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blade19899

9:04 AM

Not really sure what to think of this

GitHub: Microsoft

Kalamalka Kid

@Fabby

https://askubuntu.com/questions/720889/cloning-multiple-partitions-in-ubuntu

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid I'm adding a 3rd alternative now...

Kalamalka Kid

@Fabby IM ALL EARS.

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid that's the best I can come up with... 1 2 or maybe 3... the bootable USB would need some fiddling with the fstab,

but it would basically work...

Kalamalka Kid

9:21 AM

ok as for your answer. Option 1 is not going to work, as the USN stick is only 64 gigs. Option 2 I dont understand becuase there is no method

Fabby

I use image-based system backups: great for restoring OSes, not so much for data where I use rsync...

Let me read my own blabbering again.

let me elaborate #2

Kalamalka Kid

to simplify the question is this. Is it possible to only clone the partitions of a hard drive, and not the entire drive. @Fabby

Fabby

yes!

1. partition to image: not bootable by itself, but bootable after restore

2. Partition to disk: Not bootable unless you clone the MBR as well.

Kalamalka Kid

ok that was one way I thought would work. So i will use clonezilla then to clone 3 partitions to image. How do i take that image and make the usb bootable? with UBUNTU startup disk?

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid It depends on compression...

Kalamalka Kid

9:27 AM

well, i think i will use clonezilla. wont that jsut make an iso?

or should i go the GZIP route?

Fabby

What I have is a bootable backup drive with a small FAT bootable CloneZilla partition

that also happens to contain my back-ups...

so I boot that drive, it launches clonezilla and then I restore my images using that.

If you use CloneZilla, you don't need an Ubuntu startup disk:

Kalamalka Kid

oh that sounds handy, but where does it restore the image to ?

Fabby

To my internal hard drive

(or another PC...)

who cares...

But that would be an entirely different question...

;-)

Have you read the latest answer? @KalamalkaKid

Kalamalka Kid

yes, but it is confusing to me becuase I am not a skilled user. I want to keep this simple, and simply clone the OS onto the USB stick. I think i will have to go the route of an image to another 3rd disk, then resore that image to the USB

I inserted an image to demonstrate the space allocation. I do NOT want to copy teh unallocated space @Fabby

also @Fabby i want to keep everything on the backup i will make

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid I like KISS too: Keep It Simply Stupid.

1. Download CloneZilla LiveCD and burtn that to a CD/DVD

2/ Boot that

Kalamalka Kid

9:38 AM

=) ok so what should I do? use clonezilla to copy three partitions into an image, then restore the image to the USB drive? is that the easiest way ?

Fabby

3/ use that to make a copy of your internal drive to the USB stick (disk to image, copy the MBR too)

4/ use same to restore.

You're forgetting the MBR!

If the excrement really hits then ventilator

Kalamalka Kid

i need step by step instructions, or some online tutorial

i have teh conezilla on a USB, i can boot to that

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid Nah! Read the documentation!

@KalamalkaKid this is a back-up system. Use a DVD-R (write once)

Kalamalka Kid

what why do i need a dvd?

Fabby

what are you going to do if the clonezilla USB gets busted? it's a bootable one, so unless it's an SLC, you don't want to do that often...

jokerdino

9:40 AM

4 messages deleted

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid DVD-R have a much better shelf-life.... (decades if kept out of the sun)

Kalamalka Kid

oh ic what you mean, burn the final image to the DVD.

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid No! Use a DVD-R to boot the clonezilla live system

Kalamalka Kid

i dont have those, but htat s not the important part right now.

why what does that matter? Im booting form a clinezilla live USB

Fabby

well, in the mean time, use a USB stick and think of me when it gets busted...

In a few years I'll be going "Remember what I told you? Well, now you understand!"

@KalamalkaKid you're going to make a mistake using 2 usb sticks one day and bust your entire system...

Kalamalka Kid

9:44 AM

ok thanks, but is this what i wan to do ?

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-clone-hard-drives-clonezilla

Fabby

One DVD-R to boot CloneZila

One USB stick to put the back-ups on.

@KalamalkaKid You want me to read the documentation for you?

Read this

Kalamalka Kid

'saveparts' is the part im looking at

thats waht i want right ?

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid yup

Kalamalka Kid

using 'saveparts' i will clone the BOOT partition, the HOME partition, and the SWAP. DO i need to add anything else? MBR?

