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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Failed to find default application for the content type 'application/octet-stream'
My Laptop had Ubuntu OS 22.04. I have upgraded from 22.04 to 23.10. After i have upgraded i tried to access my 1TB hard-disk. Once i clicked the hard-disk folder,I got " Failed to find default ...
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File system is very slow on both my drives
I'm having a strange problem with trying to load things off my drives on Ubuntu 22.04.3. My computer has a 2TB NVMe SSD as its boot drive and a 14 TB hard drive that I store data on. I'm not ...
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Install Ubuntu on Apple Fusion Drive ( 24 GB NVME + 1 TB HDD )
I just bought a cheap iMac 2015 27" 5K ( iMac17,1 ) with an Apple Fusion Drive.
This drive has only 24 GB NVME and 1 TB HDD. I tried Ubuntu live (23.10), it works good (sometimes only the ...
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Automount duplicates all mountpoints DOZENS of times
Coming from arch, I am using Ubuntu for a side project, and the automount behaviour is driving me insane. I have two internal hard drives, one with the system on it and a 640G one mounted at /media/...
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Is it possibel to set up a media server on an HDD drive installed into my existing PC?
I have a dual boot system with 4 drives - 2TB HDD (holds 1TB of Windows partitions and 1TB of ext4 partitions), 2 SSDs 500 GB (1 SATA and 1 NVMe - both ext4 - NVMe hold Linux OS) and I have an old 750 ...
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Root account does not have permission on a file [closed]
I have files which I cannot delete on my hard drive even when I log in as the root account. I have tried to make the owner of the file root using chown, but that does not work either.
I use the mount ...
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Installed Robolinux with encryption; Encryption Key won't work; HDD says 0 B available on re-install attempts; Is HDD toast? [closed]
First off, 'utter novice at Linux but extensive experience in OS installs and drive-wipes ('kept Windows 7 going up to now by doing monthly wipes/reinstalls of Windows and saving nothing on the system....
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How to automatically mount a hard drive at runtime in Ubuntu 22.04 server
I found many solutions online, but each had specific errors or downsides, that made them unconvenient.
I want: On an Ubuntu 22.04 server, connect hard drive at runtime, not only boot, via sata and ...
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Failure to mount external harddisk in Ubuntu 22.04
Recently I have switched from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 22.04. One of my external hard disks, a Western Digital Elements 3 TB hard disk, which has always mounted properly in 18.04, did mount and worked ...
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External Hard drive mount, and Make directory [duplicate]
cloud@cloud-System-Product-Name:~$ cd /media/
cloud@cloud-System-Product-Name:/media$ ls
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cloud@cloud-System-Product-Name:/media$ cd /media/cloud/
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Busybox: is my hard drive dead?
All of a sudden, my Dell Lattitude 7410 with Ubuntu 23 does not boot anymore, instead I get the error
ALERT! UUID-022fd460-e4c3-4552-806d-9be2f3337409 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
I then get ...
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USB IDE HDD in Ubuntu 22.04 is not working
I have have some IDE disks very old stuff,
I would like to backup all data to a newer HDD or SSD, so I buy an USB IDE adapter to do the work.
When I plug the HDD on the adapter the SO only recognize ...
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Copying files to a SSD without problems
I am planning to buy a SSD external disk with some terabytes of capacity.
I want to copy some files, repos, code, documents etc that I have in my ubuntu machine
In the past, I vaguely remember that ...
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I couldn't mount my external ssd (ntfs) to my ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
I tried something, but it's not working. For me, the sudo fdisk -l command gives me this output:
... loop devices removed from output ...
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 ...
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Unresponsive storage ssd
I have a ssd with very important data in my workstation.
It has a ext4 and a ntfs partition.
This morning, the ext4 partition (sda1) didn't mount, and the filesystem was listed as "unknown" ...
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Partition windows does not exit
Why does the 500GB HDD appear here while in Other Locations it's not coming out?
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Can I decrypt an encrypted USB-HDD using a USB enclosure case, other than the one used for encrypting?
