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ext4 is full but checked OK with fsck and badsector and shows plenty of free space
I need your opinion on this, any idea welcomed:
I have a PC with separated / and /home FSs.
The root fs has ext4 on sda5, Ubuntu is Precise Pangolin LTS 3.2.0-40-generic-pae.
I had a package update ...
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'mount -t ntfs-3g' Fails (exit code 1) but 'ntfs-3g' Succeeds
I'm currently on 12.04LTS and I've installed a couple of updates. (not sure which)
Now my nautilus cannot mount any NTFS partition (complaining about exit code 1), and indeed
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g ...
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standard place to put development/code files in Ubuntu
I am setting up my development environment on Ubuntu and I was wondering what the standard is on where I should place custom development projects on the file system?
Thanks!
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Fail to mount on boot
I have just created a Ubuntu server and all is working well however at boot I receive the following error message which is causing problems. I am running Ubuntu Server 12.04
Here is the error any ...
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My /media/E8648A94648A64E2 shows empty
My folders inside /media/E8648A94648A64E2 is not shown in GUI.
Previously there used to come everything normally but suddenly it didn't came.However, i can access those files and folder inside ...
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How to remove file logicaly?
I have a file on my computer which was called just one.flv , I deleted this file but the problem here is that the icon of the file still appeared and when I try to do any operation on it from terminal ...
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SFS Windows partition after Ubuntu Install
I installed Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 7 64-bit on another laptop of mine and encountered a problem. Here is what happened:
I shrunk the Windows partition to create space for Ubuntu
I ran ...
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Damaged SD card (badly unmounted?) How to fix?
First Off I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop with a built in card reader.
I have a sandisk 8Gig micro sd card that came with my HTC Desire HD phone.
Unfortunately I had mounted it to a windows ...
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Files no longer open with the preferred app, Nautilus opens instead
Basically that: it used to be that if I downloaded a certain file in firefox, chromium or transmission it would open with the preferred app (image > shotwell, zip > file roller) but now its always ...
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Do not own my computer? [duplicate]
I was trying to install some plugins for my navigational program when I noticed I can't do changes to the file. And after a while I noticed that I'm not allowed to do any changes to the filesystem.
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Ubuntu 12.04 SSD root frequent random read only file system
I really need your help. I've got Dell Inspiron 1545 with 8GB of RAM and Sandisk Extreme 240GB SSD. The disk is seperated into three partitions, /root, /swap - 8GB, /home
blkid:
/dev/sda1: ...
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df shows all space taken, but du doesn't add up
I'm having a problem with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is the second time I've encountered this problem in the last 3 weeks.
The first time is described in this closed question on StackOverflow.
The TL;DR ...
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How do I access files on my Windows partition from Ubuntu?
I'm new to how Ubuntu works and installed it yesterday alongside Windows 7, but in doing so I have created a few problems. I have partitions for Windows, Ubuntu, System Recovery, and storage for all ...
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Unable to Mount Location Can't mount file
I am new to ubuntu. I installed ubuntu 12.10 and then at the installation process defined the partition and mount parameters. e.g.
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
so on...
But after the ...
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java exception: No such file or directory
I am trying to run a GATE application via jetty web application server in Ubuntu. I am getting
java.io.IOException:
error=2,
No such file or directory because of a particular GATE plugin ...
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how does Linux or UNIX like system recognizes files and how is it different from windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the relationship between MIME types and File .extensions?
I would like to know how does files are recognized by Linux/UNIX. Windows makes use of extensions to ...
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Best way to put sensitive files on web server and keep them fro being accessible?
I need to put a private key on my web server for use with a php script, so I need the web server to be able to access the file in php script, but not allow users from the outside to be able to access ...
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Copy entire filesystem in a folder where a raid-1 array is mounted
I am trying to migrate from a single disk drive system to a double disk drive software raid-1 system that already has a running system on it. Meaning that formatting and having a new installation of ...
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Why doesn't “whereis” locate a file?
I was looking for a specific file using whereis from the command line.
I got a rather useless result, but I then found the exact file I was looking for by manually searching.
I did not make a ...
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How to access a file belonging to some other group?
I saw this problem in an online hacking competition. The question asked us to print the contents of the file "secret"
bruce@ip-10-144-4-86:/home/hacker-weekly$ ll
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 ...
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Filesystem locks up (read-only) after HDD -> SSD clone, no sudo access, no applications
I recently cloned my old HDD to a new smaller SSD and something must have gone wrong. Windows 7 works absolutely fine, but Ubuntu 12.04 has issues - at first, it works normally, but after only a ...
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auto mount of file system [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to automount NTFS partitions?
How to make hdd’s mount at startup in ubuntu 12.04
I am having both windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04,my hard drive is in Ntfs file system,I ...
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How to open Nautilus at current command line directory?
I was wondering if anybody knew a command that would allow me to open a Nautilus (if that's the right name for the Ubuntu 12.04 graphic/window explorer) window from the command line at the current ...
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Not Able to boot after installing Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04
I am using an Intel based Acer laptop and the first time I installed Kubuntu 12.10 I got a blank screen. After this I tried Ubuntu 12.04 but the result is the same.
I tried many times but the ...
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Whats consuming HDD Space
I have single partition of 92GB in which I installed Ubuntu 12.04. And for some Unknown reason a message pop ups saying that I only have 1GB of HDD space left.
I ran command sudo du -hscx * on / and ...
