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Category Archives: Mounting Partitions

Wondering about partitions 

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Philip Casey

Plus ca change. Still thinking about upgrading Ubuntu and still haven’t got the time. However, looking ahead, I’m trying to figure out partitions again. Nip over to Psychocats for a few hints. One of them is to run sudo fdisk -l in the terminal. you@yourcomputer:~$ sudo fdisk -l Password: RESULT: Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 [...]

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Move /home to its own partition 

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Philip Casey

Here is a link to a nice tutorial to rectify something most new users overlook or don’t understand. Move /home to its own partition A word of caution with this one: there’s an error in the syntax which is corrected by one of the commenters. As another commenter says, Keep in mind, this is somewhat [...]

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Will I? Won’t I? 

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Philip Casey

I’ve been dithering as to whether I should upgrade to Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04), just out. My main reason for saying no is that I’ve no time. Busy busy me. On the other hand my system monitor says I have a mere 579.6MB available on dev/hda4/ ie 95% used up, so if I don’t re-install, at [...]

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Mounting Windows Partitions in Ubuntu 

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Philip Casey

It all sounds vaguely obscene, but I’m storing the url for Psychocats tutorial on Mounting Windows for a later date. Mounting Windows Paritions in Ubuntu

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