Fabby

and after the fisrt, read that

Kalamalka Kid

9:48 AM

this is the part I dont get :

Always pay close attention to the Grub and bootloader options. If you're restoring a disk on to a bigger disk, it's always a good idea to use the partition table from the disk being cloned, and you should use the option to create the new partition table proportionally. But then again, you might not always want Clonezilla to modify the MBR when restoring a disk.

------when im cloning the 3 partitions, how do i make sure all teh grub, MBR and partition tables are all sorted out />?

man this is so complicated, i just want to clone my drive to USB , but theres so much I have to know

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid yes, indeed!

Kalamalka Kid

ok let me ask yuo one thing,

Fabby

you need to know how the boot process works!

Start reading that!

@KalamalkaKid The last "thing"? ;-)

:P

Kalamalka Kid

lol @fabby

ok im at teh part one clonezilla that is saying " Now we need to mount a device as /home/partimag"

Fabby

@KalamalkaKid If you use the live version, all that is done automatically...

What time zone are you in?

Kalamalka Kid

9:57 AM

PST

jsut follow me here this part is important

"Now we need to mount a device as /home/partimag (Clonezilla image(s) repository) so that we can read or save the image in /home/partimag."

Fabby

Do you have two computers?

(or a computer and a phone that allow you to be in chat...)

Then I'll walk you through it some other time in a private chat room...

Kalamalka Kid

yes i ahve two comps

Fabby

Because this is starting to look like @KalamalkaKid's chat room instead of the Ask Ubuntu Chat Room

:P ;-)

Kalamalka Kid

ok go prvate chate (i dont knwo how to initiate

Fabby

Not now...

No time

Kalamalka Kid

9:59 AM

oh.

Fabby

I said: "We'll schedule"

I'm in CET

Kalamalka Kid

one last thing jsut looka t something for me one sec

Fabby

11:02 here now

what time there? 23:02?

Kalamalka Kid

im jsut confused with this part of the menu (becuase the tutorial i am readin is different version). Just look at this image and tell me what I am doing. AM i looking to select a temporary location for this image file to go?

http://postimg.org/image/kftert9t9/

Fabby

Are you following a video tutorial?

Don't!

Kalamalka Kid

10:05 AM

or is this asking for the source?

clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/…

Fabby

it's the target @KalamalkaKid

Kalamalka Kid

i jsut need to know what this menu in the photo i sent is looking for? is it asking for source or output?

Fabby

Read the docs on the site and look at thier screenshots

Kalamalka Kid

yes, their screenshots are different

hence why i took a phto and showed you

Fabby

Gotta go!

Bye

Kalamalka Kid

10:07 AM

ok thank you !

wait this cant be target

Danatela

hi guys!

I have an idea I want to discuss

Kalamalka Kid

i need help
http://postimg.org/image/kftert9t9/

what is this asking me to select? where the image is going to be stored?

Danatela

10:23 AM

is there any software for Ubuntu that does the following: user has the icon which can be drag&dropped on any window or even graphical element, then a window opens where you can type a post like on AU, and describe the thing you wish to improve, and donation amount... other users may commit to that post their donations and the programmer who implements this, receives the bank... what do you think about this?

A.B.

Installing Discourse on CentOS 7. What a pain. >:)

Danatela

@KalamalkaKid it asks you to choose either partition you want to clone, or partition for storing copied image

Danatela

11:17 AM

anybody here?

edward torvalds

me :D

Danatela

@edwardtorvalds so what do you think about this idea?

kashish

@Danatela good idea :)

Danatela

11:40 AM

@kashish thanks :)

edward torvalds

@Danatela you want to pay people who would answer questions?

Danatela

@edwardtorvalds not exact...

I wanna pay for improvements

edward torvalds

@Danatela you should present this idea to Oli

Danatela

yep)

edward torvalds

@Danatela I dont think this idea is feasible

Danatela

11:46 AM

@edwardtorvalds why? I think everything reasonable we wish is feasible, though not immediately

edward torvalds

@Danatela if money comes in many problems comes in too,

Danatela

simple realization would form xprop report and we need a tracking system

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: age explanations involves the face so it is higher by dawnadejeanckz on askubuntu.com

Danatela

I think it worths)

terdon

@Danatela any suggestion that involves money will be rejected on SE. And that is a very, very good thing. As soon as you start paying for some questions, you remove a lot of incentive for answering for free, This is not supposed to be about money after all.

There have been similar suggestions in the past and were shot down.

-45

Q: Offering actual money as a bounty?

