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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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Disk Utility in 12.04 LTS will not let me check the file system partition for errors
I want to check my partition for errors using Disk utility.
When I press the "Check Filesystem" button, it says that an error occurred ... device is busy. How can I ignore that error and carry on ...
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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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The Mystery of the Vanishing Disk Space
My disk space is dwindling by about 2GB a day! I only have a few more days before I run out of space.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 143G 126G ...
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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 refresh Disk Utility?
I do a lot of live system building, which eventually involves imaging a USB drive with the built binary image:
dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdX
sync
Where /dev/sdX is a USB drive. As part of my ...
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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?
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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 ...
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Hard Drive Formatting and Unmounting Errors
I'm trying to format a hard drive using Ubuntu 11.10. Every time that I attempt to format it from the Disk Utility, I get the error saying the device is busy, and under details it says:
/dev/sda1 is ...
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How-to recover previous swap partitions space?
After several clean re-installations of Ubuntu 11.10 on my Lenovo S12 Laptop (Intel Atom), I found I have five new swap partitions in addition to the original swap partition on 11.04.
Not only do ...
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Can't format a 2nd drive via Disk Utility [closed]
I've recently updated from 9.10 to 10.04 LTS. I can't reformat a 2nd drive through the Dsk Utility 2.30.1. It fails with a "Need authorization" message but it does not give me a password window.
I ...
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How do I correctly align partions on a hdd with sector size of 4096 bytes?
I just bought a Lenovo x121e (E-350 version).
I was able to successfully install ubuntu 11.04 and everything is running fine (for the system to boot an efi partition seems to be necessary however).
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