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deleting ubuntu?
#7674193 - 11/24/07 11:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i've got dual boot windows xp/ubuntu studio, how do i delete ubuntu?
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7674273 - 11/24/07 11:49 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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delete all your ntfs partitions
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NO for the love of god DO NOT simply delete your partitions.
i did that once....linux plants itself into every nook and cranny of you disk. if you were to simply delete the partition, you would have half-files everywhere. i think it has something to do with gnome.
in any case, my computer wouldnt even let me into my BIOS, it was so screwed up. i had to run ubuntu from the boot disk and reinstall it.
research the hell out of it first, trust me.
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: nobhdy]
#7674409 - 11/24/07 12:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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damn, too late
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7674570 - 11/24/07 01:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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just have the xp install disk replace the mbr, then delete the linux partition.
i would keep that partition, though. give you a place to play with other linux distros.
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7674816 - 11/24/07 02:47 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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adjust said: delete all your ntfs partitions
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beneath said: damn, too late
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oh shit.. you really shoulda researched that one before doing it 
ntfs = nt file system
nt = windows nt.
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: haymaker]
#7675596 - 11/24/07 06:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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it's alright i think, i had ubuntu on a different harddrive from windows and just deleted the partition.
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7675716 - 11/24/07 07:29 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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uh...
so you partitioned a seperate hard drive and put ubuntu on that partition?
is there anything else on the hard drive? might as well format the whole thing.
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7676439 - 11/24/07 11:33 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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you are better off without any ntfs partitions
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^^^ that goes for everyone
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Not certain what you were using for a bootloader, but if you have problems after removing unix, you might need to do a "fixmbr" from the recovery console in winblows in order to get it to boot.
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why is ntfs so bad?
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: maggotz]
#7678765 - 11/25/07 04:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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+1
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: maggotz]
#7680521 - 11/26/07 03:32 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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> why is ntfs so bad?
Because it is a Microsoft product. On the technical side, my biggest dislike of it is the non-stateless-locking locking which means file corruption should a link between client/server be lost unexpectedly. Even have a file open (read only) and the machine crashes only to have the file gone when you reboot? Lame design that is a kickback to early days of Microsoft when they wrote single user non-networked operating systems (DOS, Win95, etc).
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: Seuss]
#7680635 - 11/26/07 05:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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so what should i use if i still want to have a windows partition?
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: maggotz]
#7682011 - 11/26/07 02:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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use a journaling file system such as XFS
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7729500 - 12/07/07 04:22 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah, so it's still giving me the choice of choosing to boot with ubuntu or XP when i start my computer how can i stop that so when i turn it on it just goes to XP?
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7729574 - 12/07/07 04:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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google: how to fix mbr
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: maggotz]
#7729706 - 12/07/07 05:13 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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XFS is a shitty file system also
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: TheCow]
#7729753 - 12/07/07 05:29 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Shitty? How so? I've seen XFS clusters that would tend to disagree.
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eh i just wanted to be confrontational. But isn't that the file system where if your power gets cut out mid file operation your shit is fucked?
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: TheCow]
#7729784 - 12/07/07 05:35 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ah, cause I've never heard any complaints about XFS outside severe slowness when the disk gets near 100% capacity or dealing with lots of tiny files.
Quite opposite though, you're thinking of a non-journaling file system like Ext2, Old UFS, FAT, those don't like to be derailed.
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Well XFS is a journaling system, but it stores its shit in a cache and only writes it when it wants to or some such business. So if your computer gets unplugged suddenly, you might be fucked
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: TheCow]
#7729816 - 12/07/07 05:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quoth the Wikipedia:
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XFS provides journaling for file system metadata, where file system updates are first written to a serial journal before the actual disk blocks are updated. The journal is a circular buffer of disk blocks that is never read in normal filesystem operation. It can be stored within the data section of the filesystem (an internal log), or on a separate device to minimise disk contention. On XFS the journal contains 'logical' entries that describe at a high level what operations are being performed, as opposed to other filesystems with 'physical' journals that store a copy of the blocks modified during each transaction. Journal updates are performed asynchronously to avoid incurring a performance penalty. In the event of a system crash, operations immediately prior to the crash can be redone using data in the journal, which allows XFS to guarantee file system consistency.
So in short, yes...but the cache is on disk and is recovered at next mount.
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So you think the cache isn't stored in RAM at all then? I guess the cats at linuxforums misinformed me
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: TheCow]
#7729867 - 12/07/07 05:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think they may have their terms mixed up? Linux maintains an aggresive filesystem cache for performance, but I wasn't aware of any delayed writes to the file system driver. If this is happening, it's a Linux thing and can probably be turned off. I doubt it though, as that would seriously defeat the effect all journaling file systems. They work by writing that data to disk in some manner, if they didn't it'd be pointless.
I've ran numerous XFS installations, on Linux and IRIX with no data loss because of power failures. Even once on a laptop I used for wardriving. I had to kill power suddenly on it many times and never lost the tail end of the packet captures
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well shit negro. I use that ext3 bullshit, but honestly on some realshit man, that shit is slow as fuck. Bitch takes like 10 seconds on some deletin scheme, I cant have that man, deletion needs to take no more then a fucking second. Hows that Reiser nigger makin out? He got a new system out yet?
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: TheCow]
#7729894 - 12/07/07 05:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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He's in jail, allegedly murdered his wife.
He told them they could just recover the journal, but they don't understand technology.
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i use ext3 for my / and xfs for /media. / is 20GB and /media is 750GB. i've never had a problem
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: automan]
#7732132 - 12/08/07 07:25 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just out of curiosity then, why do you use ext3 for your root? Also can XFS interact with windows? I mean, say your 750 gig media drive was portable, could I plug it into a windows machine and pull songs off there?
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: TheCow]
#7732353 - 12/08/07 09:19 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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windows doesn like anything that windows didnt create, that includes xfs.
i didnt use xfs as my root because not too long ago, you couldnt boot off xfs. i think that is fixed now, though.
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Re: deleting ubuntu? [Re: beneath]
#7733669 - 12/08/07 03:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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beneath said: yeah, so it's still giving me the choice of choosing to boot with ubuntu or XP when i start my computer how can i stop that so when i turn it on it just goes to XP?
Boot with a Windows XP disk, when it prompts you for a repair, select that. Then type fixmbr
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