cannot extract wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz

I'm assuming you're following the directions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519354.

Make sure you are downloading the file in your Wubi Ubuntu system, not in your Windows system.

To extract the file, navigate in the Terminal to the folder in which you downloaded it (for example, if you downloaded it into the Downloads folder inside your home folder, you could navigate to this folder by running the command "cd ~/Downloads" without the quotes). Then run the command "tar xzf wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz" to extract it.

If that does not solve the problem, or you are already doing that, then please run this command:

md5sum wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz

It should output the following, exactly:

0ed61a0b3c39fab8810f442adf14b716 wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz

If it outputs that, then the file is not corrupted. In that case, please select all the text in the Terminal window (Edit > Select All), copy it to the clipboard (Edit > Copy), and paste it here (in your post). Since this will include the full and exact text of both the command you used to extract it and the error message you received, it should help in figuring out the cause of the problem.

If the md5sum command outputs anything other than that, then the file really is corrupted.

In that case, perhaps you are having a problem downloading from Ubuntu Forums. Since the script is licensed under the GPL, it is permissible to reproduce it along with its source code (which is trivially fulfilled since it *is* its source code), which I have done--you can view the script at http://paste.ubuntu.com/722033/ and you can download it as text using the link for that on that page. (Like on Ubuntu Forums, you will have to log on for that--to do so, use your Launchpad user ID and password.) If that doesn't work, you can select all the text, copy it to the clipboard, open a text editor (such as gedit), paste the script in, and press enter.

With either of these methods, if you were to run md5sum on the resulting script, it might not match up to the above hash (i.e., the above gibberish string of letters and numbers), because of the possibility of different character encodings and the possibility of a final newline being appended.

Save the file as wubi-move-2.1.sh and try running it. If that fails too, then please post all the text from the Terminal here.

If the above advice solves your problem, then please mark this question as Solved (which you can do at https://answers.launchpad.net/wubi/+question/176678).

I reloaded downloaded the file (6.4meg) and ran md5sum it does not match the value 0ed61a0b3c39fab8810f442adf14b716 for wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz. The file must be corrupted.
The real problem is, I have 160g HD and dual partition but Ubuntu can only see 49g and I am out of room. I would like to give Ubuntu more space.
I have tried parted and gparted from Ubuntu and Ubuntu boot disk, they only show 1 partition 160g. That is why I decided to remove windows. This is another dead end. I cannot re-run wubi my only choice there is uninstall Ubuntu.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Eliah Kagan
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 7:26 PM
To: White, Claude W
Subject: Re: [Question #176678]: cannot extract wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz

Your question #176678 on Wubi changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/wubi/+question/176678

    Status: Open => Answered

Eliah Kagan proposed the following answer:
I'm assuming you're following the directions at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519354.

Make sure you are downloading the file in your Wubi Ubuntu system, not
in your Windows system.

To extract the file, navigate in the Terminal to the folder in which you
downloaded it (for example, if you downloaded it into the Downloads
folder inside your home folder, you could navigate to this folder by
running the command "cd ~/Downloads" without the quotes). Then run the
command "tar xzf wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz" to extract it.

If that does not solve the problem, or you are already doing that, then
please run this command:

md5sum wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz

It should output the following, exactly:

0ed61a0b3c39fab8810f442adf14b716 wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz

If it outputs that, then the file is not corrupted. In that case, please
select all the text in the Terminal window (Edit > Select All), copy it
to the clipboard (Edit > Copy), and paste it here (in your post). Since
this will include the full and exact text of both the command you used
to extract it and the error message you received, it should help in
figuring out the cause of the problem.

If the md5sum command outputs anything other than that, then the file
really is corrupted.

In that case, perhaps you are having a problem downloading from Ubuntu
Forums. Since the script is licensed under the GPL, it is permissible to
reproduce it along with its source code (which is trivially fulfilled
since it *is* its source code), which I have done--you can view the
script at http://paste.ubuntu.com/722033/ and you can download it as
text using the link for that on that page. (Like on Ubuntu Forums, you
will have to log on for that--to do so, use your Launchpad user ID and
password.) If that doesn't work, you can select all the text, copy it to
the clipboard, open a text editor (such as gedit), paste the script in,
and press enter.

With either of these methods, if you were to run md5sum on the resulting
script, it might not match up to the above hash (i.e., the above
gibberish string of letters and numbers), because of the possibility of
different character encodings and the possibility of a final newline
being appended.

Save the file as wubi-move-2.1.sh and try running it. If that fails too,
then please post all the text from the Terminal here.

If the above advice solves your problem, then please mark this question
as Solved (which you can do at
https://answers.launchpad.net/wubi/+question/176678).

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You received this question notification because you asked the question.

"The file must be corrupted."

You can redownload the file from Ubuntu Forums, or you can get using either of the two other methods I detailed. However...

"The real problem is, I have 160g HD and dual partition but Ubuntu can only see 49g and I am out of room. I would like to give Ubuntu more space."

Ubuntu can see the whole disk--the rest is in /host, which represents your Windows partition. You can save files in /host (it is good to put them somewhere that is reasonable for them to be in your Windows system, such as in your /host/Users/<username> folder for Windows Vista/7 or your /host/Documents and Settings/<username> folder for previous versions of Windows). However, if you don't want to do that, or the problem is that you have files that you want in your home directory, or files that are part of Ubuntu applications, that are taking up too much space, then it may be preferable to resize your Wubi system.

A Wubi Ubuntu system does not create a separate partition for itself--it creates a rewritable disk image inside your Windows partition, then when you boot into Ubuntu, that image is mounted and used.

If you just want more space in your Wubi system, you can resize that image; see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How_do_I_resize_the_virtual_disks.3F.

On the other hand, if you want Ubuntu to function independently of Windows (for example, so that damage to your Windows filesystem will not also harm your Ubuntu system), which should also make your Ubuntu system perform a little better (as there is overhead associated with running out of a disk image on an NTFS partition), you might want to convert your Wubi system into a regular Ubuntu system, in which case, using wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz is a reasonable way to proceed.

If you haven't customized your Wubi Ubuntu system too much, and you really do want to get rid of Windows, then you might consider offloading all your documents and other important files (e.g., ebooks, music, videos), then wiping your disk and doing a fresh install of Ubuntu (by booting from an Ubuntu installation CD, not by using the Wubi Windows installer for Ubuntu).

The file wubi-move-2.1-sh.tar.gz is 11.9KB in size. If yours is 6.4MB then
it's definitely not the right file. Where did you get it?

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, cw
<email address hidden>wrote:

> cw is still having a problem:
> I reloaded downloaded the file (6.4meg) and ran md5sum it does not match
> the value 0ed61a0b3c39fab8810f442adf14b716 for wubi-move-2.1.sh.tar.gz.
> The file must be corrupted.
>