For questions regarding disk storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, and optical disk drives.
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How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
I'm a new Linux user. I've reinstalled my Wubi from scratch at least ten times the last few weeks because while getting the system up and running (drivers, resolution, etc.) I've broken something (X, ...
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2answers
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How do I give Ubuntu more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))?
I had installed Ubuntu inside Windows XP but then I formatted XP and installed Windows 7.
EDIT1: I used Wubi for the same.
I want to know which one of the two will solve my problem? creating a ...
5
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2answers
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Is it possible to extend the disk space available to a wubi install? [duplicate]
I installed ubuntu 10.04 using wubi. I now wish to allocate more disk space to my ubuntu install. Is this possible?
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4answers
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How to replace my disk without having to rebuild my Ubuntu install?
I'd like to buy a new 1TB disk to replace my old 150GB disk.
Is there an easy way to copy my Ubuntu installation, with my home folder content, system settings, applications, and so on, so at the end ...
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2answers
6k views
Increase size of root partition after installing Ubuntu in Windows
Every time update manager prompts an update I get a message saying that there is not enough space available, however the partition with Ubuntu installed has over 10 GB of free space available.
I'm ...
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2answers
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could not mount /dev/mapper/cryptswap1
I have just had a major issue with my Ubuntu 11.04 Natty which I think is going to end up in a reinstall :-(
This is problem one of two so I've put them as two questions.
For some unknown reason I ...
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5answers
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How do I open the Disk Utility in the Unity Desktop environment?
I am new to Ubuntu and have installed it side by side with windows 7. Both boot up okay, my problem is I can't get to disk utility to create a partition that I can share between both OSs. Help says go ...
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3answers
4k views
How much space does Ubuntu take up after it's already installed?
I know how much space is required to install it, but how much space does it take up on the disk? Thanks for any answers!!!
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4answers
7k views
How can I add more disk space to my home directory?
The current home directory gets full.
Can I assign more disk space to the home directory somehow or are there any other solutions?
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1answer
2k views
How can I check how much space there is left on WUBI versus how much space it takes on my HDD?
Using 11.10 for the record. It would be easiest to do it on the Terminal.
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7answers
8k views
How to find out how much disk space is remaining?
What is the command to find out how much disk space is being used/remaining?
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3answers
11k views
How to open wubi's .disk files under windows?
Wubi has created one big file with whole ubuntu installation root.disk - there are some files I have left on my linux partition that I would like to access from windows partition,
Is there any way to ...
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2answers
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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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3answers
6k views
How to set up multiple hard drives as one volume?
I am about to set up box to basically be a file server. I plan on having multiple drives in the box, and would like to set them all up so that they appear to be a single drive. So I could essentially ...
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6answers
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Errors in dmesg - Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled [duplicate]
I'm experiencing some problems with drive cache and I don't know what's causing these problems.
This is my dmesg:
[11690.011238] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[11690.011248] sd ...
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4answers
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Importance of Swap Partition
What is the purpose of a swap partition?
How do I know I have just enough swap partition? Not too much/little.
My Ubuntu PC is used for typical stuff:
Web (email, facebook, etc.)
Some movies
...
5
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1answer
3k views
Mount disk (device) image
I made an image of my entire disk with
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/external_media/sda.img
Now the problem is I'd like to mount an ext4 filesystem that was on that disk but
mount -t ext4 -o loop ...
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2answers
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Out Of disk, but still boots
I have a HP Compaq nx6310 notebook wth 4gb memory & a new 250gb hdd. After installing Ubuntu 12.04, i got an "out of disk" error & was unable to boot. I rebooted in live, instaled & ran ...
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7answers
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How can I physically identify a single drive in a RAID array?
I have an external drive bay with 4 eSATA disks in it. My system has a 4-port eSATA card, as well as a pair of internal hardware RAID1 drives. The external drives are in software RAID1 pairs as ...
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1answer
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Repair whole NTFS filesystem
I'm searching for useful tools for repairing a whole NTFS partition / drive, not only specific files.
My usecase: I'm trying to clone a netbook drive via partimage. Unfortunately the NTFS partition ...
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2answers
4k views
Busybox error on boot [closed]
I've Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.10 dual boot was working fine then suddenly while booting in GRUB if I select Ubuntu it shows me stupid Busybox error same as this and Windows XP is working fine
The ...
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2answers
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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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6answers
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How to determine where biggest files/directories on my system are stored?
