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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RAID Drive on Dell Perc H310 RAID controller not recognized
So, I recently bought a Dell Perc H310 RAID controller to put in a Fujitsu Esprimo P700 E85+ Computer running Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS. The Motherboard seems to have no UEFI, just a BIOS. From a ...
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SELF-TEST Failed
I recently (approx 6m) bought a refurbished laptop online, which had two hard disks installed. I installed Ubuntu on one of them and run the laptop as a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine - this has been ...
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Stop jbd2 writing to hdd
I have /dev/sdb as a storage drive. (used very rarely) I would like to use TLP or hdparm to power it off when not used to save power. However when I monitor disk's activity with watch iostat -d /dev/...
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Slow NVMe speed on new install
I've just setup an HP z230 Xeon E3 1225 v3 machine with an HP TurboDrive G1, with a Seagate Firecuda NVMe SSD. I was expecting 2-3000MB/s read speeds, but am seeing way less than that. I don't care ...
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mount(2) system call failed: Structure needs cleaning
I cannot re-mount an AWS EBS drive to a Ubuntu instance. I'm not sure if this is a Ubuntu thing or Amazon Web Services. It's not a bootable drive.
sudo mount /dev/xvdf /data
mount(2) system call ...
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gsd-housekeeping makes noise and data disappears
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10.
Today I've copied ~2TB from one partition to another.
The usage of partition became over 90% (by df).
Then I've noticed a noisy HDD I/O.
htop showed it was the gsd-...
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Why is e2fsck just filling my screen with numbers?
I ran e2fsck with an alternate superblock because my superblock was missing. I couldn't actually boot ubuntu, so I ran this from recovery mode.
At the beginning it asked me if I wanted to narrow ...
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Can't mount hard drive; "an operation is already pending"
I am trying to pull files from an internal hard drive on a laptop that I believe is completely full. Windows will not start in regular mode and does not offer the safe mode option. I have tried to ...
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Does disabling NCQ cause any bad effects on the computer?
A few months ago, I started seeing these errors on my computer:
[39441.061910] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[39441.061917] ata3.01: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0xe ...
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I copied files from my old computer onto a drive I had encrypted on my new computer, and now I can't see them
I did something dumb. I'm setting up a new computer, and I did a clean install with an encrypted /home partition set up on its own new SSD -- I clicked the checkbox during installation to encrypt the ...
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Error while trying to store LUKS HDD passphrase in key wallet
I have a LUKS encrypted external hard-drive (full partition encrypted). While mounting the media, I enter the passphrase in the prompt and I check the "remember the password forever" option.
The ...
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USB drive not working
Up until a few days ago my USB drives worked fine. I'm not really sure what changed between then and now.
Both the USB flash drive and the USB external HDD work fine on another Windows machine, but ...
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Shotwell : how to browse external library without external drive plugged-in
My laptop hard drive is running out of space so I decided to put my entire photo library (33000+ pictures, 160 Gb) on a dedicated external hard drive. The process went smoothly ... until I found out ...
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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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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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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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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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Mounting Old HDDs - Not sure filesystem, RAID or not, Linux or Windows
In a bit of a pickle trying to see what's on some old hard drives sitting around in the basement. I set these up years ago and have no memory of whether they were in a Linux or Windows desktop, QNAP ...
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Unable to use disk formatted in ZFS
I want to switch my data disk from the NTFS file system to ZFS when I replace it. I use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS installed in ZFS on an M4-CT256M4SSD2 256 GB SSD (I selected ZFS during installation). The ...
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Gnome Disk Utility - "SMART Data & Self Tests..." Option greyed out
The option for "SMART Data & Self Tests..." is not available (greyed out) in Gnome Disk Utility on 22.04. I have smartmontools installed and can read information about the disk, ...
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RAID array says "critical medium error" but smartctl says disk is healthy - what to do next?
I have a RAID-1 array of SSDs (Samsung 970 EVO Plus), and errors are showing up in /var/log/syslog, but smartctl reports that the drive is healthy. I've done a bunch of diagnosis (below) and I'm ...
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How can I install a package on an external hard drive?
Okay, so the most frequent ask that I receive is always the same.
How can I install this program on an external hard drive?
Basically, in Windows, the users have an option to select the folder in ...
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Clone Ubuntu and Windows to new SSD
I want to switch to SSD from HDD. I have dual boot on my hp laptop. My C drive in Windows and Ubuntu / directories have less size than new SSD.
But the whole HDD is of 1 TB and SSD of 240 GB. I am ...
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Log disks spin up and spin down
I have a file / media server running on Ubuntu 18.04. It has 1 SSD on which Ubuntu is installed and 4 HDD's for various files.
I found some information on how to log the disks activities and that ...
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Unknown file system unnsupported drive / partition?
I have a 1TB HDD that I use on Windows for file storage, and I would like to share this storage between Windows and Ubuntu (dual boot).
But I can't seem to be able to mount this drive in Ubuntu. I can ...
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Are my hard drives encrypted?
New to Ubuntu Server, please forgive my ignorance.
When I installed Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Alternative. I selected "Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM".
I now am adding two hard drives ...
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Installing Ubuntu on separate SSD on a FreeDOS laptop
I bought a new Lenovo 330 with SSD + HDD. FreeDOS is installed on the HDD.
Now I need to install Ubuntu (or Linux Mint) on the SSD, but be able to keep FreeDOS functioning and, if necessary, later ...
