Saturday, October 19, 2013

Automounting second disk on Ubuntu

Sometimes we need to add second hard drive on our Ubuntu. And do not want to mount it after each loading.

Open console Super+T and sudo -s 

  • List your drives and find id of needed - fdisk -l
  • For example our is /dev/sdb1; cd /mnt && mkdir data && chmod 777 data
  • Edit fstab - vim /etc/fstab; Add new line /dev/sdb1 /mnt/data auto defaults 0 0
  • mount -a

P.S. You may also create your mount directory directly in the root (/) for convenience.

Welldone. 

One man's story about upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10

Yeaterday, Oct 18 I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 13.10. The upgrade was successful without problems except keyboard layout changing hotkeys.


NVIDIA-PRIME NIGHTMARE

The nightmare came when I tried to install nvidia-prime drivers for my NVS 4200M GPU. First of all laptop gets compatibility problem. I can set nvidia settings to load the system in 600x400 resolution. And nothing helps to change it. Second, the system loads without gnome themes for unity (see the screenshots).





So I removed nvidia drivers to solve the problem and monitors.xml generated by nvidia.

LAPTOP-MODE-TOOLS

To improve my laptop battery life I installed laptop-mode-tools. Restarted and... Now I have to network connection icons. Bingo!



PLUS

I don't know why but not all applications are shown in the left menu bar. And are present in the list of opened when pressing alt+tab. But I see them in the super+w list.

You can see that there is no Sublime-Text 2 in the left app bar. But it is there. Icons problem!?!?!?

 
When I press super+w we see it. But there is no icon in the left bar!




My question is: "WTF?!?!?!?!?! Where is upgrades and fixes for all this sh**t?????"

UPDATE

After enabling all sources disabled before upgrading to 13.10, update and restarting laptop my sublime came back to app list and listing using alt+tab. There was Ubuntu developers packages Qt editor, qml etc. May be the problem was missing of new version of these packages.

SECOND UPDATE


I found out that laptop mode tools package works so. The second icon is not network status duplication, but the selection between network connecitons wire/wireless. 

Up to this moment launcher is not working properly. I can't lock and unlock application on it.