Questions tagged [hard-drive]
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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20.04 boot & app load time?
I've progressed from 16.04 to 20.04 & I'm happy except boot & app load times have increased with each upgrade. My SW is fully up to date. I have questions:
Would a fresh install of 20.04 ...
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How to fix external hard disk READ ONLY?
I have got an external hard disk TOSHIBA 1TB USB 3, the permission is always READ ONLY.
fdisk -l (output) :
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, ...
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Can't Mount SSD (where windows and my files are located) Need to Save Files from there
I need to save some files from my personal computer but most of them are under windows user folder. With USB, I plugged in try ubuntu and can see my HDD but I can't access my SSD (where all files I ...
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Data amount when copying is much greater than what actually is (22.04)
I mainly use Ubuntu to copy data from hard drives (via a dock) to a server. Strangely and recently, when copying, instead of showing the actual amount of data, "Preparing to Copy" shows that ...
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How to auto-shutdown Ubuntu Server 23.04 when inactive/hdd not used
I have a media server with 1 hard drive. I use it daily at evening, so it would be a waste of electricity if the server is turned on 24/7. So, I want to shut it down when it is not in use, ...
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Utorrent unable to load "file" : Access denied
So Iam new to Ubuntu. I think I have managed to mount my additional internal hard disk drive. I can download everything to it from Google chrome and view it from Files,however I still think that other ...
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How Do I Make A Secondary Drive Accessible Through The Main Directory Or In A Way Where Programs That Don't Have A Means To Access It In Their System
I know that title was a bit convoluted, but I am running on 22.04, I have a Samsung M.2 SSD, and Seagate HDD both connected directly to the motherboard. The issue I keep running into is the secondary ...
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How to give a permenant permission for a disk?
I have hdd that has been mounted to a new folder Backup that I created in /media
/dev/sda1 15T 28K 14T 1% /media/Backup
But I am not able to create any folder and the permission is as ...
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Recovery data from Unable to mount Sandisk Extreme USB device
so it seem many Sandisk Extreme devices are crashing recently. The company updated some firmwares but it seems that my device does not need any update regarding the website autochecker, but anyhow my ...
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ssd drive not found
I have just replaced my hard drives on my laptop (MSI75) The boot drive is okay but the tb ssd is not shown at all. It is listed in the bios in ahci mode.
When I insert a usb stick, that also shows ...
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Add a new 16TB HDD and transfer the OS to it
I have 2x 4 TB and I bought another one of 16TB. I mounted it with the following commands:
cd /mnt/
mkdir data2
blkid /dev/sdc
fsck.ext4 /dev/sdc
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc
mount /dev/sdc /mnt/data2
lsblk
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Folder on my second hard drive lost and cant be find
System: Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 10 (Dual boot)
Desktop environment: GNOME
My laptop has a dual-boot system with Linux 22.04 and Windows 10. Additionally, I have a built-in second hard drive that both ...
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Unable to detect the programs or folders that occupy the hard drive space, and therefore unable to secure space for the genome assembly run
I have an IBM server, which is installed with Ubuntu, of version 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).
The system has two hard drives: 1. /dev/sdb2 2. /dev/sdc2. The full HDD information:
I am working on a ...
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WD Red 4T giving 3221GB after format
After more than a year of use I was shocked discovering that my 4TB WDC_WD40EFAX-68JH4N0 only gave 3221GB worth of free space. Why is the user capacity only 3.22TB? Where are the other 700Gigs of ...
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NUC ETH Validators Linux Nethermind and Lighthouse resize disk space problem
With friend we have use Intel NUC and SSD 512GB for system and 2TB SSD drive for Windows 11 Pro virtual machine... by this manual proces :
https://someresat.medium.com/guide-to-staking-on-ethereum-...
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EFI Shell version 2.60 [5.12]
Yesterday I run normally my Ubuntu on my Laptop.
Today I'm getting this error instead of graphical enviroment
EFI Shell version 2.60 [5.12]
Current running mode 1.1.2
map: Cannot find required map ...
