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Apologies to Steeldriver, I did not see his post until after I had posted the solution that I was provided with on freenode. I wasn't ignoring it.

Someone on freenode finally gave me an answer.

"You can't reformat them as people understand from a windows perspective. On that point, you are correct, Linux cannot reformat hard drives. What you...

I don't want to EDIT PARTITIONS. I want to reformat the disk.

Can linux really not reformat disks?

And once again, you are assuming a blank disk.

"mkfs is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a hard disk partition...."

Not only are you skipping ahead and assuming that the...

My old laptop died, but the hard disk was salavageable. So I mounted it into my Ubuntu machine, and was able to retrieve all the files I want to keep off it.

Now I want to reformat it, completely,...

Unfortunately none of those versions will install (circular dependancy issues).

So given that the Ubuntu version of irssi is so very far behind the main version of it, how would I go about compiling and installing it from scratch?

I downloaded the zip from gitup, but when I...

Why is the version of irssi supplied in the Ubuntu repositories, so far behind the official release?



:~$ irssi --version
irssi 0.8.15 (20100403 1617)


When the official release according...

Thank you, Synaptic is the one I used of old apparently. That and... if memory serves, "aptitude"?

So I returned to Ubuntu desktop after a long time away, and installed Lubuntu on my laptop.

Just trying to find my feet again, and I went to install a few programs. I found the lubuntu software...

For the past 6 months, my laptop has been running of a 32GB SDHC card, as the hard disk failed, and I couldn't afford to immediately replace it.

I have just ensconed a nice 250GB ssd in the laptop...

Thank you much. Exactly what I was looking for.

Theres no point in trying to fix the disk, not when its SMART data gives a reallocated sector count of 15. Meaning the physical disk is dying. Its a...

OK, this is probably going to confuse some people, but I will try and explain my situation.

I have a 4 year old laptop with a failing hard disk. I cannot afford to replace the hard disk yet. The...

Yes,

Stop using windows.

Thats essentially what I did.

I moved all but one of the kernels to my home directory which is on a different disk, with oodles of space, let it complete the install, then moved each kernel back...

I run a headless server (so please don't tell me to use package manager, as theres no monitor, keyboard or mouse attached to the system, and its in a datacenter).

I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade...

The script worked for me. Perfect, thank you.

Forgive me for sounding like a beginner here, but how does that tell me where grub is installed?

I have /boot on /dev/sda3, which /boot/grub is a subdr, does that mean I need to select /dev/sda as...

I recently took over a new machine housed in a datacenter, with 3 hard disks.

I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, and one of the upgrades is asking me where Grub is installed.

How do I see which of...

Oh thank you so much. I was looking for "Gnome" or "Gnome 2" in the sessions menu. Didn't realise they'd listed it as "Ubuntu Classic".

So, I rather foolishly allowed my PC to upgrade to 11.04. Why foolish?

Foolish because prior to the upgrade, I had my desktop arranged as I wanted it. It was efficient for ME. It is after all, MY...

Found my error, its ecrypt-mount-private, not encrypt-mount-private.

Okay, so I had a laptop installed with ubuntu, and a fileserver, also installed with ubuntu.

The laptop had encrypted homedirs, the fileserver does not.

The laptop died, but I need some files...

I need to set up a private SVN repository, and please don't suggest GIT, as the developers have specified explicitly that they want SVN.

Setting up the repository is no issue:


svnadmin create...

I have a two small scripts, one generates a datafile, the other uploads it to a webserver. Lets call them generate.sh and upload.sh

I want them both to run every 5 minutes, but, I want upload.sh...