Questions tagged [storage]
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Store windows files on ubuntu
A small accounting firm (70-80 people) needs to store different files (.pdf, .xlsx, .doc, etc) in a single point and access it via the internet (everything would be hosted at home on a dedicated ...
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Help in increasing swap file size
I have an existing virtual storage but it is not enough and I cannot find a solution to this problem. I want to increase my existing virtual memory size. Any help is appreciated.
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No Space Left on Device when transferring large amount of photos to newly formated HDD
So I am struggling mightily as a new Ubuntu user, so first off please forgive my newbie ignorance. The issue that I am running into is that I have 63,000 images I am trying to transfer from a thumb ...
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Disk has 1TB but I can only use 7.7GB [duplicate]
I bought this computer one year ago and it came with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I used the computer as it came and I didn't have problems until now when I can't even download photos because the storage is full....
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I can't install Ubuntu because the installer can't see the SSD in my laptop at all
I own a Samsung Galaxy Book S. It came with Windows 10 and I wanna change to Ubuntu. I am booting with a installation media that has Ubuntu 20.10 on it. (Fast boot, Secure boot is disabled). GRUB menu ...
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Flatpak: total used space on harddisk?
can the totally used storage space on harddisk (ubuntu 20.04) used by all flatpak files be
shown by using this command?
du -hc /var/lib/flatpak/*
If not, what would be an appropriate command?
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Using live ubuntu environment USB for storage
I created a bootable usb with a 32GB USB 2.0 flash drive. My question is, can I still use it for storing my files? If yes, how?
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Cant access Netgear Stora from Ubuntu 20.04.2.0
Just installed Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 on Lenovo B54000 OK but cant access my Netgear Stora. Can see the three basic folders ie. FamilyLibrary,MyComputers and MyLibrary but after attempting to open any ...
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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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Binding mounted SSD under /home using fstab, can you use the /proc/mounts path?
I have three SSDs in my system. The first, physically in the hardware (if that matters), is my Windows installation, the second my Ubuntu 20.04 installation, and the third is an NTFS storage drive. I ...
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A Question about LVM volume and storage management
Hi, I have 2 block devices: a 256G SSD and an 1TB HDD. I want to do:
*Use the SSD storage for actively accessed and speed demanding files/directories such as runtime files, main system resources; and ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - Can't increase partition size as my unallocated storage comes before my system partition
Goal: Increase the partition size of my system (Ubuntu 20.04)
I tried to: Use Gparted (picture below)
Problem: My system partition comes after my unallocated storage.
A little over a year ago I ...
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Can I uninstall my apps or packages on Ubuntu 20.04 perfectly? [duplicate]
I installed many apps through Terminal. I notice that my storage had 120GB left and I installed 1 GB app then I uninstalled it and I got 119.5GB left. Where is my 500MB??? so my storage keeps ...
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How does Ubuntu handle multiple drives? [closed]
I have two drives on this laptop. C: and D:. I am afraid that if I switch I will only have the one I installed Ubuntu on. I plan on erasing windows and using Ubuntu as my main OS. So, if anyone could ...
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du reports wrong folder size [duplicate]
I am seeing some very strange results when using du on some of my folders.
For example:
#cd /storage/main_folder
#du -h --max-depth=2 subfolder1 | grep subfolder2
1.8G subfolder1/subfolder2/...
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Minimizing Ubuntu's size
I have a VM with 40 GB of storage hosted in the cloud with Ubuntu and Wordpress for my blog.
Everything was fine until I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS: now my blog regularly crashes because of lack ...
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cronopete "enable-folder-backend" does not show up in dconf Editor in 20.04
I use a combination of Timeshift and Cronopete for backups. My desktop has some internal HDDs that are used for doing backups. The system is on a separate NVMe.
I was able to get this working for ...
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Does my hardware support 4TB disk with ubuntu server
I just installed my first Ubuntu Server on some old server hardware, a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S6.
I want to make a NAS solution with this and maybe install plex in the future or something else.
My ...
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Slow NVME performance on Ubuntu 20.04
I guess I'm missing something here, perhaps I need to do some configuration to enable my hardware full speed under Linux - here's my problem.
I recently got this Intel NUC 9 Extreme kit.
I added 64 ...
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How to add space disk to VM Ubuntu 16.04 on Xen server
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 VM on Xenserver. I add a disk extension to it to increase its storage capacity. I added a disk on Xen, but the problem is that the Ubuntu VM does not detect the added disk ...
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What are the best settings to run Ubuntu on a VM?
What are the best settings to run Ubuntu on a VM?
Like how much storage and ram should allocate towards it.
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How can I get a listing of all storage ports available?
I have a laptop (Asus X421IA) and im trying to figure out what kind of storage expansion possibilities I have. Asus's lineup being a mess, I couldn't find the manual info for my exact model on their ...
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Problem in storage space after executing "dconf reset -f /"
I executed the command:
dconf reset -f /
to reset the dash to dock and other extension changes, then when i rebooted my system.
Everything installed from the beginning, starting from user name ...
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Is there easy way to extend space in partition? [duplicate]
Is there an easy way to resize partition?
I have a dual boot laptop with windows and Ubuntu at the beginning I didn't think I will use Linux this often, so I have given 50GB only, but with time I even ...
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Slow SSD performance
I have a sata ssd which when I use on windows(dual boot) is just as advertised have a read write performace around 500MB/s, but on the other hand when I use it under ubuntu(20.4-20.10) write ...
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Boot from USB with it's storage
I have a sandisk 128GB USB, I made a partition ex4 for the Ubunutu OS and the remaining for storage as fat32. I booted from my USB but in storage capacity it still shows memory as 4gb that was from my ...
