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Gnome Disk Utility: Cannot change passphrase
Specifications: Gnome Disk Utility v.3.0.2 running on 12.04 LTS on a generic AMD64 box used to partition a HDD interfaced via SATA and create the file-system. Options defined were the following: No ...
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Daemon is inhibited
i'm having 2047 badblocks in my HDD, and to remove them i'v to make all hdd as ext3 drive and currently my whole hdd is unallocated(free space)...but while creating ext3 partition using Disk utility, ...
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How can I create a 4TB partition on my software RAID5 device?
I have set up a RAID5 device with three 2TB hard drives using mdadm. The device was successfully created, but I cannot seem to create a partition on the device.
When I try to make an ext3 or ext4 ...
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Gparted funkiness - won't recognize 1TB, full-hdd /home partition, but recognizes ext4 and /home label
I have a 1TB SATA hard disk from my old desktop, and the entire thing is an ext4 /home partition (/, /boot, and swap were all on another hdd). It is now in a USB2 enclosure and I want to use it to ...
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Why is Disk Utility (Palimpsest) the default and not GParted?
GParted seems to be the more robust and feature-rich application of the two, is there a reason as to why GParted is not installed by default in Ubuntu?
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Bootable “live” partition on 1TB External HDD
I have a 1TB WD Passport. I made a 20GB partition, formatted to FAT, for a persistent live Ubuntu install. The rest I formatted as NTFS, to be used for backups.
I made the 20GB live install with ...
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At install time I allocated 80 GB for Ubuntu. What happened to my 80GB? How was that space used?
First off, I'm a newb. When I installed Ubuntu it asked me how much drive space to allocate for the OS and I said 80 GB.
Now I find that I am running out of hard drive space. Disk utility shows that ...
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“Empty Partition!” in Mac after created that with Disk Utility
I just got a new hard drive yesterday, 2TB, and copied across all the files I needed, into two partitions in the new 2TB Disk, that I created in Disk Utility (command palimpsest). One was 500GB and ...
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Cloned partition not seen correctly by disk utility & gparted [closed]
Some days ago I cloned my /dev/sda1 partition with clonezilla in partition-to-partition mode to /dev/sda3.
It worked, but now that I've finished the setup of system in /dev/sda3, I wanna reinstall ...
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Utility for resizing partitions
Is there a partition utility in Ubuntu from which I can break my existing 'ext4' partition into more partition w/o loosing this partition's data?
