linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mint (Mate) Version 17

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mint (Mate) Version 17

Hi Loyal,

You wrote:

> ... If you are saying you click on the name below and you have no
> options, ...

I'm a bit lost on this as everything I've tried falls short.

> then do the following for us from the terminal. Reply with the results:
>
> df -h
>
> This will let us know what all partitions are mounted when the live
> DVD is running.

This was a longer thing than I expected. With the "Live CD" USB running,
I tried the df -h
you asked for and got:
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mint@mint ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow 497M 54M 443M 11% /
udev 487M 4.0K 487M 1% /dev
tmpfs 100M 1.3M 99M 2% /run
/dev/sda 1.3G 1.3G 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 1.3G 1.3G 0 100% /rofs
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 497M 4.0K 497M 1% /tmp
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 497M 76K 497M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 36K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sdc1 15G 6.6G 8.4G 44% /media/mint/USB20FD
mint@mint ~ $
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I hope this comes through OK--I see Thunderbird doesn't handle tabs at
all well, so I added
some spaces hoping to approximate what showed on the terminal.

With misgivings (because I, naturally, don't have a password on Live CD)
I also tried sudo cfdisk
(it did not ask for a password) and got (I also added spaces in hopes of
better alignment):

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cfdisk (util-linux 2.20.1)

Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 15610576896 bytes, 15.6 GB
Heads: 64 Sectors per Track: 32 Cylinders: 14887

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Lab Size (MB)
----------------------------------------------------------
sda1 Boot, NC Primary iso9660 [Linux Mint 17
MA] 1325.41
Pri/Log Free
Space 14285.18*

... Blank Space ...

[ Bootable ] [ Delete ] [ Help ] [ Maximize ] [ Print ]
[ Quit ] [ Type ] [ Units ] [ Write ]

Quit program without writing partition table
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Does this point out anything useful?

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Regards,

Gene Falck
gfalck@merr.com