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How to monitor disk activity?
How do I view my Disk Activity on Ubuntu? For example, How can I monitor what is being written and read from disk as well as the percentage of disk usage? I am looking for an application similar to the Resource Monitor in Windows.
Fritsen
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How do I mount a folder from another partition?
Is there a command to mount a folder from one partition to my main partition? Example of what I'd like to do, which obviously doesn't work: mount /media/tc1/folder /home/dvad/home If not by using a command, is there another way I can do this?
user100541
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There's an issue with an Alpha/Beta Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?
I've been running Alpha releases of Ubuntu for some time now. I keep running into issues - how can I get these resolved? What should I do when I encounter these problems? And where can I find other Ubuntu+1 users to ask questions?
Marco Ceppi
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"Failure to download extra data files" after installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer
After fresh install 12.04 I && updating apt and system restart, I always get this annoying message after reboot : Failure to download extra data files The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the…
armanke13
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How to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox?
I would like to know if anyone can help me with installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox
Chris
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How is Ubuntu different from Debian?
Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian. It uses the same package format. In what ways is Ubuntu different from Debian?
Nathan Osman
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python-is-python3 package in Ubuntu 20.04 - what is it and what does it actually do?
Having used Ubuntu 18.04 for a handful of years now, and reading that Python 2 has been removed from Ubuntu 20.04, I was looking forward to using the commands python or pip rather than python3 or pip3 . So today I tried Ubuntu 20.04 for the first…
cdahms
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Ubuntu 20.04 Network Performance Extremely Slow
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 on one of the Dell XPS 13 machines, and the network performance is abhorrent. Internet speed is very fast from a google speed test (>300Mb/s for both upload and download). However, whenever I try to browse…
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WiFi randomly disconnected on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in this week and now I have a problem with wifi connection. The WiFi connection auto disconnected every 5 - 10 minutes but wifi signal is still fine. I did a search, found some answers for older versions of Ubuntu and…
Cảnh Đinh Văn
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Disable "Mouse battery low" spam notification
Countless times over the past few weeks I have been notified about the low battery in my wireless mouse. Every time it wakes up from sleeping mode and reconnects over Bluetooth I get a notification. I have gotten hundreds of notifications. I do not…
domo
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How can I boot with an older kernel version?
The latest kernel is causing problems with my sound, which worked fine with an older version. As I have only Ubuntu installed, Grub is not getting displayed while booting. How can I manually choose my kernel version while booting?
Shahe Tajiryan
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How to change Windows line-ending to Unix version
We have 10 PC with some version of Ubuntu and only remote access. While doing some upgrades to custom software I did not notice that the line endings in some scripts were Windows version (CR+LF) and not the Unix version (LF). So now when I want to…
NonStandardModel
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There is no public key available for the following key IDs 1397BC53640DB551
When I run the command: sudo apt-get update I got this following warning: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 1397BC53640DB551 This is the only warning I got and I do not get any Error. How I can fix it and what the key…
Marcellinov
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How do I disable the boot splash screen, and only show kernel and boot text instead?
I'd like to be able to disable the Ubuntu splash screen that I see on boot with the indicator meter of progress, and replace that with a text-only readout of the boot up process (such as you can get by hitting the esc key during the splash screen).…
Thomas Ward
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