but is'nt root and the name your installed the system with the same ?

cause now I don't know the root passw

sorry if I sound off, what would be my root passw then
seems like i can't log into root then

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but is'nt root and the name your installed the system with the same ?

cause now I don't know the root passw

sorry if I sound off, what would be my root passw then
seems like i can't log into root then

well i'm in with gksudo

i think that's it

Oh, sorry, you're using ubuntu. I'm not too familiar with that. I think that by default there actually isn't a root account, and you have to do all the root stuff with sudo, but I'm not sure. No worries. All those commands we suggested you try, just type sudo in front of them. If they "aren't found". Then you'll have to type the complete path for them. Usually it'll be in /sbin, so for example: "sudo /sbin/hdparm -z /dev/hdb" or whatever the drive was.

Yes, I think you're right.

Quakeboy02: Er, on Ubuntu there is a root account. They (who, I have no idea.) just don't really like you using it. You normally have to set a password for it after you have your account set up and are logged in.

by default the password is set to random. AFAIK.

Thanks for the correction. I should have said that it's not configured for use by default, rather than that there is none. There's always a root account.

but i have a dual boot system xp - ubuntu

so de second hdd is split in two but the part of linux swap i want to change, make two other partitions on it 1 for swap 533mb and the rest 20G for filing my stuff

hopefully there is a code for this checked ubuntu forum but no answer yet

but i downloaded Gparted(iso) as live cd in case i can't get through like this , thnx anyway

Let me restate things as I understand them so that there is little chance of a misunderstanding that will cause you harm.

You have a 20GB partition that is currently setup as swap. You want to reduce that to 512MB and use the rest for an ext3 filesystem.

If this is incorrect, then please let me know and pay no attention to the rest of this post.

If this is correct, then turn off swap like we previously showed you and put a hash ("#") as the first character of the swap line in your /etc/fstab.

After reboot, then run fdisk (or parted or gparted or whatever you know how to use) on the disk and remove the 20GB swap partition completely. It will probably be both a logical partition and an extended partition. Now, make an extended partition of 512MB in size. Then, put a logical partition on it. Then change the type of that logical partition to swap. Then reboot.

Yes, you could use gparted to resize the 20GB partition, but why bother? It will probably take all day and who has time for that? I would do as above, but I know how to do it. Do what you feel is best for your level of expertise.

Next, create a Linux partition with the rest of the space on the disk and save the partition.

If you have done things this way, you should be able to re-enable swap on the same partition name (/dev/hdb2 or whatever) that it used to be on. You should also be able to remove the hash in the fstab so that swap is enabled when you boot.

Finally, you will need to create a filesystem on the rest of the disk (perhaps /dev/hdb3) using "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb3". Then create a mountpoint and add the appropriate entry to your fstab.

i didn't really finished need to check the swap if it set alrite (logical)


but these two days/nights without sleep getting to know my linux system

i suddenly cant listen to rm ram files anymore, it says application handler not available , an something lie check in prefences to choose application , something like this, is there a code to fix this , pls

i'm running the ubuntu feisty

i created a third filesysteM ALREADY ,

one question if i run fdisk , should i see where and how much swap is , this is what i get


Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1912 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1913 4865 23719972+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1912 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 1913 2039 1020127+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 * 2040 4865 22699845 83 Linux

please let me know what is wrong with this picture ? is swap on sdb2 now , i guess

in case there is somthing wrong can you send me the code , i would appreciate it kind of getting the touch of it~!

first this then i need (sorry) some help on the ram files issue , thnx ? to start

but to record what can i do besides hardware upgrade (i'll get some ram extra)

how does linux systems proces large files , maybe this questions wil give me some answers