I have an idea for dealing with a question you badly want to be answered, which no one will answer, even after you've offered a large bounty: cash. Users can offer cash, and whoever has the accepted answer can be paid, possibly via PayPal. Does this sound like a good idea?

Danatela

11:50 AM

@terdon wow))

no, not for questions, for real improvements

terdon

Improvements to what?

To the software on your machine?

Danatela

yep

terdon

This is not the place for that.

I would be against anything that introduces money to SE. The whole point and the beauty of this site is that we are volunteers, freely helping each other. Why would you want to make that into a commercial arrangement?

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edward torvalds

@terdon is there any security policy that prevents incoming connection on certain ports?

terdon

If you want to hire a programmer to fix something for you, do so. But why do it here?

@edwardtorvalds Probably. Presumably in the firewall but I really know next to nothing about networking. I'm not the right person to ask.

edward torvalds

11:52 AM

ok

Danatela

@terdon opensource was mostly criticized because of complexity of such process of hiring somebody, was it solved?

terdon

@Danatela Huh? How is it complex? The licence has nothing to do with it. If you want to pay someone, you can pay someone. How does the licence come into it?

Just go to freelancer.com and hire someone.

Danatela

hmmm OK

terdon

Then you can always propose a merge with the original project or keep it only for your computer or whatever.

Danatela

but if I have not enough money and want others to participate, I should find them by myself, right?

or make kickstarter project?

terdon

11:59 AM

I guess. What were you thinking of, posting a question and asking other people to contribute?

Danatela

like this... the closest thing is bounty for bug fix or feature request

edward torvalds

@terdon in output of ls -l the column for size in bytes, why all directory have size equal to 4096 (the block size of my root partition) ?

Danatela

now, I have to go, bye!

terdon

@edwardtorvalds Because that's the size of the directory entry in the filesystem, it has nothing to do with the size of the directory's contents.

edward torvalds

@terdon i know that, but why all directory have size of exactly 4096?

terdon

12:02 PM

@edwardtorvalds Because they're a single block.

edward torvalds

some files have size less than 4096

terdon

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A: Why does every directory have a size 4096 bytes (4 K)?

Without getting too technical, think of a directory entry as simply a "link" to a list of the files the directory "contains." Then, as with everything, ls shows you the size of that link, not the total space occupied by the contents of the directory. The minimum size a file or directory entry/li...

edward torvalds

@terdon I understand the remaining two points, but I dont 'The minimum size a file or directory entry/link must occupy is one block, which is usually 4096 bytes/4K on most ext3/4 filesystems' because how come there are files with size less than 4096 i.e. size less than the block size?

arent they occupying at least one block?

terdon

@edwardtorvalds I think they don't actually. ls reports the number of bytes in the file, but the file still takes up a block:

touch empty
printf '1' >onebyte
ls -l empty onebyte
-rw-r--r-- 1 terdon terdon 0 Jan 14 14:05 empty
-rw-r--r-- 1 terdon terdon 1 Jan 14 14:05 onebyte

But:

edward torvalds

so this behaviour is different for directory?

terdon

12:06 PM

$ du onebyte
4	onebyte

edward torvalds

@terdon so at the time of calculating the size of whole partition, the size in the output of du will be used and not ls -l ?

terdon

It seems to be a question of what each program reports. ls shows you the number of bytes a file contains but can't do that for directories since they're not regular files. du shows the disk space that the file occupies so it reports a block.

@edwardtorvalds Yes. Normally. Depends on what you're doing. Hang on, there's a very good U&L post about this.

80

A: Why are there so many different ways to measure disk usage?

Adding up numbers is easy. The problem is, there are many different numbers to add. How much disk space does a file use? The basic idea is that a file containing n bytes uses n bytes of disk space, plus a bit for some control information: the file's metadata (permissions, timestamps, etc.), and...

edward torvalds

ok

Thomas W.

@Seth I usually copy the previous notice and tweak it. :P

@NathanOsman cool. Now you just need mentors to review it.

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edward torvalds

12:38 PM

why: The size reported by du may be smaller if the file is compressed ?

edward torvalds

1:32 PM

@terdon can you please explain: The size reported by du may be smaller if the file is compressed ?

terdon

@edwardtorvalds Not if it's compressed, if the file is sparse.

If the file contains blocks that consist of NULL, the block is skipped so du reports a smaller size.

$ truncate -s 10M file
$ ls -l file
-rw-r--r-- 1 terdon terdon 10485760 Jan 14 15:34 file
$ du -sch file
0	file
0	total

edward torvalds

@terdon that line is from answer, link of which you gave me

80

A: Why are there so many different ways to measure disk usage?

