Mint 18.1 Serina 32-bit after install ?

TokTok · 10-19-2019, 12:40 AM

After i installed and upgrades mint serena 32-bit i saw the file type was ex2 & don`t see any way to change it-any advise ? I did not see Grub either but gparted so i plan on instaling Berg with GUI has anyone had any problems with Berg ? Can it be installed on serena 18.1 32-bit ?

michaelk · 10-19-2019, 03:54 AM

The installer should of selected ext4 unless you chose something else.

You can convert ext2 to ext3 and ext3 to ext4 without data loss. A Google search should find howto guides.

You should of had the choice of installing grub i.e. grub2. There are ways to install or reinstall.

I am not familiar with berg.

teckk · 10-19-2019, 09:58 AM

Quote:

i saw the file type was ex2

You had to ask for that. ext4 filesystem has been sorta standard for many years.

Quote:

I did not see Grub either but gparted

Those are completely different things.

Code:

pacman -Si grub
...
Name            : grub
Version         : 2:2.04-2
Description     : GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (2)
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Licenses        : GPL3
...
Provides        : grub-common  grub-bios  grub-emu  grub-efi-x86_64
Depends On      : sh  xz  gettext  device-mapper
Optional Deps   : freetype2: For grub-mkfont usage
                  fuse2: For grub-mount usage
                  dosfstools: For grub-mkrescue FAT FS and EFI support
                  efibootmgr: For grub-install EFI support
                  libisoburn: Provides xorriso for generating grub rescue iso using
                  grub-mkrescue
                  os-prober: To detect other OSes when generating grub.cfg in BIOS
                  systems
                  mtools: For grub-mkrescue FAT FS support
Conflicts With  : grub-common  grub-bios  grub-emu  grub-efi-x86_64  grub-legacy
Replaces        : grub-common  grub-bios  grub-emu  grub-efi-x86_64
Download Size   : 6.13 MiB
Installed Size  : 32.52 MiB
...

Code:

pacman -Si gparted
...
Name            : gparted
Version         : 1.0.0-1
Description     : A Partition Magic clone, frontend to GNU Parted
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://gparted.sourceforge.net
Licenses        : GPL
...
Depends On      : parted  gtkmm3
Optional Deps   : dosfstools: for FAT16 and FAT32 partitions
                  jfsutils: for jfs partitions
                  f2fs-tools: for Flash-Friendly File System
                  btrfs-progs: for btrfs partitions
                  exfat-utils: for exFAT partitions
                  ntfs-3g: for ntfs partitions
                  reiserfsprogs: for reiser partitions
                  udftools: for UDF file system support
                  xfsprogs: for xfs partitions
                  nilfs-utils: for nilfs2 support
                  polkit: to run gparted from application menu
                  gpart: for recovering corrupt partition tables
                  mtools: utilities to access MS-DOS disks
...
Download Size   : 1591.41 KiB
Installed Size  : 7218.00 KiB
...

Read your distos docs
https://linuxmint.com/documentation.php

Also look at your repo
http://packages.linuxmint.com/

Do you mean burg?
https://mintguide.org/effects/716-bu...inux-mint.html

TokTok · 10-19-2019, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

The installer should of selected ext4 unless you chose something else.

You can convert ext2 to ext3 and ext3 to ext4 without data loss. A Google search should find howto guides.

You should of had the choice of installing grub i.e. grub2. There are ways to install or reinstall.

I am not familiar with berg.

I did select ex4 when i did the initial install but when i updated everything using the built update feature and checked the file system it was xt2.
I don`t remember if i was presented the choice but after the upgrade all i saw was Gparted, no sign of anything else.
Thank`s TokTok.

TokTok · 10-19-2019, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

You had to ask for that. ext4 filesystem has been sorta standard for many years.

Those are completely different things.

Code:

pacman -Si grub
...
Name            : grub
Version         : 2:2.04-2
Description     : GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (2)
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Licenses        : GPL3
...
Provides        : grub-common  grub-bios  grub-emu  grub-efi-x86_64
Depends On      : sh  xz  gettext  device-mapper
Optional Deps   : freetype2: For grub-mkfont usage
                  fuse2: For grub-mount usage
                  dosfstools: For grub-mkrescue FAT FS and EFI support
                  efibootmgr: For grub-install EFI support
                  libisoburn: Provides xorriso for generating grub rescue iso using
                  grub-mkrescue
                  os-prober: To detect other OSes when generating grub.cfg in BIOS
                  systems
                  mtools: For grub-mkrescue FAT FS support
Conflicts With  : grub-common  grub-bios  grub-emu  grub-efi-x86_64  grub-legacy
Replaces        : grub-common  grub-bios  grub-emu  grub-efi-x86_64
Download Size   : 6.13 MiB
Installed Size  : 32.52 MiB
...

Code:

pacman -Si gparted
...
Name            : gparted
Version         : 1.0.0-1
Description     : A Partition Magic clone, frontend to GNU Parted
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://gparted.sourceforge.net
Licenses        : GPL
...
Depends On      : parted  gtkmm3
Optional Deps   : dosfstools: for FAT16 and FAT32 partitions
                  jfsutils: for jfs partitions
                  f2fs-tools: for Flash-Friendly File System
                  btrfs-progs: for btrfs partitions
                  exfat-utils: for exFAT partitions
                  ntfs-3g: for ntfs partitions
                  reiserfsprogs: for reiser partitions
                  udftools: for UDF file system support
                  xfsprogs: for xfs partitions
                  nilfs-utils: for nilfs2 support
                  polkit: to run gparted from application menu
                  gpart: for recovering corrupt partition tables
                  mtools: utilities to access MS-DOS disks
...
Download Size   : 1591.41 KiB
Installed Size  : 7218.00 KiB
...

Read your distos docs
https://linuxmint.com/documentation.php

Also look at your repo
http://packages.linuxmint.com/

Do you mean burg?
https://mintguide.org/effects/716-bu...inux-mint.html

Thank`s for the link`s. I found something with a GUI called Gag4 i don`t remember the link & dont think i bookmarked it but will locate it again.
The ex4 was changed to ex2 after using the OS default upgrade feature this was not done by me.