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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Installing ubuntu on two drives: ssd and hdd

I have a desktop (8 GiB RAM) and installed Ubuntu in the standard way (erase disk and install Ubuntu - nothing else ;-)). But it kept booting in windows... finally - as a newbie - I understand the ...
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SSD sometimes not recognized

I have a weird issue... I have a secondary SSD (in /dev/sdb). Sometimes (after a reboot or just when the disk feels like it), the system can not recognize it and /dev/sdb does not exist and does not ...
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Ubuntu not booting from drive with the OS on it but booting from a different one

I bought a new HDD the other day for my computer as a backup drive. I already have a SSD that has my OS on it and an additional storage drive. However, when I plugged it in and booted my system it ...
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Need to limit the amount of reserved space on disk I guess for trash

I have Ubuntu MATE installed, 22.04 and I notice that there is a very large amount of disk space already used even with nothing on the disk other than the folders "lost+found" and "....
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How to Uninstall Ubuntu from my Secondary Disk to Install it in my Primary Disk?

The context: recently, I started collaborating on a open-source project whose main application runs in Linux. I have a Notebook with a small SSD (128Gb) and a HD (1Tb) and I have always used Windows. ...
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1TB SSD filled with simple Xubuntu installation - how can I find what is taking so much space?

On a recent and relatively vanilla installation of Kubuntu, after having difficulties I realized that it is somehow taking up nearly all of the 1TB drive when little else is installed. It has ...
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Cloning/Copying partition to existing disk with unallocated space

I have an 240GB SSD which I am upgrading to 1TB SSD. Unfortunately I do not have multiple SSD slots on my laptop but have a 1TB HDD with 440GB of used partition space and 488GB of unallocated space. ...
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folder is automatically getting created on ubuntu

I'm new to Ubuntu and so far my system has been working well, but today I'm seeing a new folder named New Volume getting created repeatedly whenever I restart my system, I delete this folder every ...
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Hardware RAID1 not recognized

I have a Dell Precision 7820 running Ubuntu 20.04.06, for which I have setup a hardware RAID1 with two 20TB HDDs: When I check Disks, I cannot see it as a single RAID1 volume, but only as two ...
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How to enable hardware encryption on my Crucial MX500 drive with Ubuntu 20.04

I have a Crucial MX500 1TB drive, and it supports hardware encryption. I need to attach it to my Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu 20.04 and enable encryption. I also need the drive to be auto attached to ...
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"Error mounting (drive name/dir name): wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock" 22.04.2 LTS

I am suddenly unable to mount either of my NFTS drives. This is an example of the message from one of them. The error message from the files GUI: Both drives were plugged into another computer and ...
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systemct1 status plymouth-start.service

Alright so I am having a laptop issue & my one is in the shop getting on 7 weeks now, so a couple weeks back I bought a cheap one from a pawnbrokers & that crashed after the first update that ...
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external USB NTFS drive unmount during file operation

I recently installed (with format disk option) a clean Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. (all new and shinny, no junk / custom setup of any kind except VS, Unity and other out of the box stuff) With ultracopier 2.2....
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I can't find drives that are already mounted

First I created 2 new partition tables with gparted each one for my two drives. Following this I ran sudo mkdir /hdd as well as sudo mkdir /ssd. Afterwards I ran sudo vim /etc/fstab and added two new ...
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I want to create a new disk on which to install programs

before installing Ubuntu I want to create a disc where the programs in Ubuntu will be installed. I have two discs, SSD and HDD. I will install Ubuntu on the SSD, but I want to create a separate HDD ...
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Recover partition from hard drive showing wrong capacity

I have a 1TB hard drive that started making problems a few weeks ago. It was sometimes corrupting some of the data on the drive forcing me to run fsck before booting into the system. This worked for a ...
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how to install Ubuntu 20.04.3 on the second disk while the second disk already has windows installed on it [duplicate]

My device has 2 harddisks (ssd + windows and hdd) on the hdd I want to install ubuntu, I already tried to install it from usb (set it up with rufus, parameters: partition scheme - MBR, target system - ...
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TimeShift not storing snapshots and not using the correct drive

I use Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Yesterday I installed TimeShift to create a backup of my system. Once installed, I clicked the 'create' button, the process finished, but the supposedly created copy does not ...
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possibly corrupt filesystem after force shutdown?

