Comment by psusi on How can I add to a already running process an additional...
@WalkingWiki, oh weird, you are right. I swear I tested this back in 2012 and it completed right away.
View ArticleComment by psusi on How to make the Device Partitioning Numbers in Order...
Nice feature of gdisk. I would have said just use parted to delete the partitions and recreate them with exactly the same start and size.
View ArticleComment by psusi on PC ignores Windows-BOOTED USB and continues UBUNTU
How to install Windows is off topic here.
View ArticleComment by psusi on LVM and Gparted not allowing me to resize partition
Yep; you want pvmove as outlined in that answer.
View ArticleComment by psusi on Increase Ubuntu disk space
GRUB will be fine, you can proceed with moving the partition ( though it will take a long time and a power failure or crash will trash all of your data, so make a backup first ).
View ArticleComment by psusi on fail create ext4 filesystem on micro sd card
Did mkfs give any errors?
View ArticleComment by psusi on Failed to install grub2 while installing ubuntu
Possible duplicate of 16.04 new installation gives grub-efi-amd64-signed failed installation /target/ ubuntu 16.04 at the end
View ArticleComment by psusi on How to boot always manaually from grub> minimal-bash
@AhmedAbdul-Monem, if that's what it looks like, then that's probably what it is. You may want to set root=(hd0,1)/.
View ArticleComment by psusi on Enable Hibernate in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Voting to reopen since in 18.04 things have changed. The pm-utils package is obsolete and power management is now handled by systemd.
View ArticleComment by psusi on How to mount a whole disk image formatted in UFS filesystem
The entire disk, or just a partition?
View ArticleComment by psusi on How to mount a whole disk image formatted in UFS filesystem
The module will be loaded automatically if needed.
View ArticleComment by psusi on Read-write problem with my HDD
Your filesystem is probably corrupt; run chkdsk/scandisk from Windows.
View ArticleComment by psusi on Any swap usage causes system wide freeze
Swap is slooooow. You didn't say how much swap you started using, but with an insane 488G allocated, I would imagine you started using many GBs worth. That will bring your system to a crawl as it will...
View ArticleComment by psusi on ubuntu unable to resolve host
What does hostname say? For some reason your shell thinks your hostname is ubuntu72, but /etc/hosts thinks it is ubuntu-Invalid-entry-length-0-DMI-table-is-broken-Stop. Did you recently change the...
View ArticleComment by psusi on how to add host file in ubuntu 16.04
You also might want to tell your silly IT department to set up DNS correctly instead of having everyone mess with their hosts file.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Does anyone know when Tar will Compress to .7z in the...
tar does not do any compression. It simply has options to automatically pipe its output to a program that does compression for you, saving you a bit of typing. You still have to have have p7zip...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for I messed up and removed important packages, is there a...
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop should pull in everything that is normally installed by default. There is also lubuntu-desktop and so on for the other desktop flavors.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Easiest way to shorten directory?
My first thought was what Sergiy posted, but an alternative is to create a symbolic link in your home directory: ln -s data /long/path/to/deep/directory/data Now you can just cd data ( from your home...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for ZRAM vs. regular swap partition
zram creates a virtual block device of a size you specify by writing ( for example "512m" ) to /sys/block/zramX/disksize ( where X is the 0 based number of the zram device in question, so 0 for the...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for How to effectively extend the root partition without...
First you need to expand sdc2 into the free space, then you can move your home partition ( sdc6 ) to the right, then expand your root ( sdc5 ) into the free space. This requires that both the home and...
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