Adding up numbers is easy. The problem is, there are many different numbers to add. How much disk space does a file use? The basic idea is that a file containing n bytes uses n bytes of disk space, plus a bit for some control information: the file's metadata (permissions, timestamps, etc.), and...

terdon

@edwardtorvalds No it isn't. He says that *nix systems support a "crude form of compression" and then explains about sparse files. Like what I showed above.

edward torvalds

ok

Zacharee1

I think my Windows 10 has degraded itself to the point of collapse :p

Fabby

2:02 PM

@KalamalkaKid I told you earlier: That's the target!

@KalamalkaKid: By the way: your original question was answered! Don't forget to accept! ;-)

blade19899

2:49 PM

@terdon No. No. And also, no.

terdon

@blade19899 My thoughts precisely.

blade19899

@terdon Great answer: meta.stackexchange.com/a/25621/243817

terdon

Yup

blade19899

Ow how the mighty have fallen:

> This is guest post by Becky from Wondershare/iSkysoft.

Why WondershareElement Stand Out from Many PDF Editors? - NoobsLab | Ubuntu/Linux News, Reviews, Tutorials, Apps

IMHO that's sponsored content

Fabby

No, that's in-line marketing! ;-)

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Fabby

@HeatherBrown: o/ I'm one night behind schedule on the disk: yesterday night my lightdm session crashed on me so I left it open during the night, thinking it might recover

(and completely forgot about checking the disk) :/ Sorry!

user139252

That's fine, no worries

blade19899

> "Canonical will demo at least one new Ubuntu convergence device at next month’s Mobile World Congress next month, we’ve learned." - OMG! UBUNTU!, New Ubuntu Convergence Device Will Be Demoed Next Month

I didn't know that Ubuntu liked Dragonball Z that much:

> Among hardware Canonical engineers are using to test Ubuntu’s convergence features is a device with the codename ‘Frieza’.

Like the code names of the previous three Ubuntu phones, ‘Krillin’ (aka Aquaris E4.5), ‘Arale’ (aka MX4) and ‘Vegeta’ (aka Aquaris E5 HD), ‘Frieza’ is named after a character from DragonBall Z.

Fabby

@blade19899 How many tablets still to do?

(I wish I could just butt in and help you with a cumbersome task like that)

cl-netbox

Hello :)

blade19899

3:12 PM

@Fabby Searching for an automatic way. Right now, I'm downloading all the Updates(.msu) files, from catalog.update.microsoft.com. Manually. 200+ Updates

A.B.

\o/

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user139252

3:35 PM

Alan Rickman died :(

blade19899

@HeatherBrown :(

Fabby

4:05 PM

@ParanoidPanda Marvin the Paranoid Android died...

user139252

As did Professor Snape, the blue caterpillar, Alexander Dane...

Fabby

4:23 PM

@HeatherBrown :-) yes...

user139252

This makes me sad :(

Zacharee1

@HeatherBrown what do you think of this template? templatemo.com/templates/templatemo_406_flex

@HeatherBrown David Bowie died at 69, Alan Rickman died at 69, Trump is 69...

@HeatherBrown OK, I'm trying this one out

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jokerdino

@HeatherBrown Oh, it's the Snape guy..

Fabby

5:04 PM

Downvote this incorrect answer, please...

Mateo

By Grabthar's Hammer, you shall be avenged! Dr. Lazarus Galaxy Quest w Alan Rickman HARE CLIP

►

:'(

@blade19899 arale had a cameo in db - although a character form a different akira toriama series, the code name for meizu mx4

Linux port of edge? networkworld.com/article/3022447/microsoft-subnet/…

user139252

5:22 PM

Is Microsoft becoming a good guy?

user139252

@Zacharee1 I think it looks okay

hbdgaf

Becoming a good guy, or watching their business model die and fighting to keep doing something...anything... ?

Seth

11

hbdgaf

thuglife anteater short

►

user136984

5:41 PM

@Nathan: Ok, but I'd still like to know, how much could a user script running in Greasemonkey reach into one's system?

user136984

@Seth: What the hell is that??? :D

Seth

a rabbit?

user136984

@Seth: I got that far... But why is it laughing and then going serious again? And why did you post it? :D

Seth

follow the reply good grief.

user136984

@Seth: I am not goofy.

jokerdino

5:49 PM

@ParanoidPanda, you are not chatting from mobile, are you?

kos

@ParanoidPanda That's Charlie Brown in fact. :)

William Hilsum

lol, came here to ask a quick question and in trying to explain, I solved it! :P Thanks for your help everyone!!

user136984

@jokerdino: No, why?

jokerdino

@WilliamHilsum You're quite welcome.

