Questions tagged [disk-management]
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Permanently solve “GRUB was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present”
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine (local, no cloud) which was created as a clone of another computer. Each time GRUB packages are upgraded using apt upgrade, I get the following message:1
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Merging all disks in ubuntu
My hard disk is 4x10 TB so i would like use all storage as 40 TB. I shared my disk info also i used no raid. Is there any way to do that. I tried to remove disk but i got error for that. I have "...
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Input/output error when accessing a directory
I have ubuntu 14.04 installed on a 256Gb SSD (Sandisk). The drive is partitioned to 120 GB (with OS) and the rest as a secondary Data partition. The Data partition has started having I/O problems this ...
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Where does GNOME Disks store the Benchmark history?
So I've been using Disks (or gnome-disks) to benchmark some drives I have plugged in including internal ones. When it does so it keeps a history of past marks so it's good to look back and check. This ...
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Format USB drive to NTFS so it is usable under Windows
When I format a drive to NTFS under Windows and plug it into the Ubuntu machine, it is perfectly usable. But when I format it under Ubuntu using Disks (delete all partitions and create one single ...
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How Does the Smart Control Parameter #173 from Ubuntu smarctl / gnome-disks for the Samsung MZ-7TY2560 reconcile with Linux HDSentinel Rating of 52%
From the Ubuntu version of HDSentinel, it reports health of 52% because of:
# HDSentinel
Hard Disk Sentinel for LINUX console 0.20.10851 (c) 2023 [email protected]
Start with -r [reportfile] to ...
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Something occupy disk storage on ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04
Am running desktop Ubuntu 22.04. Has 2 physical disks, 1tb + 256.
result of df is:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 6155612 4304 6151308 1% /run
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Expand Ubuntu Filesystem on Hyper-V not going through
can you please help in letting me know the steps needed to increase the size of ubuntu hard drive. It is VM, I increased the disk in hyper-V by 11G.
Inside the VM, when I run PARTED Print I see
root@...
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How to move Dropbox and Megasync to sdb1 from sda2 - or mount /home on sdb1?
I am running out of space on my main SSD. I just realized that Dropbox and Megasync are mounted and syncing on sda2 which is on this drive (which accounts for most of space), although I thought I'd ...
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can I move some space from from /dev/sda3 (home) to /dev/sda2 (root) without losing any data or reinstalling the os?
This is a problem I'm facing because my root space is running low.
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Preparing a disk from Windows for installing Ubuntu (partitioning)
I have windows 8 installed. I want to install Ubuntu, therefore, I want to partition a disk using standard windows 8 utility for that. However, what file system do I have to format it to: extFAT or ...
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SSD drive erase with 7 pas DoD 5220.22-M
On conventional hard disks, I was using DOD Short /3 pass and DOD 5220 7 pass. This method can be used on SSD and NVMe drives as well?
I mean it will not affect the disk performance?
Or there is ...
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Disk full and the system freezes after entering password at the login screen
My entire Kubuntu partition is full for some reason. Everything has become extremely slow. I'm not even able to run terminal. The last thing I remember doing was installing Python 3.
The computer is ...
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I need 2 create a partition on my USB flash drive with block/cluster size of 256 KB, but cant find the dialog box 2 specify this block size in Disks
I'm using Gnome's Disks program 2 format my USB flash drive. I want only 1, 0700 Microsoft basic data partition, covering the whole disk. The disk will be used to transfer 2-8GB video files between ...
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How to find attached disks are internal or external?
I used below command but it does not state whether the disk is internal or external.
$ lshw -C disk
Basically what I want to find out is whether the disk is coming from any external sources like ...
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Only One Drive (Partition) is Showing in Ubuntu
**I recently set up a dual boot system with Windows and Ubuntu. When I'm in Windows, I can see all of the drives (partitions) that I have on my computer. However, when I boot into Ubuntu, it only ...
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Adding unallocated space without data loss
I have Ubuntu Server 22.04. I have zabbix server installed on it. Unfortunately, disk space is running out. this server is a virtual machine on VMware ESXi. I added 25 GB to the server but ...
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Is that okay to have the Disk type "Microsoft basic data" in Ubuntu
I was having Windows 11 and now I'm using Linux Ubuntu only. I have
two disks (SSD - HDD).
My first SSD /dev/sdb disk has 2 partitions 1 with Name " EFI
System Partition" ( FAT (32-bit ...
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Mounting Microsoft Basic Data drives
I have recently dual booted and wanted to mount my windows drive on Linux. But when I try to do it, it says "Unable to mount". While windows system shows the partition as NTFS, Linux shows ...
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Deleting files does not free up the space
I am getting No space left on device error when I run git pull.
This is output of my df command:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
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No storage in the disk error when there is plenty of storage left in it
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop. I'm trying to extract some file from a zip, during which I get low disk storage error indicating less than 1 GB is left and the extraction fails because of it. When ...
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How do I allocate free disk space to my Ubuntu 22.04 partition? [duplicate]
I have read and tried the mentioned methods of allocating free space to my Ubuntu partition and have been unable to succeed. I have tried both gparted and the Disk Utility application provided with ...
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Dual-installation leads to a Windows disk with 1.4MB free space. Is this related to GRUB?
Dual-installation leads to a Windows disk with 1.4MB free space. Is this related to GRUB? Or the Disks app?
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How do I create disk partions using ubuntu that has already been launched? [duplicate]
Ive been trying to partion my disk using ubuntu but anytime I try to resize it it says error in unmounting...target is busy!How do I go about it since am a new user in ubuntu?
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Disk on root is almost full but can't find which files take the space
Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop
If I do df -h i can see that my root folder is almost full
And when I list the files in the folder, seems to me they are all system needed files.
