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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Moving Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64) from my Internal HDD to an external SSD
I have installed Ubuntu 22.03.3 LTS on my Windows 11 OS. My laptop is now running really slow, I bought an external SSD drive in order to move my Ubuntu to the external SSD and then uninstall Ubuntu ...
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How do I resolve "Unable to access location" error?
While transferring files from an external hard drive my computer froze. After restarting I get an error whenever I try to open a hard drive.
I also looked at syslogs, and at around the time my ...
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NEW LAPTOP HARDDRIVE won't go to the linux menu thing for booting to differing OS's
My laptop has windows 7 and ubuntu 20.04lts on it - when I turn it on, there's always the 'boot menu' thing. Old hard drive works fine, but I bought a new bigger drive (windows running low on disk ...
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Hard Disk Reference in Shell Scripts /dev/sda & /dev/nvme0
I have two types of computers, on one hard disk type is NVME while other is generic hard disk.
I have a script to format the disk and then clean /wipe the disk with Scrub.
sudo mkfs -F /dev/nvme0n1
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How to Setup Software RAID 1 with FDE & Different Size HDDs
My boot drive is using 22.04. Here's what I want to accomplish:
I have two HDDs, one with 6TB and the other with 8TB capacity. They'll be storage drives, not boot drives. I want to create a software ...
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External drive hangs at MountingFilesystem then disappears from Disks
I have a Linux hard drive with some data I am trying to save.
I have mounted it inside of an external drive enclosure and connected it to a machine running Ubuntu 23.04.
The drive is recognized and ...
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Why suddenly appears mounted the /media/username/disk?
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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Just today, few minutes ago through the Dock, I did do realize that was mounted the /media/username/...
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DAS Storage for Ubuntu NAS
I want to use Ubuntu to make a server, if my computer has no HDD bays can I use a DAS connected to the computer as the storage for that server? I would get a DAS that is connected via USB.
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Setting up RAID during 22.04 installation
I have an Old Intel based Mac Pro with 4*4 TB hard drives. I am repurposing this machine to become an internal home file server running Ubuntu 22.04 Server. I couldn't find an option to setup a RAID ...
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Fresh install of 22.04 server, 512GB SDD, but file system only shows 88GB free?
I have a fresh install of 22.04 Server. The machine has a 512G SDD. I selected to use the whole disk when installing it. I installed the typical LAMP server stuff, put WP on there to mess around, and ...
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Removable (USB) disk eject occasionally gets stuck at "writing data"
Ubuntu (Studio) 22.04.
This happens infrequently, but when it happens, it's disruptive because incomplete writes can cause data loss.
For example: Today I copied a 7 MB (mega, not giga) file to a USB ...
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SSD not detected Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS after inserting in SSD Slot
I have two RAMs and 1TB harddisk. Now i installed 512gb SSD in SSD Slot but its not showing
pc:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: ...
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Restore or mount whole drive image backup from dd
I had some weird behavior every night on my ubuntu server, where one of my NVME disks would stop working, and I'd get IO errors until I reboot, in which case everything would work fine.
The drive in ...
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Accidentally deleted the entire hard drive during Ubuntu installation
I tried to install Ubuntu 23.04 on my device which was running on Windows 10. During the installation I might have selected the Erase all data and install Ubuntu option and got my full HDD erased ...
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Docker container unable to write to removable drive
I currently am running Ubuntu Jammy and have a docker container that needs to write to two external drives that were automatically mounted to /media/MYUSER/MYDRIVE while both are mounted correctly and ...
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Unable to allocate memory for my Ubuntu installation
I want to dual boot Ubuntu so in that I have to assign disk space of around 50GB in the unallocated section as shown below.
I have a PC with 1TB storage out of which the C: drive has 721GB space ...
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how do i know on which drive my ubuntu is installed on?
I had a pc with one TB hdd , then I got 128gb ssd for it ,
then I removed windows 10 and installed ubuntu
but now I am confused on which drive my ubuntu is installed.