I encrypted an external USB-HDD and it works like a charm, I can decrypt using the password when manually mounting or even automatically decrypt with using the proper settings to do so with using the ...
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Accidentally deleted folder containing system volume information
I am unable to see folders or files. Please see the attached image and give me a solution.
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the folder content could not be displayed input/output error
I'm new to Linux and I have Ubuntu Budgie (Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS) (Budgie version: 10.6.1) (OS Type: 64-bit)
I have this ntfs type HDD:
I checked its file system:
I saw that it's not damaged:
but when ...
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How can I use/extend a new hard drive on ubuntu from my main ssd? [duplicate]
I have my main(120gb SSD) drive with Ubuntu 22.04 installed on:
dev/sda1
I have another 3 TB hard drive which is formatted as ext4:
dev/sdb1
What I would ideally like:
I would like to "fuse&...
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Hard drive usage unreported/ can't find what's taking up space
So I have my ubuntu installed on a 500GO NVMe drive, and, because I needed the space, I decided I wanted to relocate it to a 120GO SATA SSD. I figured it would be enough, and, based on my information, ...
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Bootable hard disk image locked my hard drive
I recently followed this guide
in an attempt to create a Windows bootable hard disk.
Without any warning or confirmation, the console command chose and locked up my middle/largest hard drive with 7 ...
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Ubuntu not booting after hard drive failure
I have a 4yo Lenovo IdeaFlex5 running Ubuntu 23.10, with umis rpjtj512mee1owx storage (some say it's SSD, but in ubuntu it was always /dev/nvme... so NVMe). It worked perfectly fine until it froze out ...
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Setting timeshift backup to harddrive, getting "Device not found" error
I'm trying to set the backup location for timeshift to a new external hard drive I just bought.
I formatted the drive w/ an ext4 filesystem w/ the command:
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde
I then ran the ...
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External HDD not detected on HP Laptop 15s-eq1
I connected an external hard disk drive (HGST 500GB) to my ubuntu laptop yesterday, the hdd took some time but connected successfully and I transferred a few of my files to it. I had one more hard ...
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How can I increase partition sizes when adding a new drive on Ubuntu 22.04?
Do the answers in How can I add more disk space to /boot for update still work in the newest Ubuntu 22.04? Can I just order a new drive format it and resize boot to the right and be done? And does ...
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Incorrect shutdown of HDD
I have 2 HDD on my laptop.
I installed the latest version of Ubuntu on hard drive No. 2
But I think I have a problem
When entering the Ubuntu system and turning off the device
The second hard drive is ...
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Mounting Drives
The last time I touched Unix of any flavor it was Solaris, so please forgive me. I'm am so very rusty.
I decided to build a home lab and get back into things. I've built, destroyed, and rebuilt my ...
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How to clone a specific partition of a qemu raw disk file to a physical partition
I have a raw disk file as bellow
$fdisk -l Monterey.img
Disk Monterey.img: 14 GiB, 15032385536 bytes, 29360128 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /...
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Ubuntu 22.04 wont boot after disk clone
I am attempting to migrate my OS boot disk from a 512GB to a 1TB drive. I booted off a live USB and used dd to clone the orignal drive to the new drive. Then I shut it down and unplugged the old ...
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I seem to have completely messed up my filesystem
Ubuntu 22.04 on a lenovo ThinkPad W520. I #think# I have an external disc mounted on /media/claus and the terminal finds it. In my sidepane though the "500 GB Volume" symbol that should ...
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Unknown error while mounting an external USB device
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on my laptop. I was copying some folders from an external USB device into my Windows virtual machine. The process stuck unexpectedly, the mouse was blocked as well ...
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Seagate Basic USB HDD - error showing an empty directory
I purchased a Seagate Basic 1TB USB HDD.
I connected the USB-drive into my Dell-desktop-PC running UBUNTU 22.04. It mounts/unmounts and otherwise behaves normally.
I used FreeFileSync to back up ~...
