<![CDATA[Linux-Noob Forums - Filesystem Management]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/ Wed, 13 May 2026 11:13:34 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[MTP for Android Smarthone]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-173.html Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:04:37 +0200 noob.fl]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-173.html Salve

 

for me personal, i dont like gnome (to big, and not a nice look) and personal i hate the Nautilus... special when i run it under xfce. But - the xfce cant found the MTP mountet Xperia S Flash. I try everything, install erveryting out of the "softwareverwaltung" (<- sorry, dont know the english word for, but, you know the tool to install and de-install software, libaries tools and so far) that have someting to do with MTP.. under Gnome: no Problem: the device is found - but under xfce - no way... and if i start Natutilus under xfce, the whole desktop will changet to a gnome Shell - and when i close it, dont change back to xfce - even a reboot dont help (i realy hate gnome) - so, are there any libarys or tools or something to show my Android Smartphone mountet on the xfce desktop?

 

thanks

 

lg

 

noob.fl

]]> Salve

 

for me personal, i dont like gnome (to big, and not a nice look) and personal i hate the Nautilus... special when i run it under xfce. But - the xfce cant found the MTP mountet Xperia S Flash. I try everything, install erveryting out of the "softwareverwaltung" (<- sorry, dont know the english word for, but, you know the tool to install and de-install software, libaries tools and so far) that have someting to do with MTP.. under Gnome: no Problem: the device is found - but under xfce - no way... and if i start Natutilus under xfce, the whole desktop will changet to a gnome Shell - and when i close it, dont change back to xfce - even a reboot dont help (i realy hate gnome) - so, are there any libarys or tools or something to show my Android Smartphone mountet on the xfce desktop?

 

thanks

 

lg

 

noob.fl

]]> <![CDATA[Can not log into encrypted directory after update]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-431.html Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:33:39 +0200 Charles Anthony]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-431.html I am in dire need of help again.

 

After doing the latest updates on my Eee1000 Fedora13 netbook, I get the usual screen that asks for my /home directory password:



Code:
/home is password protected




but my password is not accepted. I can not get past this stage of boot up and yes, I am typing the correct password.

 

I booted up a live version on a USB drive and tried to read the directory but failed. As expected, I was prompted for the password, entered it and access was still denied. the message in the error window says:

Code:
[b]Unable to mount location[/b]  
Error unlocking device: cryptsetup exited with exit code 255: No key available with this passphrase.




 

 

 

Where do I go from here to get access to this partition?

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some more messages that might give clues:



Code:
/home is password protected:  *********
/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-759: lsetfilecon failed: No such file or directory  
/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-759: open failed: No such file or directory  
Failed to open temporary keystore device.  
Failed to read from key storage.  

/home is password protected:




]]> I am in dire need of help again.

 

After doing the latest updates on my Eee1000 Fedora13 netbook, I get the usual screen that asks for my /home directory password:



Code:
/home is password protected




but my password is not accepted. I can not get past this stage of boot up and yes, I am typing the correct password.

 

I booted up a live version on a USB drive and tried to read the directory but failed. As expected, I was prompted for the password, entered it and access was still denied. the message in the error window says:

Code:
[b]Unable to mount location[/b]  
Error unlocking device: cryptsetup exited with exit code 255: No key available with this passphrase.




 

 

 

Where do I go from here to get access to this partition?

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some more messages that might give clues:



Code:
/home is password protected:  *********
/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-759: lsetfilecon failed: No such file or directory  
/dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-759: open failed: No such file or directory  
Failed to open temporary keystore device.  
Failed to read from key storage.  

/home is password protected:




]]> <![CDATA[mounting additional partition]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-670.html Thu, 28 May 2009 03:46:49 +0200 eugene]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-670.html Hi guys i am new around here and i am very new to linux, hence would like to check with you guys and hope for some assistance.