I want it to be on ssd
gparted ...
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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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20.04 boot & app load time?
I've progressed from 16.04 to 20.04 & I'm happy except boot & app load times have increased with each upgrade. My SW is fully up to date. I have questions:
Would a fresh install of 20.04 ...
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Can't Mount SSD (where windows and my files are located) Need to Save Files from there
I need to save some files from my personal computer but most of them are under windows user folder. With USB, I plugged in try ubuntu and can see my HDD but I can't access my SSD (where all files I ...
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Data amount when copying is much greater than what actually is (22.04)
I mainly use Ubuntu to copy data from hard drives (via a dock) to a server. Strangely and recently, when copying, instead of showing the actual amount of data, "Preparing to Copy" shows that ...
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How to auto-shutdown Ubuntu Server 23.04 when inactive/hdd not used
I have a media server with 1 hard drive. I use it daily at evening, so it would be a waste of electricity if the server is turned on 24/7. So, I want to shut it down when it is not in use, ...
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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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How Do I Make A Secondary Drive Accessible Through The Main Directory Or In A Way Where Programs That Don't Have A Means To Access It In Their System
I know that title was a bit convoluted, but I am running on 22.04, I have a Samsung M.2 SSD, and Seagate HDD both connected directly to the motherboard. The issue I keep running into is the secondary ...
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How to give a permenant permission for a disk?
I have hdd that has been mounted to a new folder Backup that I created in /media
/dev/sda1 15T 28K 14T 1% /media/Backup
But I am not able to create any folder and the permission is as ...
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Recovery data from Unable to mount Sandisk Extreme USB device
so it seem many Sandisk Extreme devices are crashing recently. The company updated some firmwares but it seems that my device does not need any update regarding the website autochecker, but anyhow my ...
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ssd drive not found
I have just replaced my hard drives on my laptop (MSI75) The boot drive is okay but the tb ssd is not shown at all. It is listed in the bios in ahci mode.
When I insert a usb stick, that also shows ...
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Add a new 16TB HDD and transfer the OS to it
I have 2x 4 TB and I bought another one of 16TB. I mounted it with the following commands:
cd /mnt/
mkdir data2
blkid /dev/sdc
fsck.ext4 /dev/sdc
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc
mount /dev/sdc /mnt/data2
lsblk
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Folder on my second hard drive lost and cant be find
System: Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 10 (Dual boot)
Desktop environment: GNOME
My laptop has a dual-boot system with Linux 22.04 and Windows 10. Additionally, I have a built-in second hard drive that both ...
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NUC ETH Validators Linux Nethermind and Lighthouse resize disk space problem
With friend we have use Intel NUC and SSD 512GB for system and 2TB SSD drive for Windows 11 Pro virtual machine... by this manual proces :
https://someresat.medium.com/guide-to-staking-on-ethereum-...
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WD Red 4T giving 3221GB after format
After more than a year of use I was shocked discovering that my 4TB WDC_WD40EFAX-68JH4N0 only gave 3221GB worth of free space. Why is the user capacity only 3.22TB? Where are the other 700Gigs of ...
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EFI Shell version 2.60 [5.12]
Yesterday I run normally my Ubuntu on my Laptop.
Today I'm getting this error instead of graphical enviroment
EFI Shell version 2.60 [5.12]
Current running mode 1.1.2
map: Cannot find required map ...
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Unable to detect the programs or folders that occupy the hard drive space, and therefore unable to secure space for the genome assembly run
I have an IBM server, which is installed with Ubuntu, of version 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).
The system has two hard drives: 1. /dev/sdb2 2. /dev/sdc2. The full HDD information:
I am working on a ...
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Lenovo laptop running Ubuntu 22.04 is not booting after low storage warning
I've been running Ubuntu 22.04 in a Lenovo laptop for a couple of months now, and I got a low storage warning yesterday. A few hours later I tried to copy a file into a USB storage device, and for ...
