It is fine to use one partition for the entire filesystem, and preferred for a laptop. Difficult to estimate just how much space you'll need for the system and user areas, so just use a partition for the entire disk. For desktop and tower systems, where you can easily add and remove drives, then it is preferable to create separate partitions or even separate disks for user areas.
dist-upgrades have come a long way, but yeah you'll likely have problems with that kind of stuff. I was suggestion a dist-upgrade as a way to get around your KDE problem, so that you'll at least have a desktop you can use to drag your data files to a backup drive and then do a clean install.
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Subject: RE: [ruby-81] Kubuntu gui failure...
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Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 4:31 PM
Sadly, no... I set this up a long time ago when I was just learning about running Linux... it’s all on the same partition ;-/ However, many of the problems I ran into with a
previous dist-upgrade are that system stuff gets fouled up: samba stopped working, apache was totally hosed, etc... not a pretty sight for someone like me who’s not an expert at this kind of stuff. ...jon Jon Seidel, CMC® Effective Decisions... Priceless! From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Mark Wieder
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partitions, right? On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Adrien <[address removed]> wrote: Yes, good point. Jon could also just pull the hard drive from the system, put it in an external case, install a new hard drive and some Linux distro, then mount the external drive and copy his files to the new
system. Or, log into a root shell and do an "apt-get dist-upgrade", which won't touch his personal data so if it fails he can still pull the drive to recover those files.
From: Mark Wieder <[address removed]>
Subject: Re: [ruby-81] Kubuntu gui failure...
To: [address removed]
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 11:17 AM
But maybe more to the immediate point: B: try running sudo vi /var/log/Xorg.0.log On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mark Wieder <[address removed]> wrote: Agreed. I switched to Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon recently and haven't looked back. BTW - the latest Ubuntu release is 12.10. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Adrien <[address removed]> wrote: Forgot to mention Linux Mint also has a KDE release: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2271
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From: Jon Seidel <[address removed]>
Subject: [ruby-81] Kubuntu gui failure...
To: [address removed]
Date: Monday, April 1, 2013, 9:36 PM
I have a
Kubuntu 10.04 system that I use for software development. I've had it for quite a while and things have been working well - no unexplained glitches. I've got it setup so that it automatically boots into the KDE gui. A few days ago, it stopped initializing the gui and just drops me into a character mode screen. I can login there, but no graphical interface. I've got the nvidia drivers installed and have two monitors configured which has also been working fine. dmesg has nothing that seems relevant. I've tested the graphics card and it seems to be just fine, as is my other hardware. I may have done a security update recently, but don't know which ones as I rarely reboot this machine. What should I be looking for or trying out to resolve this issue? Thanks much...jon Jon Seidel, CMC® Effective Decisions... Priceless!
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