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Activate spare for RAID-5 in Disk Utility
I have a RAID-5. I'm trying to replace a failing drive in Disk Utility GUI. I added a new drive as a spare, then did "Remove Component" for the failing drive. How do I tell it to actually use the ...
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External Hard Disk not found
My external hard drive is not working. It won't show up and it won't mount. I used lsusb and it said the hard drive exists but when I try to format it I get this error:
Error creating file system: ...
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just installed 12.10 but cant find disk utility
I just installed 12.10, but can't find the Disk Utility.
Disk Utility show as installed.
I even uninstalled and reinstalled it, but still can't find. The best I can find is Disks, almost but no ...
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1answer
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Smart Data Self-Test Failed
When I run the Smart Data Self-Test disk utility the result indicates Smart Self Test Failed. Yet when I look at the individual test, they all say OK. Did the test itself fail or did the disk fail ...
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1answer
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Cannot boot ubuntu after remove failed data disk (system on different disk)
Our Ubuntu server has four hard disks, but we didn't make them a RAID. Yesterday, one of the disk was reported to be failing, and this disk was /dev/sdb and was mounted as /data (was used to store ...
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2answers
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Ubuntu keeps randomly switching disks
It took me a while to notice, but here's what happens. I have 2 disks on my computer.
On startup, Ubuntu's Disk Utility tells me one is sda and the other sdb. On restart it switches them and on ...
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3answers
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SMART says disk failure is imminent due to bad blocks, what do I need to do?
I have on my hard drive 2 OSes: Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows Vista (I keep it just because of school). Everything was OK on both OSes, but one day on Ubuntu I was getting awkward noises from my notebooks' ...
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Partition not showing Up
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 after that a Part of my HDD is not showing up, I have all the Important Data in it. How do i recover the data? I have not formatted it, So please help me to show up ...
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1answer
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Problem accessing second hard disk with Squeezebox server
I have recently re-purposed my old desktop PC as a 'server' running Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I want to use the machine as my primary squeezebox server in place of my HTPC MacMini (to reduce the strain on the ...
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2answers
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Ubuntu raid configuration lost after reboot
I have a JMicron raid controller on the motherboard, and I have a menu in which I can set RAID arrays when the system boots. I've set it to RAID-1 and added my two identical 2TB disks (the OS disk is ...
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error while trying to resize the partition
im running out of space and i tried to resize the partition using g-parted but i got an error:
Checking for bad sectors ...
Bad cluster: 0x2904636 - 0x2904636 (1)
Bad cluster: 0x290526d - ...
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How do I rename a USB drive?
How exactly would I rename a USB drive?
I've read that you can go into the Disk Utility, the click on Edit Partition and there is an option to rename the label but I can't click in the area to ...
