Out of space

[Richard Barmann]

I will have to go to Office Depot and get me a larger thumb drive. I 
have 3 that are each 2 at 4GB 1 at 2GB. I will have to back up the "data" file 
for Kununtu and the "home" for Ubuntu.My main concern is Gnucash and 
Genealogy.

When I am ready to proceed I would like to get back with you and do the 
64 bit.

Thanks

Dick


On 08/03/2016 03:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 08:15:09 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 3 August 2016 at 01:47, Richard Barmann <reb at barmannsbar.com> wrote:
>>> I know you are tired. Lets get back another day. I appreciate all
>>> you have done. I will get back with you another day or if you feel
>>> like sending  me some instruction in the next day or two. we will go
>>> at it again. Get some rest.
>> I wonder whether it might be simpler just to backup all your data and
>> re-install Ubuntu, telling the installer to erase the complete disk in
>> the process.
> Very easy would be to boot one install after the other and to
> backup /home to a possibly available external drive.
>
> If no external drive is available and there are other locations used
> for data, it remains to be something that is hard, at least time
> consuming, to explain:
>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 00:46:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> Do you want the results of sudo lshw -c cpu. I see 32 bit and 64 bit
>>> in there.
>> No not necessarily, since if we reorganize your installs, this
>> information isn't needed. But you should consider to switch to 64-bit,
>> assumed your machine should provide it. Perhaps it's better to just
>> backup your data and to wipe out all old installs and then to install a
>> new 64-bit Ubuntu.
> To give instructions, on how to backup all data, we at least need to
> know the location of /home of all three installs and if there are any
> other places used to store data, or he simply backups all partitions to
> compressed tar archives. In this case explaining how to mount each
> partition is easy to do, but there would be three new pitfalls instead.
> The OP should do this using a live media, he should own an external
> drive and last but not least, he still should have access to the
> mailing list, which might require detailed explanation, on how to do
> this using a live media.
> Perhaps everything compressed to tar archives could be backuped to
> the new sda1 ext4, but then he needs to care about it, when making the
> new install or disconnect sda, so sdb would become sda and so on.
>
> Anyway, a new install could be well maintained from the beginning.
> Assuming the computer is 64-bit architecture, release upgrades could be
> done in the future, when Ubuntu drops 32-bit support. This are two
> important advantages, but they don't make it less easy to explain how
> to backup.
>
> I had a rest, so unlikely tend to do mistakes now, but at least today
> and tomorrow I have more or less no time for long explanations, if any.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem
>
> Unfortunately they don't explain how to do it and they even forgot to
> mention, that sometimes a simple  cp -pri  (copy) could be the best
> approach.
>
>