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Why is Ubuntu telling me my drive is full?

I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu on a 500gb drive however, yesterday as I was downloading some stuff to my downloads folder I got the message that I don't have enough space. When I checked the ...
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“disk space full”

i have a 160Gb drive partitioned into root(/) approx 150gb and swap 8Gb i have little to no user data on the system as it is a new install. i have added some software to the basic system including ...
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I have multiple “none” partitions, why?

When I type "df -h" in my terminal, the following is the output: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 38G 7.1G 29G 20% / none 498M 248K ...
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What is Ubuntu's software raid controller partition size limitation?

Does anyone know what the partition size limitation is for the Ubuntu software raid controller? If its 2TB, does anyone know how to increase that limitation to 3TB? This is in regards to a question I ...
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How to recover disk space that is not visibly available?

I have an Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit development image running on VirtualBox. I have been doing some house keeping on the disk space because it was getting low. The drive is a 26GB drive. I have about 4.7 GB ...
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Dynamic Disk Not Reading

While using windows i changed my hard disk partitions from "Logical Disk" to "Dynamic Disk"..... then i installed Ubuntu in c drive. when i opened ubuntu the contents of C:Drive are shown but i am ...
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How to match ata4.00 to the apropriate /dev/sdX or actual physical disk?

Getting stuff like this in the logs: Oct 2 22:11:21 jupiter kernel: [439646.093111] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 Oct 2 22:11:21 jupiter kernel: [439646.093144] ...
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How do I resize the partition of a Ubuntu-server?

Is there an easy way to decrease the disk volume on a Ubuntu server? I run a virtual environment and need to decrease my disk volume since I'm running out of space in my non virtual environment.
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could not mount /dev/mapper/cryptswap1

I have just had a major issue with my Ubuntu 11.04 Natty which I think is going to end up in a reinstall :-( This is problem one of two so I've put them as two questions. For some unknown reason I ...
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“df -h” command puts line breaks in output. How do I fix?

My "df -h" command on my Linux box has some devices with longer names and so the "df -h" output has line breaks (or tabs??) in it, which makes it difficult to parse the output in a script. Does ...
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How do I give Ubuntu more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))?

I had installed Ubuntu inside Windows XP but then I formatted XP and installed Windows 7. EDIT1: I used Wubi for the same. I want to know which one of the two will solve my problem? creating a ...