Linux Maintenance - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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rwprime1
EDIT Can I delete everhthing in /tmp/ ? Eh, not much there!
Can you help me? I have Arch (the Arch Way) on three PCs in VBox VMs and cannot update. Here's why:
/dev/sda1 ext4 / 9.00 GiB 8.10 GiB (used) 921.57 MiB (remaining)-
/dev/sda2 linux-swap 2.00 GiB 0.00 GiB 2.00 GiB-
/dev/sda3 ext4 /home 9.00 GiB 611.73 MiB (used) 8.40 GiB (remaining)
As you can see everything is going into sda1 and in GParted (gui), I cannot shrink sda3 or alter any partition for that matter. This is a small xfce4 install with no Libre Office, no GIMP, just Kmahjonng and gweled. How in the world can that take up almost 9GB?! Anyway, I watched your video on cleaning up and the systemctl --failed showed zero and the sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb had nothing. I don't know what else to do. I have this install where it is 'sweet' and I don't want to start all over. I looked at all my installed packages and nothing stands out as 'the one thing to remove'. The sda3 partition is hardly used and I cannot put that unused room over to sda1. Why can't I slide the sda3 resizing border in GParted? Also, I can't seem to be able to give the vm more than its 20 GB in VBox and that drive has lots more available.
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EDIT Can I delete everhthing in /tmp/ ? Eh, not much there!
Can you help me? I have Arch (the Arch Way) on three PCs in VBox VMs and cannot update. Here's why:
/dev/sda1 ext4 / 9.00 GiB 8.10 GiB (used) 921.57 MiB (remaining)-
/dev/sda2 linux-swap 2.00 GiB 0.00 GiB 2.00 GiB-
/dev/sda3 ext4 /home 9.00 GiB 611.73 MiB (used) 8.40 GiB (remaining)
As you can see everything is going into sda1 and in GParted (gui), I cannot shrink sda3 or alter any partition for that matter. This is a small xfce4 install with no Libre Office, no GIMP, just Kmahjonng and gweled. How in the world can that take up almost 9GB?! Anyway, I watched your video on cleaning up and the systemctl --failed showed zero and the sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb had nothing. I don't know what else to do. I have this install where it is 'sweet' and I don't want to start all over. I looked at all my installed packages and nothing stands out as 'the one thing to remove'. The sda3 partition is hardly used and I cannot put that unused room over to sda1. Why can't I slide the sda3 resizing border in GParted? Also, I can't seem to be able to give the vm more than its 20 GB in VBox and that drive has lots more available.
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Mike
im relativity new to the linux world , but i believe my pc experience carries through .. for clarification i remember when Microsoft released there first operating system and have used cpu's measured in hertz not kilohertz or even gigahertz! and ram was measured in k's so i believe that dates my usage experience. from my experience all os;s degrade with user input.. all os;s have recommended maintenance.. all will sorta fix the issues and take time... installation of every os ive ever done takes around an hour solving cleaning and troubleshooting always takes longer,, having an archive of all drivers and software installed says if data is saved to non stand locations a full install of the os and software is less effort and time than -maintenance- ever was and has far better results for me anyways mileage may vary
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im relativity new to the linux world , but i believe my pc experience carries through .. for clarification i remember when Microsoft released there first operating system and have used cpu's measured in hertz not kilohertz or even gigahertz! and ram was measured in k's so i believe that dates my usage experience. from my experience all os;s degrade with user input.. all os;s have recommended maintenance.. all will sorta fix the issues and take time... installation of every os ive ever done takes around an hour solving cleaning and troubleshooting always takes longer,, having an archive of all drivers and software installed says if data is saved to non stand locations a full install of the os and software is less effort and time than -maintenance- ever was and has far better results for me anyways mileage may vary
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Marcin
/tmp is not cleaned by the system. Linux does not delete your files unless specifically told to. The impression the /tmp gets cleaned upon reboot comes from the fact that on most distribution a special filesystem called tmpfs is being mounted at that location. tmpfs is a special filesystem that lives in RAM rather than on disk - that's why it gets cleaned when the system shuts down. Linux has nothing to do with it. If you tell it to mount a disk partition at /tmp or not to mount anything there at all, it won't and your temp files will then survive the reboot.
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/tmp is not cleaned by the system. Linux does not delete your files unless specifically told to. The impression the /tmp gets cleaned upon reboot comes from the fact that on most distribution a special filesystem called tmpfs is being mounted at that location. tmpfs is a special filesystem that lives in RAM rather than on disk - that's why it gets cleaned when the system shuts down. Linux has nothing to do with it. If you tell it to mount a disk partition at /tmp or not to mount anything there at all, it won't and your temp files will then survive the reboot.
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Konrad
Whenever I am booting up my Linux, my left click on the mouse is not working and I have to run serval commands to disable and enable device again. Same things happening with my Wi-Fi - it's just spontaneously not working and when I am trying to open -network-, my desktop environment crashing and I have to reboot the whole system. I am using Mint 19.3 and cinnamon DE.
I am so close to give up Linux and return to the boring Windows OS.
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Whenever I am booting up my Linux, my left click on the mouse is not working and I have to run serval commands to disable and enable device again. Same things happening with my Wi-Fi - it's just spontaneously not working and when I am trying to open -network-, my desktop environment crashing and I have to reboot the whole system. I am using Mint 19.3 and cinnamon DE.
I am so close to give up Linux and return to the boring Windows OS.
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Frack
should do a: when i upgrade to a new major change distro version. Something i noticed when upgrading from pop os 19 to 20 it broke alot of app installs. i use alot of different tools to install: pop shop, apt, flatpak, snap, chocolatey. it can really mess things up appwise.
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should do a: when i upgrade to a new major change distro version. Something i noticed when upgrading from pop os 19 to 20 it broke alot of app installs. i use alot of different tools to install: pop shop, apt, flatpak, snap, chocolatey. it can really mess things up appwise.
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Flow'in
Hi
I-m on Mint, i formatted an old hard drive to ext4, mounted it but was unable to write on it and had to revert to ntfs to be able to put files on it.
Why did this happened?
Thanks in advance
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Hi
I-m on Mint, i formatted an old hard drive to ext4, mounted it but was unable to write on it and had to revert to ntfs to be able to put files on it.
Why did this happened?
Thanks in advance
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Hjalti
Ubuntu users FYI:
You can freeze any package including kernel packages by:
example-1:
sudo apt-mark hold
example-2:
sudo apt-mark hold linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic
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Ubuntu users FYI:
You can freeze any package including kernel packages by:
example-1:
sudo apt-mark hold
example-2:
sudo apt-mark hold linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic
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Ralf
that's a lie repeated everywhere without providing actual evidence: NTFS is way superior to most of common linux file systems and much more stable. Data loss is linux is devastating.
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that's a lie repeated everywhere without providing actual evidence: NTFS is way superior to most of common linux file systems and much more stable. Data loss is linux is devastating.
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Laska
Hey Chris. Just noticed that this video is from 2019. Can you make an updated version of this? Like maybe there's something new or noteworthy that you can show us in 2020. Thanks!
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Hey Chris. Just noticed that this video is from 2019. Can you make an updated version of this? Like maybe there's something new or noteworthy that you can show us in 2020. Thanks!
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cimbakahn
Chris Titus Tech: Chris. Just a tip. I was always told to never stop bleachbit when it is in the process of cleaning. That you must let it finish or you will have problems.
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Chris Titus Tech: Chris. Just a tip. I was always told to never stop bleachbit when it is in the process of cleaning. That you must let it finish or you will have problems.
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