For questions regarding storage drives that connect using a USB port.
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Ubuntu12.10 “Disks” Pendrive 64GB format LUKS+ext4
I just bought Pendrive / Flshdrive 64GB and need to archive on it file bigger than 10GB so i believe FAT32 is not an good option since it can handle only 4GB file in size. Next thing is that i though ...
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When can I safely unplug an external drive on 12.10?
I have browsed several answers... but none seems to address my question.
As reported in bug #1067876 the options to "safely remove" an external drive is gone.
No problem! Umount is sufficient for ...
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External USB hard drive formatted E2fs/E3fs permissions
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop computer. I have an external USB disk drive formatted E2fs/E3fs by another linux system (specifically a Linksys NSLU2 running stock Linksys firmware). From the ...
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Automounting my fat32 external USB drive with fstab
My hard drive is a Seagate External HD and it worked perfectly out of the box. The filesystem was NTFS and it showed up on the left hand side in Nautilus with its own icon, and it was referenced as ...
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Having trouble booting ubuntu 12.04 desktop from usb in windows 7
I have written the image onto my usb drive. Everything went through, however once i restart my pc, it wont read the disk. Do i need to open safemode to boot? Or should I reformat the drive and rewrite ...
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Is it possible to install Ubuntu to my USB drive using Windows Installer?
I mean, without using a CD/DVD because I don't have an idle CD/DVD with me.
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Encrypting FAT32 with Luks
In previous versions of Ubuntu I was able to encrypt USB flashdrives using the disks tool in any format I pleased. Now unfortunately I am only able to encrypt a flash drive in EXT format. This is ...
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reasonable USB mount points
Plugging in my Android cellphone in Mass Storage mode mounts the SD card via USB onto an insane pathname like
/media/sp;<_html>/
which of course causes problems later with other programs like ...
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How to speed up copying files to NTFS drive?
I recently bought new USB 3.0 flash drive (write speed: 110 MB/s, read speed: 190 MB/s). And I have Dell XPS 13 (it has SSD and USB 3.0).
My problem is speed of copying files to the USB flash stick.
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How do I format a TrueCrypt-encrypted flashdrive?
I encrypted a flashdrive using TrueCrypt, but now I've changed my mind and I want to format it as an unencrypted drive. When I plug it in it is no longer appears on the launcher or in the Nautilus ...
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How do I restore PenDriveLinux boot load menu after accidental overwrite?
I have a USB drive with Ubuntu created from pendrivelinux.com. I've been running it off the USB drive to play with Linux on various machines without a problem. I recently installed Ubuntu to a hard ...
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What kind of FileSystem do you recommend for USB Flash Drive?
This is a problem I'm having when using Ubuntu: I have two computers that have Ubuntu installed on them (comp1 and comp2). I create a document with Ubuntu on comp1 and then copy the file onto a FAT ...
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USB Stick won't boot
So I wanted to play around with CHrome OS, and installed the Vanilla version of Chromium OS to my trusty USB Stick. I used the Win32DiskImager.exe to install the OS to the USB stick. All went well, ...
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I boot my usb and the copyrights details show but I cannot go anywhere from there? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install Ubuntu from an USB drive / create a live USB-stick?
How can I create a bootable USB disk from a CD image?
I plug in my usb and turn my computer and ...
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Install Ubuntu on a USB Hard Drive (not Live)
Some time ago I made a question asking How to install Ubuntu on a USB external Hard Drive without losing its external storage ability. They've closed my question and sent to this one.
Today I did the ...
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How to install Ubuntu in a pen drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install Ubuntu to a USB key?
I'd like to install Ubuntu in a pen drive (not install it from a pen drive), because I have an old laptop with a damaged HDD ...
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What are the pros and cons of each USB disk format?
In DISK UTILITY when you choose format drive, there are four options. I would like to know what's best and fastest for USB flash drives, USB HDD and any differences between each format type.
The ...
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USB Device first mounted as root, then by user
When I connect my Kindle, it shows up as an usb0 media, which I can read but not write (owner = root).
However, if I do sudo umount /media/usb0, usb0 gets unmounted and a Kindle media gets mounted ...
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Why am I getting such slow file transfer performance?
Copying 4GB from a USB flash drive to my Linux partition. The flash drive is NTFS formatted (I believe, it's Windows formatted). The transfer is incredibly slow and blocks the computer frequently ...
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Error running from usb stick: “ settings could not be detected correctly” [closed]
The details are that I used Universal USB Installer version 1.9.1.8 from http://www.pendrivelinux.com to install Ubuntu 12.10 onto a 4GB pendrive as per instruction on Ubuntu's website. However, after ...
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Pen Drive not working in 12.04
My pen Drive was working before, after i updated the Ubuntu Version 12.04, USB hot plug never worked.
But i verified in Windows PC, it was working.
please help me to resolve this problem.
dmesg ...
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Cannot Create Bootable USB Drive from .iso file
I've tried formatting the flash drive as FAT as well as Mac OS journaled through diskutility but still cannot successfully create a bootable drive. I'm following the directions here exactly: ...
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How to run Ubuntu after extracting the zip file to USB pen drive
I want to install Ubuntu in my USB pen drive. My current OS is Windows 7 enterprise. I downloaded Ubuntu as zip file (using torrent) and I extracted the files to my USB pen drive. Now what should I do ...
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I tried to create a USB stick from Mac OSX and it ruined my flash drive [closed]
I followed the instructions on the page, but when I restarted my Mac, only the hard drive was available to boot from. I went ahead and did, and then a notification popped up that said that my computer ...
