Questions tagged [gnome-disk-utility]
disk management and udisk frontend for GNOME Desktop and Unity. It can be found typing "Disks" in the dash/application list.
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Securely erase hard drive using the Disk Utility
I am planning on selling my laptop. So I formatted my disk using the Disk Utility and chose to overwrite the disk with zeroes.
Two questions:
Is this the same as overwriting the disk using dd?
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Encrypted disk won't unlock anymore: Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4)
In 2012 I used Ubuntu's gnome-disks utility to encrypt an external drive.
Last year I was still being able to unlock it.
But today I tried again on Ubuntu 2012.04 and gnome-disks says:
Error ...
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How to automatically turn off hard drive when not used? [duplicate]
I have a noisy hard drive I rarely use and want to silent.
I would like to put it in sleep mode after some time (20 sec) when it's not mounted on the system.
The gnome-disks utility shows a "standby ...
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How do I open the Disk Utility in Unity?
I am new to Ubuntu and have installed it side by side with windows 7. Both boot up okay, my problem is I can't get to disk utility to create a partition that I can share between both OSs. Help says go ...
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How do I open Disk Utility in Xfce?
On the back of How do I open the Disk Utility in Unity?, how do you access Disk Utility in other DEs like Xfce? And what exact packages need to be installed to access this functionality?
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Why are writes on an NVME slower under Linux than under Windows?
I am using a 970 EVO 1TB NVME SSD (2500MB/s SLC-Cached (1200MB/s TLC)) and a MX300 SATA SSD in my system.
After running some benchmarks I realized that the NVME SSD is not as fast as I hoped it would ...
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Capacity of pen drive shown is less than the actual
I have a 8 GB pendrive. I used to write raw data into the pendrive (without creating filesystem) using the dd command.
Today, when I inserted the pen drive, the I am unable to write anything on to ...
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Make a full bootable usb stick with Gnome disk utility
I want to make a usb stick bootable with multiple iso files. How can I do it via Gnome disk utility? How can I config the usb for showing grub2 before starting any of ISOs?
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gnome-disk-utility not showing all partitions after Ubuntu 16.04 clean-install [closed]
After a clean-install of 16.04 alongside W7 my shared partitions did not auto-mount at boot. I opened "disk" in launcher and surprisingly the partitions are not like shown in gparted (and in reality) ...
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How to auto mount with full permissions using gnome-disk-utility?
I have gnome-disk-utility installed. It mounts a secondary hard drive I have, but it does not do it with write or execute permissions.
How do I setup gnome-disk-utility to mount a hard drive with ...
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How do I format a partition to exFAT in GNOME Disks? "exFAT" is greyed out
I'm trying to use GNOME Disks to format a USB stick to exFAT. If I create a new partition, I see this dialog:
If I select "Other", I am presented with these choices:
As you can see, the &...
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NVME can't see S.M.A.R.T. in gnome-disk-utility
I am using Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I bought an nvme ssd (Intel 600p) and am no longer able to view SMART data through gnome-disk-utility.
I was able to see SMART using my old SATA ssd through this ...
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Gnome Disks utility freezing
I recently mounted a new FAT32 HDD to my desktop (Ubuntu 18.04). After initially partitioning the drive I wanted to partition a larger space but realized that my GNOME disks management utility window ...
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Which command do you execute to open Gnome Disk Utility (Disks)?
I have tried gnome-disk-utility and it has failed. Yet again I have deleted the launcher for, 'Disks' which is gnome disk utility and now I can't see how I can open it. I am running 12.10.
Which ...
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I have an error while I try a "benchmark" on gnome disks utility
I have a problem with disks. When I try to test the velocity of my hard drive, the system show me a message that says "error unmounting /dev/sda2: target is busy (udisks-error-quark,14)", but it's ...
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How do I encrypt an external (USB) hard drive in 14.04? [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I have a Western Digital external hard drive (Passport Ultra) mounted. I want to encrypt the entire drive. WD has Windows and Mac utilities available, but nothing for ...
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GNOME Disks and compress images
How can I create compressed images with GNOME Disks?
If it is not possible, what do you suggest instead?
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Unable to Create Backup Image With Gnome-Disk-Utility
New to the forums and running 18.04. Probably a rookie mistake I am making, but scoured the forums and tutorials.
The gnome-disk-utility tutorials are simple enough and appear to be working in the os ...
