Questions tagged [drive]
Use this tag if you have problems using HDDs or SSDs in Ubuntu.
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How to make a bootable usb drive of windows 10 on ubuntu?
I am currently using Ubuntu 22.04.2LTS and enjoying it very much. But in case if i need to back to windows then how can i create a bootable pendrive with windows 10 iso file on ubuntu?
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GRUB, Multiple Ubuntus and Installing
I have the following multi-boot setup at present:
/dev/sda:
a small SSD containing only GRUB. It has a custom menu with prompts to boot to the OS on either /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc. It's working fine ...
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ubuntu back on google drive is too large
I created a backup for my ubuntu desktop I used my google drive for backup. I don't have any files on my system but the backup has take 5GB of space on my drive. is that how backup works? as I know ...
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SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) and (OfflineUncorrectableSector)
I have been receiving the following error messages every day for several months now, and I do not know how to stop receiving these messages.
CurrentPendingSector
This message was generated by the ...
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Mounting Microsoft Basic Data drives
I have recently dual booted and wanted to mount my windows drive on Linux. But when I try to do it, it says "Unable to mount". While windows system shows the partition as NTFS, Linux shows ...
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ZFS Ubuntu 20.04, Failed Drive makes pool unavailable
I have a recent Build of Ubuntu 20.04, Fresh installation 3 months ago, Installed on an SSD (No Boot ZFS), where I created 2 zpools: one 'zombiepool2' 4 x 2TB (not, very new drives), second '...
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Read only Drives 22.04.2 LTS
I can't create folders on my HDD or my system drive, when I try to change the location of a folder to one of this drives, it says that they are in read only mode. How do I fix this?
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can I dedicate a secondary drive for umbrel (nextcloud)?
I have 2 drives. 1 120gb ssd for boot only and a 2TB HDD. But I dont know how to select it as main drive for umbrel. Is this possible? Thank u in advance :)
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My bluetooth isn't working, and i tried everything - Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
when i use bt-device -l this happens:
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ERROR:lib/bluez/adapter.c:165:adapter_get_dbus_object_path: assertion failed: (ADAPTER_IS(self))
Bail out! ERROR:lib/bluez/adapter.c:165:...
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Remove drive out of the PC
I have a problem that I don't know how to remove my drive (vutung2001) out of the PC. Because it's the school PC, so I don't want anyone see my drive. How can I remove it?
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"exec" mount option not working after reboot on secondary drive's partition
I have mounted a partition on a secondary drive to /mnt location with KDE Partition Manager, and added exec mount option (I need to run shell scripts from that location). Everything works fine untill ...
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Ubuntu installation can't find drives
so I have trouble installing Ubuntu on my workstation (Threadripper PRO 5995WX in combo with an ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi board | 2x8 TB SATA WDs and a Samsung Evo 980).
Thing is that when I try ...
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Random audio pauses/lags on youtube and spotify
Soo here's what i get when i run this command : dmesg -w
[ 78.727475] audit: type=1326 audit(1668695389.784:93): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=3 subj=snap.spotify.spotify pid=7031 comm="...
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External SSD causes mount to hang
I have an external SSD connected to my computer running Ubuntu 22.04. Previously the drive would just pop up and mount automatically. When that did not happen I tried to mount it manually but the ...
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Google drive attached disapearing after suspend
After suspending my system by shutting the lid, the google drives i have attached disapear. I have to reboot my system to get them back. Any ideas?
Ubuntu 22.10, Files app, using gnome accounts to ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS fails to detect external SSD connected via USB
I was recently given a used external SSD and I want to connect it to my laptop, which is running Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS. When I connect the SSD via USB, Ubuntu does not seem to detect it. I do not know ...
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Software-shredding a disk with bad sectors
I have my own company and when I take some hardware from customers, I always offer to shred the data on their drives and drill holes if not possible (in general for free, to get hardware for repairs ...
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Is my bootloader or something stored on my new bootable flash drive?
I have Windows 10, and an SSD and HDD. Win10 is on my SSD, HDD is nothing but storage for windows, except there's also a small 16GB Ubuntu partition on it. Before recently, if I restarted, It would ...
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Source drive of my installation
I have cloned by HDD to a SSD using clonezilla. That means I have two drives which are exactly the same. How do I know which Ubuntu got booted up from inside Ubuntu, the HDD or SSD one.
Output of ...
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I can't enter on sda2
This is probably going to be a stupid question, but still...
To learn Linux and broaden my horizons, I installed Ubuntu Server on a separate PC.
When I run the df command, I see that I have (among ...
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DVD/BluRay combi drive not mounted / setup properly
I have Laptop with a BluRay/DVD combi drive which means this drive has a BluRay and a DVD laser.
I followed the ArchWiki > BluRay > PlayBack guide to mount a BluRay disk (actual BluRay movie):
$ ...
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Problem when mounting Windows drive
After I installed Ubuntu on my device I couldn't access my Windows SSD. It should be using a passphrase, and I have no idea about it.
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D drive mounted and visible thro files, but not thro ap (Freecad), How do imake it appear? [duplicate]
I can view and open files from Files, but thro freecad the D drive is not visible.
The drive is mounted.
ubuntu 22.04
drive is NTFS.
Any help appreciated.
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Need help installing a new boot drive in a second slot
I have a UEFI laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad P72) with multiple internal NVMe drive slots. I currently have a documents and media drive in slot 0, and a boot drive in slot 1.
Ubuntu 20.04 and my various ...
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My external drive appears in "disks" but doesn't appear in left column
I have an external drive (1tb) the is formatted and passworded within Ubuntu. It used to work fine, I plug it in and get prompted for the password. Now when I plug it in, nothing happens, but I can ...
