Partitioning for Kubuntu

[logan01]

Changes needed, interpretable, holding your belly laughing?

[elijathegold]

ichard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3934964    1595992    2338972     123516      77176     821180
-/+ buffers/cache:     697636    3237328
Swap:      7812092          0    7812092

Added code tags.

The last line is telling you that you have used none of your swap. If you want to make it more readable use the -m flag to show the results in megabytes

richard@andromeda-ascendant:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         15964       4386      11577        442        272       2230
-/+ buffers/cache:       1883      14080
Swap:        16211          0      16211

Yeah... I'm a Richard too.

[Qqmike]

logan01 -- go read my other post to you on using code tags ...

[logan01]

Thanks. like the space -m. So do I need to do something regarding swap?

[elijathegold]

Thanks. like the space -m. So do I need to do something regarding swap?

No it looks fine, it's there when it's needed.

[logan01]

Good deal. Thanks. Gotta do this for oshunluvr:

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048         1333247   650.0 MiB   2700  Basic data partition
   2         1333248         1865727   260.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system partition
   3         1865728         2127871   128.0 MiB   0C01  Microsoft reserved part
   4         2127872       623644072   296.4 GiB   0700  Basic data partition
   5       930844672       932605951   860.0 MiB   2700  
   6       932605952       976762879   21.1 GiB    0700  Basic data partition
   7       623644672       639268863   7.5 GiB     8200  
   8       639268864       697862143   27.9 GiB    8300  
   9       697862144       815048703   55.9 GiB    8300

[Qqmike]

Your swap is the partition with code 8200 -- Partition 7.

[oshunluvr]

I wonder why swapon didn't work. Try swapon -s

[logan01]

I wonder why swapon didn't work. Try swapon -s

richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda7                               partition       7812092 0       -1
richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$

[logan01]

When I enter those things like you just had me do, are those commands, what? I need to learn the correct terms. Having a blast. Must compile a list of all these and what they do. Thanks.

[oshunluvr]

Yeah, I used to keep a text file in my desktop folder that I would open up and put in commands as I learned them. These days, most are stuck in my head - the simple ones anyway.

I'm an old DOS guy from waaaay back. To me, there's so much more you can do from the command line (aka in a terminal) and you get more information back usually. I seem to default to the terminal for system "house-keeping" tasks rather than trying to dig through some GUI somewhere.

If you're going to play a lot with terminal commands, I recommend a program called "yakuake" to make it quick and easy. It's a drop down terminal that appears when you hit F12 and goes away when you're not using it.

[Qqmike]

I keep a note pad nearby to write down new commands I come across. Then when I have time, I type them up and print out.

Commands is what that how-to you cited (yesterday) is all about:

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...sole-Beginners

If you have questions, you can always post them here in the main forums (better than posting in the how-to section), like you are doing now, under New Guy or Misc. or catch-all, etc.

[oshunluvr]

Mike: My latest power command is learning to use "find". I swear it's the most powerful tool at the command line if you know how to use it.

I play with it when I'm not learning postgresql...

[Qqmike]

Mike: My latest power command is learning to use "find". I swear it's the most powerful tool at the command line if you know how to use it.

Funny, me, too, just lately. I needed to find ALL references to "grub" on my system (for that how-to I wrote about removing GRUB), and "find" was perfect for that, with *grub* as the -name.

[logan01]

Good deal. Great name oshunluvr. Me too.