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How to know when formatting disk has finsihed - Ubuntu 16.04?

I have external hard drive which is 300GB. I set it to format to NTFS. Well there wasn't FAT32 in the list, though I know on Windows it asks me to set FAT32 because it has large capacity. It started ...
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Format not working on right click in Files

When I right click and hit Format, absolutely nothing happens. This is on a new Ubuntu 19.10 install. I'm new to Linux but I think it should just work like in Windows? Edit: I tried a different USB ...
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Burn iso to an external hdd partition

I am trying to have multiple USB installers for different OSs, like Debian, Ubuntu, windows, etc. I have an external 2T HDD (Seagate Expansion+) with a single partition in it. What I want to do is to ...
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Ubuntu server 20.04 - time format 24 hours on shell with date command

I've installed Ubuntu server 20.04, and I can't find a way to display the time format to 24 hours when I use the command 'date' in the shell. I check the locale information with an Ubuntu server 18.04 ...
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how to remove write protected system on usb?

i have deleted a usb disk using Gparted , and i am trying to create new disk using the unlocated space .. and i found this message Can't write to /dev/sdb, because it is opened read-only.
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How to Fix "Read-only file system" error when I run something as sudo and try to make a folder/file?

When I try to save something or rename a file/folder it say this error " Read-only file system" or run something as root in the terminal it say this error sudo: unable to open /var/lib/sudo/"My User ...
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What format choice for an Ubuntu back up disk?

I would like to use a 1Tb external disk for my backup using the standard Ubuntu backup tool.The disk has been used previously and I need to format and wipe it. As a new user I don't know which format ...
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NTFS formatted HDDs doesn't show in Ubuntu server

I formatted two HDDs in win11 with NTFS and then I moved those to a server with Ubuntu server. Now the os doesn't find those new HDDs. What did I do wrong. I am a beginner with the linux environment. ...
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Want to format UDF Usb Readonly drive to NTFS

new here. I have a usb of 32gb which I got form a course I enrolled. Now I want to format the usb and use it for my personal use but I cannot format it. Can anyone help or should I just throw it?
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Is there a document specification for formatting the version query output of an application

I'm aware that some recommended standards for Linux package development exist. For example, according to Debian standards, service users and groups should begin with an underscore. Is there a standard ...
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How to format old windows pc

I have an old HP laptop running on windows 8.1, the owner forgot his password so he tried resetting it with some commands like (enter+f1+Del) thats what he says, then the laptop reboots, on the ...
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Format both c and d drive of a laptop with windows and install ubuntu

I have a laptop with a c drive (hdd with windows) and a d drive (SSD). I want to format both and install ubuntu on d drive. Is this possible through the normal ubuntu installation process? If I ...
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Turn off read-only pen drive

I'm trying to format a 64gb pen drive that turned readonly after failing to move a larger video file using gparted but it keeps failing due to the pen drive being in readonly. (just installed Ubuntu ...
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How to erase one partition not all of the disk in a safe way on ubuntu

I have 2 partitions, my system file, swap.. every thing is on the partition which named now (free space) because I clicked the [-] button. The second partition is the partition where I usually store ...
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Formatting Hard Drives Takes Ages

I am formatting my hard drive using the "disks" utility. I selected my 3TB hard drive and chose the option not to partition it, but do a complete full erase (i.e. not the quick-erase option). It ...
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Will EXT4 offer better filesystem corruption protection than NTFS on Ubuntu?

Somehow I ended up with an external drive that only had Windows and Mac backup software on it. Nonetheless, I backed up data from my primary HD and the drive seemed to work fine until I had a power ...
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The problem of low fps and high lag in the game and format error in TeamSpeak installation

My system profile cpu: intel g2020 ram: 4g gpu: gtx 1060 6g I am playing dota 2 with this system at lowest setting 40 fps And I encountered a format error in TeamSpeak installation:enter image ...
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Installing Ubuntu 22.04 on Samsung EVO 970 NVMe

I have Windows 10 already installed on hard drive. I want to install Ubuntu 22.04 on the EVO 970 which was previously reformatted. I am considering disconnecting all the SATA drives including the one ...
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how to reset to factory

while updating some sort of virus protection programms on the computer it goes off. as a result, the computer is not working at the moment, I can not enter the terminal, and the screen lights up gray ...
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Formatting Partitions in ubuntu

Hi I create 2 primary partitions with fdisk and I know that I have to format them in next step, how can I format them together instead of running mkfs -t ext4 twice?
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Want to format an Unknown Disk

Have a disk attached to ubuntu linux computer. It is reported as unknown. I have been trying to format it. So far everything I have tried has failed. Is there any hope of formatting this disk? ...
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How to reformat a partition properly ?

I want to create a case-insensitive partition (not loop-mounted). To this avail, I created a Ubuntu 16.04 VM in VirtualBox, and I manually partitioned the disk on startup (of Ubuntu-Install), into a ...
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How can I kill a formatting operation launched by the Disks application?

