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How to Convert Linux Ubuntu Partition into Windows Partition

You need to format the partition on which you want to install Linux Ubuntu and the type of Linux Format is completely different than those of Windows Format types. That's why hard disk partition on which Ubuntu is installed is not view able from Windows Operating System, because windows does not support Linux Ubuntu Formats.  This goes good until you want to both operating systems with dual boot system. When you do not want to use Linux Ubuntu you will have to convert its partition to NTFS or FAT32 in order to access the partition and store and access data from this partition. One method to convert Ubuntu partition to Windows is to convert and format the partition with Free MINITOOL Partition Program. Remember this procedure will only convert to Windows Supported partitions and will ask you to format the partition until you can use it. So you will loose any data on your Ubuntu partition.  See  How to access U...

Ubuntu Boot Error --- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)

Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 5108701a-641d-43b182eb-aeb6da348d62 Starting up ... Loading, please wait... Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough ?) - Check root = (did the system wait for the right device ?) - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/5108701a-641d-43b182eb-aeb6da348d62 does not exist . Dropping to a shell! Busybox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-2ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs) Just boot ubuntu by selecting another option of booting ubuntu from grub menu at startup, and upgrade ubuntu as per the steps given below Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktop You can easily upgrade over the network with the following procedure.  Start System/Administration/Update Manager Click the  Check  button to check for new updates.  If there are any updates to install, use the  Install Updat...

How to configure timezone for GrayLog2 on Ubuntu

Below are the two steps to configure time zone on GrayLog2 server, installed on Ubuntu deployed as virtual appliance. $sudo graylog-ctl set-timezone <zone acronym> check time zone list  here Restart or reconfigure the graylog service by this command $ sudo graylog-ctl reconfigure $ sudo graylog-ctl restart graylog-server

Access/Copy/Modify Ubuntu Files From Windows

If you have installed dual operating systems i.e. Windows and Ubuntu then you are unable to access files stored on Ubuntu Drive from Windows operating system. This is because file system of Ubuntu is not supported by Windows (NTFS or FAT32). Here is a small tool  Ext2Explore  that can be used to access, copy or modify files stored on Ubuntu Drive from Windows. If you are no more using Ubuntu and want to convert the drive with ubuntu installed into the NTFS file system to use the drive to store you files See How to convert Ubuntu drive partition in to Windows Supported (NTFS) files system.

Unable to Increase Screen Size (Pixels) Ubuntu

I have installed Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.4 on ESXi 6.0. Tried to increase the pixel density so that i can view the big Screen on my other 27 inch screen through VMWare client. I tried installing open-vmtools but remained unsuccessful. Then installed VMWare tools by mounting through VMWare client (tools that come with ESXi 6.0 but again remained unsuccessfull. The third try was to download latest VMtools from VMWare website, uploaded to uploaded to the /tmp folder of ubuntu through WinSCP server and then installed as per given procedure on VMWare website. I shut down the Ubuntu VM Increase the Video Card Memory from Default to 16 MB. Restarted Virtual Machine, this time I was getting bunch of options for increasing screen size of the Ubuntu Display and successfully running my VM at  resolution of 1440x900 (16:10).