Questions tagged [disk]
Questions about disk drives under the UNIX and Linux systems. See also the "filesystems" tag.
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How to optimally partition new second NVME for both Linux and Windows?
(pre-dual boot on single drive) Bought new SSD, how to partition it to allocate space to both Linux and Windows?
Current Specs: 512GB SSD pre-installed in laptop. Running Dual Boot with Win11 and ...
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RAID6 Array Inactive, Multiple Missing Drives
Alright, hopefully someone is able to help me out here:
My RAID6 array in mdadm just failed today. Sequence of events as follows:
PLEX server is not functioning, though it appeared that everything ...
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Why does the Use% shown by the df command not reflect the correct value? [closed]
On our RHEL 7.9 systems, we have noticed some strange behavior.
Each machine has 4 disks, each with an 8TB capacity, but we are only using about 1.9TB on a partition.
What doesn’t make sense is that ...
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Journaling block device (jbd2) hammering my SSD
Ubuntu MATE 24.04 LTS
System monitor in panel shows something like all day long. Hovering the mouse over the image shows disk usage hitting 83.3% at those peaks.
When I run sudo iotop, an item that ...
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How to prioritize SSD page cache eviction over HDD with slower speed?
I have a large slow HDD and a small fast SSD. This is about reads not RAID. My desktop grinds to a near-halt when switching back to Firefox or man pages after (re/un)-loading 12+ GiB of Linux kernel ...
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Root filesystem is completely full [closed]
everyone.
I have a completely filled root filesystem, but I can't figure out what it is.
sudo df -h /
/dev/nvme0n1p2 49G 49G 0 100% /
sudo du -h --max-depth=1 --exclude="media" --...
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How to extend a logical volume mounted on /home directory?
I was given a CentOS 9 Linux distribution server inside a virtual machine to whom I can connect using ssh protocol (from command line). I am running svn checkout command in order to clone a remote ...
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I want to increase the partition size
So recently i have been having installing many stuff related to coding and saw that my /dev/nvmeC/ is getting where all the applications are getting installed. So I was thinking of increasing its ...
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Can't figure how to grow size of "/" (ext3) & "/boot" (ext4) old Debian
So I have to update a very old debian machine on a vm with a few major versions.
But first I need to grow the filesystem because I started the update already and it failed while genarating initramfs (...
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How does my system handle the HDD drive
Today I installed Fedora Os on my PC. My PC has 240GB SSD and 1TB HDD. While installing the new OS I chose both disks for installing and I specified that i want the /boot directory to be installed on ...
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I set the cylinder head sector count to 0, how do I undo this?
I was playing around with testdisk, gdisk and fdisk, and I set the cylinder head sector count to zero by mistake, and the system now reports "no medium". I tried opening the drive with gdisk,...
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What does "supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?
I am running kernel 6.12.10 and in the depth of my dmesg log, I found those entries:
kernel: ata4: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
kernel: ata4.00: Model 'INTEL SSDSCKJF360A5L', rev '...
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My disk is 244.5GB of 258GB full and I don't know what is taking up all the space
I recently resolved a login loop on my Linux Mint machine caused by my drive being full. I have successfully cleaned out 31.2GB of data by running standard cleaning commands and by removing all my ...
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How to format SD as FAT32 on mac?
On Mac, using Disk Utility, there is only the option to format a SD card to exFAT.
I need to format it to FAT32 and probably try some older FAT file systems too.
The card is microSDXC. Similar ...
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How to move the /var folder from one physical disc to another?
I need to unmount the /var folder and move it to a 250GB drive.
When I try to umount /var I get an error Disk is busy, when I try to rename this folder I get the same error.
What would be the correct ...