Questions tagged [storage]
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Logical Volume Management in Linux (Ubuntu)
I'm encountering an issue with my virtual machine. Initially, I allocated 25 GB of storage to it, installed Docker, Jenkins, and several other applications, and extended the LVM to 18 GB. Now, I'm ...
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Upgraded ubuntu, now bootup takes longer
On startup, the system starts looking for 3 drives/partitions which it will never find within it's 2 minutes and 30 seconds of waiting time. In the previous version, the boot time was super fast, but ...
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Temporarily Disable ZFS ARC for Benchmarking
Is it possible to temporarily disable the ZFS ARC cache?
I am trying to benchmark a ZFS SSD array using fio and want to avoid ZFS caches (via the ARC) from skewing the results. The alternative of ...
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Multiple Storage [closed]
I want to switch from Windows to Linux soonTM and I wonder how does Linux handle multiple storages.
I have 1 m.2, 1 older sata and a very old HD. Can I simply install Linux on my main m.2 and that's ...
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How to Reverse Disc Partition?
I made a Disc Partition so that I could use Oracle VirtualVox to run Windows, however I no longer need it and would like to be able to use that storage again. Do you know of any way to reverse the ...
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Errno 28 No space left on device even though there is space
Hi I am fairly new to ubuntu, and today when I tried to open jupyter notebook I got the following error:
myname@My-Laptop:~$ jupyter notebook
[I 2022-08-08 07:58:41.188 LabApp] JupyterLab extension ...
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lubuntu - Live USB Installation Keeps Warning "No Space Left on Device" But Swap, RAM, and Data Partition Have Space
I installed lubuntu on a flash drive along side a few other distros using ventoy, there is also a ~10GB partition for data. But it seems the storage space is shrinking. Its a new drive, 64 gigs, but ...
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Extreme Lag when connecting Docking Station with HDD
Currently Using 22.04
I just bought a mini pc using a intel i9 processor. I also jusat bout this dual HHD docking station
There is an extreme lag when I am connected to the docking station. Using my ...
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What does backing store option do while creating a VM in Virtual manager?
I am creating a virtual machine using virtual manager in linux. While adding a new instance it provides us an option to add storage. When we create a new volume storage. It provides us an option of ...
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Docker taking too much space, even after removing all the images and containers
I started using Docker recently and Docker was taking up too much space even after i prune all the dangling containers and images.
When is try to run sudo docker system prune --all -f it shows "...
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Using autoinstall storage sizing-policy all, does not work
I'm preparing an Ubuntu 22.04 iso. I want the default lvm size to be all, and not scaled as Ubuntu's default https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall-reference.
sizing-policy
The lvm layout ...
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What format should my storage hard drive be?
I use a Thinkpad T420 with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 on separate SSDs. I also have a 3rd internal HDD that I use for data storage between the two operating systems. I formatted the storage HDD to ...
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Auto fills root storage problem
After install ubuntu every things is perfect but root partition storage consumption is Rising automatically and it fills the root of 150GB in 40 min and it make the ubuntu unusable and stuck in black ...
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How do I increase the size of swapfile without removing it in the terminal?
Is there a way to increase my existing "swapfile" without having to destroy and re-create it?
I would like to up my swap space from 1GB to 2GB. Currently it is set up as such:
$ sudo swapon -s
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How to manage imported certificates?
I've got a X.509 certificate file (with a .der file extension) of a certificate authority that I want to trust (it's required to connect to my academic network). When I double-click on a .der file I ...
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Preventing Ubuntu upgrade to switch the storage driver from Overlay2 to aufs for docker container
I am upgrading an old server which is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 22.04.3 LTS, going first from 18.04 to 20.04 and then to 22.04 LTS.
The old server with 18.04 has some docker container that uses the ...
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How to create a shared storage between Windows and Ubuntu dual boot?
So I have been following these steps (https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/how-to-create-a-shared-storage-drive-for-dual-boot-systems/) to create a shared storage between the Ubuntu system and Windows 11. ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 not fully loading in
When I power on my Lenovo Ideapad, my laptop goes to the `/dev/sdXX: clean screen, then goes to the loading screen, then back to the same screen as before and a minute or so in it says it failed to ...
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something wrong disk size in vm under KVM
My VM in KVM looks disk full, then I checked df
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 392M 1.2M 391M 1% /run
/dev/mapper/...
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Full Storage issue with second Hard Disk on Ubuntu 22.04
I am trying to mount a second hard disk on my Ubuntu 22.04 Virtual machine to get rid of the full storage warning, but I can't seem to mount it correctly to extend the volume of the original hard disk ...
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Storage pool unavailable
Hi I am trying to reinstall lxd because I messed up somewhere. Actually I tried to increase the zfs pool size, and closed the terminal abruptly. On restarting I created more problems, so I am trying ...
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System Volume Information folder space
I have 30TB of space in Ubuntu 20.04. I'm using it as a backup storage and I have 16TB of space total data. Some day I found backup was not completed because "ran out of space" in the backup ...
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How to move Dropbox and Megasync to sdb1 from sda2 - or mount /home on sdb1?
I am running out of space on my main SSD. I just realized that Dropbox and Megasync are mounted and syncing on sda2 which is on this drive (which accounts for most of space), although I thought I'd ...
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What is the best way of linking images and their credits?
