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... run an application that has a quick look through the files, there are several minutes of time wasted on each disk. If I manually change the mount to noatime, 3 minutes becomes 3 seconds. How can I set noatime to be the permanent default everywhere? LM 21 is now here. I am reading the udisks doc...

The fsck utility should run against a file system. In your Disks program output your /dev/sda storage device has three partitions. For example, the /dev/sda5 device is where the ext4 file system resides. You must determine the proper device name for your clone device before attempting to run fsck li...

... crontab -e * * * * * /bin/bash/ /root/backup.sh >> backup.log >/dev/null 2>&1 grep CRON /var/log/syslog May 28 19:56:01 production1 CRON[3982]: (root) CMD (/bin/bash/ /root/backup.sh >> backup.log >/dev/null 2>&1) ... May 28 20:12:01 production1 CRON[4042]: (root) CMD (/bin/bash/ /root/...

... Will the overwritten EFI System Partition prevent me from installing (instead of Mint) and booting other Linux distro ? Or does it affect only Linux Mint ? Will be necessary to restore the ESP ? I have a Linux Mint 20.3 and Windows 11 multiboot configuration. I do not have any non-LInux Mint in...

... It's a personal opinion indeed. The issue was produced by Ubuntu, they broke backward compatibility with their own images as well. To cite Linux Mint project leader here Monthly News – April 2023 – The Linux Mint Blog Secureboot An update in Ubuntu’s shim-signed broke the compatibility of all L...

I use TLP on my laptops to improve battery run time. The github page for auto-cpufreq recommends using auto-cupfreq by itself. I am not sure what advantage auto-cpufreq has over TLP other than it claims TLP will not run in turbo mode. If you are trying to improve battery run time, I do not understan...

... As for secure boot, what I found (and almost everyone who has tested) is that, once you run updates, you should be able to re-enable secure boot, i.e., the installed system will boot without difficulty (although the notifications you mention will remain). ... I personally do not feel comfortabl...

I prefer the XFCE desktop environment so, I have no experience with LMDE 5 Cinnamon. Maybe another forum user with the LMDE 5 experience can answer your question. As an alternative the Linux Mint 20.3 fully supports Secure Boot.

The Linux Mint 21 and 21.1 releases do not have the proper Secure Boot functionality. Hopefully, it will be resolved in the next release 21.2. The latest Linux Mint release with a Secure Boot functionality is Linux Mint 20.3. Updating the Dell OptiPlex 5060 firmware might help with the ACPI error. R...

Check to see if the Inel RST (Rapid Storage Technology) is enabled. If so disable it and switch it to the standard SATA AHCI. I know why would a single disk laptop have RST enabled. You got me but, I was surprised by this configuration in another thread. Does your new laptop have UEFI diagnostics? Y...

... Frankly, I think you would be better off investing your efforts in figuring out how to disable secure boot. If unable, I would install LM20, which apparently still works with secure boot enabled. I think we can assume Mint will again become secure boot compatible in the future - this glitch is ...

Your previous Linux installation on the 298GB hard drive contains mint-vg volume group. You probably need to deactivate the mint-vg volume group before attempting disk management on the hard disk. sudo vgchange -an mint-vg Notice, you should always have at least two backups for each storage device b...

Please run the following command: sudo du -xamd 1 / | sort -rn | head -10 The previous command will show the top ten largest file system space consumers under the / directory. This should help identify what needs to be cleaned up, ex. /timeshift or /home directories. Once the / file system has some ...

In most cases a session manager login loop is related to either the /(root) or /home file system available free space for a non-root user. Secondary, the /home/user environment might be preventing a successful X11 startup. To begin with let us do a quick review of the /(root) and/or /home file syste...

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The send-notify also requires an appropriate DISPLAY environment variable. Try adding the export DISPLAY=:0 to your script. Also, you can capture any standard error output from the script by appending "2 >> /home/your_user_name/notify-send_cron_err.log" to the end of your crontab entry. Cr...

Good catch T42 . Cinnamon is trying to be more like Windows Shell using the control C and control V for copy and paste. If I remember correctly Cinnamon is well liked by previous Windows 7 users because, it seems to be more familiar than other desktop environment. Conversely, the xfce-terminal does ...

so I donwloaded it directly from the mint installation (before I copied the downloaded file to the mint installation) and unexplicably it worked, this is just another demonstration of how buggy, irregular and overall unreliable linux is, I was planning to get acquainted with it on a virtual machine...

Hi Mint experts, I'm trying to find more information about the SSD in one mini PC. I assume it is SSD because drive is recognized by Mint 20.1 as /sda. All I can find is the model: user@user-laptop:~$ lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,MODEL NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT SIZE MODEL sda 119,2...

... Thank you for your time and effort but at this point I'll just make a copy of the files I need on a flash drive and completely format my HDD. Since I am not familiar with linux or what commands I should use, this seems like the easiest solution, right? If I understand you correctly, you are onl...