Questions tagged [disk-utility]

It provides a GUI to manage and configure disk drives and media. It can be used to format and partition drives, mount and unmount partitions, query S.M.A.R.T. attributes.

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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, click on Edit Partition, and there is an option to rename the label but I can't click in the area to rename. ...
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Mount .img disk image using Disks utility in Ubuntu 22.04

Simple question, probably naive. I have a .img file (with password) that I want to “attach and mount” in Ubuntu 22.04, then explore through the graphical interface. (Read-only will be enough.) Using ...
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How to wipe/format entire disk using gparted?

With gnome-disk-utility alias palimpsest there is an option to format entire disk with partitioning scheme "none" or something similar. How do I do that in gparted? (? is it the "loop" option ?) Or ...
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wipefs device or resource busy

I am trying to format a drive using the Ubuntu Disks utility. When I select and try to format the drive I get Error wiping device. Command-line wipefs -a "/dev/sdb" exited with non-zero exit status ...
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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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How can I run Disk Utility in terminal via a comand line?

First of all, I must say that I have successfully used Disk Utility in the past and thus I could rename my partitions. But yesterday, I saw that my partitions are not mounted, so I used Storage ...
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"GNOME Disks" not showing all disks

I have Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I have plugged an HDD into my Ubuntu machine through a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter a few days ago. This HDD is formatted with NTFS, its label is "D HDD" and it has ...
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Disk Image Mounter does not show hidden files/folders when it opens an ISO file

I archived a lot of files and folders into a .img file... it is a disk image I made using dd and rsync. I then made an .iso file from the .img file (using ImgBurn in Windows 10). Using Caja file ...
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disk image feature in disks utility. Has anyone used it?

I have my ubuntu 14.04 system in one partition (I do not have an extra partition for home) while I have date in another partition. I regularly backup data using a backup tool (areca) but I was ...
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How to power on internal SD card reader from disk utility

I have a Dell laptop (Inspiron-3521) which have an SD card slot. I used this slot to install some images for my raspberry pi. I wanted to test something and using the Ubuntu disk utility I powered it ...
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How can I launch Disk Utility after installing it?

I'm trying to run gnome-disk-utility. But I cannot seem to find it. sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility says its already installed, as does the software manager, however running gnome-disk-...
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How do I find out if I have a swap partition on my hard drive?

I used the 12.04 live cd to install Ubuntu over my Windows 7 partition and deleted everything so I just have Ubuntu on my laptop. But since during the installer I chose the simple "erase entire disk" ...
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Can't mount hdd: Edit mount options grays out

I have installed ubuntu 20.04 in my Lenovo ideapad s145-14iwl laptop. I am a new user of ubuntu. After opening disk app, i can see the hdd but can't mount it through edit mount option as it has grayed ...
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how to check a filesystem in Ubuntu 16.04?

In Ubuntu 12.04 I was used to run the 'Disk Utility' and choose 'Check Filesystem'; its subtitle showed also 'and repair'. In Ubuntu 16.04 I have only found the 'Disks' utility that looks similarly ...
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Securely erase hard drive using the Disk Utility

I am planning on selling my laptop. So I formatted my disk using the Disk Utility and chose to overwrite the disk with zeroes. Two questions: Is this the same as overwriting the disk using dd? sudo ...
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Problem with backing up USB stick using Disks utility

I am trying to back up the whole USB stick to external HDD by creating a disk image (*.img file) using the Ubuntu Disks utility. The USB stick I'm backing up is the "sde" device. I entered: lsblk /...
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How to check what are using the mounted disk when I want to eject it

The disk is mounted by sudo mount /dev/sdd5 /media/SDD/Docs and sudo mount /dev/sdd6 /media/SDD/Images and so on, thus there are some directories corresponding to the volumes of the mounted disk. ...
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How can I do disk partition in Ubuntu 18.04 while installing it? [duplicate]

I don't need windows any more, I have 1TB of hard disk and 6gb ram.Please help me out I'm a beginner!
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GUI program to create partition backup image no larger than its files?

I like 'Disks' (gnome-disk-utility) and its ability to create backups of system partitions. But at some point I read on the internet about a program that would create such images that are not as ...
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Using built-in GUI tools, how do I partition/format an empty drive (zeroed out)?

so I'm trying to partition/format a zeroed out USB drive using Disks app. When formatting, it doesn't give me an option to select GPT/MBR. All I get see it an option to select filesystem. I had to ...
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In the Disks (Disk Utility) application in 14.04, what does the auto-clear setting do?

I'm playing with some disk images via loopback devices (e.g. /dev/loop0). When viewed in the Disks (Disk Utility) application there's a setting labeled "Auto-clear" which is currently set to OFF. ...
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Why "Disks" and "Startup Disk Creator" utilities don't work on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

I have problems with these utilities. When I try to format USB from Disk Utility I get this error: Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0) When ...
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sudden ubuntu 16.04 shutdown while downloading

I am asking what happens if my laptops power dies while I am downloading a website on the Linux terminal? id like to know.Thanks.
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Disk Image Mounter

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and I don't find Disk Image Mounter as an option when I right click on a ISO file. Can any help me with this? Thanks!
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Why is gnome-disks using LUKS1?

