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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is this drive failure or something else?
I have a year-old drive that's giving me trouble. Copying data to it fails after about 8-10GB of transfers. It spontaneously changes to 'read only'. It's properly formatted ext4, I'm the owner. ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What are the fields in the "Format Partition" window in the Disks utility for, and what do I choose?
I use 14.04 and I have 2 physical partitions, one of 243Gb and another of rest of 500Gb.
I want to format the partition of 243Gb using Disks (Open dash and type disks). This partition contains another ...
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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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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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Disk information Pane in Disk Utility is Black in LXDE
When I open Disk Utility, and click on one of the drives, the information (right)pane is black. Any ideas?
Thanks
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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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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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Can udisks be removed from 14.04 and replaced with the functionality of disk utility from 12.04?
I'm currently testing 14.04 and while there are many things I like about it, the udisks bugs are upsetting. I'm currently running 12.04 on all production systems due to these problems which if I'm not ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Understanding gnome-disk mount options
I am using the gnome-disk-utilities UI to manage my auto-mounts. The problem is that I don't fully understand the mount options. Is there no way to directly set the default access privileges like with ...
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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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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 workflow,...
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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 burn an ISO-image with root access only?
I would like to know how can I burn an ISO-image file in a directory (inside another partition) that I can only read with root permission using sudo. There is no left room, I cannot copy, move or ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'Low Disk Space' (and Disk Usage Analyzer) vs Disks utility [duplicate]
I have posted a very similar question here before.
A similar thing happened this morning. I received a Low Disk Space warning
The volume "InternalHDD" has only 873.8 MB disk space remaining
I ...
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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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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.