Bit of an odd question, and very hard to search on.
What I am doing is copying a file from a mech disk to an ssd on an ubuntu 16.04 system, via smb shares.
The copy works, but it will run at about 80-90Mb/s for a while then drop to zero.
It will soon pick up and start again.
I would like to kno...
So we can migrate stuff there (you're not supposed to migrate to betas). Although in Software Recommendations's case we generally don't do many migrations simply because questions rarely meet their requirements for a decent question.
@Seth They would also have to be off-topic here. Aside from cases where the OP is not using Ubuntu, are there software recommendation questions that we don't allow here but that would be allowed on Software Recommendations?
Great! - my upgrade from 17.04. to 17.10 . kind of succeeded. A bit awkward though:
1. Said `do-release-upgrade -d` 2. Was happy to hear that download would take 8 mins only. 3. Left it for a while having some coffee 4. Came back to the lock screen saying "Wrong Password" 5. Got that message on every single mouse click 6. Logged in to TTY to read "System restart required" 7. Loudly said `reboot` 8. Rebooted to an unresponsive splash screen with the red dots... 9. Had another coffee 10. Realized that all the TTY were gone. 11. Rebooted in rescue mode by using SysReq 12. Realized that it won't let me do networking because of missing .conf file.
No - but that may be one source of folllowing errors. I never had a lock screen complaining about wrong passwords on mouse clicks. It did not let me type in my credentials
It probably should not have come in the first place (lock screens while release-upgrading are dumb)
@Takkat This is a perfect example for why users shouldn't upgrade their systems ... seems I'm not that wrong when recommending to perform clean installations ... :D Hi Takky :) Good afternoon to you ! :)
Good afternoon @Rinzwind ! :) Nice to see you Rinzy ! :)
@cl-netbox lol yeah ... but actually since 8 years it is the first time for me a release-upgrade did not go smoothly.
And even then... I now have a system that is almost the same than before. All users and some manually installed software are preserved. Not too bad really.
@EliahKagan I am well too ! :) Today I tested something that is a huge convenience improvement -> kparal.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/… It works perfectly fine. :)
I do miss a lot in the GNOME desktop. It disappeared or is only accessible after opening at least one additional menu. Only thing I like so far is that the shutdown countdown is back,
^this looks like 4 menu entries.
But it is fake. You have to click once more to get there.
Or more than one click for e.g. the sound settings.
Sorry I could not find the post to link it here, but I will give the relevant info:
The OP was asking about security on a shared WiFi connecton.
He had it tagged as 16.04, firefox, and security.
An edit came up that only changed the tag 16.04 to networking.
No changes were made to the actual po...
@Seth Do you mean there were times when the consensus has not been that they are on-topic? The votes on thefourmetaquestions I found show much more support for them to be on-topic than we have for some other established policies. Like, I don't think we've ever had nearly as much agreement on EoL policy.
That seems like it would mean that the minority of site users who think they should be off-topic care a lot about it, not that there has actually been a time when most people wanted them gone. But I also wonder if people vote to close them because they think they are off-topic, rather than out of a belief that they should be. A lot of false claims get made in comments about what our policies actually are.
Speaking personally, I do sympathize with the view that they should be off-topic, as there seems to be a bigger gray area than we usually have regarding what counts as too broad. But I also don't think prohibiting them is actually workable; even if we all wanted to ban them and tried, we'd run into difficulties. Most software rec questions can be reworded into "How do I do X?" questions that don't read like software rec requests but are asking exactly the same thing.
We could try to say that we allow questions about how to use tools but not what tools to use, but that's vague as it is, and it would probably convert the problem of figuring out if a question is allowed into the problem of answering it.
Whenever I full-screen Google Chrome or any chrome-based app (such as Discord), my entire screen will slowly begin to get covered by a black filter from the top down (see this video).
During this time, my system acts normally besides the black cover. I can move my mouse normally, and events sti...
@Seth Believe me I'm only getting the $2000 laptop (after upgrades) for gaming. Problem when running Windows is I like to pop into Ubuntu problem solving so with WSL I'd be able to do that without running VM.
The laptop comes with Windows 10. WSL works with Windows 10. 1+1=2
Ironically the new game I got used to cost $70 when released... I picked it up for $20 on sale.... Now it really costs $2000 to play at full speed and resolution :)
@AndroidDev True that. Laptop comes with 8 GB only which isn't really enough for gaming even. I'll buy one 16 GB DDR4 SODIMM this year and another next year. Throw away the two 4GB = 8 GB.
I'd like to know how to:
take a backup
do a restore
of all the MBRs and all the PTs of all my disks to a file so I can easily back them up using rsync or a comparable program.
@KazWolfe having tried Intel RST accelerating HDD to SSD under Windows and Enhance IO doing the same drives with Linux partitions I'm now allergic to things like crypt and lvm which you have. I name partitions based on the OS or usage and not based on the manufacturer. ie Ubuntu1604, Ubuntu1704, Win10, Movies, etc.
and @Fabby, here's the best way I can describe this in a backup situation. When you back up the physical LVM partition, you back up all of the metadata as well automatically.
> Metadata backups and archives are automatically created on every volume group and logical volume configuration change unless disabled in the lvm.conf file.
so, every time you update your LVM config, a new backup is written to /etc/lvm. Provided you back up this file, you will have a backup of your configs as well
If I install 17.10 now, will it be any different from release version install after Oct 19 (final release date)? Which iso is better to choose now for this installation: final beta from Sept 28 or daily image?
@KazWolfe @Fabby Thanks, but still the question is if there will be a difference between 17.10 installed now and installed after release (apart from my settings and maybe consequences of some bugs)?
@Fabby That's ok for you maybe, but I didn't ask for 4 years of support or rock solidness :) I asked if there will be difference between installations now and after release.
@KazWolfe thanks, first reply actually concerning my question, yay :) ok, so that would be some unintentional differences due to bugs (and probably pretty minor by now, given there are only 10 days left before release, but I will check before installation ofc), not like "if you install beta/daily, you will get some different updates / settings intentionally"?
Personally I avoid beta until a year after real version is released... which is why I'm finally looking at WSL... but I understand the excitement of bleeding edge... just don't want to bleed anymore I guess
Sorry I could not find the post to link it here, but I will give the relevant info:
The OP was asking about security on a shared WiFi connecton.
He had it tagged as 16.04, firefox, and security.
An edit came up that only changed the tag 16.04 to networking.
No changes were made to the actual po...
Whenever I full-screen Google Chrome or any chrome-based app (such as Discord), my entire screen will slowly begin to get covered by a black filter from the top down (see this video).
During this time, my system acts normally besides the black cover. I can move my mouse normally, and events sti...
I'd like to know how to:
take a backup
do a restore
of all the MBRs and all the PTs of all my disks to a file so I can easily back them up using rsync or a comparable program.
