Use this tag if you have problems using HDs or SSDs in Ubuntu.
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How do I get back hard drive space after I have uninstalled Ubuntu from Windows?
I installed Ubuntu on windows like it says to do it on Ubuntu's website as an application. I did not want it to create a separate partition on my hard drive. A few days ago, I uninstalled Ubuntu by ...
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How do I format my entire HDD?
Ok I have recently made some mistakes with installing some operating systems that I should have just kept on a live cd not ubuntu but another os and with my ocd when I saw my lot's of different ...
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How can I recover data from a clicking/dying external drive?
Windows asks me to reformat every time I plug it into my computer, so I fired up Ubuntu via VirtualBox (selecting the external hard drive in the USB settings for VirtualBox beforehand) to see if I can ...
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In SSH, how do I mv to my local drive?
Probably bad searching/not knowing the terminology, but: I've managed to ssh into my webhost's directory for me, and tar the webapp I want to back up and download. But when I try to mv to ...
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Can't install ubuntu, continue button doesnt work
I have a laptop without an internal hard drive and I'm struggling to make it work from a USB drive.
I have used Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.0.1 to install Ubuntu onto my USB drive. I specified a 250 ...
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Why does my FAT32 USB attached disk not mount in 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04?
I run Ubuntu 12.04 x64. I have a FAT32 USB disk with valuable data on it but it does not mount.
I can see and access it when I plug it in to a Windows machine, but not on Ubuntu. I tried all kind of ...
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How to make nautilus to mount at `/drivename` instead of `/media/drivename`?
I want to mount my other drives (mostly ntfs and fat) on /drivename by clicking on the drive icon in the nautilus side pane, where "drivename" refers to the label of the drive. By default nautilus ...
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how can i give other drives and partitions short, meaningful names (in nautilus)?
I have 4 disk drives in my 64-bit ubuntu 12.04 LTS computer at the moment, plus one external USB drive. In nautilus and unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all ...
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12.04 freezes due hybrid ssd?
Ubuntu 64bit installation freezes 3-5 times per day on my new desktop comupter. Only cold reboot is possible. I suppose the issues is due the SSD hybrid drive (Seagate Momentus 7200 FDE.2 ST950042) ...
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partitioning drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's your recommendation on drive partitioning schemes for a desktop and home server?
I am going to teach myself to administer linux. I want to be able to run both ...
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Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk
There is no operating system currently on my computer.Hard drive has been a dynamic(when installing Ubuntu).Windows is cannot installing.(so hard drive is dynamic).How to convert dynamic disk to basic ...
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change permission of usb drive
I have linked a new USB drive with my system and i am not able to copy any file to it. I tried to change the permission by using below command:
/media$ sudo chmod 777 0000-7D6C
"0000-7D6C" is the ...
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something happend on my character interface under ubuntu 12.04
after my ACER ASPIRE 4752G be installed Ubuntu 12.04,some string like this:
[ 1670.897971] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[ 1670.898663] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port ...
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12.04 LTS 64 bits does not boot from HDD
I installed 12.04 LTS 64 bits from a USB drive, but I can't seem to boot from the HDD. I have a single partition, with no other OSes.
I need to plug in the USB drive for the PC to boot Ubuntu. Is my ...
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Install ubuntu Linux directly onto hard drive via a bridge
the windows XP 32-bit on my laptop recently died and I want to install linux now.
The problem is the laptop has no cd or floppy drive anymore and is not able to boot from USB.
I borrowed a "bridge" ...
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Not able to see '/home' drive .
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with 3 partition [ / drive for 100 GB, /home for 200 GB and /swap drive for 8 GB] . But after successful installation I'm not able to see /home drive .
I can see ...
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Is there a way to make a mounted gvfs volume shortcut on the desktop or home folder?
I have a network drive and I want to make it accessible to apps , such as LiberOffice.
I cannot make a link. The drive is available under .gvfs. Is there a way to have it as a link in my desktop or ...
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Make bootable USB Drive from Ubuntu
I need Windows for a few things, and while I love Ubuntu. I think I'll have to install Windows agian for a short period of time.
I got the .iso file on my desktop, and need to make it bootable from a ...
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How do I uninstall Ubuntu 11.10 from Ubuntu?
I installed a small 3gb Ubuntu partition just to delete some annoying files in XP, but I accidentally turned the XP partition into Swap and I can only boot in Ubuntu. I do not necessarily want to save ...
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What causes file managers to show drives?
What forces a file manager to show unmounted partitions in the left pane?
That is - what process is it that causes filemanagers to show drives - it's not fstab - I can show that here, I know that ...
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why did the sudo command mess up my friends mac? [closed]
I followed the commands to make a bootable usb drive on my friends mac. Everything worked fine and then he left on spring break and gives me a call saying that his OS wouldnt load anymore. I assume it ...
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Problem accessing the drive [closed]
I have recently installed ubuntu 11.10 in my laptop. (Clean install), with 4 partitions. now the problem is it is not allowing me to access any of the other drives. i am able to mount it but i cannot ...
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Ubuntu wrongly warns “Not enough space” which I do have
While I'm trying to install Ubuntu, I get the X about having less than 4.5GB space available. And when I'm trying to look on my hard drive-I cant, i tried normally' throw Gparted and throw disk ...
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Ubuntu changes drive order with multiple HDDs
My motherboard is GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H, and I have 4 internal HDDs. The first one (sda) contains various Ubuntu versions. Others HDDs contain Windows XP, Windows 7, and data. However the drive ...
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switching drives in terminal
In DOS, I switch between different drives by typing c:, d:, e: etc.,
But it doesn't work that way in Linux.