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How can I install old HDD with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption from old PC hardware(Intel) to new PC hardware(AMD)
I had an old PC (Intel) with a HDD encrypted with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption. Unfortunately, the hardware failed. Thankfully, the HDD seems intact. So I bought a new AMD-based PC (new CPU, new ...
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When shutting down the computer all mechanical hard drives make a strange sound
When shutting down the computer (Kubuntu 23.10), all mechanical hard drives (Seagate IronWolf) make a strange sound and the SMART 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count indicator increases steadily.
When ...
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Multiple phantom Hard Drives
I've got a weird problem with 20.04 server. The system had a drive failure and I had to rebuild it. Everything went fine during the install, but when I run lsblk, I show sda - sdf. There are only 2 ...
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How to determine sizes of partitions on a fresh install?
I want to fresh install Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS any my HD is 500GB.
Are there guidelines for what sizes to use per partition (and what mounts) e.g. best size for swap, best size for EFI partition etc?
E.g....
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Problem with NTFS disk
I have HDD disk with two NTFS partitions, which I created in Windows 10, but Ubuntu sees only one. Disks utility shows both partitions as one.
Disk model: ST2000DM008-2FR102
Windows 10 is on a ...
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unable to access location ssd
I have three different drives on my PC and when trying to open one of the SSD's it gives me this error message
Unable to access location
Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /media/milly/Large:
wrong fs type, ...
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How Does the Smart Control Parameter #173 from Ubuntu smarctl / gnome-disks for the Samsung MZ-7TY2560 reconcile with Linux HDSentinel Rating of 52%
From the Ubuntu version of HDSentinel, it reports health of 52% because of:
# HDSentinel
Hard Disk Sentinel for LINUX console 0.20.10851 (c) 2023 [email protected]
Start with -r [reportfile] to ...
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Battery died while transferring files
my laptop's battery is very old and while I was transferring some important files on an external drive, it died on me. Unfortunately, this happened before I could transfer everything over.
When I ...
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Disk cloning and bootability
I recently purchased a new laptop that comes pre-installed with Windows. However, my intention is to erase the Windows installation entirely and replace it with Ubuntu, as I've always done with my ...
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gnome-disks Partition Type mismatch on IDE drive - not allowing mount
I have an old IDE hard drive whose contents I'm trying to backup.
I connected the hard drive to my PC, running Ubuntu 23.10, via a USB/IDE adapter, the hard drive's capacity (80 GB) is correctly ...
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Ubuntu issue with external HDDs unmounting
I'm running into an issue with my media server running Ubuntu 22.04.2. I'm running Plex in a docker container with a few other containers on the server. I have two HDDs that stay permanently connected ...
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Help understanding remaining HDD space
So I'm trying to figure out if I can use a good chunk of hdd space that appears to be unmounted in my system.
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 ...
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My western Digital hard disk was failed to be recognized by Ubuntu system recently. It seems have error sectors. How to recover data from it?
I have a 6T internal hard drive in my Desktop with Ubuntu 20.0.4 system. It works well before, but very recently it happened twice that it can't be recognized by the system (unmounted). The first time ...
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LUKS Container lost due to partitioning by Windows?
I plugged a HDD with a LUKS container on it into Windows and opened the Disk Manager. A dialog appeared where I clicked "Format as GPT", not knowing what I was doing. Apparently Windows wasn'...
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I did mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 without knowing it wipes the whole data
So guys I got panicked since my data gone, I tried the solution to use backup Superblock from this askubuntu page but still no luck. but when I tried sudo fsck.ext4 -vy /dev/md0 I got this message
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Is it possible to install disks in raid post installation?
I have just received my new Ubuntu 22.04 workstation from Lenovo.
It has 2 1TB disks, that I want to use in RAID 1 for /, and 4 2TB disks that I want to use in RAID 5 for /home.
However the machine ...
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Can't auto mount partition through fstab during boot
help me understand.
I have this line in my /etc/fstab
UUID=13958fbc-ce35-4a2a-a144-9b1543270cf4 /DAS1TB ext4 defaults 0 0
this UUID corresponds to /dev/sdb1 that should be ...
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