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How to find the device name of an HDD that won't mount?
I have a failing HDD that I want to recover data from, using ddrescue.
However, I don't know how to find the device name.
When I booted Ubuntu with the disk plugged in, Ubuntu seemed to get stuck ...
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Setting up Ram disk & NFS
I’m new to Linux so please forgive my lack of knowledge.
What I’m trying to do is the following:
Create a 32GB ram disk and mount it as an NFS export and give everyone full access to it. This is what ...
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Set User or Folder Quota [duplicate]
How can I set up a maximum disk usage quota for a particular user OR a particular folder (I don't need both, either will work)? Essentially, I'm running a particular program which stores a good amount ...
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Sudden Shutdown Ubuntu 12.04 on dual boot
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with windows dual boot(no wubi is used)(on startup purple color screen with option of Ubuntu and windows).
Alloted disk Space to Ubuntu-20GB
Laptop Used-Dell Studio 15 RAM ...
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dual booting ubuntu without affecting recovery disk
I bought a new laptop with genuine windows 8 with a recovery partition built in. I need to install ubuntu without affecting to the current configurations.
This is how my partition table looks in ...
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shrink the size of tmpfs folders
After checking my disk space in Xubuntu, I noticed I have files holding unnecessary disk space and not coming close to using it. Is there a way to limit the space it is holding?
I have marked the ...
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expanding the current running operating system partition [duplicate]
I have dual booted my pc from windows to ubuntu 12.10v. I actually had done it by shrinking the 500GB volume to half a part to windows and half to ubuntu. Now I am facing an issue called low disk ...
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Are there any LVM gotchas?
I have been playing around with LVM on a virtual machine. Until now I have found only advantages on it and I'm thinking about using it on my real machine the next time I do a fresh install.
I have ...
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Move files from one folder to another with same name
I'm new to linux, especially for ubuntu server and it's terminal....
I have such file structure:
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|-t1
|-1.jpg
|-t2
|-2.jpg
|-second
|-t1
|-3.jpg
|-t2
|-4.jpg
How ...
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How do updates work?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and at least once a week I get important and recommended updates. These weekly updates are normally between 50-100 Mb, and sometimes they're over 200 Mb.
I haven't installed ...
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“The volume filesystem root has only…”
I am having this problem in ubuntu 12.04, but I fin strange that when I go to /tmp it wont allow me to delete some files, with message "Operation not permitted" or "this file could not be handled ...
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ubuntu 12.10 disk partition after installation
i bought a laptop with 500 GB hard disk and installed Ubuntu 12.10 on it.
During installation it gave me an option to make drives after installing (or something like that) and skipped the core step ...
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problem with disk quota
I have just a couple of users in partition /home, say, home/u1 and home/u2, mounted on a 2TB hard disk. Both users use up only about 10 GB of disk space. Quota is not enabled, in fact, when I run ...
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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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How do I get Disk Management (usermount) to work after receiving the error in the description?
The error is:
There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount.
Contact your administrator
I'm running 32 bit 12.10 if any other details are required.
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Is it possible to extend a ubuntu 12.04 disk in vmware?
I am trying to extend the disk on a Ubuntu server running as a vmware esxi guest. I have extended the disk in the settings of the guest in esx. How do I go about extending the disk to allow more free ...
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How can I create one logical volume over two disks using LVM?
Hi. I've got a working Ubuntu 12.04 server, which is going to serve as media server. I've added two disks of size 3TB to put my data on, and I wish to combine these as one 6TB logical volume which I ...
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udev to ignore disk partition mapping?
is it possible to disable partition mapping on specific SATA disk?
I'm using ,say "sdb", disk for DRBD replication where KVM VM is installed directly.
Because of that, /dev/sdb got partitions and ...
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Trying to copy an ext4 partition that has errors on it, to a new disk
I have a linux installation in a 50GB partition, on an old 80GB sata disk that is starting to show some errors in it's SMART status, and also, it's an old slow disk. So I want to copy it to a newer ...
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Disk Space not detected
I was using Windows7 system. To install Ubuntu I created partition of 100GB. Downloaded Ubuntu installer for windows and installed Ubuntu. The system is working perfectly fine but it is showing disk ...