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Problems after installing Ubuntu LiveUSB on my 2nd HD
I decided to create a Ubuntu USB installer using the Universal USB Installer, selecting a Ubuntu 12.10 ISO. I selected my D: drive, my NON-windows7 carrying drive as install. After this I Re-booted my ...
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Bootable Pendrive with 12.10 boots into Memtest86+
As the title says, I created a bootable USB Pendrive with Ubuntu 12.10, following the instructions found in Ubuntu's page, in order to install it to my PC.
When I reboot the computer with the the ...
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Grub2 attempting to boot hd1 when it should boot hd0
I'm attempting to perform a "normal" install on a USB3 SSD (I don't know if it is noteworthy, but I don't have a swap partition). The installation proceeds normally (I'm installing from a USB2 device ...
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Mount and unmount errors when usb is connected in 12.10.
I just installed 12.10 and noticed some strange behaviour every time I connect a USB storage device. It reports I already have the device mounted by a different user but there is only one user account ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Install
Hello
Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu from a flash drive? I think I know how to do it but I don't want to delete my windows...
I have Linux and Windows on the same computer you see that's my ...
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How do I write to an outer truecrypt volume when the inner volume protection prevents writng?
In a nutshell
After some time using the outer volume of a hidden volume in Truecrypt I cannot write to the outer volume anymore. The protection of the inner volume always kicks in before. How do I ...
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Help with creating bootable usb from iso
--All this is about terminal--
I know some of you will laugh, but I'm trying to install Arch Linux, since I want to learn as much as I can about linux system and how it works. I want to be an expert ...
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can't change boot priority to USB
I'm new to Linux and have just downloaded the USB version of Ubuntu 12.04. When I go into boot priority, the USB drive is not one of the options. I've read other posts and don't understand Grub and ...
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Save and Run Programs From USB
At the moment I am running Ubuntu 12.10 from a USB memory stick, and I wondered whether it would be possible to save and run any programs I have downloaded from another USB stick instead of the one ...
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GET flash memory type: SLC or MLC
Just for my knowledge, I would like to know whether the type of flash memory used in my pendrive is SLC or MLC. Is there a way to find it out? I googled but found nothing.
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How to mount USB flash drive
my not working flash SANDISK 8GB
im use disk untility for formating not working usb busy and unmount or mount not working?
help any and terminal im use
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Boot off USB key without bios support
I installed Ubuntu onto a USB key using pendrivelinux.com. I need to boot off the pen drive now but the bios doesn't support this. I can still boot into Linux without X support ( broken X is one of ...
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How can I temporarily suspend Nautilus filesystem automounting, without making permanent changes to the system and user configuration?
I have written a tool which automatically formats and copies files to USB flash drives when they are inserted. It needs the drive to be unmounted to format it.
Normally Nautilus will automatically ...
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Booting from USB and mounting a HDD is resulting in strange partitions
I just built a new HTPC and to keep costs down I decided to use a USB 3.0 thumb drive as my boot drive.
I had got most things running pretty smoothly and my next task was to mount a 2TB storage drive ...
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How do I access the contents of my flash drive while booting from it? [Xubuntu]
I'm trying to recover some files from a Windows computer using a Xubuntu live bootable flash drive. I've found the files that I want to copy on my Windows drive, but don't know how to mount the flash ...
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USB disk not recognized after detaching from DVD player. What to do?
I had one Transcend 4GB USB stick formatted to NTFS and was working fine. Today I inserted this disk into a DVD player, and it was saying, "loading". After a long time, noting happened, and it seemed ...
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How do I find out whether my laptop has usb 3 ports?
I want to buy an external usb 3.0 drive and I wonder how to figure out whether my laptop has such a port (or only 2.0).
Neither lsusb -v, nor /proc/bus/input/devices offers any obvious hints, ...
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Access to external usb hard drive mounted in KDE other user
Before kubuntu 12.10 i had Gentoo and in KDE's plugged devices widget i mounted devices and them was accessible by other user in other KDE sessions. But in kubuntu external hdd mounted with ownership ...
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Cannot chmode and chown on a ntfs usb drive
I have an NTFS formatted USB drive, on this disk I used to backup using rsync and with 12.04 everything worked.
I've done a 12.10 64 bit fresh install, now when I plug the drive and select open with ...
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Can't mount UBS flash drives or my CD/DVD drives
How can I fix the permissions to get rid of the following error and mount my USB and internal CD/DVD drive:
Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to `/media/bret' failed: Operation not supported
These ...
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How do I get drivers for a WD MyBook Essential to make it run on Ubuntu(12.10)
How do I get drivers for a WD MyBook Essential to make it run on Ubuntu(12.10)
the drive was running normal on WinXP before, in Ubuntu it is found but I cannot work with the data on the drive...
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After upgrading to 12.10 usb drives fail to mount
Following upgrade to 12.10, my usb drives - both pen drives and a usb hard drive - fail to mount with the error message:
Unable to mount *name of drive* volume
Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to ...
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Extra toolbar installed on my Chrome after making an ISO image
I have a Lenovo X220. It doesn't have a CD/DVD so I used your instructions of using "pendrive" USB installer. Everything went fine and now I have the ISO image on my USB stock.
The only thing is ...
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Ubuntu on a pendrive
I tried to install Ubuntu using the pendrivelinux link, as recommended, but my virus scanner deleted the file saying it was infected. Is there an alternative way?
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USB NTFS pen drive and hard drive not working after plugging them into Ubuntu
I connected a USB key (NTFS formatted) with data in it, on 12.04, after I disconnected it, I was no longer able to access the USB key neither from Windows nor from Ubuntu. The system asks me to format ...
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12.10 hardware and driver problems
When logging on to my x53t Asus notebook, I get to the desktop but neither my network connection, sound options nor USB connections work. No user account seems chosen either.
A window pops up asking ...
