SketchMan3
April 14th, 2012, 03:12 AM
Is there a user friendly way to keep all of the applications, files, settings, etc... that I've accumulated on the persistent live usb over the past year?
I've been running off an 8gb (but only using 4 gigs of that space, ya know) live usb of ubuntu 10.10 for the past year because my hard drive burned out and I was feeling adventurous. It was supposed to be temporary, but it grew on me until I'd all but filled up the entire disc with my creative endeavors, and using it as heavily as I'd use a traditional desktop setup.
It's been fun, but not being able to update anything (tried it once, before I realized it was filling up space that I'd never be able to recover) has hampered me a bit. Also, quite often I'd put too much of a strain on FireFox, and cause it to freeze my computer, requiring a hard reset.
Over time I noticed every time I had to hard reset it, I'd lose a bit of storage. Found out my logs, crash logs, apt cache, thumbnails, etc... were filling up the memory. I cleared all that, optimized it not to fill up those things past a certain point. It worked for a while, but now, with (apparently) none of those things taking up space, I keep losing storage anyway. I assume it's my USB drive dying, so I'm ready to move on back to hard drive.
So, is there a fast and easy way to install Ubuntu onto a hard disk from a Persistent Live USB, along with the applications, settings, and personal files that I have stored on that USB? Or, if not, is there an automated way to make a list of all the applications that I have installed so I can reinstall them (I deleted all the cached packages for space)?
I'm ping-ponging between 5mb and 25mb, as I lose space and delete or move items to an external storage device to recover that space. I'm running out of things to delete, lol.
I've been running off an 8gb (but only using 4 gigs of that space, ya know) live usb of ubuntu 10.10 for the past year because my hard drive burned out and I was feeling adventurous. It was supposed to be temporary, but it grew on me until I'd all but filled up the entire disc with my creative endeavors, and using it as heavily as I'd use a traditional desktop setup.
It's been fun, but not being able to update anything (tried it once, before I realized it was filling up space that I'd never be able to recover) has hampered me a bit. Also, quite often I'd put too much of a strain on FireFox, and cause it to freeze my computer, requiring a hard reset.
Over time I noticed every time I had to hard reset it, I'd lose a bit of storage. Found out my logs, crash logs, apt cache, thumbnails, etc... were filling up the memory. I cleared all that, optimized it not to fill up those things past a certain point. It worked for a while, but now, with (apparently) none of those things taking up space, I keep losing storage anyway. I assume it's my USB drive dying, so I'm ready to move on back to hard drive.
So, is there a fast and easy way to install Ubuntu onto a hard disk from a Persistent Live USB, along with the applications, settings, and personal files that I have stored on that USB? Or, if not, is there an automated way to make a list of all the applications that I have installed so I can reinstall them (I deleted all the cached packages for space)?
I'm ping-ponging between 5mb and 25mb, as I lose space and delete or move items to an external storage device to recover that space. I'm running out of things to delete, lol.