Could anyone please tell me how to switch between different drives?
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How do I map Network Drives? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Correct way of mounting a Windows share
I was wondering if it was possible to map windows network drives on Ubuntu. If there is any way, please let me know how!
Thanks ...
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System went read only…won't allow me to boot
I accidentally made my system read only. After a quick Google search I know this can be fixed by remounting the drive using sudo mount " ".
The problem is I already restarted my system ...
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Dynamic Disk Not Reading
While using windows i changed my hard disk partitions from "Logical Disk" to "Dynamic Disk"..... then i installed Ubuntu in c drive. when i opened ubuntu the contents of C:Drive are shown but i am ...
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Can't change file permissions on External Hard Drive
I have recently installed an external hard drive USB on my Ubuntu 11.10 Server but I cannot use Apache to allow web browsing. I think it is a permissions problem but I cannot change the permissions ...
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How do I 'see' an external USB drive connected directly to my Broadband Router?
This is a very frustrating problem! I have a small home network with several dual boot Ubuntu / Windows computers. I have recently upgraded my Broadband connection and the new router permits the ...
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How can I stop Gnome Shell's drive pop up notifications?
I have an NFS drive mapped in Ubuntu 11.10 using autofs which automatically mounts a drive on every boot. But if I use the Gnome Shell interface, a pop up notification keeps popping up from the ...
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Easy way to set up network drive? [closed]
Does anyone know an easy way of setting up a network drive?
Its easy in Windows - it automatically finds the drive. But seems really difficult in Ubuntu.
Thanks,
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Bootable Flash Drive
I have reinstalled ubuntu 10.04.3 on my laptop and would like to make a bootable flash drive either from netbooks or 11.1 version since my new netbook has built in camera and speaker, however when I ...
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Making bootable USB drive
I have the Windows 7 iso and I wanted to make a bootable flash drive out of it. I used to use Unetbootin but they have now removed the option to show all drives. Can anyone suggest another program ...
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Can't see Hidden Data, Ctrl-H doesn't help
I am newbie for ubuntu I Know by making folder starting wid .makes it hidden in Linux so I did the same on My Kingstan Flash drive. but I can't see i back. I have tried Ctrl-h but it didn't work. but ...
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IBM Ultrium Tape drive shows up but can't mount a tape
I have this tape drive install in a dell poweredge 2900 server and I can seem to get it working, ubuntu can see the drive but I cant mount any tape I even Did mt -f /dev/nst0 erase and the drive led ...
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Cant boot after trying to install a second Hard Drive [closed]
I tried to install a second hard drive in my PC {not much experience with that}, and when I tried to boot neither the new nor the old drive worked. {The extra drive I added had already Windows on ...
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USB SATA hard drive enclosure
I'm trying to use a USB to SATA hard drive enclosure on 10.10. It shows up in the file manager, but I cannot open it or anything else. Is there a driver I need or some other configuration I must do to ...
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USB drive (with 128Mb memory and CDROM drive ?) how to write [closed]
I have an USB stick, which comes forward if I plug it into my machine as part soundcard and part CDrom drive.
As the CDrom drive part includes very old drivers I want to update them.
Is it possible to ...
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Mount and share USB disk on Ubuntu Server 10.04
I've just installed and configured a house server with Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS). Everything works fine, but I have a problem:
I want to connect and share with Samba a USB Disk formatted in ext4. I tried to ...
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Freed up space on disk gets filled? [closed]
I recently posted a question here on askubuntu that didn't get answered about my disk space. It considerably went down, and I have been using Ubuntu for 3 days only. It passed from 25Gb(allocated ...
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Missing disk space after upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10. How come?
I have a problem with my disk space on Ubuntu.
I'll say some facts:
When I installed Ubuntu, I told Ubuntu to take 25GB of space.
I installed Ubuntu on my D:\ Drive, which is NOT the drive on which ...
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NAS device for Ubuntu
Fellows,
I would like to know if you use, how you use and which device as Network Attached Storage. I've being reading some reviews online, and there is a lot off downsides in many models - more ...
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How do I remove mounted drives from the unity launcher? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove launcher drive icons?
In 11.10 how do I go about removing the mounted drives icons on the Unity Launcher?
This article:
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Any means to use Ubuntu/Linux to remove firmware restriction to boot from My Passport Essential 320G?
Purchased WD My Passport Essential thinking it was a full service drive(i.e., backup and bootable for system crash and recovery) but NOT! Anybody know of work arounds? Firmware prevents from making ...
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How to install Ubuntu Game Pack with a virtual drive?
I downloaded the UALinux Gamepack DVD 1 .iso and mounted with AcetoneIso. Now i got the virtual drive in Desktop.
But when i try to install with the autoinstaller in the virtual dvd root, a window ...
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Drive information like Windows 7?
In Windows 7 the Computer area has drives sorted by Type which list the size remaining and a progress bar to represent the size currently in use.
Is there a way to customize Ubuntu 11.04 to do the ...
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What is the Linux drive naming scheme?
In Windows; you have the C: drive. This is the primary drive upon which Windows is installed.
However, Linux uses a different naming scheme; sda and sba 1,2,3,4, etc. Can anyone give me a brief ...
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FULL install Ubuntu on 4GB USB drive
Is there a way to full install Ubuntu 11.04 in a 4gb USB drive?
It says that I need at least a 4.6 GB drive. I want the full install, not the live persistent installation. I think that it don't need ...
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Change default location of programs / users
I just bought a new SSD hard drive and want to minimize writing to the drive by moving users and applications to another 1TB hard drive.
Windows 7 accomplishes this fairly easily.
I want to know how ...
