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disk usage statistics tools
I'm looking for a tool that gathers disk usage statistics over time and can display the data.
It will be nice to be able see the data in a table and in a graph.
I basically want the info df -h over ...
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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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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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Drive NOT clean. error by disk utility
When booting it tells me there is error on my drive partition. When I tried to check the partition for errors it tells me that "Drive NOT clean", and nothing else.How can I fix this error?
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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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Startup disc creator not allowing any iso to be loaded
i have 12.04 , ubuntu, and startup diskcreator isn't allowing the program to see the iso.
root perms
it just doesn't load it. the usb loads fine though.
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Command for reporting free/used space on *unmounted* partitions?
Are there any commands that reports free (or used) space left on unmounted partitions? The partitions will have either NTFS, FAT or Ext2|3|4 filesystems... A bonus would be a program that also ...
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NTFS Corrupted HDD
I just installed a new HDD in my computer. I booted up and formated it in NTFS and copied about 500 GB of Videos onto it. My computer (few hours later) froze while a was watching a video off that ...
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SMART Status Data Interpretation - Disk Utility
Last week my external harddisk (Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB in a custom enclosure) showed signs of failure (Disk Utility SMART Pre-failure status - several bad sectors) and I decided to change it. I ...
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Disk Utility changes bad sector counts
I have been monitoring my HDD for a while now and noticed the following related to the amount of Bad sectors shown in the Disk app:
7 Months Ago - Brand new, sparky, Beam me up Scotty!
3 Months Ago - ...
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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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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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unable to format external hard disk
I have an external wd my passport connected via USB 2.0. Yesterday I have tried to format it using disk utility but somehow it could not complete successfully. Now its showing unknown volume 0.0kb. I ...
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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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How can I check my filesystem with the new Disks 3.4.1?
Disks 3.4.1 (aka palimpsest, gnome-disk-utility, or Disk Utility) underwent a huge UI change, and I can't find something comparable to the old "check filesystem" button in its UI. Where can I find ...
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Installing Ubuntu with a DVD on a Mac
I tried burning a dvd with Ubuntu on it and every time I put it in my computer it says it cant read it. I don't think it's downloading a version for Mac but I just got it from ubuntu.com. I think it ...
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Why does Disk Utility show 8 bad sectors on a 2-months old harddrive?
I have recently changed my harddrive and Disk Utility already gives me this message that I have 8 bad sectors and that it is sign of imminent disc failure. It counts 8 bad sectors and I really dont ...
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ubuntu 12.10 disk partition after installation
i bought a laptop with 500 GB hard disk and installed Ubuntu 12.10 on it.
During installation it gave me an option to make drives after installing (or something like that) and skipped the core step ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it possible to replace disk utility for disks in 12.04?
I am using ubuntu 12.04 and I want to take advantage of the new features and improvements in the newer disk utility found in 12.10 that is now known as "disks". Is it possible to replace disk utility ...
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How to mount USB flash drive
my not working flash SANDISK 8GB
im use disk untility for formating not working usb busy and unmount or mount not working?
help any and terminal im use
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Disk Utility. Format CD-RW to blanck : Error creating filesystem
I got this error when I went to format a rewritable cd with Disk utility.
Disk was unmounted as demanded.
Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1:
Error calling fsync(2) on ...
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How to mount a disk that supports Samba sharing (Using Disk Utility)
This might be a tricky question but here is the objective:
Manage to mount a disk/partition automatically without (or at least trying to avoid):
Editing any Samba configuration file
Editing the ...
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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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Trying to copy an ext4 partition that has errors on it, to a new disk
I have a linux installation in a 50GB partition, on an old 80GB sata disk that is starting to show some errors in it's SMART status, and also, it's an old slow disk. So I want to copy it to a newer ...
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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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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 ...
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Disk Utility on OSX Crashes when burning .iso file [closed]
I've downloaded the Ubuntu Desktop .iso file, but when I try to burn it DVD using Disk Utility, it crashes. What do I do?
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Is there no more Encrypted File Systems in 12.10?
I'm trying to encrypt a FATFS using the disk tool. When I opened it in 12.10, I realized that it was impossible from the GUI. Is there anyway to do this from the CLI?
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Has the the new gnome-disks (AKA Disks 3.6.1) lost the ability to manage remote disks?
I have recently upgraded to ubuntu 12.10, only to find that remote disk management was not available from the new gnome-disks. Is this a bug or something?
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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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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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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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Error mounting an external HDD [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to mount an external HDD?
I want to mount an external HDD.I have tried many things but still no success.When i try to mount it from Disk Utility i get this error:
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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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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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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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Why did my USB drive suddenly stop being detected?
I wanted to format my usb, so I opened disk-utility to format. But the formatting process wasn't complete and gave me some error. Now my usb isn't detected; please help.
Please find the screen shot ...
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Is it worth it to change from Ext4 to Ext3 in order to use Partimage?
I am looking for a partition imaging program, like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, that will run on the PC (not from live-cd or USB) and can save the image onto a separate partition. I am brand ...
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How do I automatically monitor SMART with external USB drives and warn if necessary?
My External USB drive died, and Ubuntu gave no indication that it there was a problem. It would be useful if the system gave a warning for failing drives, including external USB ones. Is there a way ...
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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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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? ...