 

Firstly i have a dell server running Linux enterprise V3, now i have a HDD of 146 Gb but when i do a df -h, this is my output

 

[root@localhost root]# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda7 2.0G 1.8G 104M 95% /

/dev/sda3 190M 12M 169M 7% /boot

none 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda8 1012M 33M 928M 4% /tmp

/dev/sda5 9.7G 2.6G 6.6G 29% /usr

/dev/sda6 9.7G 3.5G 5.7G 38% /var

/dev/sda2 2.5G 2.4G 16M 100% /folder1

 

from my fdisk -l

 

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l

 

Disk /dev/sda: 146.6 GB, 146695782400 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17834 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility

/dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda3 * 333 357 200812+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda4 358 17834 140384002+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/sda5 358 1631 10233373+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda6 1632 2905 10233373+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda7 2906 3166 2096451 83 Linux

/dev/sda8 3167 3297 1052226 83 Linux

/dev/sda9 3298 3427 1044193+ 82 Linux swap

 

 

from this i see /dev/sda4 358 17834 140384002+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) which i found out from some threads here that this is the dell portion where you can create more partition from.

 

Now i am not sure as to how i can "cut" out more space from

/dev/sda4 358 17834 140384002+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

to add on to my "folder1"

 

Thanks in advance, have a nice day

]]> Hi guys i am new around here and i am very new to linux, hence would like to check with you guys and hope for some assistance.

 

Firstly i have a dell server running Linux enterprise V3, now i have a HDD of 146 Gb but when i do a df -h, this is my output

 

[root@localhost root]# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda7 2.0G 1.8G 104M 95% /

/dev/sda3 190M 12M 169M 7% /boot

none 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda8 1012M 33M 928M 4% /tmp

/dev/sda5 9.7G 2.6G 6.6G 29% /usr

/dev/sda6 9.7G 3.5G 5.7G 38% /var

/dev/sda2 2.5G 2.4G 16M 100% /folder1

 

from my fdisk -l

 

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l

 

Disk /dev/sda: 146.6 GB, 146695782400 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17834 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility

/dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda3 * 333 357 200812+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda4 358 17834 140384002+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/sda5 358 1631 10233373+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda6 1632 2905 10233373+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda7 2906 3166 2096451 83 Linux

/dev/sda8 3167 3297 1052226 83 Linux

/dev/sda9 3298 3427 1044193+ 82 Linux swap

 

 

from this i see /dev/sda4 358 17834 140384002+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) which i found out from some threads here that this is the dell portion where you can create more partition from.

 

Now i am not sure as to how i can "cut" out more space from

/dev/sda4 358 17834 140384002+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

to add on to my "folder1"

 

Thanks in advance, have a nice day

]]> <![CDATA[mount second hard drive]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1082.html Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:12:46 +0100 Charles Anthony]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1082.html How do I mount this second hard drive?

 

All of the tutorials I find tell me to format the drive.

The hard drive is from a previous Linux installation. I just want it for storage purposes because I have tons of media files on it. Therefore, I do not want to re-format it.

It is IDE and I plugged it in as a slave to my optical drive.

 

Where do I go from here?

]]> How do I mount this second hard drive?

 

All of the tutorials I find tell me to format the drive.

The hard drive is from a previous Linux installation. I just want it for storage purposes because I have tons of media files on it. Therefore, I do not want to re-format it.

It is IDE and I plugged it in as a slave to my optical drive.

 

Where do I go from here?

]]> <![CDATA[How to move .txt file so avi and txt has the same names]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1272.html Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:16:40 +0200 jerzykiller]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1272.html 1. I would like to say hello to everyone, because it is my first post Smile

2. Some people are watching a lot of movies with subtitles. On example me Tongue Sometimes downloaded from some sites .txt file doesn't have the same name like ours .avi file. It's tiring to change these names in any gui application or even in console(usually there is a lot of other files like .rar, .r01...etc with similiar names). So I wrote this very little bash script which does that.



Code:
#!/bin/bash
mv *.txt $(basename *.avi .avi).txt




It will work only if in present dir is only one .txt and .avi file, and if these files names doesn't insist any spaces. I didn't know how to make it working with spaces. If anyone know, please let me know.

