For questions regarding disk storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, and optical disk drives.
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Disk errors when booting, system doesn't run properly after disk check
I'm using 11.04 on Dell Vostro 1000 laptop. For some time it was ok, but now Ubuntu usually fails to boot.
After selecting Ubuntu in grub, I usually see purple (plain, without logo) or black screen ...
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Nautilus freezes every time I try to delete a file from my mounted disc
My problem is the following: Every time I try to delete a file from my auto-mounted drive Nautilus freezes up. First I get the prompt-screen saying ‘Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete ...
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How do I make a complete image file boot disc
I'm a crusty old fert who's gotten fed up with MS, plus I have security concerns. I'd like to make an image file boot of Ubuntu, a PDF printer (possibly a complete editor?), and if possible, a driver ...
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I cannot make a Installation USB
for some reason I cannot make a installation USB from my system already working, I have tried two different USB's formatted them, but still the "make startup disk" is still faded out!! whiuch I don't ...
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Install ISO boots but then freezes
I've downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 and put it on a usb stick using unetbootin. I successfully booted the USB, Ubuntu starts and I see the classic Ubutnu splash screen. Then the computer freezes. Disk is not ...
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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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“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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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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Swap never used. Should I delete it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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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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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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How to use ram disk for certain application
I have creat ram disk for chrome like this:http://www.kevingunn.org/?p=210
I' d like to use light read on ram disk. What should I do?
1) Most of our commands require superuser privileges, so we ...
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After Installation Whole Disk Encryption? 12.04
I know some fragments of this question have been asked in previous posts and I have reviewed them - however I have a more thorough question...
I did not choose to do whole disk encryption when I used ...
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Problem accessing second hard disk with Squeezebox server
I have recently re-purposed my old desktop PC as a 'server' running Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I want to use the machine as my primary squeezebox server in place of my HTPC MacMini (to reduce the strain on the ...
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Unable to mount Drive1 - Not Authorized
I'm using Ubuntu server 12.04 on my HP Proliant microserver.
I am using webmin/vnc/ssh to administer it.
I'm trying to mount a drive which I had previously used on the same kit but with ...
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Disk partitioning for 12.04 install
I have 6 partitions with grub from an existing Linux OS on /dev/sda8. I want to install 12.04 on /dev/sda1 but since this partition has 31G allocated i want to resize it to 10G and create 2 more ...
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Installing or running ubuntu from USB
I made a boot USB and stuck it in before I launched my computer.
The Ubuntu screen appeared in black, with options, I chose to install on it on my hard-drive. Everything was fine until it got to ...
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Why doesn't Windows work on my system (but Ubuntu does)? [closed]
when I install Windows my PC freezes or doesn't even start. It accepts only Ubuntu! When I format it and try installing windows again it crashes. Sometimes I couldn't install ubuntu either but now ...
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How to create disk image/clone [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
I am not sure what is the difference between image and clone but I have just installed fresh system on my laptop and ...
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Read only file system error on ubuntu after partitioning
I am not sure if I am the root cause of this problem but this is what I did:
I wanted latest ubuntu and latest linux mint together on my thinkpad laptop. Windows 7 was already there.
I already had ...
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What is my real available disk space?
I've got a low disk space message window of 99.9 MB disk space remaining.
When I went to the Ubuntu System Monitor it was saying on the System Tab:
System Status
Available disk space: 49.4 ...
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Why does the total space used on my hard drive not reflect what Disk Usage Analyzer Says? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is taking up so much space on my disk, beside the filesystem?
I'm a bit curious as to why my hard drive space, according to Disk Usage Analyzer, has 20 GB more used ...
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Resume from suspend without waking up hd
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on my Laptop with two hard disks. The primary one is a SSD, whereas the second one is a spinning hard disk.
Most of the time I don't need the second hard disk, I just use it ...
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need to try several times to log into Ubuntu normally
My Ubuntu 11.10 works perfectly until recently. In the past few days, it happens quite often that after I input my password to the login screen, Ubuntu shows only brown screen and gets stuck. No ...
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NTFS volume recognised as “Unallocated Space” but works with Windows
Moving to Ubuntu, I have a drive with windows on a drive with Ubuntu on and 4 other ntfs drives
3 of which appear fine in both systems
1 however works fine on windows (single ntfs volume) but in ...
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What is Ubuntu's software raid controller partition size limitation?
