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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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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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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Is there anything i can do to recover the data?
I am running ubuntu 22.04.1. Whenever I try to copy the files over i get the error "Error while copying "file name here" There was an error copying the file into Home/downloads
Error ...
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df -h shows 2TB external HDD is almost full but the output for 'du' does not add up
The system that I am using has 18.04 (no dual boot). I have a 2TB Seagate external hard drive which I use for taking the backup of my Ph.D. data. I use rsync -rtvhP to take backups. Recently during ...
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Best way to proceed after loss of HDD with /home and /var?
I hope this is not a complicated question to answer.
I had a laptop with primary SSD and secondary HDD. It came with Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed on the SSD, and I mounted /home and /var on the HDD, and ...
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sas hdd + ubuntu 18.04
I'm desperate cause i need to run a sas drive in a ubuntu 18.04 and i cannot because i know very little on linux/ubuntu.
This pc has a controller sas fastrak tx2650 and ubuntu 18.04 .
When i'm logged ...
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Wrong disk size after failed partitioning
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and wanted to use a live USB stick to partition my hard drive. While partitioning something went wrong and my computer crashed. After restart it shows me that 70 percent of the ...
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Battery stuck at 0% and acpi showing last-full-capacity as negative
My Asus laptop is around 3.5 years old, and I have been using Ubuntu extensively until the hard drive got corrupted (bad sectors started increasing). You can refer Ubuntu 20.04 going into Read-only ...
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Forgot to eject! 1,0 TB Hard Drive is appearing in Disks, but it is not appearing in Files
I had a situation were I had to move the computer from where it was. I turned off the computer and just disconnected every USB including the Hard Disk. Informations:
My Drive is plugged
I am trying ...
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Nvme drive is booted from a sata drive where the grub.conf points to the nvme, does the sata drive require updating
The computer is a Dell Precision T-7600 single boot desktop with Ubuntu 22.04 on a nmve drive mounted to a card slot. This drive is not recognized as a bootable drive so there is sata drive also ...
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HHDs are unmounted on transferring a large number of files
I am transferring a large number of files (10-100 million) between two external HDDs (connected via USB 3.0), but the external disks are unmounted during the transfer. All HDDs connected via USB (...
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Computer is fast but loads stuff slowly
I’ve recently got a new PC which is much faster than my old one, and to make things easier I transferred the hard drive (with Lubuntu 22.04 LTS on it) from my old PC to my new one. While using the new ...
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Harddisk always corrupt after installation of Kubuntu 22.10
I've got a problem with my computer since a couple of days. I ran a fsck which gave a couple of problems with my filesystem (ext4). A day later my OS was no longer booting. Therefore I tried to ...
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What is the disk-symbol in Disks
When iI try to boot with an USB-disk connected it's try to boot that disk. I have checked with Gparted that the partition/disk, don't have a boot-flag, but in Disks, the disk have a symbol, that look ...
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What is the difference between the properties of using ZFS on whole disks, partitions or files as a volume?
It may be that for some applications it is quite common under ZFS to address whole disks as volumes. However, it is also possible to add partitions and files to the pool.
What are the differences in ...
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How to automatically power down internal HDD which is mounted and shared with samba?
I have recently bought an Intel NUC 12 pro to use as home-server, so now I am exploring the world of Linux a bit (so far I have only used Linux via WSL or for Docker).
I have managed to partition the ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using an L2ARC and a ZIL cache on a RAID 1 or RAIDZ ZFS SSD?
I have a small PC in which an SSD is installed. There is no space for another hard disk in the PC, so in this example the PC really has only one hard disk.
On the hard disk is Ubuntu, which is ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu on two hard drives
I currently have a laptop running Windows with two drives, the Windows 11 drive and a clean drive. I would like to dual boot my laptop with these two drives, one for Windows and the other one for ...
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Name of internal hard drive keeps changing
I have a computer running as a server for Plex media among other things. I store my media on an internal hard drive, and Ubuntu is installed on an SSD.
For some reason the name that Ubuntu assigns to ...
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Clean Installation with manual partitioning
I have a PC with a Fusion Drive(128 GB SSD and 1TB HDD). On my PC, /home folder is also in SSD. So my SSD will fill up soon and HDD will stay blank 😞, thus I decided to re-install ubuntu with manual ...
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I can't get the UUID of my partitioin to mount it
I want to mount NTFS partition of Dual-boot on Ubuntu 20.04 as explained here but I can't get the UUID~ can you please tell me how can I do that? thanks in advance.
$ sudo blkid /dev/sda3
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Ubuntu cannot detect my external hard drive. But another OS on the same PC can detect and access the external HDD
Here is dmesg output that tells what's the error -
[ 3221.289446] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 38 using xhci_hcd
[ 3221.417388] usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
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I can't boot from a hard drive on usb
My Samsung laptop came with a hard drive and I installed Ubuntu on it. Now I upgraded for a SSD that I also installed Ubuntu. I want to be able to boot from the hard drive through the USB so I can ...