I hope it may be usefull for someone :]

]]> 1. I would like to say hello to everyone, because it is my first post Smile

2. Some people are watching a lot of movies with subtitles. On example me Tongue Sometimes downloaded from some sites .txt file doesn't have the same name like ours .avi file. It's tiring to change these names in any gui application or even in console(usually there is a lot of other files like .rar, .r01...etc with similiar names). So I wrote this very little bash script which does that.



Code:
#!/bin/bash
mv *.txt $(basename *.avi .avi).txt




It will work only if in present dir is only one .txt and .avi file, and if these files names doesn't insist any spaces. I didn't know how to make it working with spaces. If anyone know, please let me know.

I hope it may be usefull for someone :]

]]> <![CDATA[How do I get parted working?]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1636.html Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:32:27 +0100 Matto]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1636.html Okay, after having some problems installing parted, I finally got it to work with yum (I'm on fedora core 6).

 

But after the installation, I have no clue where parted is, how to find where it is, or how to use it since it has to be there!

Quote:Installed: parted.i386 0:1.8.1-1.fc6 parted.x86_64 0:1.8.1-1.fc6Complete!

[root@localhost /]# parted

bash: parted: command not found
So can anyone help me with this? My kernel version is 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 

 

 

Oh right, also, I recently updated my kernel version to that, and my old kernel version is still showing up in grub. How can I delete this? Thanks very much for anything and everything!!!

]]> Okay, after having some problems installing parted, I finally got it to work with yum (I'm on fedora core 6).

 

But after the installation, I have no clue where parted is, how to find where it is, or how to use it since it has to be there!

Quote:Installed: parted.i386 0:1.8.1-1.fc6 parted.x86_64 0:1.8.1-1.fc6Complete!

[root@localhost /]# parted

bash: parted: command not found
So can anyone help me with this? My kernel version is 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 

 

 

Oh right, also, I recently updated my kernel version to that, and my old kernel version is still showing up in grub. How can I delete this? Thanks very much for anything and everything!!!

]]> <![CDATA[XP installed need help dual booting with Suse.]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1647.html Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:44:14 +0100 Maestro]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1647.html Hello all,

 

I have a 55gb hard drive, that currently has 2 partitions (rounded figures)

 

part 1 = Windows XP, 50 gb's big, 25 gb's used 24 gbs free NTFS Primary

part 2 = recovery partition 7 gb's big FAT32 Primary

 

I want to add OpenSuse 10.2 64 edition, I have norton partition manager to resize and split which I believe may be needed? I don't need any more room for windows so could put 20 gb's for linux but im unsure of what I need to know, and what partition type the split should be, is it even a split? extend? no idea!

 

Help much appreciated

 

Thanks in advance.

]]> Hello all,

 

I have a 55gb hard drive, that currently has 2 partitions (rounded figures)

 

part 1 = Windows XP, 50 gb's big, 25 gb's used 24 gbs free NTFS Primary

part 2 = recovery partition 7 gb's big FAT32 Primary

 

I want to add OpenSuse 10.2 64 edition, I have norton partition manager to resize and split which I believe may be needed? I don't need any more room for windows so could put 20 gb's for linux but im unsure of what I need to know, and what partition type the split should be, is it even a split? extend? no idea!

 

Help much appreciated

 

Thanks in advance.

]]> <![CDATA[Two XPs and a Linux]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1651.html Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:28:11 +0100 yonyemg]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1651.html Hi all

I am a real noob [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img] so please help me. I was wondering if I can configure my machine to select between two versions of windows XP (Jap and Eng) and a Red Hat Linux 9.

 

Currently, my machine has only Japanese version of XP installed (pre-installed) but I wanted to add English version(usability) as well and, of course, a Red Hat for my black Baby.

 

Windows XP already has support for dual booting between different version of windows(Boot.ini? :/ ) and from what I've read Red Hat 9 can be configured to boot between Linux and windows. So, can it be configured like.

 

1. Select between Linux and DOS (windows) at first boot-up

2. Then Select between two windows installations, if windows was selected at the first boot-up

 

or

 

Display all three partitions at the first boot-up

 

Since I'am a noob [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img] , the simpler the better.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Note : I've already rearrange the partitions to free space for English version of XP and Red Hat.

