Ubuntu Tips and Tricks

Having already made a review on the newly released Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, I would like to express a number of basic Ubuntu tips, which many of you may have heard of before but for the sake of the Ubuntu beginners, bear with me! These tips and tricks which I am going to explain will work practically on most Ubuntu distro’s, but not on all of them.

Alter the colour of your Ubuntu

In order to change the colour of your Ubuntu, use the following command

sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser

In future you can then discover the colours, under System >> Preferences.

How to convert Ext2/Ext3 file system to Ext4 (in 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope)

- Make sure you have Ubuntu 9.04 installed so that you have an Ext3 file-system.

- Back-up all of your valued data.

- To convert the partition, reboot from the real CD, and run this code,

sudo bash

tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sda1

e2fsck -pf /dev/sda1

In this case, the partiton you need to convert is /dev/sda1....