Questions about hard drives, configuring and formatting them. Hard drives typically provide stateful memory storage for computers, and are the primary location for the operating system and user files.
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No /dev/sd for my hard drive?
I recently tried to install lubuntu on an external hard drive and it had an error(just my luck).
I thought everything was fine, so I went to gparted to reset the partitions for use with Windows. It ...
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Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 4684514
I'm trying to format a hard drive.
I've used mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda1 after the fdisk command, but mkfs doesn't work!
And when I press Ctrl+Alt+F6 I see this message:
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, ...
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mystery of missing file modifications (hybrid drive + Ubuntu 12.04)
Last week (Sep 10) I worked a whole day (on my Ubuntu 12.04 HP elitebook 8530p laptop) using a tex editor (TexWorks) and Jabref to maintain a Bibtex library. Today however I noticed all my ...
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What are the consequences laptop running out power while GParted is running?
I was fixing my partition with GParted and it seemed to work well.
But, my laptop suddenly ran out of power and I didn't realize it, then it turned off while GParted was still running which was at ...
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How to mount an external hard drive as root?
I recently changed my external hard drive so that it can be read/edited by all, not just myself. In doing so I think I made it so only the root user can mount it. When I tried to mount it today I got ...
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Fixing broken raid0 with dmraid?
A while ago when I was still on Windows I had two secondary 1 TB hard drives that used a raid0 setup, fakeraid I believe with Intel. My primary hard drive died which seemed to have messed up the raid ...
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when installing /boot inside a lvm group, where do I install the boot loader?
I am setting a personal file/cloud server based on ubuntu server 12.04 and owncloud but there are certain things about the partitioning that I can't get my head around...
Let's say for example I want ...
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Copying data from Centos hard drive to Ubuntu
I have a 2 PCs wiht ubuntu 10.04 and centos 5.8 installed.I want to copy all the data from Centos hard drive to one with ubuntu. How can I do this ???
I have tried directly plugging centos hard drive ...
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Problem booting the Ubuntu 12.04.01 OS due to bad sectors on the HDD
I use Ubuntu 12.04LTS(64-bit) desktop edition.
Lately I tried to upgrade it to Ubuntu 12.10. Everything was going good, but due to some work I couldn't complete the upgrade, so I disconnected the ...
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Unable to write in mounted driver Kubuntu 12.10
I installed Kubuntu 12.10 in SSD but unable to use HDD because I do not have write permission.
kisun@ejo129:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kisun:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected ...
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Ubuntu wont recognize my internal SSD
I just bought a Lenovo u310 and installed Ubuntu 12.10 with Wubi to try it out. After a couple of days I decided to fully replace windows 7 and installed Ubuntu 12.10 fully with a usb drive in my HDD. ...
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Merge LUKS-partition with partition on another HDD
I just bought a 2 TB hard disk because the home partition on the old one is almost full.
What I want to do is to extend the home partition on hard disk 1 (sda2) to also include all the space on the ...
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How to make some partitions undetectable by Ubuntu 12.04?
Background
My friend has got Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed in his Laptop's internal drive and Ubuntu on External Drive. Recently, there is some problem with his Internal HDD and it seems to me like ...
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Slow writing HDD speed dues to a misaligned partition
It seems that (but I'm not completely sure), that when I'm copying files from gigabit network to HDD, I can't use full potential of the network which in my case is about 60 MB/s, because HDD writing ...
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grub2 C/H/S value error on Laptop Second hard drive (ODD)
I was living happily with my one hard drive in laptop then I installed a SSD as my first (hd0) then installed the old drive in laptop's second hard drive caddy in CD/DVD drive bay.
now I can't boot ...
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Trouble with mounting usb hdd on ubuntu server
The hard disk had previously been the primary hdd for this computer. The only OS ever installed was ubuntu server, without encryption or LVM. My intention is to only keep the files that were on ...
