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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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 ...
