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How can I safely remove the ~/Snap folder?

I'd love to delete the Snap folder in my home. It takes 97 GB of space. No package manager should be allowed this amount of space in the /home mount point! How can I safely delete Snap and all its ...
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Multiple gnome files in /snap

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop and checking my storage usage. I have four files in /snap named gnome 3-38-2004, gnome 3-34-1804, gnome 3-28-1804, and gnome 3-26-1604. Do I need all of them?
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Unistalled apps still taking space on Ubuntu Touch

I'm using Ubuntu Touch 14.10 on the BQ Aquaris 4.5 Today I went to the System Settings app -> About this phone -> Storage and I'm able to see every app I have already unistalled. Also the ones ...
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How to manage imported certificates?

I've got a X.509 certificate file (with a .der file extension) of a certificate authority that I want to trust (it's required to connect to my academic network). When I double-click on a .der file I ...
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Can't access any storage devices on 12.10

Hi I've just started using Ubuntu 12.10 (today!) my first time with any non-windows OS. I wanted to retrieve some files after windows stopped working. I boot Ubuntu from a USB and it seems to work ...
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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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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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Create bootable partition and storage partition on external SSD

I recently bought a 512 GB Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch. I would like to create 3 partitions: One bootable partition containing Ubuntu 18.04 (of about 100 GB). One swap partition for Ubuntu (of ...
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Ubuntu says the disk is full but it's not

Very complex situation. My main server is in a 5TB raid. I'm currently on holiday so I use Teamviewer and ssh to remote into my server. 2 Days ago I ran a backup which was configured to be stored ...
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How does Launcher get to choose which icon to display for different storage devices?

I have different drives; SSD, HDD, USB, eBook readers, and phones, usually show up with particular icon identifying the type of device. I would like to understand how does Launcher or Nautilus get to ...
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Set SD Card as internal storage

I would like to change the default storage from eMMC to SD Card in Ubuntu. I have a microSD card and a slot for this SD card on my devide (Jetson nano but not the original carrier board). My default ...
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Why is unsafe Unsafe_Shutdown_Count increases on every shutdown?

This SMART attribute seems to increase on every shutdown even if I seem to shut down normally. Why is this and how do you fix it so that it shuts down safely? This is Xubuntu 20.04 machine with an SSD ...
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Cloud init - storage configuration

I have two problem in the section of the storage (user-data file) 1. When I try to increase the /dev/sda2 with Gparted I cannot do it because the creation of the volume boot. ( see picture bellow) 2. ...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 showing wrong storage size

When I am using df -h --total, it shows 131 GB as total even though the hard drive is 256 GB big. Did I make a mistake while setting up the server and can I increase this size? lsblk output: NAME ...
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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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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 ...
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How can I set the user-dirs to a directory that is only available after ubuntu boots?

I currently have an encrypted (using Veracrypt) storage partition that I share between windows and ubuntu (that way I share the same files between operating systems and can backup all my files more ...
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hide storage volume in conjure-up instance

I got conjure-up working on a single node system and I have launch 2 instances up and running and I assigned 20GB storage to this instance. If run df command inside instance it still shows my host ...
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How to Ignore encrypted (LUKS) on external hard drive

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 (which is upgraded from 14.04). I have created a LUKS volume with cryptsetup on my external harddrive. The problem is, everytime I connect the harddrive, ubuntu prompts me ...
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How to check SSD/HDD model used on a VPS?

Is there anyway we can check what is the model of storage device used on VPS without having access to the hypervisor. I`ve tried to check it on DigitalOcean droplet using several command but I didnt ...
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Ubuntu media folder contains names of directories that are no longer present

After doing some reformatting & renaming of specific partitions on my Ubuntu installation, I see that in the /media folder there is still a directory with the old label volume (and also another ...
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Ubuntu phone - how to store data when writing HTML5 app - preferred way

I started creating a simple organizing app for myself, and hit a brick fairly quickly. Wanted to have an XML list of things that would be read and updated by a HTML form. Now I came through ...
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Cannot mount storage volume

I have Ubuntu Server 14.04.3. I connected a storage unit (IBM Storwize v3700). I cannot getting it to be mounted to the server. I followed the following steps. install multipath sudo multipath -ll ...
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Same USB Port, Same Device: Sometimes Superspeed (USB 3.0) and Sometimes high-speed (USB 2.0)

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS updated to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Plugging USB flash drive directly into the notebook computer (USB 3.0 port; not using HUB; ALL USB 3.0 external hard drives always connect at ...
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Swift Through Horizon