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Questions about full disk encryption
Completely new user here, I've been reading for a couple of hours about ubuntu's full disk encryption but I just don't understand some basic points.
When installing ubuntu's full disk encryption, ...
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resize2fs: Invalid argument while trying to resize /dev/sda1 (dd problems)
I was attempting to copy my Ubuntu installation to a larger HDD following this guide with the dd command. The guide says:
"It's recommended you dd to an identical partition for optimal results."
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Mark bad sectors on hard drive without formating
I've noticed that on my home Ubuntu server one drive is read only for some reason. Digging up I found that this can happen when hard drives have errors. I used badblocks to check for errors, and ...
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Why is 80gb HD read BIG error rate & smart data different and everything SLOW?
Load & run ok via USB stick (real slow, jerkey), then installed (4th time now) having problem. Able to boot from 80 gb SATA HD but everything still slow, jerkey, takes 1 second per charactor on ...
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Nonresponsive while copying files
I just switched from Win8 to Ubuntu 13.04 as my sole OS and it's pretty nice overall. But as the last time I tried using Linux I see I still have problems simply moving large files around and ...
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Help Lost Ubuntu operating system and data
I need help in how to recover my Ubuntu, I lost the entire operating system.
I was using the windows booting system with wubi.
My system is asking me to reinstall windows, I do not want to do this,
I ...
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Why Ubuntu 13.04 doesn't recognize my external HDD?
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04, a clean installation, and everything seems to be running OK, at least in the last 2 hours that I have tried except for one thing... when i tried to restore my data from ...
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Cannot write to a newly installed hard drive
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10.
My computer has 2 hard drives. The OS is on one and I want to use the second for movies and music.
I formatted the the second drive ( dev/SDC1) as Ext4 with the label ...
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Ubuntu server - Make sure server can always boot and a hard drive is mounted before sharing with Samba
I have two 2-TB hard drives (not the boot/system drives) with a single partition in each, that I share with Samba. Mountpoints are in /mnt/drive01 and /mnt/drive02 .
These are also the path of two ...
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Unable to access/mount 2nd hard drive in laptop
I am totally new to Linux so I basically do not have a clue.
I have installed Ubuntu on my laptop and it is running very nice apart from the fact I cannot access my second hard drive.
I replaced the ...
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How to connect Iomega ScreenPlay DX wireless drive to Ubuntu?
I'm trying to connect Ubuntu to a wireless hard drive. Iomega ScreenPlay DX. The device works fine in Windows and I can ping it in Ubuntu but I'm lost trying to add it as a drive. Any help would be ...
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Burning windows 7 iso to an Internal HDD
Background
I took a HDD from a new laptop I bought and replaced it with an SSD and placed the cheap HDD enclosure I bought from Amazon. I recently discovered after trying to format the HDD using ...
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Shotwell: Storing part of library on external HDD
I am trying to sort out my Ubuntu photo workflow, and I wondered if anyone could offer some advice.
I store my photo library on an external HDD, which is on my desk at home. I would like to be able ...
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Does “No such device”->grub rescue on on an established system herald a catastrophic event?
I've already found plenty of threads on "no such device" and grub rescue on AskUbuntu, but I'm wondering what this signifies if it happens not on a fresh install, but on a computer that has been ...
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killed windows, trying to recover data through ubuntu
windows got corrupted during a update, i am trying to access the data on the HDD to back it up to restore windows. the HDD is mounted already, but when i try and acces the HDD, it does not show any ...
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Will Ubuntu spin down harddrives in an RAID 10 array?
I'm about to buy parts for a new home server and I'm planning on using Ubuntu(perhaps 12.04 LTS)
For the OS, I'll use an SSD.
For cold storage(big files, rarely accessed), I'm planning on setting up ...
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NTFS Corrupted HDD
I just installed a new HDD in my computer. I booted up and formated it in NTFS and copied about 500 GB of Videos onto it. My computer (few hours later) froze while a was watching a video off that ...