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Help figuring out what's taking up disk space
I've tried a number of different ways of tracking down what's using the space on my SSD drive. I apologize in advance as I don't totally understand Linux and filesystems.
I have three drives. The SSD ...
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Multiple Hard disks raid 1 adding space?
I'm a total noob to Ubuntu. So much so, I'm not even sure how to ask the question. Best to describe the situation I guess. I have an Ubuntu server 16.04LTS set up with 2 hard drives 1 500Gb 1 250Gb. I ...
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Decrypting External Hard Drive
A couple months back I had an old 350 gb Transcend external drive I forgot about and on a whim, installed Ubuntu on it. After using it for a couple months I decided to ditch Windows all together and ...
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Repairing corrupt superblock in crypto_LUKS filesystem
I am having some troubles booting into my laptop (Toshiba P75-A7200). Powering on my laptop promptly brings me to the GNU GRUB screen.
Selecting the Ubuntu option (or anything from the Advanced ...
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How to increase HDD write speeds
I have 2x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 1000GB 7200RPM 64MB SATA3 HDs in an ubuntu 16.04 server (Dell Poweredge 400SC).
When copying files using rsync from one disk to another I'm getting speeds of 25-30 ...
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COMRESET failed code -16 with Ubuntu live USB
I am using a live USB to load Ubuntu onto a laptop with a dying hard drive. I am getting the following error:
[ 2.697327] platform wdat_wdt: failed to claim resource 4
[ 2.697332] ACPI: ...
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Ecryptfs unmounts ever half hour or so after home partition ran full
A week ago, my home partition (encrypted with ecryptfs, set up in the install process) ran full. I've deleted some files, so now there is plenty of space again. But for some reason, the ecryptfs ...
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Error when getting information for file - Input/output error
I ran rsync sudo rsync -aE --progress /mnt/seagate/dataset/RD\ 8* /mnt/backUp/backUp/dataset/ and pressed ctrl-c by mistake. There was a SIG-INT error whic makes sense.
But now, I am not able to ...
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How do I turn off disks with systemd?
I have several Ubuntu machines with both a SSD and a traditional hard disk, where the hard disk is used only occasionally.
For reasons of reducing noise, heat, and power consumption, and extending ...
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Is my drive encrypted correctly? Why is it taking up so much space?
I have a 1TB internal hard drive, and I discovered today that it is almost full even though I know I shouldn't have nearly that much data on it. A few months ago I spent some time trying to encrypt ...
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Unsuccessfully resized NTFS partition using Gparted, now it has enlarged partition size but filesystem is not resized/grown
I tried to unmount the NTFS, it failed, so I
umount -l /dev/sda5
and then tried resizing partition of ~200GB to 309.99GB. It resized in an instant, I was instructed to restart system by Gparted. It ...
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Ubuntu desktop 16.4 64bit install on raid 0
Can any one please help. I would like to install Ubuntu 16.4 on raid 0 (I know how to set up raid through my bios, done it with Win7 and no issues), but every method I have looked up and tried to ...
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ZFS cache on same drive (different partition) as /?
Since upgrading to 16.04 I've moved my /home to a zfs-pool to familiarise myself with zfs.
Already showing its strength it has identified the poor quality of my long running drives:
# zpool status -...
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can I boot from previously formatted drive no monitor
I have an old, beat up laptop. the screen was removed, and it can be connected to an external monitor. However, the hard drive died a long time ago, and I recently acquired a blank 80gb hardrive. I ...
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Crucial M4 256 SSD is showing bad sectors
I have an HP DM3 1048 laptop (yes, a 2010 classic)
From the very beginning I’ve been using Windows 2008 server R2 on in.
About 3 years ago I installed a SSD (Crucial M4 256 GB)
I installed Ubuntu 14....
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cannot install ubuntu server 16.04 on a large drive
Since my previous hard drive has crashed I want to do a new install of Ubuntu server 16.04 on a brand new large 3 TB hard drive. The drive is detected by the computer and mounts perfectly in a version ...
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External hard drive not detected after first boot : Xubuntu 14.04
I have the following problem and hope to find help by someone.
On the first boot of my Intel NUC after a longer period of time (for example, over night) Xubuntu won't mount nor detect (blkid) my ...
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Using LVM in the already running Ubuntu system
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 dual booting Windows 10. I had one hard drive and now I've added another. I've allocated around 840GB for Ubuntu. In the past I've been able to mount this drive to
/media/...
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Dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 15 on SSD and using HDD for storage
I'm looking for advice on how to create the following setup, if it is even possible at all:
I have a PC running Windows 10, which is installed onto my 120GB SSD (C:). I have also installed my most ...
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USB HDDs are failing with xHCI error. Requiring restart
I have 2 hard drives connected with SATA-to-USB tool. Usually they work fine however some time to time they fail and they don't show up on Disks neither I can see the connection on dmesg. dmesg output ...
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USB 3.0 harddrive disconnecting
The external harddrive works under usb 2.0, but in usb 3.0 it mounts for a few seconds and then unmounts. I don't think it a problem with the drive because it works fine on usb 2.0.
dmesg reports ...
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Really slow ssd performance
So I installed Kubuntu 15.04 on a samsung 840 evo ssd, the system works fine but I did a test to see the speed of the ssd.
hdparm -t /dev/sdb
gives me about 30MB/s, when it is supposed to give me ...
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HDD exfat partition will not mount
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 dual booted with windows 7 (on separate SSDs) and just stored all of my music on my 1.5 TB HDD (which is formatted as an exfat partition). Everything was working fine for a ...