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Questions tagged [disk]

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

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How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?

I have absolutely no experience with Linux, and I desperately need to get my computer back up and running again with Windows. How do I remove Ubuntu and reinstall Windows? Editor's note: many of the answers are about removing Ubuntu from dual-boot…
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How to find out how much disk space is remaining?

What is the command to find out how much disk space is being used/remaining?
hawkeye
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Mount single partition from image of entire disk (device)

I made an image of my entire disk with dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/external_media/sda.img Now the problem is I'd like to mount an ext4 filesystem that was on that disk but mount -t ext4 -o loop /media/external_media/sda.img /media/sda_image obviously…
Nicola Feltrin
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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.…
user51447
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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?
Guillaume Coté
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Unable to format USB drive with Disks (udisks-error-quark, 0)

Upon trying to make a startup disk (USB) for Ubuntu 12.04, the system prevented boot loader installation. I'm getting message: Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0) Can I still use the startup…
Ramesh Sukumaran
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How do I rename a USB drive?

How exactly would I rename a USB drive? I've read that you can go into the Disk Utility, click on Edit Partition, and there is an option to rename the label but I can't click in the area to rename. Is there any other way?
Muhnamana
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Ubuntu installer can't find any disk on Dell XPS 13 9350

I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 / 15.10 on my Dell XPS 13 9350 (November 2015). I created a bootable USB disk which boots fine but the installer and the file manager do not detect the hard drive. What is the problem? How can I solve it?
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How to set up multiple hard drives as one volume?

I am about to set up box to basically be a file server. I plan on having multiple drives in the box, and would like to set them all up so that they appear to be a single drive. So I could essentially have it mounted at say /media and not really care…
Jacob Schoen
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How to determine where biggest files/directories on my system are stored?

I was wondering how do you know where the largest files in my system are stored. For example--- Disk Space Used: 1GB Java: 500MB Java Percentage: 50% maybe represented in a pie chart. Maybe? I know this maybe a feature overkill. I sometimes forget…
myusuf3
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disk space used up

I have upgraded to 13.04 and lose disk space, ... I have a 3 TB hard disk, and had yesterday still 890 GB free, ... today all is gone! Disk Usage Analyzer does not give me a clue and says that it could not read all directories due to missing…
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How to List Unmounted partition of a harddisk and Mount them?

How to list the disk partition when they are unmounted? And how to mount them through terminal?
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How can I monitor the TBW on my Samsung SSD?

As is common knowledge, SSDs have a limited number of PE (Program-Erase) cycles before the NAND cells die. Therefore, it is very helpful to know how much data has been written to your SSD, in order to determine how much longer it will last before…
You'reAGitForNotUsingGit
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How to add an entry to fstab?

I unmounted a disk (/dev/vdc1) on my server machine (it doesn't have a graphical environment) and then formatted it as an xfs file system. I forgot to mount it again and also didn't add the respective line to my fstab file. Now, after rebooting the…
Dady
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Importance of Swap Partition

What is the purpose of a swap partition? How do I know I have just enough swap partition? Not too much/little. My Ubuntu PC is used for typical stuff: Web (email, facebook, etc.) Some movies gaming is rare
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