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Trying to recover Zpool
I am having a terrible time with moving to a new motherboard. I upgraded to improve the a plex server running docker containers. I initially cloned the ssd to a new NVME. I am unable to find the zpool ...
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My hard disk with Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop installed does not boot when I restart my PC
I'm in a bit of a mess here, I recently formatted my hard drive and installed Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop on it. After the installation I restarted my PC but it never boots up the installed Ubuntu 23.04 and ...
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Move Storage Disk to Another Machine
I have an Ubuntu Server (23.04) set up with two disks: OS on disk1 (/dev/sda) and storage on disk2 (/dev/sdb). Perhaps naively, I thought that moving the storage disk to another machine (also Ubuntu ...
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How to mount exFAT/FAT partitions as user without all files having the executable bit set in permissions?
Ubuntu 23.04 here, but should apply to almost every version.
I want to mount external drives via the user mount mechanisms in the system (is udev involved?), often over SSH with udisksctl mount -b /...
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Cannot boot into Ubuntu 22.04 from Grub after accident w/ laptop
So I have an Ubuntu + Windows 10 dual boot on my Acer Aspire ES1-572-33BP. After my laptop fell to the ground, everything seemed to be working properly, but, after shutting Ubuntu down, I couldn't ...
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Create image from unallocated hdd
I want to create file.img from unallocated hdd to another hdd ( backup the hdd ) to rescue my partitions and files in it .
When I
dd if=/dev/sda of=dev/sdb/file.img
It shows
dd: failed to open '/dev/...
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My 1TB Internal Hard Disk lost 500GB partition ubuntu after deleted during windows installation
First, I've using Ubuntu. And then I try install Windows 10. When Windows required specific drive accidentally I format Ubuntu drive, and I also deleted it.
What makes me more fool is, I also assumed ...
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Ubuntu is not shutting down properly, instead it keeps showing the following after clicking power off
[10196.9841711 wlp2s0: deauthenticating from 70:97:41:e8:7e:20 by local choice (Reason: 3-DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[10197.8623311 systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices.
[10197.865048] ...
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Recover data on a hard-drive that changed partition table
From Ubuntu running from CD I formatted the C: drive using GParted and
I changed the partition table on one HDD from MBR/MSDOS to GPT but I realized (too late) that it affected all partitions on the ...
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Ubuntu doesn't start when hard drive is plugged in
About a week ago i was tinkerin around and created a bootable linux drive on an USB. I was able to switch to the usb and back to windows without any problems. But after some time neither linux nor ...
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Discovering disks order
I Installed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 server.
The server has 2 volumes (disks):
lshw -c disk
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: RAID 940-8i 4GB
vendor:...
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Hard disks cataloguer needed
22.04.
I would like to achieve something like I use in my Mac: Neofinder is a program that builds a database with all the directories and files (and some of their properties) of any hard disk I ask to ...
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GParted shows hard drive as two drives of equal storage capacity
I'm trying to format my Xbox One S hard drive with GParted. It appears to show two 900GB disks as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd instead of one 900GB disk, on top of that.
/dev/sdc :
/dev/sdd :
The first ...
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eMMC device ( connected to mmctosd adapter ) detected as sdb not as mmcblk0 in ubuntu
I have connected emmc device to linux pc with mmctosd adapter and it is getting detected as sdb device. But now I want to use mmc-utils package ( mmc commands ). I think this cannot be used on sdb ...
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Can I install Ubuntu on external USB-HDD? And will that affect on my windows
I have external HDD with 900gb of free space can I install Ubuntu and will not affect on my windows?
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Non-boot CPUs are not disabled( seems there is a bug in "6.2.0-26-generic" kernel)
I use Ubuntu 22.04 with no issues for a while, but recently I can't suspend the OS and it gives me the following error and either hangs with a blank screen or shows up the system login screen:
Non-...
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