Thanks Morrie,
mc works with a mouse in a terminal in Ubuntu. I have had so little
drama with Linux that a lot of my earlier knowledge has evaporated.
This thread demonstrates the slow return of my faculties, and I am
always grateful for assistance.
Cheers
Andrew
On 16/2/21 4:58 pm, Morrie Wyatt via luv-main wrote:
Hi Andrew.
A point worth noting with Midnight Commander.
Some GUI terminals preempt the F10 key, which is used in mc
as the exit function.
So mc offers the option to use the <Esc> key followed by a
digit as an alternative. So <Esc>0 acts as the F10 key.
This allows you to use mc on minimal keyboards where the
function keys may not be available. (Mobile phones for example.)
I also tend to use "mc -x" rather than just "mc", as that
allows you to use the mouse to drive mc.
Any linux install I do, the first addon package I install
is mc.
Regards,
Morrie.
*From:*Andrew Greig via luv-main [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Tuesday, 16 February 2021 4:41 PM
*Cc:* LUV Main
*Subject:* Re: Error message
Thanks Paul,
Since the GUI was behaving badly, I decided to fix it in
Console/Terminal whatever. Then I had the inspired notion to use
Midnight Commander, and, joy unspeakable! It is doing a great job. I
think I may just load Linux Mint.
All happy and OK now.
Andrew
On 16/2/21 4:15 pm, Paul van den Bergen wrote:
aside:
most linux distros still seem to default to separate drive
partitions for boot and OS. and inadequately size the boot
partition at that by default - given how large drives are these
days...
I'm increasingly wondering if this is legacy behaviour no one
understands enough to change, or if I'm missing something...
Mind you, it's not as bad as Windows that makes a C drive for the
OS, a D drive for the data, then puts all the data on the C drive...
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 13:51, Andrew Greig via luv-main
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Jason,
Thanks for your tips, I had wrongly ascribed the failure to the
introduction of the USB drive. I have a synched directory in
Google
Drive so I copied everything from that directory to the USB
drive on my
main machine. Then I entered the shell and ran a delete on the
directory
in my laptop, and this has freed up the space for it to boot
and run. I
did have the rescue disk standing by, but it was not needed on
this
occasion. Panic has subsided, calm is restored, I am grateful
for your
help. Thank you!!
Andrew Greig
On 16/2/21 4:36 am, Jason White via luv-main wrote:
>
> On 15/2/21 1:03 am, pushin.linux via luv-main wrote:
>> Ecryptfs_write_metadata: Errorattempting to write header
information
>> to lower file; rc= [-28]
>>
> If the system drive is full, as you indicate, then the error
message
> could be due to an attempt to write to an ecryptfs file
system on the
> full drive. Could you unmount any ecryptfs file system before
> attaching the external drive, or simply mount it from a console
> session and then move the files over?
>
> If this doesn't work, then it's time to resort to a
bootable, live
> Linux distribution that will take you to a shell prompt from
which you
> can mount drives and move files around.
>
>
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