William Hilsum

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I need to have multiple ips on a single server... I didn't realise you only need to duplicate the address/netmask sections - it seems to work great and the gateway only needs to be defined once at the top... but, it appears that by not having dns-nameservers repeated, when it processes the next address, resolvconf wipes the settings... Has anyone seen this a…

jokerdino

5:55 PM

@ParanoidPanda Do you happen to see that little grey arrow at the start of this message?

user136984

@jokerdino: In this case I didn't notice it, but mostly I'm too paranoid to click it and do some funny magic with the end of the URL it gives me to see what it's replying to... :P

William Hilsum

Actually, sod it... I think it will be easier to have virtual interfaces rather than a single interface with multiple ips...

jokerdino

@ParanoidPanda Sorry, what?

user136984

@jokerdino: What? You asking what magic I do or just confused by everything I just said? :D

jokerdino

yeah..

user136984

6:00 PM

That was on "or" question, not a "yes/no" question, so I don't know what to think of "yeah" other than you pick both...? And thus have no idea about anything I just said? :D

jokerdino

that's right.

user136984

Ok, well, in this case I didn't notice the arrow. But in most cases I am so paranoid I don't click it, instead I take the URL it takes me to, I remove the domain from it, and then put the link to the right page in the URL bar of my browser so that it can't take me anywhere but this website.

kos

@ParanoidPanda If the message is visible in the page it just skims to it, however if it's not I'd say it's still safe to click on it...

jokerdino

He won't know which of his message you replied to.

user136984

@jokerdino Well, I can still manually apply it. ;)

user136984

6:09 PM

I just take the URL of the messages, remove most of it, and add a : at the beginning.

jokerdino

or install a chat script that displays the message number.

user136984

Yeah, that might be useful, but that could give a security risk, so I'd still prefer to do it manually. :)

jokerdino

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user136984

@jokerdino: Oh, how did you get it to do that?

jokerdino

6:12 PM

@ParanoidPanda I used a snipping tool.

user136984

@jokerdino: Oh right... :D

jokerdino

Were you asking about the numbers? That was coz of a script.

kos

Speaking of userscripts, I was trying to create a simple userscript for this user with tampermonkey. The idea was to add a CSS rule to just underline all links, however I can't get it to work on any site. If someone has an idea it would be appreciated:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         New Userscript
// @namespace    tampermonkey.net
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        *
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==
/* jshint -W097 */
'use strict';

GM_addStyle('a { text-decoration: underline; }');

jokerdino

Missing a @include or something?

let me scratchpad it.

kos

@jokerdino Problem is I don't really know how these things work. So @include is needed?

jokerdino

6:23 PM

Frankly, I don't know a whole lot either. Most I did is changing the background of Ask Ubuntu.

It's possible you might find a suitable one in userscripts.org.

user136984

@jokerdino: Oh phew, I thought you were saying that you used your snipping tool to make it look like the numbers were there! :D

jokerdino

@ParanoidPanda snipper is used for taking screenshots.

kos

@jokerdino Ok thanks, I'll check that out since I'm at a dead end.

jokerdino

@kos, if you are on Firefox, you might want to try stylish and this bit of info.

user139252

I made fancy icons

kos

6:36 PM

@jokerdino Thanks, if I can't succeed I'll try something with that.

kos

6:49 PM

@jokerdino It was the missing @include. :D Works flawlessly now. Thanks!

kos

7:02 PM

Ah no not really, apparently @include and @match do the same, but @match is more strict, and * works for @include and not for @match. But that helped a lot to figure this out.

Seth

7:16 PM

still having problems @kos?

kos

@Seth No it works fine now, thanks, the problem was with the wildcard in @match. Apparently a single * is not allowed.

Seth

ah. Coolio!

kos

Yup. Still I can't get it to work with GM_addStyle() and I have to use JQuery but well, at least it works.

@Seth If you have a clue why GM_addStyle() doesn't work I'd accept the tip though :D

Seth

7:35 PM

@kos Try adding // @run-at document-idle

wait a sec

nope, looks good.

kos

@Seth Hmmm doesn't work.

Seth

@kos Are you in FF or Chrome?