I was wondering how do you know where the largest files in my system are stored.
For example---
Disk Space Used: 1GB
Java: 500MB
Java Percentage: 50% maybe represented in a pie chart. Maybe?
I know ...
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3answers
1k views
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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2answers
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Will I lose all of my data if I replace Windows with Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I wish to install Ubuntu OVER Windows. Windows is installed on my "C" partition. I also have another partition which contains 95% of my data. I really would like to know if I install Ubuntu, will it ...
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4answers
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Ubuntu 12.04 running slow: How to improve performance? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I improve overall system performance?
I used to work in a computer (Dell Inspiron) with 2GB RAM, 80GB dd and Intel Core Processor with Ubuntu 10 under Gnome, and ...
0
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1answer
254 views
How Do I Install Another Distro Over Ubuntu? [closed]
I am pretty new at this, and I understand this is a pretty novice question but I am wanting to erase Ubuntu on my laptop (not enough RAM or hard-drive) and install a smaller distro over Ubuntu.
I ...
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2answers
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Downloading error “Could not retrieve the required disk image ”
When I try to download Ubuntu 12.04 using the Windows installer (Wubi) through a proxy server which requires proxy authentication, after I choose the Ubuntu installation size, username and password, ...
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2answers
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What are the F6 options during installation?
What is the meaning of different options in the F6 context menu of Ubuntu installation dvd ?
i.e.
acpi=off
noapic
nolapic
edd=on
nodmraid
nomodeset
Free Software only
How do they affect the ...
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3answers
2k views
How do I rename a USB drive?
How exactly would I rename a USB drive?
I've read that you can go into the Disk Utility, the click on Edit Partition and there is an option to rename the label but I can't click in the area to ...
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4answers
1k views
What are benefits of upgrading filesystem from ext2?
I have ext2 filesystem installed on my work machine. I talk with my friend who knows linux a lot better and he said its very old and its very weird that I use so old filesystem.
I'm now trying to get ...
6
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1answer
511 views
Intense hard drive access activity immediately after log in
I upgraded my ubuntu karmic to lucid a few months ago. I don't know when it all started but the thing is that when I log in, I see a very intense disk access activity for a while that prevents any ...
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4answers
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Increase partition size on which Ubuntu is installed?
I have Ubuntu installed on a drive. The problem is it is running low on disk space. This is installed on vmware. I expanded the virtual drive and booted into ubuntu. But when I opened gparted(sudo ...
4
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1answer
114 views
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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2answers
5k views
how to interpret these errors from syslog
My Ubuntu has been acting weird lately. Yesterday, it wouldn't boot normally, so I had to do a 'recovery mode' boot. It said I had to do an fsck manually, which I did using a live CD. After this, I ...
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4answers
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Ubuntu Install Failing- Hard Drive
Trying to dual-boot UBuntu and Windows 7 on the same 1TB Sata hard drive, but the Ubuntu installer won't recognize the drive- the live CD will, though, and can see it under GParted, etc.
Already ...
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1answer
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/var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs eats up 68% of my disk space
On a device with 2GB storage every MB is counted.
I wonder what is this /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs doing on my system and is there a way to avoid its existence.
Note this mount point eats up 1.2 ...
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1answer
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Gparted can't create ext3 or ext4 partitions
I have a 60Gb drive in a Dell Latitude D600. It all started with trying to install 10.10 as a dual boot. First installation failed at the partitioning stage, next I tried manual partition that also ...
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1answer
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Using Quota for disk limits
I installed quota using apt-get and followed some of the tutorials online.
I ran sudo edquota username which opened nano and gave a chart for me to edit. How what does the chart mean when it says ...
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3answers
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SMART says disk failure is imminent due to bad blocks, what do I need to do?
I have on my hard drive 2 OSes: Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows Vista (I keep it just because of school). Everything was OK on both OSes, but one day on Ubuntu I was getting awkward noises from my notebooks' ...
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1answer
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eCryptfs: Input/output error
My home directory is encrypted using ecryptfs. I have recently started getting I/O errors when I try to access some files on that file system:
aix@aix:~/.evolution/mail/imap/acct/folders/INBOX$ cat ...
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1answer
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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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3answers
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Can I install kdirstat on Ubuntu 11.10?
Other disk analyzers are far inferior as they don't allow you to delete files from their interface. The to-ing and fro-ing back and forth between Nautilus and Disk Usage Analyzer is slow, tedious and ...
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0answers
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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) ...
