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Viewing windows files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to read ext4 and btrfs partitions in Windows?
I have dual boot Ubuntu 10.10 and windows 7. How would I view my files on windows from Linux? And how would I view my ...
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Xampp PHP File Permissions with NTFS Hdd's as additional media storage
I have 4 drives in my (yes, physically in the box, sata connected) Ubuntu 10.10 system with xampp installed at the /opt/lampp/ dir on the OS drive. The OS drive (ssd, lets call it drive1 for sanity) ...
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No init.d file in the etc directory
When try to cd into init.d or less init.d I get an error message:
No such file or directory
Where is init.d - why do I get that error?
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Ubuntu installer thinks my drive is empty, does not see windows paritions
I am trying to install Ubuntu10.10 64bit. I just installed Windows 7 64bit moments ago. My drive is currently partitioned like so:
100MB Boot partition (automatically made by windows 7 installer)
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Should I get rid of the filesystem at /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs?
I just installed Ubuntu 10.10. When I run df -h, I get:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 285G 20G 251G 8% /
none 1.5G 264K 1.5G ...
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How do you fix file permissions for root directory?
what is the best way to fix Ubuntu's Root file system permissions?
I was changing file permissions on a whole bunch of files that needed to be removed, I had accidentally changed the permissions ...
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Command line option to check which filesystem I am using?
Is there a command that will show which file system (ext3, ext4, FAT32, ...) the various partitions and disks are using?
Similar to how sudo fdisk -l lists information about disks and partitions?
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What is the best way to keep all your files when moving from Windows to Ubuntu?
I've been planning to change my OS to Ubuntu,
but my hard disk contains 750GB of files (in two NTFS partitions: 250GB and 700GB).
I know that it is possible to keep the larger partition and install ...
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Change swap (potentially with user data) to ext4
I have a 1 TB external harddisk where I recently installed Ubuntu onto. Before I had some backups there which I didn't want to lose. Therefore I created a new partition for Ubuntu. During this process ...
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Is there a simple way to add exFAT support?
Is there a simple way to add exFAT support to Ubuntu without kernel patching?
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Not mounting/finding 1TB NTFS drive
I am having trouble with Ubuntu recognizing/finding/mounting one of my hard drives. I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7. I had Ubuntu 10.04 and all drives showed up under "Places" I could click on any ...
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Implementing ncpmount into GDM [closed]
How would I be able to implement ncpmount into GDM? ncpmount is a command that mounts the files of a Novell NetWare account. I want to mount these files to the home directory when a user logs in. Is ...
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Freezes with ext4 journaling errors [closed]
Two weeks ago, I installed Maverick on my former Win7 workstation and since then almost every session ends with a freeze and the REISUB trick.
I have taken the advice from previous questions of this ...
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How can I enable double-click execution from flash drives?
Ubuntu 10.10 does not allow double-click execution of files such as binaries or Python scripts if they are on a flash drive, even when the file is marked as executable.
I believe it is probably a ...
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How can I create a new user with the equivalent of a Windows guest-user's permissions?
Basically, I want the new user to have only a few permissions -- can't read the normal users' home directories, can only read or write files to one directory (can only read or write /home/user/... can ...
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Can I configure low disk space warning to a lesser threshold?
Ubuntu warns me about low disk space even when there are about 2 GiBs free. For me "low disk space" is 50 MiB or less as I use to use my disks at 100% capacity. The warning could be useful for me if ...
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How to Mount NFS Root in Maverick
After upgrading to 10.10 Maverick, my NFS root is not mounted correctly during boot. What is the correct method?
10.04 and earlier I had my /etc/fstab setup to use /dev/nfs as my root device, but it ...
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1TB SATA HDrive on Marvell Adapter disappears after 10.10 upgrade - Why?
Thanks for taking the time.
I have a problem I've never had after an upgrade. One of my hard drive, a 1TB NTFS drive connected with the marvell SATA connector (88sx or smth like that ) to my Asus ...
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Best FS for SSD as of 10.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I optimize the OS for SSDs?
Given what I think is a common scenario:
SSD used as boot disk
Conventional HD(s) for bulk storage
Ubuntu 10.10
What's the best ...
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2answers
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What am I missing to get symlinks to work with CIFS?
Scenario
I have a headless Ubuntu 10.10 RC box running a few service applications on my home network. I have a Windows 2008 Server hosting all my network shares and hard drives. I am currently ...
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Can't set permissions for files on an NTFS partition
I remember that I was able to run a Linux .exe that was placed on an NTFS partition earlier before I installed 10.10 RC. But if I try to run it now, I can't run it as it hasn't the execution ...
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Is Btrfs in 10.10 considered stable?
I'm upgrading my laptop to Maverick (10.10) and I noticed btrfs is an option for the filesystem. I read a while ago that the Ubuntu team weren't sure if it was going to be stable for Maverick. Does ...
