Questions tagged [disk-management]
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How can I increase my disk space when Ubuntu is installed alongside with Windows?
Some time ago i reinstalled windows, formating and deleting every partition. I then made 3 partitions:
One only for Windows OS (about 25GB)
One for Ubuntu OS (about 25GB, if i remember corectly 10GB for swap
memory and 15GB as an ext4 partition)…
Matthew
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System checks for disk drive error every time it boots
When my disk space for the ubuntu installation partition was getting low, from a live cd, I used gparted to increase its volume capacity, by deleting another partition and merging it to the ubuntu partition.
Since then, I am always receiving disk…
Starx
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/proc/kcore very big
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 and I ran a very RAM intensive program.
When I try to log in after reboot, I receive an error message:
The configuration defaults for Gnome Power Management have not been
installed correctly
And I cannot log in, except…
pasta
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Adding by-path to /dev/disk
I have a script relying on /dev/disk/by-path, but that subdirectory does not exist. When I ls /dev/disk, I get:
by-id by-label by-uuid
How do I get by-path?
(Output of grep -ri 'by-path' /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules…
Jeff K
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What is the Ubuntu equivalent to Windows' Disk Managment?
Does Ubuntu come with an equivalent to the Disk Management tool in Windows? How do I access it?
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Migrate system to larger drive
I had a small hard drive (13 GB) which was too small. I added another (160 GB) but the apps don't seem to use it. File Manager appears to but no other apps, specifically, the Update Manager won't use it. I need to use this new drive because there…
user253339
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What is the difference between these commands for removing all partitions and which is preferable?
The idea is to wipe all partitions with a terminal command. I found these:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=8 && sync
and
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc
The sources are here and here.
Edit after comments:
What…
user47206
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How to extend my hard disk into a second hard disk?
I have two hard disks on my computer, both of which are running Ubuntu (different versions).
One of them is about to run out of disk space, and I want to get partition some of the second hard disk to use as an extension to the former.
Is this…
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fstrim wont run in a cronjob
I have the following cronjob setup
@daily /root/trim.sh
/root/trim.sh
fstrim -av
but it just doesn't run. It does when run /root/trim.sh manually. It has chmod +x permissions. What is causing this?
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How to change the disk for the dir that is on home/usr
How do i change the disk the file or directory is being saved to ? Here is this case home would be always saved to the main partition and the other to the second one. The screenshot dosent have the desktop dir in it but it would be included in the…
MartinCo
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Ubuntu 14.04 Disk Space Full
Ubuntu 14.04 has been installed on 500 Gb HDD. Its saying 0 space. After deleting some huge files, it still doesn't show free space.
Note:
GUI is not coming up after login
The files was deleted using bitvise client.
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Problems after installing Ubuntu 14.04 on previous Windows 7
I had Windows 7 on my Sony Vaio E series laptop. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it. Now when I start my system, the internal hard disk (seagate 500 GB) is making an intense sound of clicking, and the system stops sometimes as well.
My laptop…
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How do I give Ubuntu 11.04 more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))?
Possible Duplicate:
How do I give Ubuntu 10.10 more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))?
first i have a seperate drive in win7 by shriking the volume of 10 gb then i have installed ubuntu 11.04 via wubi and allocated a space of 5…
pramod
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I have my Ubuntu installed on a 100GB partition in a 1TB SSD, I am running out of space
I have created a 500GB partition and mounted it in my /home but I'm still getting from my OS low disk space.
Results of lsblk :
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Does the default Ubuntu install have a file IO CRC/checksum already in place?
I was wondering if linux/ubuntu or any os had a disk io crc that occurs naturally underneath the hood like it does for TCP/IP in the network transmissions world. Or is this just left to the user using md5sum and digest tools to check for file…
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