Deployed a single node swift, i.e., containing both swift-proxy and swift-storage charms, in a multi-node openstack environment. Here is my config file: swift-proxy: zone-assignment: 'manual' ...
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Multipathing issue with Dell Powervault MD3660f

I’m configuring a Dell PV MD3660f storage . Its directly attached to a R320 server (by FC HBA) and the server is running Ubuntu 12.04. For redundancy I have connected two FC HBA with both controllers ...
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Make OpenStack store all instances on Cinder

I have been messing around with openstack for a little time, setting up a test environment. One thing i never found out was how to store my instances on cinder... Does anyone here know how i can ...
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File System Root - Low Disk Space - PARTIAL folder

I use Ubuntu at work and recently I have been receiving a message during boot up that states the file system is low on disk space and at one point the desktop would not fully load. After using Disk ...
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Private Storage Cloud

I'm absolute new to this area. So, please be gentle :-) I'm looking at the possibility for my company to start a private storage cloud using cheap hardware and software. For example, SATA storage ...
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Multiple binlogs in /var/lib/mysql folder

Recently I did a website and server migration. It was working fine in the beginning, but recently I found that server has consumed 100% of the storage and there are multiple bin files in /var/lib/...
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Autoinstaller: keep the /home if available, (and automatically add users)

What I would like to do is to make an autoinstaller that only installs the OS but would try to keep, and attach, an existing home directory - and automatically make the user(s) again. But looking ...
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Cannot update volume group ubuntu-vg with duplicate PV devices

We have 2 x 4TB hdd on our server (hardware server). Raid 1 and use 1 hdd. OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64). But our root space use only around 100 GB. How to extend /dev/...
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22.04 load-from-cold using much less space than 20.04 to 22.04 upgrade

I need to determine which approach is going to result in a smaller final disk size, so I tested two scenarios... Install 20.04 server and immediately upgrade to 22.04 -- this used 5.5 GB, even after ...
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Space available but cannot be used

I am using an ubuntu18.04 machine with 1TB. Most of the space is available, and when I run df -H: S.ficheros Tamaño Usados Disp Uso% Montado en udev 8,4G 0 8,4G 0% /dev tmpfs ...
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How to create a shared storage between Windows and Ubuntu dual boot?

So I have been following these steps (https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/how-to-create-a-shared-storage-drive-for-dual-boot-systems/) to create a shared storage between the Ubuntu system and Windows 11. ...
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VirtualBox VM black screen after disk resize

My VM was running out of space (I use Virtualbox) thats why I decided to inrease the storage size resize So I resized it using this screen but after that I couldn't fully boot up my VM again. What ...
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Change boot drive, and move all data

I want to upgrade from an old HDD 256GB, to a new m.2 SSD 256GB. But, I want to know-how, and the difficulty of transferring all data to the new drive, and making it the boot drive - I know how to in ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Can I completely get rid of Windows on my computer and transfer its storage space to Ubuntu from Ubuntu terminal?

I have dual boot on my computer: Windows 8 and Xubuntu. I won't be using Windows anymore and would like, therefore, to get rid of Windows completely, transferring all of the storage space to Xubuntu. ...
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Temporarily Disable ZFS ARC for Benchmarking

Is it possible to temporarily disable the ZFS ARC cache? I am trying to benchmark a ZFS SSD array using fio and want to avoid ZFS caches (via the ARC) from skewing the results. The alternative of ...
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How to install and setup docker to use folder outside boot?

I want to use docker to run a couple of dockerized 'apps/services' from time to time on my laptop. I have a boot partition with 100 gb (50gb occupied) and a 900 gb home folder setup via fstab and ext4....
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Add to internal storage using external storage

ok, I'm a pretty big Windows nut, no clue what I'm doing with Linux. Google normally is helpful, but I'm finding myself at a loss here. see I've got myself a Intel Compute Stick running Ubuntu 14.04....
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Storage On Ubuntu dedicated server 18:04

My dedicated server Spec's Unmetered Bandwidth | Gigabit Conn. Any Linux/Windows* OS available! Intel Core i7-2600 - Quad Core (8t) 16GB RAM | 2x 3TB HDD Space Located in Europe & USA! Custom ISO ...
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Where can I find the /dev/st tape drivers on Ubuntu?

Working on setting up Amazon VTL on Ubuntu, and I'm missing one step. iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.1997-05.com.amazon:... ...command creates /dev/sg0 and not /dev/st* as I would like. I'...
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show free space on a gvfs mount?

How can I check the free space on a gvfs mounted partition. I want to use it on a script. mounted with gvfs-mount "ftp://192.168.178.**/Disk-01/" df does not provide usefull data: gvfsd-fuse ...
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