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HaveaMint wrote: ⤴Thu Nov 07, 2019 4:21 pm Call it Minix Lint and everyone will notice!

has my vote!

any thought ever put into dropping the Linux from Linux MInt? i dont see why you need to say "linux mint" . "mint" is enough.

"hey what distro you on?"...."mint"

using linux mint 18.3. i added a second Ethernet card. i cant figure out how to share the internet connection with that second card. i've seen a bunch of tutorials, but they differ wildly and not sure which to follow. i want to connect my raspberry pi to that second card. any good tutorials to point...

thx-1138 wrote: ⤴Sun Jun 09, 2019 2:19 am Booting from a live cd that contains a newer version of such is obviously equally safe & will get the job just fine,
it's just slightly more hassle / time consuming to do so, that's all...

yes i do hate having to reboot from a live usb just to do one thing.

i'll give it a go. thanks

thx-1138 wrote: ⤴Sat Jun 08, 2019 10:29 am ...and i insist that e2fcsk.static is by far the quickest & simplest method
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=279408&p=1540934

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

would i install this over current e2fsck or would i remove first? what is meant by static version?

WharfRat wrote: ⤴Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:43 am
So you should be able to boot the live media and fsck the device instead of installing it on your 18.3 installation.

that is a good idea. simple enough. thanks

That's the correct version for 18.3 [bill@XPS] /etc $ e2fsck -V e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.42.13, 17-May-2015 [bill@XPS] /etc $ Can you paste back the actual output :?: here is the output: e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.42.13, 17-May-201...

i am running MInt 18.3 with version 1.42.13 of e2fsck. i keep getting errors when checking my ext4 partitions. says i need to install a newer version of e2fsck. from what i can tell i need to update e2fslibs and e2fsprogs to version 1.43.x i have the 1.43.9 tar.gz files for both e2fsprogs and e2fsli...

can't seem to get this mail command working with my verizon SMTP server info. mail -v -s "This is the subject" < /dev/null -S smtp="smtps://smtp.verizon.net:465" -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp-auth-user="me@verizon.net" -S smtp-auth-password="password" you@verizon...

Hello, callmejoe. When accessing the script files on your raspberry machine from your local Mint machine over the samba share, you may not have execute permissions on the raspberry located script files. It is also imaginable that your local file-manager simply has got no way of determining the remo...

the script files reside on my raspberry pi which i can access from my linux mint machine. see remote.png and the script files as they look when i am on the raspberry pi. see local.png when i open the files in a text editor directly from the raspi the text is color formatted. when i open the files vi...

weird thing i am seeing. hopefully i can explain this. i have some shell scripts saved on a linux machine on my LAN. if i access the network share through Nemo those scripts show as having a Binary file type. when i access scripts on the local machine with Nemo, they are showing as being the shellsc...

since nothing obvious i'll just have to keep my eye on temps and what not. probably will never happen again.

missmoondog wrote: ⤴Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:22 am maybe a dumb suggestion but are you on a laptop with a bad/weak battery? all 4 of my laptops have old batteries that say fully charged but only last 10 minutes, tops, and then computer shuts down instantly!

nope. desktop pc

the dialog box is what's throwing me. like it was intentional.

strange thing happened last night. i was browsing internet and suddenly a small dialog box pops up that says shutting down. i have no idea why. i dont think it's a hardware issue. i ran a memtest and passed. i looked through some logs and nothing jumped out at me, even though i cant make sense of mu...

It depends on what kind of partition? Ext4, ntfs, ...? How are you mounting it? With partition mounted, what does this return ? 2Tb drive i created one partition as ext4 It actually goes by the "user id" number which is "1000" for the first user, then 1001, etc. But you can allo...

i formatted a new external hard drive with gparted. now the only way to write files to it is with root privileges. i realize now that gparted creates the partition under root user so i guess no surprise here. when i run ls -l on the device it shows owned by root user and group disk so i added my use...

weird thing is virtualbox followed the dark theme before i upgraded it to 6.0. i think it was on 5.2 before that. i'm using cinnamon's mint-y dark theme. Or run Vbox with a QT native dark theme - it won't match but it won't stand out like a sore thumb. VirtualBox -style Fusion %U in a terminal or yo...

virtualbox 6.0 is not following my dark theme. i've spent some time researching and the goto solution is to install a qt config app. i've been though all the solution suggestions. installed qt5ct and qt5-style-plugins and exported QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct". qt5ct config tool pops up, i ...