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How do I disable mapped drives discovery in Ubuntu 20.04
I'm setting up a brand new Ubuntu box in a large network. I noticed Ubuntu is picking and configuring both printers and mapped drives automatically and I don't want this to happen. I managed to ...
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How to set timeout for waiting missing HDD while system boots?
System: Ubuntu 20.04 with EFI boot.
Clarification why I need this
I configured two swap partitions:
One primary swap on the second HDD. It is used for hibernation. (Hibernation function is better to ...
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Google Drive in Ubuntu with full local copy
From OneDrive (Windows) or GoogleDrive (Windows) I am used to much more than I currently have in Ubuntu.
The built-in GNOME Online Accounts is not what I want. I've also tried other clients but all do ...
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I expanded my disk in vcenter but the 18.04 won't use available space and I think I did something wrong
To clear this up - I added 100g on a Ubuntu 18.04 Server virtual machine.
I followed some guides I found online (being newer to Linux) and was able to see and expand the disk to use the 300 total GB. ...
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External hard drive gone
I have a 2015 macbook air that I run as a home server. I have a segate drive with 4tb. The enclosure broke so I got a replacement on Amazon that's been working fine for over a month. I woke up this ...
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how to erase an iso i wrote on a USB drive?
i'm on ubuntu 21.10 and i have downloaded ubuntu 13.04 iso and written it on a USB drive. as it's not working I would like to remove it. but how?
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How to share a CD-ROM drive over the network in Ubuntu 20.04?
I have 3 Computers and only one of them is old enough to have a CD/DVD-ROM drive. I would like to access the media from the other computers as well.
I have mounted it under /media in the computer ...
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Unable to Boot into SSD
For the longest time, I was running a dual-boot on a PC I bought several years ago. It came with a 1tb HDD w/ Windows 10 on it. I installed a M.2 SSD on it and ran Ubuntu on it for the longest time.
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Odrive Unofficial - This snap has been emptied due to security concerns
Using Ubuntu 20.04
I have installed the newest version of odrive-unofficial.
i also reinstalled snapd by
sudo apt purge snapd snap-confine && sudo apt install -y snapd
However, every time i ...
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Unwanted Auto-mounting
I have Ubuntu set to auto mount two of my drives, which it successfully does every time I boot the system.
However, sometimes shortly after I boot my system Ubuntu will start to mount the other five ...
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Moving entire installation to a new hard drive
This question is probably super common, but my situation might not be :) let's see..
I have a PC tower running as a home server using Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS (NAS, minecraft, etc random stuff). I want ...
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Mounted drive needs to be double-clicked at least once before other applications can use it
I have mounted an NTFS drive from my Windows install. I believe it "automounts" as it is visible in "Other Locations" > "On This Computer" every time at startup.
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Restoring from old hard drive
Background: I have a Dell Laptop with Ubuntu (VERSION="20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)"). This laptop has a 1TB hard drive. Now I am looking to upgrade the laptop to a 2TB hard drive (SSD).
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Can't mount drive without using e2fsck every boot
If i want to mount this drive, i need to run e2fsck or fsck.ext4 after every boot. All data is visible and accessable after that.
uuid only appears in system listings after "fsck.ext4" or &...
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Ubuntu crashes when external HDD is plugged in
I have Ubuntu installed on an external ssd and it works fine. But when I plug in another external HDD when running the OS it starts crashing and doesnt even let me shut down
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Ubuntu 21.04 Cannot Boot From External USB HDD
My filesystem layout, internal is sda and external is sdb:
sda
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Cant find file manager UBUNTU 20.04
I recently installed Ubuntu on an external harddrive as MBR and wasnt visible in UEFI settings. Later some kind folks told me to convert the drive to GPT and create an ESP partition which solved my ...
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Most drives read only [closed]
Im running Ubuntu 20.04.03 LTS (with kde plasma) and for some reason, all drives (except my boot drive) have switched to read only. The drives are fine. Even the second partition on my boot drive (...
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how to set read write permission for my hard drives in mac?
i am using a ubunutu distro its version 20. something the latest as of now i have installed it over my mac late 2008 aluminium intel 2.4ghz nividia with os 10.11 el capitan and every drive was re-...
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Drive partition recovery. I want to recover files before using it for Ubuntu
'''Unable to access the drive after Ubuntu installation. This partition belongs to windows but I wanted to allocate some parts for Ubuntu during installation. But I see this drive. I have important ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 didn't recognize Apple CD/DVD player
Is there a way to make my Apple USB Superdrive (External CD/DVD player) work with Ubuntu 20.04? Plugged in and drive was not recognized.
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Mount USB floppy drive always at same mount point
I'd like to mount my USB floppy at the same mount point regardless of the disk.
The problem is that adding a line to /etc/fstab with the UUID doesn't work. I thought the UUID belonged to the USB ...
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Unable To Access SCSI Tape Drives
I am trying to utilize linux's dd command to create 1:1 disk images of some archival tapes I have.
My setup:
I am running a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. I have an Exabyte VXA-2 drive (external,...
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Apps reading net drives is freezing them
I've a NAS and its folders I need mounted automatically using /etc/fstab file.
Everything works like a cham, but when I use some GTK apps like Firefox and it tries to look for a folder, it seems the ...
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How to un-rename drive mount points?
My computer crashes often (AMD Ryzen is not a reliable CPU) and after the latest crash, all of my mount points have become duplicated:
/media/vadi🔒
❯ ls -l
total 40
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May ...
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