I have an external drive with two partitions - one encrypted, the other not so. I'd like to move all the data to the encrypted partition, and then resize it to take up the whole drive.
If I use gparted on a truecrypt-encrypted partition, will that destroy the data?
Otherwise I have to decrypt, merge, resize and then re-encrypt.
Just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10, and the keyboard indicator applet no longer displays the two-letter country code for the active layout.
This is terrible. Is this the default behaviour? Anyone using two layouts can't tell which language they're in.
I can't seem to find the setting for this, it used to be in the preferences for keyboard layout.
Update 1: In case this wasn't obvious - I have two keyboard layouts - English and Hebrew. I just upgraded form 10.04, where the country code (USA/IL) was displayed, overlaid on the flag.
Now all I get is a vague keyboard icon, and can't find the settings for this.
Update 2: this seems to be a bug that people have been reporting since Lucid, and is now back in Maverick
Amazingly enough, circumstances have left me without a single USB flash drive, or a working CD-R drive. Also, because I moved about six months ago, I got rid of all my extra Ubuntu CDs that I used to get by mail. (cleanup win, hindsight fail) And yet, I need to get a live Ubuntu going to boot up a wonky desktop computer.
I tried using unetbootin to put a live CD install onto a portable USB hard-drive, but it won't boot from it (NTLDR missing error).
Is this because the disk is NTFS (which it is)? or for some other reason? Is there a difference between booting from a portable USB thumbdrive and a portable USB hard drive, other than potential performance?
I just updated the DNS record (ns1, ns2, ns3.myhostingcompany.com) for a site I've got hosted, but I still get the domain registrar parking page.
I'd like to see if the problem is Ubuntu's cached DNS records. Is there a way to clear Ubuntu's DNS cache? (if such a thing exists?)
I've been running UNR on my eee 1000 pretty much since it came out over a year ago (I was using easy-peasy before that), but I'm curious about the new Kubuntu netbook edition. Ultimately, KDE is better looking, and has some really friendly software, but I'm worried about performance - that display has got to be a processor hog (and by association, battery!), no?
How much does Kubuntu netbook edition impact battery life?
(This might not be an Ubuntu-specific question?)
When I installed 9.10, I opted to encrypt my home folder using ecryptfs, but then I discovered this locked me out of my ext3 partition when I tried to access it from Windows on my dual-boot machine (using some free ext2/3 driver that I got somewhere, not even sure which one).
Is there a way to mount an encrypted home folder in Windows?