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I have some large files that were split with a simple splitter program in DOS but I want to rejoin the segments in Linux.

What is the corresponding syntax for joining files at the command-line...

Based on a command that worked properly, I tried creating the following alias:

alias m20='sudo mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 $1 /mnt/iso0'However, when I execute it, I recive this message "ioctl:...

thanks alll! you're advice helped and I am now a happy camper.:p

I mistakenly installed a ppa that has installed a pre-release of LibreOffice. I want to roll back to a more stable release but can not get rid of the ppa.


sudo add-apt-repository --remove...

I deleted everything and did a format/reinstall.

Ownership should be and is root. With being signed in as root in a live CD-like environment and full control, how would the permissions or ownership be altered unless I did something to modify them...

I can boot into recovery mode and run updates. What I can not do is get into mysql. The var directory is on this drive. As a php/MySQL programmer, I wanted to keep my databases and server files...

Taking oldfred's advice, I ran Boot-Info. That report indicated a recommended course of action to rebuild the GRUB so the repartitioned drive could be included in the MBR.

Using this how-to...

Yes. As I originally wrote:



Had I not modified the fstab with new UUID's I would be receiving errors. That was a challenge early on but I did the troubleshootinng as far as UUID's by the...

I replaced a hard drive recently. Though I used Clonezilla, after the job of cloning the disk, Gparted in Ubuntu reported the partition as out of alignment and recommended repartitioning. I also...

thanks for the input... In clearing the execute parameter for a recursive command intended for all files, it was not realised it would hit the directories as well, producing this problem

I am having some strange problems with various sub-directories of my home directory. This is the output

$> ls -l Docs/OpenOfficeTemplates/
ls: cannot access...

Thanks! That is all I was missing.

I am attempting to create a cron task to backup an ImapMail folder in Thunderbird without success.
This is my code:


tar -cvzf /home/daniel/Desktop/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tgz...

Doing some further research on this, I came up with this blog. It is old but the method provided and cited below works.


$mount -t cifs //win-share-hostname/share /mnt/win -o...

I meant to add that information.... Yes, I have tried upper and lower case.

I am using this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently article to set-up a share on my machine.

If I attempt to mount using sudo mount -a I receive an error of

mount error:...

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with KDE added on. I can not modify the settings for Kate and can't find a solution.

For some, this has been a challenge going back to the days of Hardy and was usually a...

Recently, I had to do a full format and install to 12.04. Trying to do an upgrade from 11.04 through the update manager failed.

With this new install, I have downloaded Samba and installed it,...

Thank you both for the help. In a few days' time, I hope to share the results.

Not a happy day! Woke up this morning and discovered my hard drive is in imminent prospect of dying according to SMART. Found this link and ran the SMART utilities using


sudo -i
apt-get...

I am trying to use bchunker with this syntax


bchunk /pathto/cd15.bin /pathto/cd15.cue /pathto/cd15.isoand it makes a mess by only extracting the files to the path, not writing them into an ISO....

I have installed KDE on Ubuntu. Yeah, I know, why didn't I just install Kbuntu? Because the software and other features I've customised I didn't want to have to duplicate the effort.

I should...

First off, if this is the wrong forum for such a post, my apologies. I am new here and did some scanning of threads and this looked like the place but I may be wrong.

I'm looking for a utility...