For questions regarding disk storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, and optical disk drives.
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Default keyboard layout on unlocking the disk screen
I'm trying to change the default keyboard layout on unlocking the disk screen, on system boot. I changed the settings in dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-cionfiguration, but that changes it on login ( I have ...
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Why is Nautilus writing all the time?
I'm using 12.04 LTS (with kernel 3.6.10 which I installed to get rid of the total freeze bug #993187). I noticed my hard drive is busy all the time. I installed iotop to monitor the disk activity, and ...
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Can I install Windows when a full encrypted Ubuntu disk is installed?
I am running a full-disk encrypted Ubuntu 12.10.
Can I install Windows alongside, adding it at the boot menu on this machine? If so, how?
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Ubuntu goes into read-only mode randomly
For the last few days, my Ubuntu 12.10 has been going to read-only mode randomly, making me unable to save any edited files, and forcing me to restart my computer, which is a pain because this is the ...
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The disk tray won't open when I press the button
I'm trying to open the disk tray in Lubuntu 12.10 and nothing is happening. This can't be a mechanical failure because it works fine in Windows XP, and I'm posting it here because there are no ...
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How to make my disk visible?
I have:
System: Ubuntu x64 3.5.0-23-generic
Hardware: Dell D630 and SATAII mini-pcie controller sil3132
...and huge problem, because my disk connected to this controller is not detected.
sudo ...
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“Error: Failure Writing Sector XxXXXXX to 'hd0' ” + “Error: attempt to read or write outside of 'hd0' ”
So first of all, thank you for reading this.
Secondly (if all goes well with my tests) this is just a question because (as i said, if everything goes well), this should be worked out by now and will ...
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HP ProBook over heating, shutting down
I'm rather a amateur user. I have a single OS - Ubuntu 12.4. Lately my laptop (HP ProBook 4530s) heating up until it automatically shuts down. It wasn't happening with the older Ubuntu version. After ...
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How to create bootable USB without administrator rights?
I would like to use the work computer to create the bootable USB
I need bootable USB disk for my home computer.
I'm not administrator on the work computer, so I can't execute the installer.
Is ...
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Disk cache is sometimes dropped/erased
I have a memory/cpu monitor running, and sometimes see the graph line for “cached memory” drop, for no apparent reason.
Earlier today Cache memory was at about 4.8GB but then dropped in two steps ( a ...
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Messed up swap on clean install of Xubuntu 12.10
I did a clean install 32 bit Xubuntu using manual partitioning on 1TB drive. The swap partition is missing and the large lvm size cannot be changed using gparted. I want to reduce the size in order ...
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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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Why is Ubuntu telling me my drive is full?
I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu on a 500gb drive however, yesterday as I was downloading some stuff to my downloads folder I got the message that I don't have enough space. When I checked the ...
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cannot allocate free space, format extended partition
I can not create a partition on free space, neither can I delete the extended partition.
Disk utility says
Cannot delete extended partition while logical partitions exist
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Windows and ubuntu boot problem after installing 12.10
i checked other questions and found some similar problems but i think mine is a a little different so i wanted to open a new question.
Yesterday i downloaded ubuntu 12.10 with usb and it seemed like ...
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2 hard disk drives with ubuntu
I've just downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 and I've already installed it on 2 hard disk drives, however, I want to use one disk as an storage disk (160GB) and I want to use the other one for work (30GB).
How ...
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cannot see my external drive
Hi I can't see my usb external hard drive.
With disk utility it says it's mounted. But I can't find it on the right of nautilus file explorer.
When I try to mounted again, obviously it says it's ...
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Safely removing eSATA disks
Is there any way to safely remove any external disk connected via eSATA?
Disks make an ugly noise when unplugged, even if there are no mounted partitions...
I found somewhere this little command:
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12.10 changing full disk encryption key
I can't find out how to change the full disk encryption key on Ubuntu 12.10.
I installed with a key that is insufficient, and I want to change it.
How can I do that?
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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 to recover flash drive lost after formatting with GParted?
I was just copying audio files into my 2GB USB mp3 player, then i had a problem saying that it could not copy files into the drive any more, i tried removing it and trying again, but it didn't work, ...
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External USB hard drive formatted E2fs/E3fs permissions
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop computer. I have an external USB disk drive formatted E2fs/E3fs by another linux system (specifically a Linksys NSLU2 running stock Linksys firmware). From the ...
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Full disk encryption - separate home partition
How to create separate /home partition when using full disk encryption feature in the Ubuntu 12.10 installer?
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How can I clone a hard disk to a smaller SSD?
I have a hard drive in my laptop with a windows and an ubuntu partition. I got an SSD to replace my hard drive, but it has a slightly lower capacity. I've already partitioned the SSD to the sizes I ...
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How to increase disk space on ubuntu 12.04 LTS? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to extend the disk space available to a wubi install?