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Missing boot files 12.04
Due to a fatal mistake I made, I may lose all my data on HDD. I am hoping someone might be able to help me out of this tricky situation.
I upgraded my 10.04 LTS server to 12.04 LTS, upgrade went fine ...
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Can't access files when VirtualBox is run as root
I use VirtualBox for running Windows XP as a guest OS in my Ubuntu 12.04 host machine.
When running VirtualBox, it does not support USB, but when I launch VirtualBox as root using gksu virtualbox, ...
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File transfer hangs at 0 seconds left
Ubuntu gives me good transfer speed for file transfer from HDD to pen drive (~ 25 MB/s) but 9 out of 10 times it freezes at the end. A 1.7 GB movie gets transferred in about 3 mins but gets stuck at ...
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Cannot create files except in home partition
On my system I have made 3 partitions except home partition but Ubuntu doesn't let me create or delete any files on those partitions. Even copy and paste options are not available. Using my poor ...
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Undelete inode of deleted files
I accidentally deleted my documents folder in my home directory last sunday. I am desperately trying to recorver it with it content files.
After digging around, I came across a suggestion to use ...
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Can't delete file even as root
I tried to delete a directory by running sudo rm -rf google-chrome. This gave no output message but the directory wasn't deleted. There is only one file remaining, google-chrome/default/User\ ...
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Files copied to a NTFS partition in Ubuntu 12.04 missing
I had recently downloaded an .iso file in Ubuntu. I decided to burn it in Windows as I am well acquainted (I am using an evaluation copy of Windows 8). So I copied it over to one of the NTFS ...
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Which folder contains executable's launcher file?
Just a small query that in which folder application launcher is stored.
Like when i typed
whereis everpad
it gave me multiple locations but when i checked for launcher it was no where to be ...
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mystery of missing file modifications (hybrid drive + Ubuntu 12.04)
Last week (Sep 10) I worked a whole day (on my Ubuntu 12.04 HP elitebook 8530p laptop) using a tex editor (TexWorks) and Jabref to maintain a Bibtex library. Today however I noticed all my ...
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Live-Ubuntu 12.04 ran fine, now stopped booting!
I've seen similar problems to this several times in the forum, but mine is a bit different, so the other posts I saw were no help to me.
When I boot Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit from live-SD-card (3GB ...
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optimum slice size for backing up data to DVD
How big should a slice be for a DVD, assuming that the file system restricts the size?
Referencing:
http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/DVD-file-size-td4572772.html
should slices be 1GB or so? What's an ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit “unable to find medium with live filesystem” AFTER normal install
So, I got a new computer (64 bit quad core yada yada).
pulled my Ubuntu SSD drive from old machine, installed it into new machine.
(my intention here is to have Ubuntu installed on the 120G SSD, ...
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Which Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is in Ubuntu?
Which File system Hierarchy Standard Does Ubuntu 12.04 Using ? & What are the changes ?
On wikipedia the latest version is v3.0 (2012-07-01)
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How do I prevent my filesystems from being mounted read-only after suspending?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an SDHC card (only one ext2 partition, no swap). When I suspend using pm-suspend, my root filesystem is mounted read-only. I am currently "fixing" this with the ...
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Wammu - USB Device Name?
I'm trying to get to my phone's filesystem through USB in Wammu, but I'm stuck in the configuration wizard when it asks for a USB device name. After about an hour of Internet searching, here are the ...
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Why don't I have permission to read files on the CD I bought?
I recently bought this book, which came with an accompanying CD. When I try to view the contents of the CD in Ubuntu, I don't have read permission for any of the files. ls -al in the root of the CD ...
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What are the best Recovery softwares for ubuntu 12.04?
What are the best Recovery softwares for ubuntu 12.04?
Is there some of them that has a GUI?
What are the softwares that work with other file systems like fat.ntfs,hfs,...etc
i need tools working on ...
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12.04 indicates filesystem check on next boot, but never does one [duplicate]
Just installed 12.04 32 bit on my machine, with 3 drives. When I open a terminal window or ssh in remotely, I see:
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686) ...
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Error after installing Ubuntu 12.04 using Wubi
After using Windows Ubuntu Installer from within Windows, I am prompted to restart, so I follow the directions. When I try to start Ubuntu after restarting, the desktop background appears, but then a ...
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How do I remount a filesystem as read/write?
I'm trying to mount an hfsplus filesystem in a Xubuntu 12.04 VM (kernel version 3.2.0-23-generic) but when I type mount -o remount, rw /dev/sdb3 in command line it returns not mounted or bad option. ...
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Wubi Device /dev/loop0 full. How to get more space?
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 17G 15G 838M 95% /
udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 762M 928K 761M 1% /run
none ...
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How can I extend partition into free space that is not directly before or after the partition?
I want to add free space (323.69GB) to my Ubuntu file system (242.62GB). But as you can see I can't do this via GParted. How can I do this?
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No such file or directory (Not 64bits!)
I am cross-compiling a program on my PC (12.04) for my beaglebone (12.04 precise armhf). But when I try to execute the program on beaglebone:
root@omap:/home/ubuntu/helloworld# ./helloworldtest
...
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How can I search and locate a system folder
Files & Folders Lens can be used to locate user's documents easily, but it seems ignoring system files and folders.
How can I search & locate system files and folders?
(Say for example I ...
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Ubuntu Server Read-Only Filesystem Issue
We are running a virtual machine server with multiple virtual machines with ubuntu server edition 12.04 and every so often (usually after updates via webmin it seems), the hard-drive turns into ...