I launched a formatting operation on a drive, asking the Disks application to overwrite all content on the drive. This process is taking too long. How should I kill the process? Closing the Disks ...
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Ubuntu server - format partition

How to use specific partition to clear/format it and install Ubuntu server? I already have 2 partitions with 2 different linux, one Lubuntu and on other i want Server. But on install menu i dont have ...
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Removing write protection on udf usb drive

I like many other have this question and can't believe no one has found a way around this. I have a usb drive that is a UDF format and can not format it was given to me by my company and said i may ...
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Allocation Unit Size for New Drive

I'm going to be loading my new 3TB drive with large files on Windows, and then hooking it up to my Linux server. This is the first time I've done this. I've been told that both Windows and Linux ...
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Format usb linux Western Digital external disks

How can I format an external USB drive? I have a Western Digital external usb which adds automatically a virtual read-only CD partition which prevented me to run the standard ways to format a disk. ...
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duplicity list files

I have backed up files in /media/sdb1/mybkup I ask duplicity to list the backed up files. Tried several formats based on ask ubuntu answers duplicity list-current-files /media/sdb1/mybkup duplicity ...
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Can't format my usb drive. I have already tried with mkdosfs and gparted

I have a MicroSD card in a USB adapter (which plugs into a USB port on my machine, and acts like a USB flash drive). I was using Unetbootin to make this a bootable USB flash drive with Kubuntu. But I ...
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How to zero out a drive?

I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 and want to completely format my laptop so I can install Windows 7 (replace Ubuntu). When I put in my bootable USB with the OS it just shows a black screen with a ...
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Format HDD and install Ubuntu

my name is Tonny. I have Ubuntu 20.04 but I also have windows on the same machine. My question is: how can I format my HDD delete everything and install again only Ubuntu?
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partitioning & formatting additional hard drives [duplicate]

I have a 4 TB spinner HD on which I have installed my OS. I have 3, M.2, 1-TB PCIe SSDs that are mounted directly to the MOBO; this question is about the SSDs. I can see them in G parted as ...
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After installing Ubuntu 22.04, unable to access a drive used on Windows 10

My Windows 10 installation became corrupted and I couldn't repair it, so yesterday I installed Ubuntu 22.04. However, I am unable to access a disk that was labeled "D" on Windows. In the ...
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How to format a USB drive with non-removable media?

I have a USB drive with non-removable media inside of it.. I want to format the USB drive and get it working again. here is the output of the hdparm command: hdparm -I /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: SG_IO: ...
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Why is gcc giving "cannot execute binary file: Exec format error"?

I noticed my gcc seems to be broken (I'm using Ubuntu 18) $ gcc --version -bash: /usr/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error I tried reinstalling it ... $ sudo apt-get install --...
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wipefs device or resource busy

I am trying to format a drive using the Ubuntu Disks utility. When I select and try to format the drive I get Error wiping device. Command-line wipefs -a "/dev/sdb" exited with non-zero exit status ...
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How to Install Ubuntu on hybrid drive, if windows is already there In my hdd

The thing is I want only ubuntu on my pc, my hdd had windows already Installed I have brought new ssd, now my question is 1. How to format hdd which contain windows 10 2. How to install Ubuntu on my ...
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How to restore my superblocks?

user@localhost:$ LC_ALL=C sudo fdisk -l WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes ...
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How I can repair an USB Drive mft and mftmirr?

I have an USB Drive that I messed up. I've extracted it improperly, and now it doesn't mount. It has a NTFS file system and I used testdisk on it, but when I try to repair MFT with the Mirror or ...
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Formatting a DVD-R

I tried burning an .iso image onto a DVD-R disc but it didn't burn correctly. And no matter how I go about erasing it's content I get a error that says the disc has a read-only file system. How would ...
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How to consult FAT32 cluster size on Ubuntu

I have to format an SD Card to FAT32 using 64 KB cluster size specifically. This is possible using mkdosfs, using command -s 128. It seems to work as intended, it follows all online helps which are ...
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Bulk converting images from one format to another?

I want to convert a batch of images, nearly 100, from jpg to png format. How can I do this without renaming them, but instead actually converting the format?
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External Drive DIsk is unrecognised

after reading askubuntu as a guest for some time I decided to be an active part of the community posting here my first question. I bought an HDD of 2TB some months ago. It worked ok, but when I was ...
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What is the equivalent of zerofree for vfat (fat 16, fat 32)

To make one file unlinked with rm myfile on a ext2, ext3 or ext4 formatted USB, I run zerofree /dev/sdb What would be the equivalent command(s) for for FAT16 and FAT32 formatted USB? (i.e USB ...
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SD card not showing up in fdisk

I used this SD-card for 3 months in my Android device. Now my phone tells me that it's "broken" and needs to be formatted, yet the format fails on the phone. Ubuntu won't recognize the card at all. (...
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SD Card vanished after placement of .nomedia file

This is not really a Ubuntu problem but since I moved from Windows to Ubuntu I naturally would like to use Ubuntu to solve this problem. I bought a 32gb sandisk micro sd card for my galaxy note 2. ...
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I can't format my live-USB pendrive (udisks-error-quark, 11)

I can't format my pendrive (where ubuntu was loaded as live-usb) . Whenever I do , they say . This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; please reinitialize layout of ...
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How to format a FAT32 USB as EXT4

I have a USB device /dev/sda1 and I want to format it as ext4. I have tried sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 It gives warning, goes ahead and completes formatting without error. But when I check it using ...
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How to fix: “Partition does not start on physical sector boundary”

I accidentally created a new partition table in a disk full of data which removed all the partition. Using testdisk, I am able to get the partition back but the filesystem is corrupt or damaged. ...
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Installed Ubuntu and accidently gave all the hard disk space to Ubuntu

When I booted and installed Ubuntu, I gave all of the hard disk space to Ubuntu -- my whole hard disk was formatted. I had plenty of pictures, videos and music on my Local Disk [D] drive and I don't ...

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