]]> Hi all

I am a real noob [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img] so please help me. I was wondering if I can configure my machine to select between two versions of windows XP (Jap and Eng) and a Red Hat Linux 9.

 

Currently, my machine has only Japanese version of XP installed (pre-installed) but I wanted to add English version(usability) as well and, of course, a Red Hat for my black Baby.

 

Windows XP already has support for dual booting between different version of windows(Boot.ini? :/ ) and from what I've read Red Hat 9 can be configured to boot between Linux and windows. So, can it be configured like.

 

1. Select between Linux and DOS (windows) at first boot-up

2. Then Select between two windows installations, if windows was selected at the first boot-up

 

or

 

Display all three partitions at the first boot-up

 

Since I'am a noob [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img] , the simpler the better.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Note : I've already rearrange the partitions to free space for English version of XP and Red Hat.

]]> <![CDATA[Linux from an external HD]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1652.html Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:24:58 +0100 Dutch-Lin]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1652.html Hey peepz!

 

Is it possible to boot linux from an external HD, even if the PC I'm using doesn't support booting from USB devices?

If so, how is it done?

]]> Hey peepz!

 

Is it possible to boot linux from an external HD, even if the PC I'm using doesn't support booting from USB devices?

If so, how is it done?

]]> <![CDATA[How do I uninstall...]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1664.html Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:34:02 +0100 SF100]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1664.html ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[NTFS under linux]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1688.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:43:31 +0100 Dutch-Lin]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1688.html Hey fellow linux users!

 

Since monday I installed Xubuntu in a DUALBOOT configuration at work.

Now I need Xubuntu to get NTFS support, and it would be great if it automounted at boot-up.

Could you guys help me out here?

Gimme a step by step and such.

]]> Hey fellow linux users!

 

Since monday I installed Xubuntu in a DUALBOOT configuration at work.

Now I need Xubuntu to get NTFS support, and it would be great if it automounted at boot-up.

Could you guys help me out here?

Gimme a step by step and such.

]]> <![CDATA[Is HD dead?]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1689.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:17:54 +0100 d03boy]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1689.html Dell Inspiron 8600 (laptop)

 

Not exactly new but not real old. Maybe 4 years max.

 

I had debian installed for a long time and it was running ok. Eventually it started being a hoe so I installed archlinux and it was ok for a while. Then I started having problems when I tried installing stuff using pacman. I think this is when the drive became non-writable or something. So I installed gentoo for fun. Well, after installation I booted up and it worked fine for a couple reboots. Then it made me do a fsck or whatever its called. Found problems that it couldnt fix I guess. So I reinstalled and all went well until the same thing happened. So I installed kubuntu thinking that gentoo was screwing up my file system. Kubuntu installed fine but after a few reboots the drive is not writable anymore. Same problems as with the other one. I dont hear any bad noises or anything. I havent gotten any hardware errors, just system errors saying the drive is not writable. How do I know if I need a new HD?

]]> Dell Inspiron 8600 (laptop)

 

Not exactly new but not real old. Maybe 4 years max.

 

I had debian installed for a long time and it was running ok. Eventually it started being a hoe so I installed archlinux and it was ok for a while. Then I started having problems when I tried installing stuff using pacman. I think this is when the drive became non-writable or something. So I installed gentoo for fun. Well, after installation I booted up and it worked fine for a couple reboots. Then it made me do a fsck or whatever its called. Found problems that it couldnt fix I guess. So I reinstalled and all went well until the same thing happened. So I installed kubuntu thinking that gentoo was screwing up my file system. Kubuntu installed fine but after a few reboots the drive is not writable anymore. Same problems as with the other one. I dont hear any bad noises or anything. I havent gotten any hardware errors, just system errors saying the drive is not writable. How do I know if I need a new HD?

]]> <![CDATA[How Do I Setup Partitions to Triple Boot...]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1776.html Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:17:44 +0200 SendDerek]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1776.html I would very much like to setup Ubuntu to try on my machine, but I don't totally want to ditch Suse just yet either (and I need my Windows partition as well for school programs like SPSS).