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Why is my server not using the external volume?
I have a Ubuntu 20.04 server running Nextcloud 19. My server got full, so I mounted a 100GB volume. Here is the output of df -h
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Is it safe to delete /var/lib/snapd/snapshots?
I had to reinstall Spotify because of an issue, which is now resolved but something else came up. I was notified that my root partition was filling up and I realised that in /var/lib/snapd/snapshots, ...
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Can I install Ubuntu in an HDD when I have Windows 10 in an SDD? [duplicate]
I have a laptop that has an HDD and an SDD. In the SSD I have Windows 10 installed, and now, I want to install Ubuntu in the HDD.
Is it possible to do it? And if it is, how can I do it?
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I have two filesystem partitions. Now Ubuntu complains that one is full
I keep receiving a message after boot that says: Root filesystem only has XXXX MB left.
I've run sudo fdisk -l and I see this:
Device Size Type
/dev/sda1 499MB Windows recovery
/dev/...
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No space in root [duplicate]
The moment I try to install something, I get an error of insufficient disk storage. In the above screenshot, there is a mismatch of space left in root for reasons I can't figure out. Last time when I ...
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Log folder having 236 GB Free space
I have lost 236 GB because the log folder is taking so much free storage. I used du and sudo du and the 236 GB are unused.
How can I fix this?
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How to increase speed of USB transfers using usb_storage driver/module
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with the 5.4.0-42 generic kernel.
I have a WD Elements 25 2TB external USB 3.0 drive attached to a USB 3.0 port at the rear of the computer (not the front panel 3.0 port). For ...
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USB storage devices disconnecting without apparent reason
The title says it all.
My old (>10y) old box passed away, and since external storage devices have become really big and cheap, I decided to put my data to two of those.
Yes, they might be slower ...
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Show disk usage in Nautilus/Thunar
Is there a way (or an extensions) to display disk usage/remaining disk space, in Linux file browsers (Nautilus/Thunar) like what happens in Windows when you open My Computer/PC. I know conky can do ...
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Is it safe to split the disk partition I installed Ubuntu on? [duplicate]
When I installed Ubuntu,I made a disk partition of 120 GB, which of course is too much as I don't have many heavy weight software. I'm currently using only 16/120GB, I was wondering if I can split the ...
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Ubuntu on USB doesn't recognize TB size on HD for install
I am trying to load Ubuntu desktop ISO that was put on a USB stick, into new PC build. When the process starts, an error
Ubuntu requires 8.6 GB, and only 8GB available
comes up. I have an 8TB ...
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How much the file system matters for storing very large amount of files and searching in them in a regular system?
I have a large number of files (around 30 million) that are mostly below 100kb, and are stored in a 8TB SATA3 hard disk, i regularly want to search all the files for the existence of certain bytes, ...
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Extending storage to new Drive
I am using Docker to run a content management system (Alfresco). My 100 Gb root drive is filling up and I have added a new 100 Gb drive to the Ubuntu 18.04 server. How do I mount the drive so that ...
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How to free up boot partition space more after removing old kernels? [duplicate]
I am upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. When I tried to upgrade it threw errors about not enough memory space. After searching on the web I found out deleting old kernel helps.
I deleted old kernel,...
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Ubuntu Server only using 200/500GB on SSD
I just installed Ubuntu Server on a 500GB SSD, and it seems like the mount for / is only using 200GB. Here's the output from df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Cannot remove /snap directory even after removing snapd
I prevously removed snapd, however, the /snap directory is still there, and consumes a lot of space. How to remove it?
I tried sudo rm -rf /snap, but that says
rm: cannot remove '/snap/path/to/file': ...
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How do I remove an unsuccessful installion of Ubuntu
Before a few days, I tried to install Ubuntu on Windows10 machine.
I downloaded the Ubuntu software and mounted it on a flash drive, etc.....
In the middle of the installation(partition part),
The ...
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Adding additional disks to ubuntu 20 installation
i have a dedicated server with 2x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD
In this server i want it to hold a lot of data terabites worth of data. I have 24 CPUs so it has the processing power and 128GB of memory.
In future ...
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A weird 16TB file in my SSD
Somehow, a file has appeared on my SSD which is larger than the SSD itself.
The file is 16 TB in size and is located on my /home partition which is only 220 GB. The path is (if that's relevant)
~/....
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Ubuntu 20.04 fails to write on Hard Disk and freezes, shows "I/O error"
When Ubuntu boots up, all is well. But when system is up for more than a few hours, the Hard Disk including root filesystem and swap partition become read-only. The GUI desktop disappears, and some ...
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Trying to extract files from ZFS image created by LXC
Alright, so on the beginning I’ll say that I’m not a master at Linux and that it is my first post here. If you’ll need me to do anything, I’ll do my best, but I can’t promise I’ll be successful. Also ...
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How to best coalesce data from a bunch of old disks
I've got a bunch of old disks (about 15 disks, mean age ca. 8 years, mostly USB 2, most less than a TB). Disks marks at least one of them as failing, some Input/Output errors are showing up, rsync ...
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My server is eating up ram usage
For some reason my storageserver is always eating up ram usage but only to a limited point not where it gets critical to my eyes.
my storageserver is a self made server using an
intel xeon e5-1620
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Is my Ubuntu installation full? An app said my disk was full on Xubuntu 18.04
Trying to download an engineering program, Salome-9.4.0, of size 2 GB. The download stopped right about when it was 99 or 100% done as it "ran out of disk space". It was downloading to my Desktop on ...
