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Ubuntu 20.04 got stucked while booting

My laptop got stuck while booting: error screen Previously I faced the problem that my OS could not start because disk space was full. In order to solve disk space issue: I opened the grub menu -> ...
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Forgot to disable fast-startup and now I have only Ubuntu

So my friend have a really old laptop it got so slow it is unworkable on, I suggested him to install Ubuntu and remove Windows 10 which was installed. I was a supervisor of the process although it is ...
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Dual boot: File system errors on startup: "RUN fsck MANUALLY" - how to prevent in the future?

I've recently had an SSD disk problem after booting Ubuntu 20.04 Linux: The file system had errors, but fortunately, after running fsck the machine is working again. The fsck fixed many errors, ...
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Software-shredding a disk with bad sectors

I have my own company and when I take some hardware from customers, I always offer to shred the data on their drives and drill holes if not possible (in general for free, to get hardware for repairs ...
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Ubuntu showing "No space left on device" but I still have space

I have Ubuntu installed on a Lenovo laptop with three partitions. The first partition is formatted with an ext4 file system and mounted at root /. It has 248GB of storage allocated to it. The second ...
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My /dev/sda5 (mounted at /) is full, and find /opt/intel takes most space. How can I clean it?

I'm trying to upgrade the system by do-release-upgrade, and get that there are not enough space. I've deleted the unused linux headers and run apt-get autoremove. Here are the detailed folder size ...
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Ubuntu installed on internal SATA harddisk vs. on external ssd: Which should yield better performance?

I have Ubuntu installed on my workstation's internal HDD (SK hynix SC300B SATA 512GB). I am wondering if I will get a performance boost if I installed the OS on an external SSD (Samsung portable SS T7)...
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What happens if I put two NMVe drives, both of which have GRUB on them, in the same computer?

I created a dual boot (Windows/Ubuntu) setup on an NMVe drive. Both the Windows and Ubuntu partitions ended up with problems. So I took out the old NMVe, reinstalled Windows and Ubuntu on a new NMVe, ...
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ubuntu disk size is getting full

I am running ubuntu 18.04lts with 15gb disk space but my disk is getting full I have Elasticsearch and tomcat installed on that disk. I have tried many commands to clean the disk like sudo apt-get ...
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How to expand the space of the partition /dev/sdf4 until the end of the sdcard ? Neither resize2fs nor gparted work correctly

I would like to resize the /dev/sdf4 partition located on the sd card mounted on my Ubuntu 22.04 distro. I tried to accomplish this task using two approaches : using the command resizefs,but it ...
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losetup: cannot find an unused loop device

I am following along with a tutorial trying to learn how to work with Linux. I created a disk file with the command fallocate -l 1G disk1.img and now I would like to add a loop device. However when I ...
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Trying to resize disk partitions in Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

Running Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS on HP Laptop and been trying to add all the current 180GB Free Space to my Filesystem space. The current disk partition set up [System Partition 1 - 25GB][Free Space - 180GB]...
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How to change ownership of a mounted disk, or what should I do?

My Ubuntu install (20.04 LTS / focal) is going great. But now, I've got 3 SCSI hdd on to which I need to dump data. I mount them under $HOME/Data/ where they are all erased / formatted (mkfs.ext4) ...
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Random 65mb "loop device" in disks and file manager [duplicate]

What is this? This randomly showed up yesterday after installing salad miner on my server. enter image description here This is what is on the "loop device" enter image description here
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Change device path (/dev/sda) of internal hard drive

On my Ubuntu 22.04 have an internal hard drive connected via SATA. It shows as /dev/sda. As I am working with various external drives such as SD cards and USB sticks, and writing scripts to format and ...
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CPU and HDDs temperature in Ubuntu 22.04

I have a conky config using hhdtemp and hwmon to retrieve CPU and HDDs temperature. Now in Ubuntu 22.04 those packages are not available anymore, what alternative do I have? I need something from CLI, ...
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On what disk is filesystem located?

I need to find out on what disk a specific filesystems on my server is located. For this case, let's use my /home directory as an example: [root@master playbooks]# df -h /home Filesystem ...
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Is it possible to run nvme smart checks when the ssd in adapter enclosure?

I just bought the disk with discount and I also bought enclosure to use old disk as an external storage. But first I wanted to check what is usage percentage on the new disc. Unfortunately nvme sees ...
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Can't launch Gparted from applications menu but CAN launch from terminal

I'm a newbie on this OS. I was able to install Gparted on my 20.04 version of Ubuntu. When attempting to launch Gparted from the applications menu, I see that program's name spin on the top left ...
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System freezing on disk I/O

I am facing a similar (maybe the same problem) reported by System freezes on disk I/O . This problem also occurred with the first release of Fedora 36. When I start a process a little more disk I/O ...
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I changed my OS from windows 11 to Ubuntu and now I have no free disk space

I just changed my OS from Windows11 to Ubuntu22.04 LTS but the problem is that when I was installed Ubuntu I noticed I didn't have much free disk space left although my disk capacity is 1TB. I don't ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Startup disk creator does not work for older BIOS machines [closed]

I've tried using startup disk creator with 2 different Dell Optiplex 990s. One is running 22.04 and the other 20.04. The 22.04 machine upgraded from 20.04. They will not boot from the usb drive at all ...
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Too much time taken for networkd-dispatcher service to start

My ubuntu 20.04 has a slow boot up time. Here is what I did: Using systemd-analyze blame identified 31s for networkd-dispatcher.service. Upon doing journalctl -b -u networkd.dispatcher.service this ...
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No space left on root - almost immediately after re-install [duplicate]

