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Martin Hope
Rakesh Kumar
Asked: 2012-05-08 17:29:15 +0800 CST
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I am a new Ubuntu user (using it since last 1 month). When I was with windows there were all these Internet Security Suites that protected the PC.

With Ubuntu there aren't any. I wanted to know if I download torrents, will someone be able to hack into my system?

Since all the peers can see my IP address, will they be able to break into my system?

I know the question sounds n00bish, but then I am a n00b.

PS: Ubuntu and Transmission are all up to date in my system.

security bittorrent transmission p2p
Martin Hope
Rakesh Kumar
Asked: 2012-04-22 19:42:45 +0800 CST
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So I decided to include my entire HD space of 320GB in the /dev/sda3 partition where I had installed Ubuntu.

I was told that it is better to keep some HD space away from the installation partition. So I resized the partition to 50GB in order to use the rest to store data.

I created the partition /dev/sda4 and labeled it as 'Data'.

However, I am unable to copy any data into this folder. When I go to 'Data' I only see the fold 'lost+found'. But I am not able to create any other folder nor can I move my data here.

Have I done anything wrong?

Also I see that 1.75GB of space has already been taken! How can this be possible?

Here's the screenshot from the GParted Partition Editor.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/CkCQi.png

partitioning gparted
Martin Hope
Rakesh Kumar
Asked: 2012-04-04 03:25:45 +0800 CST
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I bought a new laptop with no OS and decided to try to Linux (Ubuntu) for the first time in my life. It was a clean install, my laptop had no other OS present in it, not even DOS.

While installing, it asked for partitioning. Out of the 320GB of free space I created a new partition of 20 GB and installed Ubuntu in it. The rest of the 300GB is still available as free space.

Soon I realized that I can't use the 300GB of space and that only 20GB is available to me for use.

Can anyone tell me how I can take away some free space away from the 300GB and add that to my 20GB partition?

I have installed the Gparted Partition editor from the Ubuntu Software Center but have no idea how to go ahead with it.

Thanks :)

partitioning gparted