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Lenovo laptop running Ubuntu 22.04 is not booting after low storage warning
I've been running Ubuntu 22.04 in a Lenovo laptop for a couple of months now, and I got a low storage warning yesterday. A few hours later I tried to copy a file into a USB storage device, and for ...
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Why does my external hard drive read and write speed drop to 0
I recently got a new external hard drive and have noticed that the write speeds are very slow. When I used "Benchmark Partition" from the Disks utility, I got a very strange result:
Why are the hard ...
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Trying to recover Zpool
I am having a terrible time with moving to a new motherboard. I upgraded to improve the a plex server running docker containers. I initially cloned the ssd to a new NVME. I am unable to find the zpool ...
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My hard disk with Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop installed does not boot when I restart my PC
I'm in a bit of a mess here, I recently formatted my hard drive and installed Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop on it. After the installation I restarted my PC but it never boots up the installed Ubuntu 23.04 and ...
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Move Storage Disk to Another Machine
I have an Ubuntu Server (23.04) set up with two disks: OS on disk1 (/dev/sda) and storage on disk2 (/dev/sdb). Perhaps naively, I thought that moving the storage disk to another machine (also Ubuntu ...
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How to mount exFAT/FAT partitions as user without all files having the executable bit set in permissions?
Ubuntu 23.04 here, but should apply to almost every version.
I want to mount external drives via the user mount mechanisms in the system (is udev involved?), often over SSH with udisksctl mount -b /...
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Create image from unallocated hdd
I want to create file.img from unallocated hdd to another hdd ( backup the hdd ) to rescue my partitions and files in it .
When I
dd if=/dev/sda of=dev/sdb/file.img
It shows
dd: failed to open '/dev/...
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Cannot boot into Ubuntu 22.04 from Grub after accident w/ laptop
So I have an Ubuntu + Windows 10 dual boot on my Acer Aspire ES1-572-33BP. After my laptop fell to the ground, everything seemed to be working properly, but, after shutting Ubuntu down, I couldn't ...
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Reccomended options for mounting /dev/bcache0 as /home
I have set up /dev/sda3 on my SSD to cache /dev/sdb3 on my HDD as /dev/bcache0 using bcache in Ubuntu 13.10 (kernel 3.11.0-14-generic). I have formatted it as ext4.
I currently mount / (on my SSD) ...
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My 1TB Internal Hard Disk lost 500GB partition ubuntu after deleted during windows installation
First, I've using Ubuntu. And then I try install Windows 10. When Windows required specific drive accidentally I format Ubuntu drive, and I also deleted it.
What makes me more fool is, I also assumed ...
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Ubuntu is not shutting down properly, instead it keeps showing the following after clicking power off
[10196.9841711 wlp2s0: deauthenticating from 70:97:41:e8:7e:20 by local choice (Reason: 3-DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[10197.8623311 systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices.
[10197.865048] ...
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Recover data on a hard-drive that changed partition table
From Ubuntu running from CD I formatted the C: drive using GParted and
I changed the partition table on one HDD from MBR/MSDOS to GPT but I realized (too late) that it affected all partitions on the ...
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Put HDDs in standby after X minutes using hdparm doesn't work
I use Ubuntu 12.04 on a home server. There are 5 hard drives: one SSD with the OS and 4 HDDs (Samsung HD204UI) configured as a RAID5 using mdadm.
I don't need the RAID very often (say, about once per ...
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GParted shows hard drive as two drives of equal storage capacity
I'm trying to format my Xbox One S hard drive with GParted. It appears to show two 900GB disks as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd instead of one 900GB disk, on top of that.
/dev/sdc :
/dev/sdd :
The first ...
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Ubuntu doesn't start when hard drive is plugged in
About a week ago i was tinkerin around and created a bootable linux drive on an USB. I was able to switch to the usb and back to windows without any problems. But after some time neither linux nor ...
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Discovering disks order
I Installed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 server.
The server has 2 volumes (disks):
lshw -c disk
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: RAID 940-8i 4GB
vendor:...
