| kc2bez | o/ | 00:04 |
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| lubot | <heysoundude> Is it a good idea to format a portable USB drive before using it? | 00:56 |
| wxl | it's not a bad idea! | 00:56 |
| lubot | <teward001> it's not a bad idea | 00:56 |
| lubot | <teward001> but the specifics of how you go about it depend on use case | 00:56 |
| lubot | <teward001> (because you get to choose filesystem, etc. and if it has to cross between platforms you need to take that into consideration) | 00:57 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> Ok. Just bought a 2tb Seagate for portability. I want to be able to plug it in anywhere- Linux, mac, windoze- and have my files. … Suggested format? It’s Ntfs now, would ext hurt it? | 00:59 |
| wxl | yeah windoze and mac ain't gonna be happy with ext | 00:59 |
| wxl | fat32/ntfs is yr best bet | 01:00 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> (And I’m running 19.10 off a thumb drive until I can get a new ssd for this machine) | 01:00 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> (I don’t like the desktop wallpaper birdies) | 01:00 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> Ok thanks gents | 01:01 |
| wxl | exfat might be a thing, too, but afaik it's not totally open and has limited supported | 01:01 |
| wxl | support that is | 01:01 |
| wxl | oh i guess ntfs has limited support in os x too | 01:02 |
| wxl | fat32 it is | 01:02 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> So, kde will wipe/format this unit to get the senate funk off it? | 01:02 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> Seagate junk, that is. Lol | 01:02 |
| wxl | generally it just creates a new partition table and sets up a filesystem on it | 01:02 |
| wxl | so any data there is regularly inaccessible but it's not necessarily gone | 01:03 |
| wxl | if there IS senate funk on it, you might want to do a more secure wipe :) | 01:03 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> 😏 funny. | 01:04 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> So I need to wade into kde’s help. | 01:04 |
| wxl | https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/3/3.1/3.1.7/kde_partitionmanager.html | 01:05 |
| kc2bez | @heysoundude we have some other wallpapers in `/usr/share/lubuntu/wallpapers` that don't have birdies. | 01:08 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> @wxl [<wxl> https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/3/3.1/3.1.7/kde_partitionmanager.html], Thanks! | 01:08 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> @kc2bez [<kc2bez> @heysoundude we have some other wallpapers in `/usr/share/lubuntu/wallp …], Thanks! | 01:09 |
| kc2bez | Happy to help. | 01:11 |
| Kamilion | heysoundude: Windows and macos tend to want to mount the first NTFS volume, and ignore following volumes -- leave some unpartitioned room following the NTFS volume, and you can mount them under linux for the rare filesystem-permissions seeking applications | 01:18 |
| Kamilion | i'd typically leave about 256GB spare at the end of a 2TB | 01:18 |
| Kamilion | (specifically, this only applies to a USB connected storage device, for the 'first-valid-partition-only' rule. | 01:20 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> Wow...this is good info. Thank you! | 01:23 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> I’m going to be running off this thumb drive for 48hrs- can I get the clock to follow my ntp server on my router? | 01:24 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> I also cannot wait to install Brave back on this machine... | 01:25 |
| kc2bez | Under the main menu --> Preferences --> LXQt settings --> Date and time You can set your timezone and tick on NTP if it is not already. | 01:28 |
| kc2bez | There is more info in our manual page https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/3/3.2/3.2.4/date_and_time.html | 01:29 |
| lubot | <heysoundude> Thank you. | 01:34 |
| kc2bez | You are welcome. | 01:35 |
| CamelRiderZ | hey guys, the show desktop shortcut (Windows + D) is not working | 04:02 |
| CamelRiderZ | nvm | 04:03 |
| xubuntu78w | Hi guys anyone here can assist a newbie with an issue. I installed the latest iso 18.04 and since I did the updates the trackpad has gone haywire. | 08:57 |
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| l | cant get to boot | 20:55 |
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| Guest54310 | cant get to boot | 20:55 |
| Guest54310 | try install 5 times | 20:56 |
| wxl | Guest54310: hi :) did you check the hashes of the iso? | 20:57 |
| Guest54310 | yes i did | 20:58 |
| wxl | and did you check the disc for defects? | 20:59 |
| wxl | or can you not get to the boot screen? | 20:59 |
| Guest54310 | new m.2 | 20:59 |
| wxl | that's irrelevant | 20:59 |
| kc2bez | We didn't even get to ask which version. | 21:01 |
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