d_Joke's questions

I have a machine running as a Home Server for Samba, streaming with Kodi, Torrent and Webmin. Actually is running Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I was thinking of switching to Ubuntu Server because I want to do a fresh install and setup everything again removing everything I have tested and to have a "stable" server just running the things I need in addition to finally remove the desktop environment that I don't really need/use. I know what I have to do but (finally) my question is: should I use disk encryption (or home encryption) or not?

I have this server mostly for media and some other documents and stuff to share between the home network only. I don't really have anything important or really private that I want to hide, but it's my practice that I have always used disk encryption on all my machines. I ask because in a home server is a little different. Every time I have to make a restart I need to put the password and if is Home Encryption is the same thing; to use over the network I have to login to connects other machines to the samba server. I want to know the Pros and Cons of Disk Encryption in a home server and Home Encryption. It is really convenient? How does affect the performance? Should I just use disk encryption and forget about home encryption?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

I followed this post on OMG Ubuntu!, about how to install Google Play to sync your music. I have tried to install it but it shows me this message:

The installation of a package which violates the quality standards ins't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath.

Lintian check results for /home/user/Downloads/google-musicmanager-beta_current_amd64.deb: E: google-musicmanager-beta: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile etc/cron.daily/google-musicmanager

Any suggestions?

I have an HP pavilion g7 with a 500GB HD and 4GB RAM.

My first problem was while I was installing Ubuntu 12.04 for the first time on this laptop. I accidentally deleted Windows 7. So I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on the entire disk.

Then I decided to install Windows 7 again. So I made a partition and installed Windows into that partition. I knew I might lose Ubuntu but did not consider that a problem because I was already thinking of installing Ubuntu again.

The problem is that I can't install Ubuntu into that partition. I tried deleting the partition, but in Windows I can't merge the partition so I can follow the instructions on Ubuntu when it makes a partition for itself. (And I do not want to break the machine again.)

This is how my disk is partitioned.

1. 270GB Unallocated
2. 100MB System
3. 200GB C:/ (Windows 7)
4. 20MB (I don't remember)

I want to merge the number 1 with number 3 and then start installing Ubuntu. When I try to install Ubuntu with that partition it will not let me install. The install is not allowed because there are more than 3 primary partitions or something like that. The system will not allow me to create another primary partition.

Any suggestions? I just want to merge the partition C:/ disk with the partition I made so I can install Ubuntu in a new partition created at the moment.

I searched in forums and blogs and they all said that once I delete a partition Windows is able to "expand" the C:/ disk. But in my case, I can't do that. I assume that I can't because I created that partition BEFORE I installed Windows 7 again.

I would appreciate any suggestions. If I could I would delete Windows but I depend on it for my work.