I tried to look a bit into it ...
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Should I use MB or MiB to calculate space for the system?
I'm looking to do a fresh install of Linux on my computer with a dual boot to windows. My problem is as follows
I had installed Linux before on my PC with dual boot and always followed the same ...
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Extending the disk space of a server caused a major error on the disk
I was extending my VPS disk space and during that process some error occurred and it changed everything. Now I'm not able to access anything.
Current disk status:
There is very important data on the ...
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What Gnomes are in use? Snaps directory is 4.1GB
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04. I seem to have four different snap versions of GNOME on my machine, and they seem to be using quite a large amount of memory. I'd love to be able to remove some, however I'm ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dual boot with Windows 10 goes to Grub2 Rescue when reinserting old drive with both OS's
My system is old and bios only. However, I created a dual-boot setup on SSD for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Windows 10 in GPT format. Yes, I got it to work. Everything worked fine until I plugged the old HDD ...
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Why can fdisk create a 10GiB partition on a 10GiB device but not a 9.9GiB partition
I am currently learning about creating and managing devices on my Ubuntu Server 22.04 VM running on a KVM host. I added a virtual qcow2 storage disk to the VM. I used fdisk and for very specific ...
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Repartitioning issues
Good evening,
I am a total noob when it comes to linux/ubuntu and I'm a total disaster at it lol
I am trying to repartition my disk using a bootable usb drive.
My disk allocation looks like this (from ...
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I have my Ubuntu installed on a 100GB partition in a 1TB SSD, I am running out of space
I have created a 500GB partition and mounted it in my /home but I'm still getting from my OS low disk space.
Results of lsblk :
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Stuck in Emergency mode after update
my system is stuck in Emergency mode and giving me this error, i have Ubuntu on ssd drive and windows on hdd drive.
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recovering journal / Failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED / COMRESET failed errno=-16 / fsck gives bad superblock
I'm running (or rather, was running) Ubuntu
The machine seemed fine yesterday; This morning, it was unresponsive
It's a tower, so there were no mechanical disturbances in the meantime (the only ...
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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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How can I free disk space in ubuntu?
sudo du -h --max-depth=1
72K ./root
4.0K ./cdrom
16G ./var
4.0K ./media
5.9G ./usr
146M ./boot
12M ./etc
148K ./tmp
13G ./home
16K ./opt
du: cannot access './run/user/1000/doc': ...
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Is there a way to replace a magic superblock?
Following instructions from the Internet (Without doing research first) I have blanked out the superblock on the incorrect RAID disk. Using this command;
sudo mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdd
Now ...
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Forgot to disable fast-startup and now I have only Ubuntu
So my friend have a really old laptop it got so slow it is unworkable on, I suggested him to install Ubuntu and remove Windows 10 which was installed. I was a supervisor of the process although it is ...
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Unexplained high HDD activity on Ubuntu Server 22.04
Recently installed Ubuntu Server 22.04 running LAMP stack and EspoCRM application. Unfortunately pretty rusty on the troubleshooting side of systems admin. Applications are working fine but my HDD is ...
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Disconnected USB drive continues to trigger drive failure alert Ubuntu 22.04
I have been putting up with this for months and decided to ask if anyone knows how to get rid of this. I had a Sandisk Extreme Portable USB drive I used for games and would switch use between ...
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Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu on Separate Hard Drives [duplicate]
How would I go about dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu, the windows drive is on an ssd as my c drive and my s drive is a hdd that I want to use for Linux. I have no idea what I need to download it or ...
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When installing Ubuntu via WSL2 on Windows 11, do I need to partition my hard drive?
Referencing this thread: Where is WSL located on my computer?
I am brand new to Ubuntu, and Linux, and plan to teach myself rudimentary web development. I have a laptop running Windows 11 and I am ...
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Can someone help me either to extend /dev/sda2 partition or to reroute stuff to other partitions?
enter image description hereI often get a message saying 'unable to write to /tmp' as /dev/sda2 run out of space. I don't have any free space left to create a logical volume. I was wondering if I ...
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Can't launch Gparted from applications menu but CAN launch from terminal
I'm a newbie on this OS. I was able to install Gparted on my 20.04 version of Ubuntu. When attempting to launch Gparted from the applications menu, I see that program's name spin on the top left ...
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I changed my OS from windows 11 to Ubuntu and now I have no free disk space
I just changed my OS from Windows11 to Ubuntu22.04 LTS but the problem is that when I was installed Ubuntu I noticed I didn't have much free disk space left although my disk capacity is 1TB. I don't ...
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Allocate more disk space to Ubuntu
I'm having 2 OS installed on my DELL laptop: Windows 11 and Ubuntu 20.04, each takes 50% disk space of my hard disk. Now I want to increase that of Ubuntu. Is there a way to do that?
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du, df showing inconsistent hard drive usage
Ubuntu 20.04
1T built-in drive
5T Seagate Basic external USB drive
Yesterday I moved a very large postgres database to an external USB drive, and then deleted the database directory from the main hard ...
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What does it mean to have 0x00 partition type?
I created a bootable pen-drive some time ago and recently I tried to mount it on Mac. It gave device not readable error. It was mounting perfectly on linux (ubuntu). I started to investigate why that ...
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Change unallocated partition position without losing data
I have an issue where I can't extend the Linux Filesystem partition to utilize the 20GB Unallocated partition.
The filesystem partition image | The unallocated partition
As I understand the 20gb ...
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How can I increase disk size on a Vagrant VM?
I have a VM managed by Vagrant using VirtualBox on a Ubuntu host server. My Vagrant box uses the Puppetlabs Debian 6.0.7 basebox, which uses LVM for its root partition.
By default the disk is 8GB ...
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