@katyasehgal Do you have any idea of what other folders/files where on that drive. I am confident your pictures copied across but I would like to be 100% certain before we delete them from your hdd. If we can establish what folder/files were on the drive then we can check the size of them and do the math, ie. 2.0G - 1.2G should give us the size of the 'other' folders.
@katyasehgal no, we can cp the pictures again but this time into a folder.
@katyasehgal Ok well let's copy the Pictures again but this time into a folder called Pictures. First let's check how much free space you have left: df -h /mnt/sdb1
ok perfect, that's what I was looking for earlier, I think we just misunderstood each other.
So the pictures did copy and into a folder on the external hdd called Pictures and the size of the folders are the same on the internal hdd and the external hdd which is what we want.
@katyasehgal It could be for a few reasons but possibly because it wasn't happy about the permissions. With the errors you posted we should be fine to move on, especially since the folder sizes are the same on the internal hdd and the external hdd which means that we pretty much got everything.
The command line interpreter for Python is not an editor and does not have a save option. This is just something for testing your commands.
You need something like gedit (or another editor) to type your commands. Those editors all have save option.
I don't know, I quite like the idea of using what you have. Read on Slashdot the other day that a Sco box had an uptime over 10 years, always enjoyed that sort of stuff.
@katyasehgal You must also keep in mind that every time you update/upgrade your software it pulls in more files and therefore takes up more space. Because your / partition resides on the 15Gb drive you do not have a lot of room to play with. I would limit the applications I install and do regular: sudo apt-get autoremove and sudo apt-get clean etc.
@kingmilo yes, it is running. Though I have to reset all icons and theme as it is looking very shoddy. I guess I will try this for that: askubuntu.com/questions/194899/…
And dont use your /home. That way you system should not run empty
@katyasehgal yes but not 15Gb worth... I have been running with a 10Gb root and 15Gb home since .... Ubuntu 7.04 (maybe earlier) and have NEVER run into trouble.
I am quite sure I was using unity 3d. now I need to reset icons, launcher and all, and I typed in unity --reset
I must tell you, before coming on to here, with you and others, I had tried the commands from here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/141606/how-to-fix-the-system-is-running-in-low-graphics-mode-error
When I start up Ubuntu 12.10 I see the login screen. I have my account and a guest account as the choices. When I choose my account by clicking on it, I automatically get logged in with out being required to enter my password.
I want to password protect my account so when someone clicks my acco...
ok, i have one question, i got an error that my disk failure is imminent, i tryed everything possible to recover it but not success. then i completelly removed my ubuntu 12.04 by installing windows xp instead, but for some reasons, it now work fully with windows xp, but again suffers problems wit...
quoting @fossfreedom "The Panel and Dash change colour to match your wallpaper when the Dash is open, and the launcher is mildly translucent by default. "
thank you so much @fossfreedom. And not any less, thanks to @Rinzwind and @kingmilo for their assistance. This has been a long holiday spent on Ubuntu.
E.g., I sometimes use bold-italics (***) cuz it looks alright, and provide a link to what I'm quoting/citing.
Alternatively, I could imagine to additionally linkify the username to his user profile.
Overkill?
What do you usually do?
I tried to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10. This went very wrong. I now need to start from scratch.
I have Windows 8 dual booting with it. How do I format the linux based partitions whilst making sure the Windows one is kept safe, using a recovery console?
@guntbert It can be handled here though. Information from comments can be progressively moved into the question and the comments can be deleted. Anyway, the OP has far more than enough rep to use SE chat, too. (So that's another alternative to IRC.) Probably nothing has to be done to it right now.
(similar to the question Uninstalling default VBoxGuestAdditions on Debian but a Ubuntu install, and the solution there isn't working for me?)
and really the issue seems to be with dpkg/apt-get not virtualbox or its linux guest additions:
host:/media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.2.10_84104$ dpkg -l | grep v...
@Oli no worries :-), but seriously that's one point where I sometimes doubt the decision to base something on Gnome - they tend to simplify things so much that things get almost unusable
I do understand that but I'm looking at KDE now and I can change just about everything. I once wanted to make the places menu show more items and it required downloading the source to half of Gnome (and a ton of dev packages) just so I could change a hard-coded variable.
I can do it (and that's essential) but it should be easier than that.
Why is it that every time somebody says anything pro-configuration, there's somebody talking about the fabled impassible wall of checkboxes? *Configuration does not need to be intimidating.*
It takes time and effort to work out how to do that... And *that's* why I say that projects that omit configuration completely are just being lazy. They *could* do it and they could do it well but they aren't.
@JorgeCastro Because it makes the software more useful for some users. That should be enough.
You call it wasted effort, I call it more usable software. And if you want to talk about wasted effort, consider the lengths people go to to add aftermarket configuration tools (MyUnity, etc).
The command line interpreter for Python is not an editor and does not have a save option. This is just something for testing your commands.
You need something like gedit (or another editor) to type your commands. Those editors all have save option.
When I start up Ubuntu 12.10 I see the login screen. I have my account and a guest account as the choices. When I choose my account by clicking on it, I automatically get logged in with out being required to enter my password.
I want to password protect my account so when someone clicks my acco...
E.g., I sometimes use bold-italics (***) cuz it looks alright, and provide a link to what I'm quoting/citing.
Alternatively, I could imagine to additionally linkify the username to his user profile.
Overkill?
What do you usually do?
I tried to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10. This went very wrong. I now need to start from scratch.
I have Windows 8 dual booting with it. How do I format the linux based partitions whilst making sure the Windows one is kept safe, using a recovery console?
(similar to the question Uninstalling default VBoxGuestAdditions on Debian but a Ubuntu install, and the solution there isn't working for me?)
and really the issue seems to be with dpkg/apt-get not virtualbox or its linux guest additions:
host:/media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.2.10_84104$ dpkg -l | grep v...