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Cannot install 12.10, it doesn't detect a HDD
Trying to get a client functioning until DELL will send her system restore media. The Original HDD failed only after 1yr 6mos of light use (the system was a print server for 3 hours a day) with out ...
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How to load HDD lazily?
I have a laptop with an SSD and an HDD. I tend to use the SSD only. On Windows 8 when I don't use the HDD for a few minutes, it goes idle and the laptop is completely silent, because SSD makes no ...
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ubuntu 12.04 does not always boot at the first time
I have a recurring problem: my Ubuntu 12.4 does not always boots at once. I often get a message on a black screen, saying "Media test failure, check cable" (it is not only this what's on the screen), ...
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How do I mount a USB hard drive to an arbitrary mount point?
I just upgraded my system with an SSD from a hard drive. Loads faster. But, I left all of my large media files on my hard drive. Currently, I have a SATA optical bay caddy on order, but in the ...
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Excessive harddisk activity in Ubuntu 12.04
I'm suffering from excessive hd activity in Ubuntu 12.04.
If I check with iotop, I see (and hear) jbd2 flashing every second.
I know that jbd2 is just the sync process for ext4, so that's a cause, ...
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failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED when trying to run bitcoin-qt
I've never been able to run bitcoin-qt on this machine (except in testnet mode, where it works fine). I run it, it sits there for a while, starts downloading the blockchain and the whole computer ...
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Installing Ubuntu 12.10 with Virtualbox -> Not enough storage
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 with Virtualbox. I allowed 20GB of space for the virtual computer and when I tried to install it, it said that I don't have enough space, which I have over 100GB. ...
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Can't mount my internal harddrive
Im trying to mount my internal hard drive. Whenever I click on my 320 gb hard disk a pop-up comes up saying "Unable to mount location , cant mount file" Thats all it says and I just got started using ...
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how do i gain acceess to a drive that owned by deleted user on ubuntu 11.10?
I did some trial on command line and creating a user account from it, then I logged off and logging to that newly created account (let us call it newaccount). Then I mounted one of my drive (I named ...
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Toshiba HDD protector accelerometer
my Toshiba Sattelite laptop supports HDD protector accelerometer (in the case of free fall it parks the HDD so it doesn't harm the data's integrity)
is there any support for that in linux kernel too ...
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How to install apps to another drive?
I have a SSD 80 gigs disk which I want to use for Ubuntu 12.10 installation and some programs like Libre Office and Firefox, but the new Steam linux and games would fill up my SSD quickly. How can i ...
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Formatting HDD and USB-stick results in broken “unknown” file system
I am trying to format a new hard disk (and a USB-stick) using GParted. After successfully formatting the drive (to ext2, ext4, ntfs, fat16, whatever), GParted tries to reload the partition data and ...
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Difficulty mounting Ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit) on new HDD
To the gentle membership of the Ubuntu Linux Forum:
After my laptop passed away a few weeks ago, I made up my mind to build n open source system. So I put together a computer for this purpose. I have ...
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Good spindown for HDD on Media/NAS server
I am running a small media server that also doubles as a NAS drive in my house. I use it to host my Plex library along with my Subsonic library for Roku and my Droid's. It's a real simple ATOM server ...
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BlackArmor On Linux
So anyone who knows about the Maxtor Blackarmor hard drives knows that they have software for use with Windows for encryption and I'm trying to find a way to format my BlackArmor 320GB Hard Drive to ...
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Unable to access second hdd. ubuntu 12.04
This is the error i get when trying to write to my second hard drive.
Error opening file '/media/hdd2/01 Queen - Keep Yourself Alive.mp3': Permission denied
The hdd is mounting on start up. but i ...
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Ubuntu has started booting really slow
So yesterday & today, when I boot up the Ubuntu loading screen (with the 4-5 loading dots) it just sits there... forever.
Normally, Ubuntu boots up very fast.
Also, something very strange I've ...