I would like to allocate more disk space (300GB) on ubuntu with windows 7. I installed ubuntu 11.01 ...
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Swap never used. Should I delete it? [duplicate]
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Importance of Swap Partition
I have an extended partition with 32GB assigned, 4.3GB goes to swap and the rest is formated as ext4.
From time to time I open the system ...
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Download problem
I'm trying to create a disk and I've downloaded the installation file twice and my computer can't find it. If I open the Firefox downloads box it shows up there, but when I click it nothing comes up ...
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What's the difference of partition type and filesystem type?
I'm formatting my Seagate Freeagent external HDD in Linux to FAT filesystem, because it can't be done in Windows, but I'm wondering, what's the difference betweeen partition type and filesystem type?
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disk space problems after file recovery using testdisk & then deleting it
I used 'testdisk' to recover files which i had deleted while installing ubuntu. but after undeleting them i found that the filenames had been changed. so i tried to delete the files but couldnt. so i ...
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Increase size of partition (ext4) or automount it
I wish to increase size of my / partition (current size 21 GB), is that possible somehow? I have more free space available, but don’t know how to add it into the existing partition. I have created a ...
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Install apps to another disk
I have very little space left on my main hard drive (the one that I installed Ubuntu on) and need to install apps from the software center to another disk like in Windows XP. How can I proceed in ...
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Automount disk on boot
I've used XBMC live in the past and have been happy with manually editing /etc/fstab to configure disks to automatically mount.
Now I am running Ubuntu 12.10. Within "disks" i have the mount options ...
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No inodes left error, df -i command says contrary
I copied a lot of files in my mounted Windows drive from Ubuntu and I subsequently ran into Error opening file '/media/windows/<some-file-path>': No space left on device error. I checked the ...
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Is it possible to extend filesystem using network drive?
I'm running very low free disk space on my file system.
Is it possible to extend file system size using network drive (using LVM or similar)
Preferably I would like to use Google drive (There is ...
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Why does my root filesystem keep becoming read-only?
I've lately been having an issue with my root filesystem becoming readonly. It happens some amount of time after boot. I don't know exactly when it happens, as I don't usually notice it until ...
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Can you always run an application ionice'd, by policy?
Say I have disk intensive software started from different sources (ex: tar). Is it possible to always run this with low priority ioniceness? Without using hacks like replacing the command with a shell ...
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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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12.10 login error “Unable to mount Floppy Disk”
After a fresh install of 12.10 on a system with 6 users. Every user that logs in gets the message
Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount
"/media/floppy0"' ...
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Upgrade 11.04 to 12.04
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. My computer is no longer supported and my computer is now trying to get me to upgrade to 12.10. But I want to upgrade to 12.04. Can I upgrade to 12.04 using the update manager ...
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Booting stops at disk checking
I am constantly face this problem. When i start my laptop it checks the disk for errors , after that it shows , " some defects are found " when i press 'F' to Fix errors , it shows /tmp is not ready ...
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Disk full Ubuntu 12.10 60Gb Intel SSD
I have installed twice in the past couple days trying to stop this from happening but it just keeps occurring. I am a new ubuntu user and need serious help since I can't figure out why it keeps ...
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How to access local disk(D) after overwriting windows7?
I have overwritten ubuntu12.10 over windows7. But now i am facing problem in accessing the local disk drive. Disk appears under "Go-->computer" but I am unable to open it. It pop's up message like ...
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raid advice with SSD and two HDD
I have a new machine with one 128GB SSD and two 1TB HDD. On the SSD is the OS and my initial thought was to put the two HDD in RAID 1 for user data.
After some more thought I came up with two other ...
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Whats wrong with my hard drive?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on an Acer Aspire one D225, and recently replaced my hard drive to a 60gb SSD. The first day I did, I got a kernal panic error about an I/O error to a superblock. It only ...
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Mounted disk suddenly became readonly
While running Ubuntu, sometimes my disks suddenly become read-only, and any write attempt on it result in error: Read-only file system, but mount -l shows that disk as rw.
After restarting, some ...
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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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disk not accessible
i formatted my hard drive yesterday and it was working well even after the formatting.
But when I restarted my system again , is is showing that the space is alloted to my files but they are ...
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Hard Disk Partitioning during 12.04 Install
Attempting to install 12.04 LTS on the following system:
Mainboard: MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330 v3.0) VIA KT133A
Chipset Processor: AMD Athlon 1300 Mhz
HDD: WD EIDE 160Gb LBA Single partition
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External USB 3 drive not recognized
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit seems not to recognize my external hard disk. It is a Vantec NST-310S3 external disk enclosure with a WD 3TB drive. The disk has two NTFS partitions. My PC is a dual boot system. ...
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pros and cons for hard drive partition solutions [closed]
I just bought a new 1T hard drive to replace the dead one for my desktop. I use it mainly for number crunching, doing higher performance computations that consume lots of memory and CPU, and also read ...
