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1TB External USB Hard Drive format problems on Ubuntu 20.04
Are Fake USB Storage Devices Still Around in 2022? (The answer is yes.)
These are most likely fake drives programmed to show terabyte-level capacity, while in reality there's just a couple gigabytes ...
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1TB External USB Hard Drive format problems on Ubuntu 20.04
Problem is they are formatted exFat and, as I understand it, that is not ok for Ubuntu.
Not really a problem BUT you do need to install a driver for it. Command to issue:
sudo apt install exfat-fuse ...
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Files downloaded into external hard drive use up space in / on Ubuntu
I have found the source of the used space. The astropy package saves the cache in a hidden directory (/home/tomas/.astropy/cache in my case). That is why I wasn't finding it. I used the ...
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All USB drives give This Location Could Not Be Displayed after distro-upgrade and Aptik Restore
Well, I finally found a case near identical to mine, and the answer provided there also worked for me. The explanation for the problem after restoring a clone was
I am pretty sure you did not clone ...
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Seagate External Hard Drive Never Spins Down
I was able to get the behaviour I wanted using hd-idle: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle
I just installed via the precompiled amd64.deb binary and configured /etc/default/hd-idle and set launch ...
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Same External Drive Being Mounted with Different Names
The solution to this is straightforward.
As the regular open nautilus and properly unmount the drive.
As root user open another nautilus window and correctly unmount the drive.
then, via terminal $...
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Duplicate mount-points for external disks after 22.04.1 upgrade
Background
I think now I understand what happened.
Normally, a new folder is created when an external USB drive is connected to the computer at /media/your_username/. When you want to remove an ...
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How to transfer files from external storage device to Nextcloud Snap?
If you just move files into the nextcloud dir they won't appear in the Webinterface. You'll also have to index them with the occ files:scan command
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/using-occ-on-snap-...
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