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Issues with external HDD including USB, Firewire (IEE1394) and e-sata connections as well as issues relating to mounting, formatting and partitioning.

An external hard disk drive or external HDD is a device containing a drive attached to your computer via USB, Fireqire or e-sata and enables you to transport and store files on the device as a pose to utilising your main HDD.

Questions include usage of external drives and factors relating to them including mounting issues, using the disk utility etc.

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Best format for an external HDD in 2019 to be used in MacOs, Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux 19.04

I would like to have an external drive 2TB (USB 3 capable) in the best possible format to be able to write and read in the 3 operating systems. What is the best to do for external hhd in 2019.
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What is the best external hard-drive compatible with ubuntu?

I am planning to buy an external hard-drive to backup my critical data. I was wondering if I could get it from Ubuntu shop :- Any ideas which external hard-drives are compatible with ubuntu.
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Unable to access “Seagate Expansion Drive” 2 T.B

I bought a Seagate Expansion 2TB External Hard disk to use among cross platform O.S but before my use I did not bother to do any settings or mount(if there was any or necessary) and I plugged it in to my laptop which has Ubuntu 13.10 in it. It…
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Ubuntu live on external hard drive

Is it possible to partition external hard drive into 2 partition and put Ubuntu live image on one of the partitions? And how can I boot from this partition?
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How do you install and run apps from a flash drive/ sd card

i have ubuntu on my chromebook, thus to save space, i would like to run apps from external storage. how do i do that.
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Erase backup files external hard drive

I'm looking for a way to delete automatic backup files (those on the form "filename.extension~") from a external hard drive, where I keep a backup from my main disk. If the files were in /home, I could erase them with bleachbit or a similar program,…
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How to mount external Linux hard drive on Ubuntu?

I have an external hard drive of Linux. How do I see the files from Ubuntu system? I also need to transfer these files to MAC system from Ubuntu system.
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external hard disk unmounting problem

I'm using Kubuntu after changing from ubuntu. I could unmount the external HD safely in ubuntu but in Kubuntu I tried using the safely remove drive option on the notification bar and also through file manager but no success. The external HD is not…
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Do I write to /mnt or /dev?

When using an external device, do I write to the mnt point or the dev point? Every tutorial I'm on keeps telling me to write to the mount point but I've had better luck in the past writing to the dev directly. I've had to dd in the past. Some…
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Why write to an external disk I only looked at?

I mounted an external disk, looked at its contents in the file browser, and then did "safely remove drive". Surprise: a small window pops up stating that it's writing to the disk and warning me not to unplug the drive until it's done. What the…
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Boot from external HDD

I have a huawei laptop (matebook D) it doesn't support selecting external hdd as boot medium (it's really crazy) just from pen-drives. When hdd is connected it won't show in bios menu. Is it possible to add option to boot from external hdd to grub…
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External HDD not getting recognized

I was formatting a 320GB Seagate HDD from NTFS TO ext4 when there was a power outage. When the power was restored my PC no longer recognized the HDD. I used the Terminal command cat /proc/partitions while the HDD was PLUGGED and the output of that…
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Won't boot without external USB hard drives plugged in

I have 4 external USB 3.0 hard drives plugged in, but if I unplug any of the drives, the system boots to command line interface. I've included the contents of my /etc/fstab file below. Is there any way I can get my system to boot without editing my…
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How to authenticate access to an external hard drive?

I have an external hard drive. I would like to restrict access to it only by me. How can I do that? Although I only use Ubuntu when I connect to the external hard drive, I also would like it to be protected when connected to other operating systems…
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External hard drive installation question

I see everyone is talking about partitioning and stuff for installing Ubuntu on external hard drives... If I buy an external hard drive solely for Ubuntu, do I need to do partitioning and stuff if all of it's capacity will be for Ubuntu?
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