Questions tagged [disk]
For questions regarding disk storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, and optical disk drives.
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how do i disable full disk encryption?
As i'm a new user to linux while installing ubuntu i've choosed full disk encryption(it asks for the sda3_crypt password before login).
so how can i disable it without reinstall.,
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Increasingly Filling Disk Space - Fixed by reboot
My new Ubuntu computer (running 16.10) fills disk space until it's full. Executing du -h --max-depth 1 on the / directory shows very little space used (like 30 GiBs at most).
When I reboot, this ...
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help free inode but no space with weird percentage
i'm kindof a newbie at this , but when i list the disk usage with df command ,i get that the percentage of inodes used is 1 percent (%iused = 1%)but the 99% of the filesystem is used ( only 1 percent ...
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Disk partitions became read-only [duplicate]
I dual boot Windows 10 on my laptop.
Today I noticed that I can't create files on the other partitions of the disk. Everything is fine on the Ubuntu partition. Running fsck on that partition returned
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Cannot mount USB (ddrescue) disk image
I was trying to recover some data from a faulty USB stick (NTFS) but before i tested on another USB stick.
the Virtualbox VM detected the USB stick which was unmounted in order to make a ddrescue ...
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Cannot mount Ext4/LUKS anymore
My ubuntu hangs after some hours, regularly, but after last reboot I cannot mount my Ext4 partition that sits on top of LUKS.
Also dmesg lookup:
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Ubuntu Disk crashes when I try to encrypt 2TB HDD Seagate
I want to encrypt entire HDD with LUKS+Ext4, but after I hit Format - Disk crashes. Can I do this in terminal somehow? Or what is the problem? Thanks!
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
gnome-disk-utility ...
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Is it possible to add some disk space to ubuntu installed drive?if then what is the way? [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu in a drive that has low disk space I need more space on that disk. How can I add more space to that disk?
Gparted Screenshot
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID ...
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My hard disk partition has disappeared.. pls help me
I tried to reinstall ubuntu, so I used booting usb disk.
Yeah. I know it is very simple task, but i think that i made mistake.
I checked icon which named "Linux LVM", and I wanted to check which ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 running out of disk space
recently I installed ubuntu 16.04 on my HP ProBook 440 G3 on a 30 GB partition. But after using some days the whole disk just filled up. I have used 16.04 on just 10 GB space on a different PC without ...
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Installing Ubuntu from USB stick (having Ubuntu already installed)
I've got Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit installed on my computer. I would like to re-do the installation.
I've created a bootable USB in a different (non-Ubuntu) computer. I try to it plug in: nothing ...
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How to mount Dynamic disk's partition on Ubuntu?
I am using Ubuntu alongside of Windows. I have two HDD. 1st one is a Basic disk, on which Ubuntu and Windows are installed.
And 2nd one is a Dynamic disk. On which all my data has been stored.
Now ...
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How can I monitor the TBW on my Samsung SSD?
As is common knowledge, SSDs have a limited number of PE (Program-Erase) cycles before the NAND cells die.
Therefore, it is very helpful to know how much data has been written to your SSD, in order ...
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I have "read only" access to my Macintosh HD
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 on my Macbook pro.
I need help getting write access to my Mac HD from Ubuntu. I can view and open the files in my Mac HD but I cannot write to the Mac HD. The options for "New ...
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Formatting USB Drive Gives Errors
I dont know why but this seems to be happening with all of my drives.
I installed Clonezilla on one & after usage tried to format the drive using 'Disk' app in Ubuntu, got errors.
Used another ...
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Extra HDD disk is not mounting when I start the machine unless I enter that disk from the GUI
When I turn the machine on I have a torrent program for example that saves data into this HDD disk and it says that the disk doesn't exist, If I go from the GUI to the disk and enter there then I go ...
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Drive is not opening
I am new at linux/Ubuntu.
I have installed Linux budgies(Ubuntu flavour) 16.04 LTE before 1 month,
now i am stucked in a serious problem,
Drives other than Computer is not opening, while double ...
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This location could not be displayed on Ubuntu 16.10
I've formatted my computer, I saved my files in this disk, after install Ubuntu I can't access the disk.
when I try to access this disk, it says
This location could not be displayed you do not have ...
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How to read the current bad blocks list for the disk?
The commands like:
sudo badblocks -sv /dev/sda1 > bads.txt
sudo e2fsck -l bads.tst /dev/sda1
or
sudo e2fsck -ckvt /dev/sda1
can scan disk /dev/sda1 for bad blocks and mark them as not-usable. ...
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How to check whether the linux system using a large disk space? [duplicate]
I am using VirtualBox. I installed a ubuntu system on it. At the beginning, I set default 8GB disk space. But it's not big enough so I want to add more space on it.
I used this way(add to 20GB):
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Is is possible to format a disk to behave like a CD-R?
Is it possible to configure a partition/disk to have non-removable content like a CD-R?
By this I mean
I can write on the partition/disk only on empty "parts"
The written content cannot be changed ...
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I'm unable to mount my USB drive
I've tried looking up some solutions in here here and that did not work as expected. Also, when I typed in sudo fdisk -l I received the output instantly with the last part being
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.9 ...
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log files taking over the disk on new computer. Help? [duplicate]
Just built my first pc and I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 (just that, not dual booting) I've got a 225 SSD and a TB HDD. Long story short, all was well and good until I ran out of memory like 3 weeks later ---...
