Re: Going in circles need help w/ FF install.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:09 am
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What exactly happens when you try? An error message or nothing at all?WinCrasher wrote:Well I tried booting from the disk. I was able to see the external HD but I didn't have access to my data.
I can plug the HD now and I can see the drive but I can't open it.
Definitely a good idea.Right now I am reading the Gparted manual. No matter how this turns out i plan to partition my drive so that Data and OS are separate and I can reinstall at will.
Yeah it's linux. That's the only OS I am using. Windows is no more.caf4926 wrote:What OS is on sda1?Because it's ext4 which is a linux format
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partition size used
sda1 ext4 146.18GiB 74,94GiB
sda2 extended 2.87GiB
sda5 swap 2.87GiB
i believe that this is ubiquity's "fault": when you let it set the partitions it comes with solutions like this one.grizzler wrote:I'm puzzled why you've created an extended partition with nothing but swap in it. Any particular reason?
Correctzerozero wrote:i believe that this is ubiquity's "fault": when you let it set the partitions it comes with solutions like this one.grizzler wrote:I'm puzzled why you've created an extended partition with nothing but swap in it. Any particular reason?
Lol, No that's not a typo. I now have two /home directories. I did try to move the folders but I was unable to move my Pictures file, which is 63 GB. I can't move it because there is only 39.6 GB Free space in BOTH directories. Also, when I imported pictures from my camera to the /home/pictures file, they also showed up in the /home/home/greg/pictures file at the same time.grizzler wrote:assuming that double /home is not a typo
They're on the same partition, so a move should be a 'real' move, i.e. filing system pointers should get redirected and no cut/paste action should take place. *)WinCrasher wrote:Lol, No that's not a typo. I now have two /home directories. I did try to move the folders but I was unable to move my Pictures file, which is 63 GB. I can't move it because there is only 39.6 GB Free space in BOTH directories.
indeed. That doesn't really make sense. I would have expected the old (/home/home/greg) setup to stay out of it entirely. I wonder if some kind of symlinking has occurred.Also, when I imported pictures from my camera to the /home/pictures file, they also showed up in the /home/home/greg/pictures file at the same time.
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cat /etc/fstab
ls -la /
ls -la /home
ls -la /home/greg
cat /home/greg/.config/user-dirs.dirs
ls -la /home/home
ls -la /home/home/greg
cat /home/home/greg/.config/user-dirs.dirs
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greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=a206b14e-bff0-4158-b014-57fbc85aff31 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=ad26d68b-cf58-4254-9502-5f7d9281a81d /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=68d694a8-9e23-44c3-921a-0a076c9c27d7 /swap ext4 defaults 0 2
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ ls -la /
total 132
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 12:04 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 30 12:18 boot
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4280 Jan 31 19:56 dev
drwxr-xr-x 148 root root 12288 Jan 31 19:56 etc
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:11 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jan 30 11:13 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jan 30 11:02 initrd.img.old -> /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Jan 30 12:06 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 30 11:02 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 2012 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 3 2012 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 152 root root 0 Jan 31 19:55 proc
drwx------ 8 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:45 root
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 760 Jan 31 19:56 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 12:17 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2012 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 srv
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:02 swap
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Jan 31 19:55 sys
drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 36864 Feb 1 09:17 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 usr
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 31 19:55 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 30 11:13 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ ls -la /home
total 1088
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 26 22:20 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 30 14:06 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 29 00:09 computer
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 dev
drwxr-xr-x 166 root root 12288 Jan 30 08:10 etc
drwxr-xr-x 25 greg greg 4096 Feb 1 09:06 greg
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 20:00 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Oct 13 20:02 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Oct 13 19:50 initrd.img.old -> /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Dec 30 14:06 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Oct 13 19:49 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 13:05 media
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 14 10:04 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 3 2012 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 2012 proc
drwx------ 8 root root 4096 Oct 13 20:57 root
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Oct 13 20:04 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jan 26 22:21 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2012 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 14 2012 sys
drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 987136 Jan 30 08:10 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Apr 23 2012 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jan 30 08:10 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 13 20:02 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ ls -la /home/greg
total 456
drwxr-xr-x 25 greg greg 4096 Feb 1 09:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:11 ..
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 11:35 .adobe
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 220 Jan 30 11:11 .bash_logout
drwx------ 5 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 17:38 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 13 greg greg 4096 Feb 1 01:09 .config
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 11:29 .dbus
-rw------- 1 greg greg 28 Jan 31 19:56 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Feb 1 01:09 .fontconfig
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 19:56 .gconf
-rw-r----- 1 greg greg 0 Jan 31 10:28 .gksu.lock
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 11:35 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 11:35 .gnome2_private
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 10:31 .gphoto
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 21:02 .gstreamer-0.10
dr-x------ 2 greg greg 0 Jan 31 19:56 .gvfs
-rw------- 1 greg greg 1110 Jan 31 19:56 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 6 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 19:46 .linuxmint
drwxr-xr-x 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 11:29 .local
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 11:35 .macromedia
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 21:13 .mate2
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 19:56 .mateconf
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Feb 1 08:44 .mateconfd
drwxr-xr-x 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 11:11 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 11:12 Pictures
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 675 Jan 30 11:11 .profile
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 19:56 .pulse
-rw------- 1 greg greg 256 Jan 30 11:29 .pulse-cookie
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 338414 Jan 31 17:11 Screenshot.png
drwxr-xr-x 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 10:55 .shotwell
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 21:00 .thumbnails
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Feb 1 09:06 .thunderbird
-rw------- 1 greg greg 130 Jan 31 19:56 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 1767 Feb 1 09:30 .xsession-errors
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ cat /home/greg/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/home/home/greg/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/home/home/greg/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/home/home/greg/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ ls -la /home/home
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 20:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 30 11:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x 56 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 19:41 greg
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ ls -la /home/home/greg
total 62112
drwxr-xr-x 56 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 19:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 20:00 ..
