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Ubuntu Tips and Tricks

Posted by TechCombo on Sunday May 03, 2009 @10:01AM
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Having already made a review on the newly released Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, I would like to express a number of basic Ubuntu tips, which many of you may have heard of before but for the sake of the Ubuntu beginners, bear with me! These tips and tricks which I am going to explain will work practically on most Ubuntu distro’s, but not on all of them.

Alter the colour of your Ubuntu

In order to change the colour of your Ubuntu, use the following command

sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser

In future you can then discover the colours, under System >> Preferences.

How to convert Ext2/Ext3 file system to Ext4 (in 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope)

- Make sure you have Ubuntu 9.04 installed so that you have an Ext3 file-system.

- Back-up all of your valued data.

- To convert the partition, reboot from the real CD, and run this code,

sudo bash

tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sda1

e2fsck -pf /dev/sda1

In this case, the partiton you need to convert is /dev/sda1....

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Re:Ubuntu Tips and Tricks by phoxix2 on Sunday May 03, 2009 @11:30AM (#590909)
Its not advisable to switch to Ext4 until at least kernel 2.6.30, which is not out yet.

http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6... (Read 'Data Security' section)

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Re:Ubuntu Tips and Tricks by tsally on Sunday May 03, 2009 @10:46AM (#590867)
Erm, I'm pretty sure 99% of the people hear can figure this stuff out for themselves. Run of the mill Ubuntu tutorials definitely do not belong here.
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Re:Ubuntu Tips and Tricks by Tichy on Sunday May 03, 2009 @01:45PM (#591042)
What I don't like about the average Linux tutorial is that they hardly ever explain anything. They are all "go to file /ehh/dsf/dsfjlfdsjjk.grbl and edit the line saying 'fkfjfhjg%%&' to say '%%%fjj887744', then reboot the system and your sound card will work". I guess it is better than nothing, but ultimately it feels a bit like wasted time. If it is complicated to make something work, at least I want to learn something while making it work.

Also, a lot of these cryptic tutorials seem to be outdated, because modern distributions offer easier ways to do the same thing.

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