Which would be "faster" more "responsive" virtual machine software? GNOME-Boxes or VirtualBox?
My laptop doesn't have a printer or a scanner connected and never will, as it doesn't work with my printer because of wrong cables.
Is there a possibility to remove the printing/scanning related processes, services and packages to free up some resources or at least disable them from loading on start up?
My Ubuntu machine has set my external HDD to read only. The drive is a 2TB That I have configured to fat32 so that almost everything can read/write to it. I know that from using the search box on this site one fix is "sudo nautilus." I went to my hdd in the file manager, right clicked , properties. under permissions i tell it to allow read/write, but it says it is a read only file system... I know from some googleing that there is a chance in a fix by unmounting the drive, then forcing it to mount. I heard that this causes a loss in data though, and the content on the drive is important (which is why i just don't reformat the drive). If it helps I just reinstalled Ubuntu, so i don't know if my old profile is the "owner of the drive" under the permissions tab because i made it the same user name...I know that if i go to a windows computer i can tell it to take ownership, where i can then disable read only. is there no way to do this from Ubuntu?
gnomes@gnomes:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/gnomes/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=gnomes)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/THIRSTY 2TR_ type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)
/home/gnomes/.Private on /home/gnomes type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_check_dev_ruid,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs,ecryptfs_sig=40584e1d6fa2a33e,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=83ad2a5a52a1069e)
gnomes@gnomes:~$
Fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=839b800b-ce92-4d72-ad5b-0e84de7c74be / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
#UUID=e25b3b92-d693-4c93-8e08-2470aa0f5152 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
I just found this on a possible sister site to this one https://superuser.com/questions/105769/external-hard-drive-is-read-only-how-to-change-owner-ubuntu I want need to know if this is the solution since my drive is in fat 32 not nfts, and if this will wipe any data on my external
edit- the drive is posted Its name is "THIRSTY 2TR"
I tried sudo mount -o remount,rw '/media/THIRSTY 2TR' and it did nothing... it makes an arrow like ^ but facing right after
me messing around i got this, which looks promising, but means nothing to a noob like me
gnomes@gnomes:~$ sudo mount -o remount,rw '/media/THIRSTY 2TR'
[sudo] password for gnomes:
gnomes@gnomes:~$ sudo mount -THIRSTY 2TR remount,rw '/media/THIRSTY 2TR'
mount: invalid option -- 'T'
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
gnomes@gnomes:~$
I got this when i tried to do it anouther way
gnomes@gnomes:~$ sudo mount -o remount,rw '/dev/sdb1 on /media/THIRSTY 2TR'
[sudo] password for gnomes:
mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 on /media/THIRSTY 2TR in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
gnomes@gnomes:~$
I tried this today.
gnomes@gnomes:~$ sudo dosfsck -a /dev/THIRSTY 2TR
[sudo] password for gnomes:
usage: dosfsck [-aAflrtvVwy] [-d path -d ...] [-u path -u ...]
device
-a automatically repair the file system
-A toggle Atari file system format
-d path drop that file
-f salvage unused chains to files
-l list path names
-n no-op, check non-interactively without changing
-p same as -a, for compat with other *fsck
-r interactively repair the file system
-t test for bad clusters
-u path try to undelete that (non-directory) file
-v verbose mode
-V perform a verification pass
-w write changes to disk immediately
-y same as -a, for compat with other *fsck
I try using a suffix, with the command i entered but it just pops up this same list again