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:14 .adobe
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 22 16:09 App Data
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Dec 28 19:49 .aptitude
-rw------- 1 greg greg 3163 Jan 28 08:35 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 220 Oct 13 20:00 .bash_logout
drwx------ 9 greg greg 4096 Jan 6 17:05 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 19 14:16 .comments
drwxr-xr-x 22 greg greg 4096 Jan 15 12:53 .config
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 318434 Oct 19 14:15 Darlenes House Front (2).JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 14764156 Oct 19 14:15 Darlenes House Front.JPG
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:11 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 31 10:23 Desktop
-rw------- 1 greg greg 25 Jan 30 08:06 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x 6 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 20:58 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 20:58 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 3 greg greg 4096 Nov 22 16:29 .dvdcss
drwx------ 23 greg greg 4096 Jan 29 23:16 E Books
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 20 19:23 .fontconfig
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 08:06 .gconf
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:39 .gegl-0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 29548822 Nov 3 22:19 GetBooked_Generate5kin2wks-AUDIO.mp3.zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 22 13:19 Gif's
drwxr-xr-x 22 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 22:31 .gimp-2.6
drwxr-xr-x 24 greg greg 4096 Jan 26 21:45 .gimp-2.8
-rw-r----- 1 greg greg 0 Jan 29 00:08 .gksu.lock
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Dec 27 22:59 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:12 .gnome2_private
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 36411 Jan 29 09:05 Gparted1292013.png
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 16 13:50 .gphoto
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 5 23:43 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 38 Oct 14 00:19 .gtk-bookmarks
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:11 .gvfs
drwxr-xr-x 4 greg greg 4096 Jan 1 15:21 H-1
drwxr--r-- 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 15 00:48 .hardinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 39302 Jan 28 19:39 .html
-rw------- 1 greg greg 17020 Jan 30 08:06 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 4 greg greg 4096 Oct 20 17:27 .icedtea
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 14 16:10 .icons
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 2409293 Aug 11 2008 IMG_0335.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 1963307 Aug 11 2008 IMG_0336.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 1950215 Aug 11 2008 IMG_0337.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 2922145 May 12 2009 IMG_1962.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 3871329 May 13 2009 IMG_1991.JPG
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Nov 21 23:39 .kde
drwxr-xr-x 6 greg greg 4096 Dec 29 13:15 .linuxmint
drwxr-xr-x 3 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:11 .local
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:14 .macromedia
drwx------ 5 greg greg 4096 Nov 2 10:50 .mate2
drwx------ 5 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 08:06 .mateconf
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 08:10 .mateconfd
drwxr-xr-x 4 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:00 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Nov 11 12:44 .mplayer
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 486402 Jan 21 20:27 multipurpose-workbench-table1.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 344505 Jan 21 20:26 multipurpose-workbench-table2.png
drwxr-xr-x 11 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 21:02 Music
drwx------ 20 greg greg 4096 Jan 29 22:52 .opera
drwxr-xr-x 51 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 21:02 Photos
drwxr-xr-x 11 greg greg 110592 Jan 31 10:33 Pictures
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 675 Oct 13 20:00 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 25 greg greg 4096 Jan 22 12:50 Project Idea File
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:11 Public
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 08:06 .pulse
-rw------- 1 greg greg 256 Oct 13 20:11 .pulse-cookie
drwxr-xr-x 3 greg greg 12288 Oct 27 12:40 Recycle Bin From Old Windows
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 254088 Jan 18 23:07 Screenshot-9.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 355544 Jan 22 12:47 Screenshot-Fab.com | Stackable Shelving Without Limits - Opera.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 442291 Jan 20 21:15 Screenshot.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 13 20:11 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Oct 14 16:10 .themes
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Oct 16 15:47 .thumbnails
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Dec 9 00:42 .thunderbird
drwxr-xr-x 5 greg greg 4096 Jan 30 08:07 tomboy
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 259128 Dec 8 22:51 tumblr_me54ae8g5M1qbuewbo1_500.jpg
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Jan 14 10:07 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Dec 29 14:24 .wicd
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Dec 27 22:31 .xchat2
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Nov 1 23:09 .xinput.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 139803 Jan 30 08:10 .xsession-errors
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 3058453 Oct 31 18:14 yapper.JPG
drwxr-xr-x 3 greg greg 4096 Jan 27 01:45 Zip files
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ cat /home/home/greg/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $
Right. The cat /etc/fstab and ls commands don't show anything I wouldn't have expected. The user-dirs.dirs items are a bit odd, though. While they should look exactly the same, what you have is this (without the comments):WinCrasher wrote:OK Here you go. Remember, I took the empty files outof the /home dir, Except for Pictures, I imported the shots from my camera to there. So that may affect the results.
The Desktop, Downloads and Documents items of the new installation point to the ones in the old installation and Public, Templates, Music and Videos all point to the home folder itself. I wonder if that happened because you deleted things?greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ cat /home/greg/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/home/home/greg/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/home/home/greg/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/home/home/greg/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $ cat /home/home/greg/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
greg@greg-Satellite-L355 ~ $