Questions tagged [user-space]

User-space is defined as the runtime environment of normal, non-kernel processes; these processes are not always started by the user as many user-space processes such as daemons run before the user logs on.

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How to understand the flow of USB detection?

I would like to understand the flow of the USB events form the Kernel space to the User space (just out of my curiosity, in knowing how things are implemented). To be more clear, I would like to know how does that pop-up comes in my desktop when I…
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Using 'quota' for disk limits

I installed quota using apt-get and followed some of the tutorials online. I ran sudo edquota username which opened nano and gave a chart for me to edit. What does the chart mean when it says soft, hard, etc.? Is there a proper tutorial for quota…
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How safe are my files in /home?

This is a community wiki. I would really like other folk's thoughts on this. I do not want to discuss the ethics of storing plain text passwords either. For those unfamiliar, libpurple is the library used by Pidgin, and when you choose to save your…
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How do we use mounted DVDs with multiple accounts without ejecting the disk?

I'm sharing my PC with my wife and my sister on regular basis. There are several issues when we switch from one user to another, such as the NetworkManager icon being present only on the first account (which is ridiculous). A similar problem occurs…
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Ubuntu 20.4 .cache tracker is taking my space

I have 200 gb of space in my portion and the .cache tracker meta.db-wal took 140gb of that space and I don’t know how to clear it. I saw that you can disable the tracker but without actually informing me how to clear or clean it to get the space…
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Bless Error For saving space

Getting a Bless error when I try to modify a file. "There is not enough space on the device to save yfxmsecc.bless". Got a ton of free space. Any ideas what could be causing this?
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Non-active users and swap

I use ubuntu 14.04 and I have a question about swap utilization with respect to having multiple users logged into xwindows. Specifically I have two users that use this computer and it seems that the computer takes a hit when both are logged in (one…
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Xubuntu User Space boot takes very long

I found similar topics regarding slow kernel boot but my problem is that my system takes 3 minutes to load the userspace systemd-analyze gives the following output Startup finished in 4.247s (kernel) + 3min 743ms (userspace = 3min…
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Ubuntu taking about 5 minutes to Boot!

Please suggest if you have some experience with what can I do to decrease boot time. What is the reason for the userspace taking so long? $ sudo systemd-analyze time Startup finished in 3.395s (firmware) + 14.332s (loader) + 38.152s (kernel) + 3min…
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16.04 LTS Ubuntu boots slowly after dual boot to Windows

I have had a dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu for a month or so. I have been able to go back and forth with no issues until recently. After booting Windows, I booted Ubuntu and it dropped to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox. I was able to boot by using…
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How to increase the allocated disk space for the /home directory?

How can I increment space for /home? My first /boot directory was 5 gigabytes and next I changed to 1 gigabyte. Now I'm confused because the change give me unallocated with size 5.02GiB. How can I add this unallocated 5.02GiB to /home? click to see…
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Appear to have free space but no space left error message

Attempting to load a local docker image : docker load -i 3.tar bc224b1b676d: Loading layer 196.9 MB/196.9 MB 53edc9780c07: Loading layer 209.9 kB/209.9 kB 738d3f35b582: Loading layer 7.168 kB/7.168 kB 4375cecd293e: Loading layer 4.608 kB/4.608…
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how to add some space for a specific DIR with a USB key

I have a /home/Completed dir. For some reasons, I can not move this directory. Now my system is quite full. So, I would like to grant some space to the /home/Completed directory from a usb key. Is it possible ? Thanks
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Lost HDD space at home

I have total 365 GB at /home : And 146 Gb is used: So free space must be: 365 - 146 = 219 Gb But it is 17.2 Gb! (See screen2 - it is nautilus directory properties with sudo) 201.8 Gb is "invisible". Where are free space? Addition info Seems such…
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How can I free space on a Ubuntu Usb drive?

I'm very new in the Ubuntu family (I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , just 2 days ago, I must learn Linux for college). Second of all, English is not my native language, but I'll try to be as clear as possible). I installed Ubuntu on a 1 GB flash drive…
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