'cause here's your issue:

> ERROR: Execution of script 'New Userscript' failed! GM_addStyle is not defined

That stands for GreaseMonkey_addStyle, Chrome uses TamperMonkey or native ;)

kos

@Seth Yeah but apparently Tampermonkey supports GM_addStyle: tampermonkey.net/documentation.php#GM_addStyle

Seth

huh

kos

Yup. I'm kinda at a dead end. :/

Mateo

7:43 PM

@ParanoidPanda probably just a reverse video of someone scaring one...

Seth

@kos Just use $('a').css({"text-decoration": "underline" });

kos

@Seth Yeah that's actually what I have right now, I'll stick to that. The bad thing is it has to source JQuery every time. But yeah I don't think I have other options at this point.

Seth

@kos SE already sources jQuery, so it doesn't change anything.

Thomas W.

there's no 'announcement' tag is there, on meta?

kos

@Seth So @require wouldn't source it again? Bear with me, I know almost nothing about these things.

Seth

7:48 PM

@ThomasW. don't think so. That's kinda what featured is for..

@kos I'm not sure. It probably would. There's no need for it though, in this case. Might as well just drop it :)

All my SE scripts work fine without requiring jQuery.

Thomas W.

@Seth blehh, sucks that it's diamond mod only

kos

@Seth Ah absolutely, I assumed it was needed. Indeed, it works also without. Thanks!

The only problem is that prevents upvoting / downvoting, but I guess I'll be able to fix that.

Ah no it doesn't, that was the previous version. Cool! Thanks @Seth

Seth

np :)

@ThomasW. you want any old bloke to feature stuff on meta? ;p

Thomas W.

no i want a tag that only I and mods can set for eol-announcements

:P

Seth

:P

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:10 PM

0

Q: Packages kept back during apt-get upgrade

I'm running Lubuntu 14.04.3 LTS amd64 version. I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade which showed few packages have been kept back. These are mainly kernel related packages namely, linux-generic-lts-vivid, linux-headers-generic-lts-vivid, linux-image-generic-lts-vivid. All I did was fre...

ubuntu apt upgrade

Thomas W.

^ i answered, please review my answer to it

user136984

@Mateo: Oh... Poor cat...

user136984

:D

user139252

@Fabby Face-palm statue?

Seth

8:34 PM

@ThomasW. looks fine, but you should upvote the question :P

Thomas W.

i just did :P

lag

blade19899

> "Over recent months, a fair amount of work has been done on the design of GNOME’s settings. Quite a lot of this work is experimental, but I wanted to share the work in progress and explain some of the reasoning behind it." - blogs.gnome.org, A settings design update – Form and Function

user139252

Looks like Mac @blade19899

GeoMint

9:05 PM

@blade19899 this is interesting

Terrance

@ThomasW. That is a good answer on this as you covered everything that I could think of. +1 my friend! =)

blade19899

@GeoMint This is Dangerous:

GeoMint

@blade19899 why?

blade19899

Phoronix, OpenSSH Clients Struck By New Security Vulnerability

That is ^ Not the gnome settings design xD

GeoMint

@blade19899 I like it :P its more simple. what do you mean its not?

is that scam? fake?

blade19899

9:21 PM

The Security Vulnerability in: Phoronix, OpenSSH Clients Struck By New Security Vulnerability, is dangerous, the gnome design I have no problem with.

GeoMint

haha ok :P

Zacharee1

@HeatherBrown new template, much simpler/smaller: techyteen.byethost7.com

GeoMint

@Zacharee1 hey, i like it

Zacharee1

@GeoMint It is a nice template :)

GeoMint

yes :)

Zacharee1

9:25 PM

Bright colors and quick repsonse

GeoMint

It is using bootstrap ;) the best to work

Zacharee1

A couple issue with the navbar that I had to fix (it would scroll over the sections the site was going to), but it's definitely easier

I also think I can use popups with this one :D

GeoMint

:P

Zacharee1

Back to work

GeoMint

@Zacharee1 i like the response of the navbar :P when you scroll down it changes to the right :D

Zacharee1

9:29 PM

?

You mean how it highlights the link?

GeoMint

yeah

it turns blue

Zacharee1

It is nice

GeoMint

:)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:48 PM

0

Q: Bind mounts Ubuntu for /var

Ubuntu uses the rather broken program mountall to mount whatever is in /etc/fstab at boot.(See the bug tracker to see its large history of flaws.) Let's say there is a device file named /dev/sda2 which is mounted on /bigdisk. Then there is a bind mount /var to /bigdisk/var and let's assume for...

ubuntu bind-mount

GeoMint

Goodnight o/

Zacharee1

night

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