Yesterday I re-installed Ubuntu on my laptop. Today, whilst running npm i for a cloned repo, I got a no space error. Error displayed in terminal window following npm i It said that there was no space ...
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Problem adding unallocated space to Ubuntu partition

i saw different threads here about increasing partition space but unfortunately i can't manage to resize my disk, neither the key sign that shows that the partition is mounted is present. I created a ...
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Add free space to ubuntu home [duplicate]

I have this disk setup: Where Partition 3 is windows installed and I reduced its size by 31GB, which is the new free space (Espacio Libre 31GB). Now, I need to add those 31GB to Partition 7, but I ...
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Getting a lot of identical disk errors: blk_update_request: critical medium error

On my home server I'm getting a lot of identical errors: blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1416772496 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 As far as I ...
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Timed out waiting for device problem

EDIT: When running the previous version of the kernel, I don’t get any of these symptoms. It is therefor most likely, that there was some kernel bug introduced. I had lately experienced some problems ...
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Internal HDD cannot give partition

I am having a weird kind of problem. I have a 640gigs internal hdd but it is unusable. It shows up in disks but in weird way. Image of disks It just gives format partition option and nothing else. The ...
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Allocate more disk space to Ubuntu

I'm having 2 OS installed on my DELL laptop: Windows 11 and Ubuntu 20.04, each takes 50% disk space of my hard disk. Now I want to increase that of Ubuntu. Is there a way to do that?
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Interpreting the Disks UI when running "Repairing Filesystem"

I'm running "Repair Filesystem" through the Disks utility on a 2TB external HD. I kicked off the process about 10 hours ago and it appears to still be running, although I can't be certain. ...
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Iomega 750 ZIP ATAPI question

Hello I have a Z750ATAPI 750MB Internal Zip Drive. Drive is using an IDE to SATA converter. I have read that some people use USB converters for this, but I do not wish to go that route. Cannot seem to ...
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Why is my SDCard reader associated with /dev/sda instead of /dev/mmcblk0 and my main SSD with /dev/sdb?

After installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my Asus EP1501P, I found out my SDCard reader was associated with /dev/sda instead of /dev/mmcblk0 and my main SSD with /dev/sdb : $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] ...
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Svn server and multiple disks

I have a small problem with svn configuration on my Ubuntu system. My main svn path is /var/www/svn and everything is working correctly with it, but I would like to add a second physic disk and use to ...
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Checking External Disk Health

I have have a 2TB external luks encrypted hard disk. I want to check the disk's health, however the gnome-disks utility does not give the option to "repair" or "check" the file ...
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How do I partition my volume group?

I installed ubuntu on a server and I want to reclaim 6TB of space form sda3. How can I mount it so that it is visible in df -h command? Also, where do I get knowledge about these stuff?
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How to find Ubuntu specific partition in Files app and merge them with another partition?

I have 2 partitions like in this picture. I want to merge nvme0n1p7 and nvme0n1p9 with no deleting or losing of my data. Also, I want to see what files in 'Files' app for nvme0n1p7 partition since it ...
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disk full and "disk usage" doesn't help [closed]

My disk is full and /home directory is to blame from what I understood: sudo du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h from Home outputs : 40K ./.flipper 76K ./.pki 76K ./.vnc 92K ./.ssr 108K ./Images 116K ....
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Stress the bandwidth and disk read in linux

I need to trigger HighBandwidth and high disk read for my alert testing purpose. So does anyone knows any Linux command to trigger HighBandwidth(transmitted and received) at 70GB as well as disk read ...
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Create a browsable rootfs image

How to create a browsable rootfs image in Ubuntu? E.g. that I can extract files that I need in a matter of minutes? Have already considered dd and tar-gzing root fs, but both don’t answer the criteria ...
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FileSystem partition is ignored

I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my computer and I created 4 partitions. For some reason the main partition containing 460GB is not allocated to the home disk space. https://i.stack.imgur.com/...
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Low disk space on Filesystem root despite having plenty of space in `home`

I just got this warning I tried to follow this and this questions, but I fail to understand why this is happening when I still have a lot of space available in home: df -h Filesystem ...
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Excessive hard disk activity at midnight

On my Ubuntu 21.10 Ubuntu desktop, which is sometimes on at midnight (if I happen to be awake and using it), a nightly event takes place where there is a lot of disk activity -- the red light for the ...
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How to prevent writing on internal disk when external disk is not available

I have 2 disks - 128GB disk (internal) - / 2000GB disk (external) - /mnt/backup How to prevent writing on 128GB disk if external disk is unavailable or unplugged? Because archive app writing on /mnt/...
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I got this error when I tried to "Insert guest additions CD image..."how to solve this error which is mentation below and my host OS is windows

Unable to insert the virtual optical disk C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso into the machine ubuntu 20.04. Could not mount the media/drive 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\...
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My server's disk space is full but I can't see where it comes from

today my server crashed and I realized that it was because there was no more space available on my disk When I enter df -H I've got this : udev 997M 0 997M 0% /dev tmpfs ...
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External SSD doesn't mount and kills USB ports

I'm trying to access an external SSD (USB 3.0). But Ubuntu is not able to mount it. It shows on Nautilus, but when I click on it, I get the message "an operation is already pending". When I ...
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How to mount/recover failed drive?

Today my home server went to kernel panic, something went wrong with its system drive. I swapped the drive, restored the server and now I'm trying to figure out what happened to the old one. It ...
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after update ubuntu show me error in boot?

after update ubnutu and restart system show me this error in boot... [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/e7OsH.jpg
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How do I backup a failing disk?

I'm trying to recover some information on a failing disk. At this point, it won't let me log in(asks for a manual fsck run which gets stuck during runtime). I'm guessing I can access some of the files ...
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