(i only have ubuntu installed on this laptop) i opened what seemed to be a subtitle file and the computer froze entirely so what seemed like the only option was to force shut it down pressing the ...
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Can I share an external drive with dual boot Windows and Linux

I installed a dual boot with Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04. I want to keep my work on an external hard drive, but I need both windows and Ubuntu to be able to run and adjust those files. I was told Fat ...
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How to recover folder which can't be accessed due to error while moving

I was trying to move the folder "cbr" from desktop to an external harddrive. But I think there was some error while doing the same. The folder is shown in cmd when I type ls. But when I try ...
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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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Can`t mount drive on ubuntu 20.04

yesterday I changed the permissions (0440) of an ubuntu server, on all of the files, and now I cant do anything with that, so I took the drive out and now I am trying to mount that drive on another ...
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Failed to start thermal deamon service and Failed to start CUPS service. Failed: READ FPDMA queued

I am getting a couple of error/failed messages while starting Ubuntu. It was working fine, but suddenly it got shutdown. When I restarted it was taking time, but it was not able to start and then ...
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Would removing my 1st drive be the best way to set up Ubuntu 2204 on a 2nd drive with full disk encryption (while preserving Windows on my 1st drive?) [duplicate]

I have a laptop with two SSDs. The primary SSD is running Windows (which I'm planning to keep in place for now), but I'd like to install Ubuntu 22.04 on the secondary SSD with full disk encryption. ...
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Problems with mounting an external harddrive on an Ubuntu server

I purchased myself a Banana Pi-M5 and a "Yottamaster 4-Bay Raidsystem". I Installed Ubuntu 20.04LTS on that Pi. My plan is to install Nextcloud using docker and store the data I saved at ...
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Possible hdd problem

Yesterday afternoon, I dropped my laptop on the floor, I went to turn it on and I noticed that my Ubuntu won't boot. I went through the boot selection of the BIOS itself and I realize that my HD does ...
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My HDD not showing up in Ubuntu(22.10)

Hi I'm very new to Ubuntu, and I tried searching for this problem but couldn't find any suitable solution. I have two disks in my machine. I wiped windows and installed Ubuntu. I didn't do anything ...
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While mounted /dev/sda wakes up the instant spin down command is sent. Nothing is using the drive. How do I prevent it from waking up?

I installed a new drive into headless Ubuntu 22.04 server today. Am trying to schedule the drive to spin down when not in use. The issue is that the drive wakes up less than a second after being put ...
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Is it possible to move the /home directory without reinstalling the whole computer? [duplicate]

I have Ubuntu 18.04 on a 50 GB SSD partition (+9.9 GB swap). I also have a mechanical drive with >= 105GB free Ext4 partition in that computer. I'm running out of space on that SSD partition. I'd ...
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How can Xubuntu read/write to an unmounted HDD

This is a follow-on from my question a few days back: How can I stop constant HD journaling? Setup is now: Windows 10 Pro on SSD Xubuntu 22.04 on SSD: partitioned as 1. /root (ext4) 2. /home (ext4) 3....
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Can I view the progress of a LUKS encryption that was initiated in the GUI? Alternately can I calculate it?

I am encrypting a 2TB internal hard drive with LUKS using the default Disks app (see image). I am aware that these things are supposed to take time (I've seen days, even weeks, in my cursory googling),...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 installs on a different drive than the one I select

Update: after trying to reinstall Ubuntu on the SATA, Windows now boots normally. Both OS's appear to be running on the NVMe drive though. This is just getting even weirder. I am having a strange ...
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How can I stop constant HD journaling?