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External Hard drive no longer registering as a block device. What can be done?
I have 1tb external drive that connects to my media server in my kids room. One day the XBMCBUNTU(xenial) running on the media server decided it no longer wanted to communicate with that drive. It ...
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39 GB Log files !! What's going on.?
I have log files located under /var/logs those sizes are around 40 GB. Space is running out .
How to delete the log files without affecting the normal operation?
Those files are locked. What is the ...
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How do I make all drives visible in Nautilus over ssh?
Currently if I connect to my remote machine over ssh and run nautilus (ignoring occasional crashes and all the funny stuff that desktop does) I can't see all mountable disks/volumes. I can mount them ...
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Linux hard disk mounting into exisiting directory
I am using an Ubuntu based server and I have installed a few services in my home directory. Recently, my disk space became full and I installed a new hard disk to resolve this. Now, I want to mount ...
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Need of fsck and broken system after that
I have reinstalled kubuntu on a laptop two days ago. The Win 8.1 was malfunctioning with 100% disk usage and there was no solution to it. It also started behaving strangely, like sudden lags etc.
So ...
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Issue When Trying to Install Windows (hard disk related) [duplicate]
I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and after several weeks I felt uncomfortable with Ubuntu and decided to go back to Windows. Windows installation is okay until I noticed something odd.
It takes too ...
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How can I clean my hard disk? [duplicate]
I started the Ubuntu trial from a CD, but can't subsequently install Ubuntu
because 'something' (probably from a previous attempt) is on the hard disk,
it's not a partition. Now I simply want to ...
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How to check whether a partition is mounted by UUID?
If I have the UUID of a drive partition, how would I go about finding out whether it is mounted or not, using the command line?
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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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When accessing a FAT32 partition in Ubuntu, does it get flagged for Windows to run chkdsk?
I have a Windows 10 computer. I booted it up using an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Live CD. The hard drive has 3 partitions which were automatically mounted in Ubuntu - C and D drives which are NTFS partitions, ...
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Install Problem - Install Now Button doesn't bring up the next window
I've noticed a number of people were having an issue with the install now button being greyed out during the installation type stage of installing. However, my problem is not that it is greyed out. I ...
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Resize LVM partition?
I have a 1023G TB LVM partition on /dev/sda5, a partition that is exactly the same on /dev/sda2 with an ID of 5 and labeled an "extended partition". /dev/sda is 1.8 TB. Finally, I have a /dev/mapper/...
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merging or extending partition
sda1 windows7 location...
sda5 ubuntu xenial location...
I want to merge the unallocated with sda5.
Drag to left option in sda5 is grayed out.
tried gparted live,unmounted all,but still no luck
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Disk seen by BIOS but not seen by Ubuntu and removed from software RAID 5 config
Here is what my server is seeing
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdc
configuration: sectorsize=4096
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resizing ubuntu root parittion
I want to expand /dev/sda5 partition but the unallocated space that can be used for expanding is not in ubuntu installation partition table. is there any way to move unallocated space to this ...
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df -h doesn't show /dev/sda
I am using df -h to get my disk space and the results are:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 396M ...
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grub-install : error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/sdb error seen in MAAS UI console while deploying a node
I have configured a MAAS setup(version 1.9.4) for VM's. For one of the nodes I have attached 32GB disk (/dev/sdb). I am trying to deploy a juju charm which makes use of this storage ie /dev/sdb. When ...
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Can GRUB be installed to separate drive that doesn't contain a Linux system?
As the title says, can GRUB be installed to separate drive that doesn't contain a Linux system?
For example, let's say I have two disks: sda, and sdb.
Let's say the partition layout is something like ...
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Unplugged while resizing partition - now get GRUB rescue
So today I was trying to expand my Xenial disk par. I accidentally kicked my power extension, and it unplugged the computer while it was working. My computer lost power at about 30 percent of the way ...
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ZFS cache on same drive (different partition) as /?
Since upgrading to 16.04 I've moved my /home to a zfs-pool to familiarise myself with zfs.
Already showing its strength it has identified the poor quality of my long running drives:
# zpool status -...
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Ubuntu says " not enough space on disk" when trying to install updates [duplicate]
Every time I use my computer it tells me there are updates to install but whenever I try to install them it doesn't work and says there's "not enough space on disk". I've only used 109.2GB of 485.8GB ...
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RAID1 setup not using full disk space
I have two solid state drives and two rotary drives. These are /dev/sd{a,b} and /dev/sd{c,d} respectively. The two solid state drivers contain my root installation in a fake RAID1 array. The latter ...
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Ubuntu Install with Win10 - Disk space is Unavailable [closed]
I searched for a similar problem, but could not find it. Sorry if this is a duplicate question.
I have an HP Touchsmart TM2 with 4GB of memory and Windows 10 installed. I created a LiveUSB with ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - How to display hard disk details in computer like it does on Windows in My computer?
In Windows, whenever I open "My Computer", the details come up of all drive partitions and the size details of each partition. Is it possible to get the similar information in Ubuntu 16.04, ...
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Windows vs. Ubuntu files conflict
I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 installed in dual-boot.
I used to mount my D:/ drive while working in Ubuntu to keep files achievable from both systems.
But lately I found out that when I start ...
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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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USB not detected with Ubuntu 16.04
This is what I got with
sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 484214783 484212736 230.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 484216830 488396799 ...