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For questions regarding disk storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, and optical disk drives.

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Increase partition size on which Ubuntu is installed?

I have Ubuntu installed on a drive. The problem is it is running low on disk space. This is installed on vmware. I expanded the virtual drive and booted into ubuntu. But when I opened gparted(sudo gparted), the move/resize option is unavailable.…
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How to run a checkdisk?

I suspect there might be bad sector on a disk. I used ext3 filesystem. What tool is the best equivalent of the error checking tool of Windows?
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Are disk labels sda/sdb/sdc/... tied to physical ports?

I'm wondering if disk labels like sda/sdb/sdc/... are associated with physical ports on the mainboard? For instance, if I have sda/sdb/sdc and remove the first 2 disks, will sdc become sda or will it stay sdc? Is the principle behind assigning disk…
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Checking a NTFS drive with Linux

Does somebody know if there is something like/similar to the typical Windows chkdsk or scandisk utilities (to check NTFS drives, of course) into Linux (Ubuntu)? Which? Where? How?
Juan
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This location could not be displayed on Ubuntu 16.10

I've formatted my computer, I saved my files in this disk, after install Ubuntu I can't access the disk. when I try to access this disk, it says This location could not be displayed you do not have the permission to view the content How to open…
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What do these hard disk errors "Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled" mean?

What do these errors mean? Sep 30 23:52:29 ubuntu kernel: [ 1649.816032] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged Sep 30 23:52:37 ubuntu kernel: [ 1657.885240] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Sep 30 23:52:37 ubuntu…
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Disk utility running for a long time

I had a spare, old external usb hard disk which stopped working long time back due to improper removal of disk. I tried fixing it in windows (when I did not have ubuntu yet), however I couldn't fix it. So I tried formatting the disk and creating a…
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Lacie hard disk not found not found

My computer doesn't recognize my hard disk Lacie. I have already used sudo fdisk -l, but my external hard disk is not in the list. The strange thing is that if I write lsusb this is the output: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 059f:1090 LaCie, Ltd Bus 002…
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I can't clean space to login into ubuntu

Today I tried to install "wine", and it installed correctly, after I restarted back to Windows to get my exe file and it already happened to me that the partitioned is full, so I booted to recovery mode, but the clean is not cleaning anything, and I…
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Is there a widget that simulates a disk activity LED?

I'm looking for a widget or such that simulates the disk activity light that my Lenovo laptop ought to have but doesn't. I don't want any more information than that -- no usage graphs, etc. Just a binary indicator that says that the disk is…
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Disk very slow after going from 9.04 to 10.04

My disk is very slow after I installed ubuntu 10.04 over my old 9.04. Doing some tinkering helped a little: sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Timing cached reads: 3668 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1834.11 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 292 MB in…
Daniel Ribeiro
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How can I rename an external drive?

I would like to rename an external drive (USB). How can I rename an external drive?
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I want to purchase a new Ubuntu installation CD

Can you mail me a new Ubuntu instillation CD, please? I want to switch from Windows and need an installation CD, please. How much do you charge? Can I send you a check,please, I do not trust online banking.
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2 hard disk drives with ubuntu

I've just downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 and I've already installed it on 2 hard disk drives, however, I want to use one disk as an storage disk (160GB) and I want to use the other one for work (30GB). How can I tell to the system that I want to…
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High SMART Data Values in Disks Application

I am trying to diagnose a hard drive that sounds like it's still running when it should be relatively idle. Below is a screengrab of my /dev/sda after a test run. The Assessment says it's "OK", but I see very high values for various Attributes, the…
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