Questions tagged [disk-management]
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How to format a USB flash drive?
In Windows there is a straightforward "Format" option in a flash drive's right-click pop-up menu. Where's that in Ubuntu?
Ivan
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Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu on Separate Hard Drives
How would I go about dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu, the windows drive is on an ssd as my c drive and my s drive is a hdd that I want to use for Linux. I have no idea what I need to download it or anything.
TechnicallyLive
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How can I increase disk size on a Vagrant VM?
I have a VM managed by Vagrant using VirtualBox on a Ubuntu host server. My Vagrant box uses the Puppetlabs Debian 6.0.7 basebox , which uses LVM for its root partition. By default the disk is 8GB which is too small for my purposes. I would like to:…
David Edwards
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What is "/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg--root"?
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 recently. During the installation I did not create a separate partition for my home folder. I also accidentally encrypted my home folder. When i did sudo df I got the result as Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on…
user356435
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Format USB drive to NTFS so it is usable under Windows
When I format a drive to NTFS under Windows and plug it into the Ubuntu machine, it is perfectly usable. But when I format it under Ubuntu using Disks (delete all partitions and create one single partition with NTFS), it does not show up when…
Pawel Debski
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Expanding disk inside Hyper-V using LVM
In my lab environment I have an Ubuntu server 12.04 which I am trying to add space to. LVM was set up at boot up and after adding 100GB through the edit disk wizard I am unable to add that space to the partitions. I have tried using Part Magic but…
Joseph Barker
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How can I tell linux kernel to completely ignore a disk as if it was not even connected?
Notice Please scroll down for the answer (it has few points but it is the correct one). The problem is solved by a patch that will be in kernel 3.12.7 and up; I hope it will back-ported to earlier ones, too. My laptop is a Samsung Chronos serie s 7.…
Rmano
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How can I create one logical volume over two disks using LVM?
Hi. I've got a working Ubuntu 12.04 server, which is going to serve as media server. I've added two disks of size 3TB to put my data on, and I wish to combine these as one 6TB logical volume which I could mount under /media . So far, I have created…
Hydrosine
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Move files from one folder to another with same name
I'm new to linux, especially for ubuntu server and it's terminal.... I have such file structure: -im | |-t1 |-1.jpg |-t2 |-2.jpg |-second |-t1 |-3.jpg |-t2 |-4.jpg How can i move from second files to main folder, so that t1 contain 1,3.jpg and t2…
pavel
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"df -h" command puts line breaks in output. How do I fix?
My "df -h" command on my Linux box has some devices with longer names and so the "df -h" output has line breaks (or tabs??) in it, which makes it difficult to parse the output in a script. Does anyone know how I can suppress the linebreaks so that…
djangofan
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How to remove /dev/loops
On my Ubuntu desktop, the command fdisk -l shows /dev/loopX up to /dev/loop23 . I'm using gnome-fallback on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I'm wondering what possible effects these could have on performance and stabilty of the OS, and if they are just…
Karlom
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Why is the size of my .Private folder so large?
Last night I had about 190GB of free space on my 500GB HDD. Today I have about 80GB free. I ran df and discovered that my /home/jon/.Private folder is currently using 80% of my hard drive. What. The. Hell. I really don't need to encrypt my files…
newuser
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could not mount /dev/mapper/cryptswap1
I have just had a major issue with my Ubuntu 11.04 Natty which I think is going to end up in a reinstall :-( This is problem one of two so I've put them as two questions. For some unknown reason I had a Distribution update on my Laptop yesterday…
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GUI program to create partition backup image no larger than its files?
I like 'Disks' ( gnome-disk-utility ) and its ability to create backups of system partitions. But at some point I read on the internet about a program that would create such images that are not as large as the whole partition, but only as large as…
user47206
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Permanently solve “GRUB was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present”
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine (local, no cloud) which was created as a clone of another computer. Each time GRUB packages are upgraded using apt upgrade , I get the following message: 1 The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a…
Melebius
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