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full internal harddrive converted to ext4 file system..what to do install windows back again ?? plz help
hi i m a complete newbie at linux...i had a windows 7 installed in my laptop nd drive partitioned..i installed it formatting the drive as it didnt detect i had windows 7 too already...neverthlss it ...
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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 need help with disk partition
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a machine running Windows 7 Starter. While installing, I chose the 30 GB installation option which seemed like the largest installation offered. I am unable to use the ...
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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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Recover 1TB disk erased with startup disk creator
Hello. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. The operation ...
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System checks for disk drive error every time it boots
When my disk space for the ubuntu installation partition was getting low, from a live cd, I used gparted to increase its volume capacity, by deleting another partition and merging it to the ubuntu ...
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How can I increase my disk space when Ubuntu is installed alongside with Windows?
Some time ago i reinstalled windows, formating and deleting every partition. I then made 3 partitions:
One only for Windows OS (about 25GB)
One for Ubuntu OS (about 25GB, if i remember ...
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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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Why is the size of my .Private folder so large?
Last night I had about 190GB of free space on my 500GB HDD. Today I have about 80GB free. I ran df and discovered that my /home/jon/.Private folder is currently using 80% of my hard drive.
What. ...
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Drive Configuration with Three Drives? [closed]
I am looking to build a system and was wondering the best way to configure the hard-drives.
I have three lines of thought. The machine will be used for supporting VM's.
3 500 gb drives raid 0.
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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 edit swap partitions?
I've done several installations of different Ubuntu versions on my machine one over the other from a CD or live usb, and now I have a mess of swap partitions (something like 10 of them), so I need to ...
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Allocate More Disk Space; Only Partition
My computer when crazy (literally, shutting off by itself,etc) and I restart it, well when it came back on, I had the 'grub rescue' message. The only Partition/HD I have on my computer is Ubuntu 11.04 ...
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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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Automatically Remounting a USB Drive after USB errors
I have a Shuttle XS fanless computer with a double usb hard drive. It gets quite hot and the usb stack crashes in Ubuntu 11.04. This causes usb disks to eject, I'd like to make the computer remount ...
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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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/proc/kcore very big
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 and I ran a very RAM intensive program.
When I try to log in after reboot, I receive an error message:
The configuration defaults for Gnome Power Management have not ...
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Is Disk Utility reliable?
I'm using ubuntu 11.04. Disk utility is reporting I have a bad sector on my hard drive. Is this reliable?
I'm skeptical that it's reporting accurately because
When I googled "ubuntu disk utility ...
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External hard drive not detected [closed]
My external hard drive is notbeing detected after upgrading to 11.04. i have tried creating a mount point tweaking /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab. dmesg returns an error
[ 2110.520060] usb 1-8: new high ...
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How do I give Ubuntu 11.04 more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I give Ubuntu 10.10 more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))?
first i have a seperate drive in win7 by shriking the volume of 10 gb then i have ...
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How to make the disk utility ask for password before making modifications?
Currently, I can right click any drive that is attached to the system and click format. No password is asked at all while the data is wiped. I can also format any drive from the disk utility. This ...
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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 ...
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Allocating drive space?
I'm trying to install ubuntu but i already have windows 7 on the same computer and i can't afford losing it.
everything went perfectly well until allocating drivespace. i dont have the option to ...
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How to speed up rsync/tar of large Maildir?
I have a very large Maildir I am copying to a new machine (over 100BASE-T) with rsync. The progress is slow. VERY SLOW. Like 1 MB/s slow. I think this is because it is a lot of small files that ...
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AHCI Hotswap in Lucid Server
Does Lucid support hotswapping of AHCI devices? Is there anything more to it than simply unmounting all filesystems on the drive to be disconnected and plugging in the new disk?
00:1f.2 SATA ...
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Changing the default installation path to a newly installed hard disk
I am currently working on a dual-booted PC. I am using Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx released in April 2010.
The allocated partition to Ubuntu that I am making use of has almost exhausted. ...
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How to format a USB flash drive?
In Windows there is a straightforward "Format" option in a flash drive's right-click pop-up menu. Where's that in Ubuntu?
I understand there's always standard partition management command line stuff ...