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Best Place & Way to Back Up Files Stored Exclusively on External Drive
I have an 8 TB external hard disk named Draco that I use to store nearly all my files, but this is kind of stupid of me because I don't have any place to back things up. Do I have to buy another one ...
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Hard disks cataloguer needed
22.04.
I would like to achieve something like I use in my Mac: Neofinder is a program that builds a database with all the directories and files (and some of their properties) of any hard disk I ask to ...
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Crash: systemd-journal Failed to write entry. Ignoring: read-only file system only
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, Gnome 3.28.2 with no dual boot and no external USB devices. Once in a while I get a black terminal screen with several errors like this:
[ 5307.281824] systend-journald(539]: ...
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eMMC device ( connected to mmctosd adapter ) detected as sdb not as mmcblk0 in ubuntu
I have connected emmc device to linux pc with mmctosd adapter and it is getting detected as sdb device. But now I want to use mmc-utils package ( mmc commands ). I think this cannot be used on sdb ...
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Can I install Ubuntu on external USB-HDD? And will that affect on my windows
I have external HDD with 900gb of free space can I install Ubuntu and will not affect on my windows?
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Non-boot CPUs are not disabled( seems there is a bug in "6.2.0-26-generic" kernel)
I use Ubuntu 22.04 with no issues for a while, but recently I can't suspend the OS and it gives me the following error and either hangs with a blank screen or shows up the system login screen:
Non-...
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My External Hard Drive will not mount using GUI
I recently ran into an issue where my external hard drive can only be mounted using the command line arguments such as sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/External. When I try to mount the drive using ...
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disk is likely to fail soon, read error rate problem
Hi i get this error on my very old pc with ubuntu
I have to change the disk or there is something i can do?
I already readed this:
DISK IS LIKELY TO FAIL SOON - failing now
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External USB hdd slows to kb/s speeds and errors out
I had a 3.5" spinning disc Toshiba 1TB hdd in my pc but want to use it externally for backup purposes. I am running Ubuntu focal 20.04 LTS. I have tried two different brands of USB caddy and ...
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How can I check the health of my hard drive?
I had a bad experience on an old Dell computer where shortly after installing Ubuntu on it, the hard drive failed due to excessive loading/unloading cycles. What is the best way to check the health of ...
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Ownership of External Drive on Ubuntu Server
I am having a lot of trouble with a Western Digital 6TB external drive since I've first used in a year or so ago.
To begin with, I was getting into the world of servers and was making use of an old ...
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Just 212 GB Can be found out of 1 TB in my Ubuntu server 22.04.2
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04.2. I was using Windows 10 previously. During installation, I chose to Erase all options to delete all my Windows files.
Image here
I have a 1 TB hard disk but after ...
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External Hard drive gets slow while copying lots of data
I have an external 5T drive where I want to copy my files (about 22GB). When copying the files everything runs well for a while and then it gets really slow (maybe because of the file size?):
If I ...
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Which hard disk is causing these ATA errors?
in my journalctl -xb I see this:
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x6000 SErr 0x4890800 action 0xe frozen
ata1.00: irq_stat 0x0c400040, interface fatal error, connection status changed
ata1: SError: ...
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The HDD is encrypted and I did not do this
In the beginning, my laptop has 2 hard disks, the first of the NVME SSD class and the other for HDD storage
My problem, very briefly, is that I was using Windows and then I used the Hackintosh on the ...
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Erasing Ubuntu image on external hard-drive
I have burned an ubuntu image on an external hard-drive and I am trying to erase it. I have first tried to erase the image through the pi-imager but for some reason I get the error:
Error formatting (...
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How can I make My external hard drive writable in ubuntu 18.04?
I a pretty much new to the linux system and for some reason I can't create nor delete new files in my partitioned hard disk.I am dual booting Ubuntu 18.04 with windsows 10 and the partition of New ...
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Can't run projects in Codelite
I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10. I'm now trying to use CodeLite to code C++, but when I create a project in my hard drive partitions I can't run it. It says no such file or ...
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