I'm new here, but this issue is already driving me nuts. New PC with Windows 10 Pro pre-installed on 500Gb SSD, with 2Tb Seagate Barcudda internal HDD, both NTFS. Ryzen 5, 16Gb RAM. I used Windows ...
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Automatically mount and unlock ZFS dataset on external USB drive connection

As the title says, I'm trying to mimic the behavior of a LUKS encrypted drive with ZFS. An external USB drive with LUKS can automatically mount when connected. Ubuntu will show a dialog for the ...
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Why don't I have permission on my folder on the new hard drive?

I added a new hard drive as storage only, and wanting to save something to the folder where I mount( /hdd) the drive doesn't let me. For example, try saving an html file Failed to save 'html': Unable ...
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My other drive still has windows files after installation MADE SURE NOT TO DUAL BOOT

So i wanted to switch from windows to ubuntu, a complete switch not a dual boot and I selected the option to do that in the installation options which was to erase my disk and switch to ubuntu instead ...
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Kubuntu can't write to secondary internatl hard drive

EDIT: I figured out what was going on. I had used the storage drive as a backup when I was setting up the dual boot (just incase windows crapped itslef) and apparently those windows system files were ...
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Ubuntu doesn't detect external BTRFS Drive

I have a Seagate 8TB external drive with btrfs. It was connected to an rpi and being used as NAS. I've lost the SDCard on rpi so I just connected the drive directly to my laptop on Windows host. (...
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Do not have access to second hard drive

So I recently updated my Ubuntu server to the version 22.04.2. I have not have had this issue in the past. I am also a Linux newbie so I am having a hard time figuring this out. But It seems like ...
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Access changed overnight to external drives

I had an external hard drive which has always worked for years. All of a sudden one day I opened my libre office which multiple files that were open after a crash and libre can't recover them because ...
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Ubuntu Suddenly Completely Wipes From My Hard Drive - Windows11/Ubuntu 22.04 Dual Boot

I just had a terrible moment with my computer. Just days prior I was working on Ubuntu for my robotics courses, I had reset my hard drive in January to perform a Dual Boot and it worked great. Today I ...
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Disk space has different filesystem

I bought a server that was supposed to have 1 TB of disk space, but after logging in I was faced with the following system files. How can I attach all the space to /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv? ...
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How to properly mount folders inside a HDD in /mnt?

I had 3 smaller disks on my machine, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb/ and /dev/sdc mounted respectively as /mnt/video, /mnt/audio and /mnt/media. Now I purchased a WAY bigger drive and want to consolidate ...
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External HDD with Ubuntu boots in emergency mode

I recently installed Ubuntu on my 500GB external HDD with my Acer Aspire laptop from a live USB, the installation was successful (even installed grub on the external HDD) and I could boot from the ...
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Storage setup (moved from windows)

I recently moved from Windows to Ubuntu Server 22.04. The server was installed by the VPS provider. The Server has 2 SSD and 1 HDD. I discovered that all 3 drives are used for two data systems. Is it ...
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Custom systemd service won't start automatically

I wrote a script and a service to power down my external Seagate drive on shutdown. It worked the first time but when I restart my computer it won't activate. I always have to start it manually before ...
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How to recover from missing partition

my issue comes from a co-worker who has somehow corrupted an important 7TB hard drive. I believe they filled the space on the disk to 100% over the weekend and somehow messed up the partition ...
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dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb error in USB drive

I recently connected a pen-drive after many years. When I opened my pen-drive it showed me 'no valid superblock found'. I did some google and tried to fix it. I tried to use backup superblocks to main ...
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How do I allocate free disk space to my Ubuntu 22.04 partition? [duplicate]

I have read and tried the mentioned methods of allocating free space to my Ubuntu partition and have been unable to succeed. I have tried both gparted and the Disk Utility application provided with ...
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