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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NVMe slow write speed capped at 513,2 MB/s
Hello just bought a Samsung 980 Pro to be used with a fast camera.
I put it in a system with a X570-A-PRO mobo (On the M2_1 socket) and a Ryzen 9 5950x. I am running on the 22.4 with the 5.15.0-48 ...
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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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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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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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Ubuntu - USB drive fixing after interrupted formatting
I have a problem with already 2nd USB drives, most probably due to the reason of choosing slow formatting option. Because it takes a LOT of time, I probably forget about it and accidentally break the ...
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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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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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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
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Is there any non-root disk IO monitor software available on Ubuntu?
Is there any disk IO monitor software available on Ubuntu that can show what processes are reading/writing at what speed and that I can install and run without sudo?
I know there is iotop, but I can't ...
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No space left on device even though there is
A laptop with broken screen that I access via SSH. The sudo apt-get autoremove command gives me the following errors
cp: error writing ‘/tmp/mkinitramfs_zN6ZvT//lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0’: ...
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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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Mounting USB mass storage devices without root access
I was working on a project of mine and stumbled upon the USB mass storage mounting mechanism of ubuntu which confuses me quite a lot, let me explain.
I had never noticed that from a terminal in order ...
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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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Lacie hard disk not found not found
My computer doesn't recognize my hard disk Lacie. I have already used sudo fdisk -l, but my external hard disk is not in the list. The strange thing is that if I write lsusb this is the output:
Bus ...
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Sandisk Cruzer Blade not detected and can't be formatted
My sandisk cruzer blade is not write protected and it is not mounted in ubuntu. I can't even format it using Disks utility in ubuntu.
dmesg | tail info:
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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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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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Ho to delete Kali Linux partition?
I installed Ubuntu 64bits alongside with Kali linux and now i want to delete the Kali so that Ubuntu takes all the disk space (1 Tb)
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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.
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How to remove swap partition
Hi i wanted to know if it is possible to remove the swap partition and merge it with home partition. I'm dual booting with mac os using refind, and tried to boot gpartedlive from refind, but it wont ...
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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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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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How can I create an NTFS partition?
I need help to change the file system from ext4 to NTFS. I am using this command:
sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda
But I get this output:
/dev/sda is entire device, not just one partition
Refusing to make ...
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How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?
I have absolutely no experience with Linux, and I desperately need to get my computer back up and running again with Windows.
How do I remove Ubuntu and reinstall Windows?
Editor's note: many of the ...
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Can I close or finalize a DVD on Ubuntu?
I have a DVD of video files that was burned but apparently not closed or finalized.
My laptop (Ubuntu 17.10.1) seems to work hard at reading it for a minute or two, but never actually acknowledges ...
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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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Ubuntu doesn't recognize the internal disk (eMMC) on Lenovo Ideapad 1 11ADA05
I bought a Lenovo Ideapad 1 11ADA05 recently. It was an emergency and I thought the price was quite good for this configuration, just like thousands of others (apparently it's selling pretty well).
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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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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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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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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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Low disk space in filesystem root
I have Ubuntu 20.04. And I encounter this problem very often now -low disk space in "filesystem root" sometimes it shows 635MB available, sometimes 400MB. It seems that every time I work on ...
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COMRESET failed errno=-16 While Starting Ubuntu 15.04 [closed]
I restarted my laptop and it seems like I cannot get it to start. I get the error message ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16), and Busybox as picture illustrates:
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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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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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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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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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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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