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  1. khedger

    Questions on using disks, making filesystems, and mounting

    Hi all, Though I think I might understand some of this, I'm not sure how much I REALLY understand so your help is greatly appreciated. I have an Ubuntu box with three SDDs installed, a 500 gb and two 1 tb drives. After installation the root filesystem (and everything else) is on the 500 gb...
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    change font size in terminal mode?

    Hi all, i have installed Ubuntu Server on my system, which provides no desktop GUI by default. This is fine. However, working from the command line I find the fontsize is too small for my weary old eyes and would like to make it larger. I have NO IDEA how to even approach doing this. My first...
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    Pointers to BIOS, UEFI, booloader (GRUB?) tutorials?

    Hi all, I've been using Linux for years, installing it on all kinds of systems, but I've always been confused about these low level hardware attributes. I got to the point where I understood what BIOS was and how to do things like change boot order etc. Now I've had a few negative experiences...
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    Cannot connect programmatically from remote client to mysql server

    Hi all, I've been beating my head against the wall, reading, querying the internet, trying the 'solutions' I've found out there, but nothing's helping me with this problem, so now I'm asking here. I have a client laptop and a server. The server is running mySQL 8. Both systems are running...
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    Problems trying to commit or push to git on server from client

    Hi all, Firstly, I hope this is a reasonable place to post this question. It looked like the most appropriate forum, but I DID debate putting it in the DevOps forum. Anyway, I've got a server and a laptop client. I've generated and setup the SSH keys and that part seems to be fine. I've...
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    Tarballs - Please clear this up for me.....

    Hi all, These days I use Ubuntu and Mint, so most of my package management is done through apt. However, in the past, and occasionally still, I need to install via a downloaded tarball. There are a couple of things that have never been clear to me about this process that I'm hoping some kind...
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    Anybody know where to find MySQL Workbench 6.0?

    Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 20. I installed mysql workbench on my system. This installed version 8 of the workbench. Unfortunately, there's a known bug that prevents workbench from connecting to the database. All of the suggested workarounds I saw were to use a back level version. I did a search for...
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    Hello....

    I'm a new user and I wanted to do a short intro. I spent 30 years or so working in the Software industry in both SysAdmin and Quality Assurance roles. I've worked with Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. though never at an 'expert' level. I also used to work for a company that was heavily involved in...
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    More disk mounting problems.....

    Hi all, Another problem I"m having. Again I have a server with 3 SDDs. I have a 1tb SDD partitioned with a single partition and installed Ubuntu to successfully. I have second 500 gb SDD with a single partition that I entered a problem for earlier, but I can mount it. I have a third 1tb SDD that...
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    Help needed with mounting weirdness....

    Hi all, I don't have a lot of experience playing with filesystems and such and I'm stuck. Here's what I have: I have a server with three SDDs installed. One is being used for the linux install or system. I'm using Ubuntu 20 and it's up and running fine. I used fdisk to make a full-disk partition...
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    Am I on the right track?

    Hi all, I recently got hold of a Dell optiplex 9020 sff and I'm configuring it to use as a home server. I removed the hard drive and installed two SSDs, then I removed the optical drive and installed a third SSD. The optical drive has its own SATA power and data cables that were in the machine...
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    How to use non system disks in Linux

    So I've got a server that I've installed 3 SSD drives into. My intention is to use one of the drives as the 'root' drive, where software will be installed, home directories will live, etc. (btw this is for a home server where I'm basically the only user) The other two drives will be put into a...
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