Answer by psusi for Installation freezes at 33% of partition formatting step
It's a known bug. If the partition already has a filesystem on it, this step will hang in 14.04 iirc, but it has been fixed in 16.04, so you probably should use that instead. As a workaround, run...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Extend a partition with nonadjacent space available
Your disk appears to be partitioned using GPT and boots using EFI, so logical/extended partitions do not apply to you. The only thing you need to do is boot from the livecd or usb, and move sda4 to the...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Allocation Unit Size for New Drive
You can never go wrong with sticking with the default. 4kb is the default block size used by most filesystems. You can shave a bit of overhead if you mostly store larger files by using a larger block...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Boot partition full and I can't purge old kernels
Once you have run out of space and have half installed packages, apt gives up. You have to remove some packages with sudo dpkg -r xxxxx to get some free space, then you can have apt remove more.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Confusion with permissions on new installed HDDs
So I edited fstab so that the drives are mounted at boot without restrictions on the permissions and this worked. This appears to not be the case. Not only are there no such options in your fstab, but...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for How to create efi partition and install GRUB bootloader...
grub-install simply copies the binaries from /usr/lib/grub to /boot/efi, and configures the EFI system variables to point there. Just mount the ESP in /boot/efi and run grub-install. It still requires...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for How to allow partitions to dynamically extend?
First you need to run parted and use its resizepart command to expand the partition to use the whole disk, then run pvresize to tell LVM about the new space, then run lvresize to grow the logical...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key (gksudo:2984): Gtk-WARNING...
Use su without the dash. That will keep the XAUTORITY environment variable intact.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Is it necessary to mount ESP at boot?
It needs to be mounted for any updates to grub to install properly. That's about all. Similarly, if you have two of them only one will be updated ( the one that is mounted ) when grub is updated.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for (terminology) init.d script = LSB Init Script = System V...
This is a system V init script. The LSB header is just a comment block that sysvinit ignores, but provides the information that upstart/systemd need to figure out when they should run it.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for hwinfo replaced with ... what?
You can use the vbeinfo or videoinfo command within grub itself to list available video modes.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Zombie process: sd_cicero, Ubuntu 16.04
It looks like the process forked itself and the child has exited, but the parent is not correctly reaping the child. If this situation persists, then this is a bug in the program that you should report.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Ext 3 or 2 file system recovery: Bad superblock with no...
It looks like something messed up your partition table. If the drive was partitioned with any software more recent than 7 years or so, the partition should begin on sector 2048, not sector 63....
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for What is the meaning of "[command] &" in Ubuntu?
It is simply saying that appending an & after a command will run that command in the background. Example: sleep 10 This will wait for 10 seconds before returning you to the prompt. Add the &...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for How do I convert a MBR drive (encrypted LVM or...
Use gparted or another partitioning tool from the live cd to format the drive and create a GPT partition table, then install Ubuntu. It will keep the existing partition table.
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for what UUID to use in fstab to mount LVM ubuntu-vg root
It appears that you somehow managed to copy all of your files into that folder. As long as all of your personal files are still in your home directory, you should be safe to remove that extra copy with...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Can booting Windows from GRUB cause BSOD?
Grub can only make use of the UEFI bios to read the system from the disk to boot it, just like the Windows UEFI boot loader does. I'm not sure if the Windows boot loader bothers to make use of the...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for Increase Root Partition of Security Onion (Ubuntu) VM in...
You created a tiny ( < 1mb ) partition in the small gap before your previously existing swap partition instead of using the free space at the end of the disk. Use gparted to delete this useless...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for mount unknown filesystem type 'lvm2_member'
You used the exact same name (ubuntu-vg) for your new volume group as the old volume group. You must give them unique names. You can rename one of the groups using vgrename and its UUID. Find the UUID...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for What is the recommended way to empty a SSD?
ATA Secure Erase You should use the drive's security erase feature. Make sure the drive Security is not frozen. If it is, it may help to suspend and resume the computer. $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdX |...
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