I noticed that the application called gnome-disks which is the disk manager in many distros under the gnome and other desktops, gives you the option to encrypt a partition with LUKS. It only offers ...
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How to partition hard drive where already Ubuntu 16.04 is installed [duplicate]

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 in my whole laptop space. But right now , i have a requirement to install Windows in the same laptop. And since i am trying to install windows side by side with this ...
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Disk Usage Utility Daily Stats Tool [Gui]

I have seen a lot of posts regarding my Issue ,but no one has satisfactory answer specially in regard of daily disk usage by different processes I want a complete disk usage monitoring tool ,which ...
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Best ways to keep ubuntu free from cluttering?

There are no programs like disk clean-up or defragmentation in ubuntu, so do we really need it...or if there are some utility packages for ubuntu.
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How to warn user of bad disk sectors?

In the past, Gnome/Ubuntu's standard "Disk" utility would warn if the hard drive reported imminent failure. However, I recently encountered a case where my filesystem flipped into read-only mode. ...
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Xubuntu: Disks utility (palimpsest) and Gparted not showing up anywhere after installation

So I've downloaded Gparted and Disks from the software center. According to software center, they've both installed successfully... but they're nowhere to be found. Even in my terminal: $ ...
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usb drive not detected after formattinf on ubuntu 16.04.1

The pen drive is visible on disk application. But it can't be formatted. It is not visible on gparted. I had formatted it. And this happened after it. It is not visible in files. I tried it in my ...
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External HDD shows up as two separate HDDs in Disk Utility after executing parted

Good day to all, as I mention in my title, the external HDD shows up as two separate HDDs (..kind of) in Disk Utility after executing the following command: sudo parted -l In particular, once I ...
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Where does GNOME Disks store standby settings?

I have been trying to figure out where GNOME Disks (gnome-disks) store its standby settings for HDDs (spinning disks). It is the easiest way to configure this, and works perfectly on Ubuntu GNOME 16....
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Remove encryption from USB flash drive

It all started when I was attempting to format my PNY USB drive because it was full of junk. When it asked me what type of file system, I selected FAT but there was a checkbox below that said "Encrypt"...
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Disks application not reading SMART data correctly?

One of my computers has an older Seagate 750GB HDD. I checked on the SMART data with the included Disks program this afternoon, and I found that it had: A "seek error rate" 441 Million A "read error ...
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Unable to format my pendrive

I want to try to format my pendrive but it show the error as Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 2048 7802879 7800832 3.7G 83 Linux Command (m for help): w ...
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Recover files from NTFS drive with bad sectors

A few nights ago I have created a backup of my data on an external 500 GB NTFS USB hard drive. I have then formatted my computer, reinstalled Ubuntu and started transferring back the data from the ...
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Cannot Write Data to My External Disk When I Give Executable Permission

I wanted to store Android SDK on my external hard drive. I added location, which is /media/erayerdin/ERDIN_EXT1/sources/sdk/linux_x64/android, to my PATH variable by editing /etc/bash.bashrc. However,...
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Fails to auto-mount device & Error mounting system managed device(Ubuntu 14.04)

I used auto-mount option in Ubuntu 14.04 for mounting my all drives at startup. All drives mounts automatically on startup except /dev/sda3. (Let me clarify that /dev/sda3 is ext4 file-system and ...
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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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Can anyone help me to write a utility that we all could use to stop /boot from becoming full?

Can anyone help me to write a utility for Ubuntu that we all could use to stop /boot from becoming full? I would like a utility that can either a) remove old files regularly when boot is getting full ...
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What are the pros and cons of each USB disk format?

In DISK UTILITY when you choose format drive, there are four options. I would like to know what's best and fastest for USB flash drives, USB HDD and any differences between each format type. The ...
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Disk monitor software

Can't find something similar to windows resource monitor software (input output monitor). I need tool which draws disk load graphic and processes which uses disk input or output. There are a lot of ...
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Ubuntu downloaded as .iso file on mac [duplicate]

Everytime I download Ubuntu onto my mac laptop, it is downloaded as an .iso file. I cannot open the file because it tells me in Launchpad: hdiutil: mount failed - No such file or directory
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Disks Application Formatting

In the Formatting Option in the Disks application for Ubuntu 14.04, it gives the option to not overwrite existing data or overwrite existing data with 0's. I've tried both, and both clear the disk and ...
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Increase number of inodes on a disk

Can I increase number of inodes on a disk? How can I increase it ? I am out of inodes just because of so many small files in disk.
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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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Can Encrypted external drive encrypted on/by ubuntu work with Windows?

I was thinking of encrypting my drive but before that I have to make sure that It will work with Windows because in case I am out of options I have to choose windows to recover data. I am talking ...
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How do I get Disk Utility to read SMART data from USB drives?

When I plug in a external USB drive and want to check its S.M.A.R.T. status in Disk Utility (palimpsest) I cannot because the option is greyed out. Is there an option somewhere to enable this feature? ...
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Format disk in 14.04

I remember using Disk Utility to format disks and USBs in 12.04. Now, after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04, I can't seem to find the Disk Utility application. How do I format disks in 14.04? Looking for ...