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Thank you for this thoughtful post. You have opened a different world for me when it comes to computer backup. I will study what you have said on my own and do my best to figure it out. If I have any...

What I am trying to do is come up with an easy way to do my backups. I have cloned my system drive by booting into a live Ubuntu USB drive and running dd at a command prompt, like so:




# sudo...

This is how OCS Studio looks under the Unity desktop.

https://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=292331&stc=1

Here is how it looks under the Gnome desktop.
...

Thanks Parsnip,

I tried everything in that link. Now I have an entirely different looking desktop, except everything is on a grid in alphabetical order just as before. Actually, I don't mind the...

I just upgraded from 18.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS. Now my desktop icons are stuck in an alphabetical grid and I can't move them around like I am accustomed to on 18.04 LTS.

I am using the Unity Desktop...

It's nice to get an explanation of how things work.

Right now my system is up and running again. I will look into those man pages at a later time to make sure everything continues to work like it...

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 1.8M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/sdb1 ext4 44G ...

I used these commands to delete a lot of files. Now I have 24G free.



cd /var/log/journal
sudo rm -r *
sudo apt purge snapd
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

8.9G /usr
841M /opt
5.8M /lib32
509M /boot
41G /home
4.0K /srv
4.0K /lib64
4.0K /cdrom
36K /.sblvtmp
28K /mnt

In the past what I have done is to increase the root partition size by 10Gb. But eventually it just fills up.


I am not exactly sure why this is happening.

I changed the UUIDs with tune2fs and now it works great.

Thanks!

$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT

sda
├─sda1 ext4 5a369ba6-efec-46dc-b265-dc7ee36ff038 /boot
├─sda2 ext4 c8084614-833d-4f44-80f0-2b34f31e6f4e
├─sda3 ext4...

I am using a ThinkPad T430 with three drives: a SATA drive that boots Windows 7 and 10, an mSATA drive, and another SATA drive which fits into an UltraBay SATA drive enclosure which can be easily...

I'm running a BIOS system.

I'll be cloning my drive and seeing if I can resize the clone first.

I am going to shrink my root partition and expand my home partition. I plan on doing this with Gparted.

After I do this, I expect to reinstall Grub with boot-repair. Can I expect that the system...

It boots fine.

Now it says:


/usr/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenvwrapper')...

I was having problems with my old installation of 18.04 and I wanted to reinstall. My installation was all on one partition. I used the instructions here to make:
...

I made use of your suggestion to make a separate home partition. Seems to be working. Thanks!

I made a goof! I remembered that the home directory contains data for personal accounts.

What I meant to say is that I have everything in my personal account backed up.

If I copy what was in my...

I have the entire drive backed up. But it seems to have something wrong with it.

The files in the home director seem to be okay.

I am having trouble with my old installation of 18.04. I am opting to reinstall the operating system.

After I have the fresh install, can I just delete the contents of the home directory and they...

Is there a simple how-to for adb?

I can copy files from the cell phone with this command:



$ cp /run/user/$UID/gvfs/mtp*/Phone/Download/file /home/robert/Desktop


I can make a directory with "mkdir", if I change to that...

Thanks!

Tried the second one with sound and I got the following error:


$ ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -i :0.0 -acodec flac -vcodec libx264 -threads 0...

Trying to record screen with ffmpeg. Can't seem to figure it out.


$ ffmpeg -y -f alsa -i hw:0 -f x11grab -framerate 30 -video_size 1600x900 -i :0.0+0,0 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -qp 0...