 

I'm not even sure what my current partitions look like because I don't know how to check. Is there a command to use to list the partition information? The commands fdisk and cfdisk aren't available.

 

I know this is probably a big project, but... help?

]]> I would very much like to setup Ubuntu to try on my machine, but I don't totally want to ditch Suse just yet either (and I need my Windows partition as well for school programs like SPSS).

 

I'm not even sure what my current partitions look like because I don't know how to check. Is there a command to use to list the partition information? The commands fdisk and cfdisk aren't available.

 

I know this is probably a big project, but... help?

]]> <![CDATA[Backup Hard Disk.]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1777.html Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:47:16 +0200 munyit]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1777.html I want to backup my hard disk to another hard disk, how can I do it..?

I know we can make it using dd command, but I don't know how the syntax is.

I want to copy all the thing from my harddisk to another hard disk.

And if possible, including all the setting?

 

Anybody can help me..

 

thank you...

]]> I want to backup my hard disk to another hard disk, how can I do it..?

I know we can make it using dd command, but I don't know how the syntax is.

I want to copy all the thing from my harddisk to another hard disk.

And if possible, including all the setting?

 

Anybody can help me..

 

thank you...

]]> <![CDATA[How do I make a bootable CD]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1800.html Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:26:06 +0200 cdillard]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1800.html Hello, I have searched your website for an answer to this question, with no luck, so I am posting this to your members. How

do I make a bootable iso using K3B as a front end to cdrecord? The iso I am trying to make is one of five Solaris 10 OS CDs. Once I have made the CD from an unzipped file sol-10-u2-ga-x86-vX-iso.zip (where X is 1-5) I place it in my cdrom and reboot, but it is ignored and the system boots from the already-installed Centos OS on the hard drive.

 

Using cdrecord does not work; system doesn't recognize LUN 0,0,0

 

There is a screenshot of my K3B API at [/url][url=http://www.zonnker.com/noobie.jpg]http://www.zonnker.com/noobie.jpg I did not do anything to change the default configuration of the K3B tool.

 

 

Media is a SONY CD-R 700 MB

 

OS: Centos 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

 

CD burner K3B 0.11.14

 

boot sequence: 1. CDROM 2. USBDISK 3. HDE (hard drive)

 

command to unzip: unzip sol-10-u2-ga-x86-v1-iso.zip (No arguments) which produces a sol-10-u2-ga-x86-v1.iso which I burn to CD with K3B

 

I don't believe this is a Solaris issue, since I have found Knoppix, downloaded and burned in a similar fashion, produces the same results.

 

Many thanks for your help.

 

Charles T. Dillard

]]> Hello, I have searched your website for an answer to this question, with no luck, so I am posting this to your members. How

do I make a bootable iso using K3B as a front end to cdrecord? The iso I am trying to make is one of five Solaris 10 OS CDs. Once I have made the CD from an unzipped file sol-10-u2-ga-x86-vX-iso.zip (where X is 1-5) I place it in my cdrom and reboot, but it is ignored and the system boots from the already-installed Centos OS on the hard drive.

 

Using cdrecord does not work; system doesn't recognize LUN 0,0,0

 

There is a screenshot of my K3B API at [/url][url=http://www.zonnker.com/noobie.jpg]http://www.zonnker.com/noobie.jpg I did not do anything to change the default configuration of the K3B tool.

 

 

Media is a SONY CD-R 700 MB

 

OS: Centos 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

 

CD burner K3B 0.11.14

 

boot sequence: 1. CDROM 2. USBDISK 3. HDE (hard drive)

 

command to unzip: unzip sol-10-u2-ga-x86-v1-iso.zip (No arguments) which produces a sol-10-u2-ga-x86-v1.iso which I burn to CD with K3B

 

I don't believe this is a Solaris issue, since I have found Knoppix, downloaded and burned in a similar fashion, produces the same results.

 

Many thanks for your help.

 

Charles T. Dillard

]]>