Questions tagged [drive]
Use this tag if you have problems using HDDs or SSDs in Ubuntu.
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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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Ubuntu 20.04 external drive folder structure
I was trying to get a path to one of the folders on an external drive and noticed a confusing folder structure. I have a drive called Evo960 and I tried to get a path via terminal. I was expeting to ...
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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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Online Account - Google, Can't create files in Shared Folders, but personal OK
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Hello. I just installed Ubuntu 21.10. My online accounts like Google was my reason for using Windows. I have seen that it is now possible in Ubuntu. I have noticed that in the shared ...
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Can't merge two partitions using KDE partition manager
I have a windows device belonging to my cousin. They noted despite having a 1TB drive, they only have about 100 GB of space. I noticed it was because there were some odd partitions. I'd like to merge ...
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Can not access Raid hard drive in Ubuntu
I have a new system that has two hard drives. One is Raid around 4 TB which my operating system is installed on it. I also have created another Raid drive around 14 TB that is suppose to be my files....
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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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files not showing up in USB pen
I copied some files into a USB flash drive but when I navigate to it, it just displays empty folders.
When I try to copy them again, it asks me to if I want to replace, so the files seem to be there ...
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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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Cannot change ownership of secondary drive stuck with read-only on Ubuntu 21.04
So, I'm dual booting my desktop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 21.04. Before making the change, I've had a secondary SSD that I used with a single NTFS partition to install Steam games. As this disk had ...
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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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When Mounting Google Drive with Rclone ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error help pls
When I try to mount Google drive with rclone I usually get this error: ls: read directory '.': Input/output error
Ubuntu 18.04 20.04 21.04 I tried almost all Rclone I tried many versions but the ...
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Ubuntu 21.04 Cannot Boot From External USB HDD
My filesystem layout, internal is sda and external is sdb:
sda
├─sda1 ...
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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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I need help with mdadm drive ownership
I've been here looking through other threads trying to figure this out but, can't figure out how to change my mdadm array ownership. I've tried a bunch of commands and I just can't get it. I am very ...
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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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Cannot resize old ubuntu installed drive, is bios_grub partition safe to delete?
So I dual boot installed Ubuntu even though it is not dual boot (I cannot choose), apparently the second install is a mistake, so I wanna resize it but I can't, please help I did not know what to do
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An HDD is fast when read by dd, slow otherwise
After updating Ubuntu, I found that my non-root HDD become too slow. Just see the numbers:
pv /dev/sda > /dev/null
gives 200kb/s. Mounting it (takes a minute) and running
rsync -r /mnt/hdd2/ /tmp/...
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Symbolic link from Nas to home folder
I'm trying to create a link from my unraid Nas to my Ubuntu vm that I have running in it but ever time I make it the link says its broken and wants me to remove it
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Issue with fsck on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
I have an Intel Nuc with Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS installed and all the latest updates.
My NUC randomly crashed and the disk went into read-only mode. I had to force the NUC to shut down and power back on ...
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How to use my drive without administartive permission
I have my 1tb drive which have my flutter projects. My drive always asks for administrative permission. Whenever I save files it asks permission and also shows error showing denial of permission. ...
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drive permissions problem
I seem to be unable to write to my drives (NTFS). they worked fine until today, not sure what happened.
UUID=xxxxxxxxx /media/stuff ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0
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All internal drives are showing as removable, but actual removable drives no longer auto-mount
I'm running 20.04. Recently I've noticed that all of the entries I have in fstab are now showing up as removable devices in Nemo, although if I try and eject them it fails because I am not root.
At ...
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Expand Linux partition
I've decided to completely switch to Linux from Windows so I'd like to expand my current partition with the old windows partition.
If possible, I'd also like to add the last three partitions but I'm ...
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How can I mount a MacOS fusion drive?
When viewing the partitions, obviously there are two physical disks, but virtually it's being treated as one disk on MacOS (Fusion drive). How can one mount this on ubuntu? The normal mounting ...
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Pinta can not open file - permission denied
My ubuntu 18.04 is installed in the SSD.I installed pinta from ubuntu software but can not open files from my hard disk, says permission denied.
But can open files from SSD where ubuntu is installed(...
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MacBook 4,1 disc drive doesn't load with Kubuntu
not sure I'm in the right place, but I installed Kubuntu on my early 2008 MacBook (4,1) and on inserting CD in the built-in drive it is not drawn in. I am dual-booting and the drive works fine with ...
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Can Ubuntu read dynamic disk?
Due a mistake while installing Lubuntu, I converted my Windows Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk(I found this by using disklart from command prompt using Windows Recovery Tools). Now Windows cannot read my ...
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GRUB menu always appears on boot despite not dual-booting
I run a fully Windows computer with Kubuntu installed on an external drive. Even when the drive isn’t plugged in, the Grub command terminal appears on boot and I have to type exit to stop it.
It’s ...
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How to set home directory mount point for drive
I have 2 drives on my machine, but one is unused. I would like to use the unused drive for the home partition (as in moving my current home directory into the unused drive). Is this possible without ...
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Main Drive is not showing in the Ubuntu Simple Install
My system has Windows installed on a 500GB Intel 660p SSD, and a 1TB HDD purely for storage, that is currently empty.
When installing Ubuntu off a flash drive, if I use the "Install Ubuntu ...
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