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RAID card made hard drives unusable (locked?)
I have two 4TB Western Digital hard drives (WD4000FYYZ) that I added to my 22.04 system. Running lsblk showed them as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. I formatted them as ext4 drives, mounted them, and they ...
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Best way to watch the contents of a directory in near-real-time?
I've got a server with an external HDD, I download files to the main disk then transfer them over to the HDD for storage. I mostly do file management over WinSCP, but it's not possible to move files ...
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How to mount an external hard drive when it disappeared after formatting it to ext4 with parted?
I have a 'My passport' external hard drive that I wanted to format to EXT4 to use for Linux Ubuntu 22.04.
The drive is almost empty but has a few files by default that I didn't mind keeping, so I ...
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How do I programmatically mount zfs at boot?
I encrypted my hard drive with zfs, running ubuntu 22.04.
I'm an idiot and forgot my password. However, I'm pretty confident that it is contained in a list of ~300 passwords that I know.
When I boot, ...
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I installed Ubuntu on ZFS, How to move to ext4 without a reinstall
As the title says, I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Gave it my entire SSD (256GB) and I installed Atlas OS on my HDD but Windows on HDD is never a good idea to start with so I need to install Windows ...
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Unable to access second disk after reinstallation of ubuntu
I have just installed Ubuntu 22.04.1LTS on my laptop but I can no longer access my SSD drive that was installed on place of my CD-ROM. This was fully accessible before I reinstalled Ubuntu.
It is ...
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Mounting my two external drives, I find the media folder is full and I have to move it to a seperate partition to avoid the main drive filling up
When I add my two external hard drives, I mount them to folders in /media. They currently show 447.8 GiB of 915.8 GiB free (51% used) and 344.2 GiB of 915.8 GiB free (62% used).
However, /media shows: ...
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Installing Unbuntu on an EX SDD to replace original SSD [duplicate]
So a few years ago my old HD on my laptop died, it ran but nothing would happen, so a friend of mine gave me a USB with Unbuntu on and told me to follow his instructions, ie, to boot from USB, etc, ...
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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
I'm getting this error after trying to mount a flashdrive/usb partition and not sure why. I've tried different USBs for the system but all to no avail, hoping someone on here could help me figure it ...
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How to change the location of a swapfile?
Thanks to this, I have a swapfile on my primary ssd drive (500GB) where I have Ubuntu installed. I have a faster ssd (2TB). I’d like to move my swapfile to the faster drive if possible, if not how do ...
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Switching Partition Type From NTFS to Basic Data
I have an external HDD that I can't access on windows, only on Ubuntu. I had a similar problem with a USB Drive but unlike my HDD, windows did recognize my USB Drive on Disk Manager and it turns out ...
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Windows install disk to ISO file to USB HDD to boot and install Windows on a PC that has no optical drive. Can it be done? [closed]
If I put a Windows install disk in my Ubuntu desktop DVD drive, make an ISO file from it, can I then (somehow) use that ISO file to turn a USB connected HDD into something that will boot and install ...
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Why can fdisk create a 10GiB partition on a 10GiB device but not a 9.9GiB partition
I am currently learning about creating and managing devices on my Ubuntu Server 22.04 VM running on a KVM host. I added a virtual qcow2 storage disk to the VM. I used fdisk and for very specific ...
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Extend LVM partition with the parent drive [duplicate]
I want the ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv partition to use the whole sda3 disk. So the / would be 296.1GB.
Any idea how can i do that? Cause i dont know how to do this way.
I have 0 idea what am i doing, i ...
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Unable to mount my 2nd hard drive after ubuntu installation
i just did a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04 on my ssd. i have a HDD that i want to use for storage but it's not being recognized.
i tried to mount it accorrding to How do I access other drives? but it ...
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Use the whole disk instead of a partition as root dir
My problem is that i have a ~300GB hdd (sda3) that i cannot use cause the / is not there.
How can i change that?
I think i installed lvm with the ubuntu server and this caused the problem. So in this ...
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Eliminate unknown drive from dock
A strange new drive named "66 MB Volume" has recently appeared in my dock. I have no idea what it is. I can mount or unmount it, but it doesn't go away. If I mount it, the files inside it ...
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About mountiung external drive on Ubuntu 20.04 Lts [duplicate]
how to mount and use external hard drive on Ubuntu 20.04 Lts from terminal
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Installing ubuntu error end of file while reading /dev/sda
I am using Dell Inspiron laptop. I run Dell diagnostic and got error 2000-0142 .
When I tried to install Ubuntu on that machine Ive got error:
"end of file while reading /dev/sda"
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how to mount a device and make sub directories on it it available under $home
there is a 1TB disc drive and a 128GB SSD on a system I am setting up. I'd like to mount parts of it over the $home of the log in user so that the smaller SSD doesn't get used up with files.
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