I am wondering if anyone has a good solution for storing images and their credits, so that it's easy to attribute the correct credit to the correct image in, for instance, LaTeX or similar software.
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Multiple binlogs in /var/lib/mysql folder
Recently I did a website and server migration. It was working fine in the beginning, but recently I found that server has consumed 100% of the storage and there are multiple bin files in /var/lib/...
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Replicating an autoinstall
My scenario is as follows.
I've deployed several servers, and each has generated the /var/log/installer/autoinstall-user-data.
Of course, things have changed on the devices, i.e., network config and ...
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Add more storage space to guest OS on VirtualBox 6
I'm using VirtualBox 6 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. I need to add more storage space to the guest OS.
I already ran VBoxManage modifyhd box-disk002.vdi --resize 46080 but the old value remains.
Below is a ...
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How file system block size works?
All Linux file systems have 4kb block size. Let's say I have 10mb of hard disk storage. That means I have 2560 blocks available and let's say I copied 2560 files each having 1kb of size. Each 1 kb ...
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How do I fix linux partitioning for disks without reinstalling system?
I have a server where I have 2 x 1 TB of disks of storage. It seems that I did not configure them well on the start and now I have installed my applications and afraid that I need to reinstall ...
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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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VirtualBox VM black screen after disk resize
My VM was running out of space (I use Virtualbox) thats why I decided to inrease the storage size
resize
So I resized it using this screen but after that I couldn't fully boot up my VM again. What ...
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Steam installation library in other storage device
I tried to install games from Steam in another storage media.
(process:19380): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 23:11:39.869: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
reaping pid: 19523 -- ...
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Ubuntu One - Purchase storage [duplicate]
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Is it possible to pay the ubuntu one storage with PayPal?
2 years ago Ubuntu said we will be able to purchase Ubuntu One storage via PayPal sometime. Does anyone know what's ...
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Iscsi initiator configuration with FusionStor storage
we have FusionStor storage system, and it's connected with Ubuntu OS over the iscsi, we need to do the iscsi configuration, can you pls guide the steps, how we can do the iscsi configuration and map ...
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Says i'm out of storage but i'm not [duplicate]
When I try and run any app or tab auto complete it says I'm out of space ex. -bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device
But when I run df -h it says I have 67% space ...
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Ubuntu keeps filling up despite no installs
I just cleared more than 600 MB of systemd journal files. I started VirtualBox, tried to create a new machine, and found out I couldn't. I type in df / on the command line. There's no space left!!! ...
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How to clear all my storage and get my GB back
So I want to know how to clear all my storage on my computer and have all 16GB of free space. The storage SSD I'm using is a 16GB Kingston SSD that is installed in my Chromebook.
The reason I'm doing ...
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Out of storage issue with hard drive
I am using a apple computer. I show I have a hard drive connected with plenty of space but I am getting low space notifications.
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Where would Monero node or blockchain data be stored?
I'm trying find particularly large files to free up some working space.
This is in the context of scanning the Monero blockchain for recovering a wallet.
Operating on the assumption that Monero has ...
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I'm trying to access a partition made on my internal har disk from windows that is installed on the ssd, but windows doesn't reconizes it
I have ubuntu 22.04.02 installed on my internal 1tb hard disk and windows 10 installed on my 128gb internal ssd. I wanted to use a section of the hard disk to store files that i use on windows, so i ...
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Ubuntu's sudden root storage volume is full ( 20.04 )
I have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 as a dual boot, for the third time when I turned on the system, the system did not enter the desktop anymore; After restarting it twice, it entered the desktop ...
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Cannot update volume group ubuntu-vg with duplicate PV devices
We have 2 x 4TB hdd on our server (hardware server). Raid 1 and use 1 hdd.
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64).
But our root space use only around 100 GB.
How to extend /dev/...
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Full storage without reason and not working
I have an Ubuntu OS in VMware, and Worked with it for about 3 months.
Although its disk had 100GB space for data, recently its performance became low and after rebooting the OS it's not working and ...
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Can we create two different filesystems on a single partition?
I'm currently using Ubuntu 20.04 on my machine.
Can we create two different filesystems on a single partition? Why?
Also if the size of the filesystem created in a partition is less than the ...
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Can't increase the root partition size on Ubuntu 20.04
I am currently using ubuntu 20.04 (AWS Ec2) machine.
My root filesystem has no more space as per the below output
sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.6G 7....
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ubuntu zfs zpool lost after reboot due to /dev/sd* name re-ordered
create zfs pool with:
$ sudo zpool create -f data raidz2 sda sdb sdc sdd
$ sudo zpool status
pool: data
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
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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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No storage in the disk error when there is plenty of storage left in it
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop. I'm trying to extract some file from a zip, during which I get low disk storage error indicating less than 1 GB is left and the extraction fails because of it. When ...
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dev sda8 clean + mongodb and groovy problem
I get this message after my laptop boots.
/dev/sda8: clean, 604059/10049729 files, 72754401/75379456 blocks
I entered a TTY and ran sudo apt-get updateand I got this :
I think it's a problem with ...
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Synchronize VScode projects between linux and windows with WSL
I'm new to WSL and got the advice to store my VScode projects on Linux for better performance.
The thing is, I would like to keep an automatic sync between these files stored on Linux and a folder ...
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