiphany on this new computer I'm setting up. I didn't install anything with tasksel. I installed gnome and xorg afterwards... I load it up and 'startx' just fine. then I check around for the programs that were installed. I lik'em gimp, lot's of utilities. gedit. anyway I find epiphany, which I have already established that I dislike, I immediately go to the root terminal (another nice program that comes with gnome) and type apt-get remove epiphany-browser-data the output says it will be deleting gnome... however I have researched and found these are simpy meta packages that don't really matter.... however under the section that states all the packages that will be removed by autoremove there is a huge list... I doubt these packages are safe to remove. how to remove epiphany without removing a huge amount of probably needed software
View 14 Replies View RelatedThese should be my last pleas for help with regard to Fedora 13. I've been unable to turn off the notifications that appear in the top right corner, despite a decent amount of searching on google. I can't remove any notifications package without removing a bunch of important software along with it. Also, F13 refuses to "Safely Remove" either of my external disks. I have to yank out the usb cord, touching wood each time.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using an old laptop with a PC-Card bay and a cardbus WiFi adapter. If I remove the WiFi adapter to insert something else in the bay, Lubuntu locks up solid--even the mouse refuses to move. I assume I'm going about this wrong...is there a proper way to remove the adapter that won't crash the system?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to upgrade my current hp printer driver 3.10.9 to the latest version 3.11.1 According to 'Google' the command to remove the driver is sudo apt-get remove hplip but when I type this in terminal I get:liz@lizubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove hplipReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information... DonePackage hplip is not installed, so not removed0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
I installed 3.10.9 as per the Launchpad website - it looks like Ubuntu is not 'seeing' hplip although it is installed and working. I guess I need a more subtle command to get rid of all the hp driver files. Or could I just install 3.11.1 over the top? (Would have thought best to remove 3.10.9 first).
i am wanting to make some play along tracks out of some of my favorite songs and was wondering if there is a way to remove the drums from the track.
i understand you can remove the vocals fairly easily so i was wondering if theres a way to do the same with the drums or other instruments.
I'd like to strip out all of the metadata, everything. Sometimes the photos have been in and out of different computers or passed around from friends, and I don't want any info left, including the archive bit.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn my efforts to try and find a working screencaster, a fellow Ubuntu mate helped me out by giving me some commands to get "Kazam Screencaster." I used the commands but it didn't work, and now when I:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
It gives me the error:
Code:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/and471/kazam-daily-stable/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/and471/kazam-daily-stable/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. How do I remove the kazam-daily-stable from my respiratory?
I have installed Toad via wine on ubuntu 10.04, now i want to remove toad from my laptop can you please tell how i can remove toad.
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