Virtualbox / Kubuntu Question

[craigbert]

Finally figured out GParted! It worked like a champ!

Thanks for ya'lls help!!!

[SteveRiley]

That was almost funny.

[craigbert]

I was virtually not going to reply, but then I thought "What the heck".

[SteveRiley]

This is going in my "never to forget" virtual notebook!!!!

Heh. Remember that "virtual" originally meant "almost." I would hope that your notebook is more substantial!

[craigbert]

Very cool! Thanks Steve!

This is going in my "never to forget" virtual notebook!!!!

[SteveRiley]

Is there a way to export the list of packages I have and then feeding them to a package manager to process?

Use dpkg for this, along with the dselect utility.

First, install the extra utility:

sudo apt-get install dselect

Next, make sure you don't have any left-over configuration files from uninstalled packages:

sudo dpkg --purge $(dpkg --get-selections | awk '/deinstall/ {print $1}')

Now save your list of installed packages in a file called package-list:

dpkg --get-selections > package-list

When you're ready to reinstall everything in one swell foop:

sudo dpkg --set-selections < package-list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade

[craigbert]

Here are some screenshots...not very big, but hopefully useful.

[james147]

As a side question since I may need to start from scratch...
The PITA is going through and selecting the packages I want/need. Is there a way to export the list of packages I have and then feeding them to a package manager to process?

There is, I think moun can do this, if not dpkg can... cannot remember the commands by hand any more.

[james147]

Screen shots might make whats going on clearer

[craigbert]

As a side question since I may need to start from scratch...
The PITA is going through and selecting the packages I want/need. Is there a way to export the list of packages I have and then feeding them to a package manager to process?

[craigbert]

At least Partition Manager shows it more correctly...30.82GB with 5.91GB used and 24.9GB free...

[craigbert]

james147 ~ GParted reports that the size is 30.82GB, used = 30.44GB, and Unused = 383.75MB.
That makes no sense to me because I know that there is NOT 30GB of stuff there. Plus on the host system (Windows XP) it shows that *.vdi to be about 7.6GB.
How should I use GParted to fix this?

[james147]

Ooops. Just saw ya'lls post.

oshunluvr ~ how would I mount part of my file system to a different / new drive? I know how to create and attach the new drive...mounting is a different story with the data for those mount points is a different story.

james147 ~ When I look in Partition Manager it appears like I would expect 32GB. Might there be some other way to deal with this?

The drive should appear as the right size, but if you click on it the partitions inside will still be the old size. From your disk layout you will need to move the swap and extended partition to the end of the disk and then increase the size of the first partition

[craigbert]

james147 ~ I will give that a shot!

[craigbert]

Ooops. Just saw ya'lls post.

oshunluvr ~ how would I mount part of my file system to a different / new drive? I know how to create and attach the new drive...mounting is a different story with the data for those mount points is a different story.

james147 ~ When I look in Partition Manager it appears like I would expect 32GB. Might there be some other way to deal with this?