Does anyone know what the partition size limitation is for the Ubuntu software raid controller? If its 2TB, does anyone know how to increase that limitation to 3TB? This is in regards to a question I ...
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Can't make a boot disk
...For the newest version of Ubuntu.
Am using a Macbook, have tried both USB and CD instructions down to a T with no luck.
On my mac, with both the cd and USB I get the error 'failed to read media' ...
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How can I set a quota in /etc/fstab?
i want to mount my /home in etc/fstab for quota limits how do i do that ?
My Ubuntu-Server
fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
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# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique ...
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How do you get install alonside Ubuntu option during the installation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
No option to install alongside Windows 7
During the graphical installation I get only two options in the allocate disk space page,
i) erase disk and install Ubuntu ii) ...
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disk usage confusion [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Error out of disk, grub rescue
I came in this morning to find my ubuntu dev machine with a notice that it had run out of disk space.
However, it's got a 500GB drive, ...
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How to avoid “Assuming drive cache: write through” message during restart? [closed]
Does anyone know how to avoid message:
Assuming drive cache: write through
Showing up after preforming sudo shutdown -r now.
I restarted remotely but the computer did not restart. And I could ...
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How to add partition for UBUNTU 12.04 in my MacBook Pro 7.1 that already have Windows XP and OS X 10.6.8 (bootcamp)?
I have Windows XP and OSX 10.6.8 in my mac via bootcamp. Now that I want to install Ubuntu, I want to add 2 extra partitions (for LINUX and LINUX swap). Previously only Macintosh HD and BOOTCAMP for ...
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Ubuntu 10.04.4 - time length and support
The end of life of official support for Ubuntu lucid 10.04.4 is 2013. Personally, I'll stick to 10.04 and I won't leave it at all.
Have something magic that even Unity can't replace it. Can ...
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Disk failing on Dell Mini, are there diagnostic tools?
my dell mini 10v running Ubuntu 10.10 runs ok for hours, but then will suddenly slow down drastically. Switching to a console shows lots of error messages, which also get into /var/log/syslog. These ...
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View TOTAL Disk Space Taken by ALL Installed Packages
Is there a way to view a 'system size'? I want to know how large I should make partitions if I separate my /home from the / (root) partition, but I don't know how much space Ubuntu + every installed ...
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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 ...
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How to auto mount disk drives in gnome-shell?
I have 1 usb disk and 1 esata disk plugged in my pc.
When I log in gnome-shell the usb one is mounted automatically.
Is there any way to mount the esata disk too, without modifying fstab?
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Will a Virtual Box Installation have low Disk performance
I understand that if you install Ubuntu on Windows using Wubi, there are disk performance issues since the entire system is mostly concentrated on a single file.
What about the case of a Virtual Box, ...
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Empty disk partition after opening Windows 8
I have both Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 on my machine. I always use Ubuntu and nearly never logged in to Windows 8. However I needed to use Windows today and encountered a serious problem. When I ...
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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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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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best way to backup a whole dual-boot system [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
I finally have my PC exactly the way i want it, i have spent many hours installing and reinstalling Ubuntu and ...
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Wubi - Installation deleted?
Ok, I think I already know the answer to this one, but it's important I try a bit more.
I have been using a wubi installation of xubuntu for about a month, keeping my windows installation for some ...
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Extend the Ubuntu disk space that was installed beside Windows 7 without reinstalling
I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 inside windows from Ubuntu CD with 12 GB space. How could I increase the disk space to 20 GB with out reinstalling Ubuntu ?
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Changing size of Windows partition
when I was installing Linux, I divided my HDD into few partitions. By mistake, I let for Windows too little space. Question is, how to uninstall Linux, join all partitions and then again divide HDD ...
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Root partition oddly full
The root partition of my 12.10 Kubuntu distro is full and I don't really understand why, since fileflight shows that 72% of the disk space usage of my root partition is being used by the "home/"My ...
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How to create a bootable USB stick on Ubuntu
in here says i need to search 'Startup Disk Creator' and i search but i dont find enything.. what to do?
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OK thanks to you i found the file but now every time i put a 'iso' file it says 0.0B ...
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Confusing Disk Space Situation
My system primarily has Windows 7 on it. A while ago, I switched from VirtualBoxing into Linux to installing Linux in its own Partition. I thought I had lots of free space.
However, Ubuntu's now ...
