On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:47:47 +0100, dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk said:
> I just upgraded a week or so ago from Kubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 and
> forgot to do a backup first
Do backups regardless of whether you think you'll need them. One day
you *will* need them, and life is such that you don't know in
Hi Bob,
> No regular scan. We'd debated it's utility at work and concluded it
> was rather marginal and I'd just done the same at home.
It seems to me it's useful for rust. If the disk is three-quarters full
and only 60% of that read often, and that's probably high, then over
half the disk
On 23/08/18 12:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
Yes, they're kernels and you only typically need the last two or
three working ones.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels might free quite
a bit of space.
That link suggests the command
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Hi Peter,
> > Yes, they're kernels and you only typically need the last two or
> > three working ones.
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels might free quite
> > a bit of space.
>
> That link suggests the command
> sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
>
> Periodically when I add
I notice that I have about 40 files called linux-signed-image-*.*.*
and linux-system-extra-*.*.* of different versions. Do I need to get
rid of most of these, and how do I do it?
Yes, they're kernels and you only typically need the last two or three
working ones.
Hi Peter,
> > I record all the installed packages and their versions in a file just
> > before every backup. The idea being with a comm(1) or diff(1) after
> > recovery I can re-install missing packages en masse instead of figuring
> > out what's missing piecemeal.
> >
> > dpkg-query -W
Ralph suggested:
I record all the installed packages and their versions in a file just
before every backup. The idea being with a comm(1) or diff(1) after
recovery I can re-install missing packages en masse instead of figuring
out what's missing piecemeal.
dpkg-query -W --showformat
Hi Ralph,
> Hi bob,
>
> > One half of the RAID array looks dead and the other riddled with
> > bad blocks including some of the main support librarys.
>
> Was (is) there a regular scrub happening on the array, e.g. `mdadm
> --action=check'? I think some distros have a cron job that does this
Hi bob,
> One half of the RAID array looks dead and the other riddled with
> bad blocks including some of the main support librarys.
Was (is) there a regular scrub happening on the array, e.g. `mdadm
--action=check'? I think some distros have a cron job that does this
regularly for all of
Hi,
Have to say "Been there, done that," he says typing on a newly built
machine less than a month old.
Friday: Hmm there's a few SMART errors reported. Oh well they look minor
I'll look at them soon.
Monday night: "Bob I'm getting I/O errors whenever I try to run a command".
Argh! One half
Hi Tim,
> This is where thing take a happier turn
Glad to hear things panned out OK.
> I am all up and running. Yes I still have all those little items to
> configure which normally take an age but the basic are there and
> working.
I record all the installed packages and their versions in a
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