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USB stick not a block device
I am having problems with my USB stick. From the disks utility I can see its size, model and Serial Number but I can't make a NTFS partition on it. Previously I had another problem with the same USB ...
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Gnome Disk Utility - "SMART Data & Self Tests..." Option greyed out
The option for "SMART Data & Self Tests..." is not available (greyed out) in Gnome Disk Utility on 22.04. I have smartmontools installed and can read information about the disk, ...
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Cannot mount Windows partition in Ubuntu
I have a dual-boot (Win10-Ubuntu 18) for more than 6 months and everything went fine.
Today I decided to give more space to my Ubuntu system (35GB -> 80GB). I resized my Windows partition and used ...
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What is the passphrase for opening a BitLocker disk on Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 21.10. When opening GNOME Disks, I can see a padlock on the Bitlocker partition. If I click the unlock button, I am prompted for a passphrase.
What passphrase should I enter? Entering ...
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What does the star indicator mean in gnome-disk-utility GUI
Running Xubuntu there are two indicators used on the RH pane of the GUI in gnome-disk-utility. There's a litle arrow/triangle which says the partition is mounted, but what does the star symbol mean?
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How ro recover lost LUKS partition on external harddisk
Using gnome-disk-utility, I accidentally removed a LUKS partition on an external hard disk. This hard disk now looks like this:
I just pressed the minus-sign, thus I guess I just removed the ...
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No disk tool lists my old 4 TB spinning HDD. I can't get in contact with it
I've tried to connect it via an esata cable and via USB. It's not listed with fdisk -l.
How can i mount it?
dmesg | tail -n 100
Doesn't list anything about my large disk.
I have just installed ...
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gnome-disk-utility or hdparm to spin down hdd permanently → issues
I used to use this hdparm -Y /dev/sda under KDE to spin down hdd disk but this stopped to work as disk started to spin up by itself, I couldn't find a way to correct this by using other hdparm ...
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Why can I not maximise the SMART window in gnome-disks? [closed]
I would like to be able to resize/move/maximise the gnome-disks SMART window freely since I am unable to read the attribute descriptors properly otherwise as shown in the picture: SMART Window
To me ...
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Can't access SMART on an external HDD from gnome-disk-utility
I have a 2TB HDD connected by USB (WD Elements 25A2 (1014)) that I use to store my photos and as a Plex server on Ubuntu 16.04. I have been noticing it unmounting overnight recently for no particular ...
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How to be sure about which version of ISO 9660 filesystem has been used to format a CD/DVD?
Note: Current version of UDisks I have: gnome-disk-utility 3.36.3
UDisks 2.8.4 (built against 2.8.4))
I have a several empty DVD+RW disks. When I insert them in the disk player and use UDisks (the ...
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USB stick product code is recognised but not "No Medium"
I have a new USB stick that should be 1 TB. The program Disks shows a null product code ("VendorCo ProductCode (2.00)") and shows "No Medium" with no size, no media, and no contents. How do I fix it?
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What happend to SMART data (disk selftest option) [duplicate]
My question is; What happened to SMART data selftest option in Disks/gnome-disk-utility
Any help or tips appreciated.(I want to scan/repair my drive for bad sectors preferably GUI)
here is an image ...
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How to read /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
I am getting Xorg freezes every 10 minutes on 15.10. Whereas I can read the last syslog as the current report is concatenated onto previous sessions, I cannot read /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old as there is ...
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Why don't all programs recognize certain drives that have mounted at startup?
My internal Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB drive contains my OS. I have two Crucial internal solid-state drives that contain files, and have defined symlinks so that I can get to them from ~/Documents. I've ...
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gparted, fdisk and gnome-disks stuck (in various ways)
I've been having trouble getting gparted to run. I'd like to format a usb stick. . . but when I attempt to load gparted it endlessly cycles through "scanning all devices". This is a fresh Ubuntu 18....
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About the disk utility
I've been trying to make partitions in my disk using the disk utility provided by Gnome. I've wasted the whole day yesterday searching this forum, other forums, other websites about HOW to use this ...
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Formatted hard drive to ntfs with ubuntu gnome disks but doesn't work on Windows
I used GNOME Disks to format my external drive to NTFS. Now the drive works correctly when I am booted into Ubuntu but not when I am booted into Windows 10. I have a dual-boot pc and want to use this ...
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"GNOME Disks" not showing all disks
I have Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I have plugged an HDD into my Ubuntu machine through a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter a few days ago. This HDD is formatted with NTFS, its label is "D HDD" and it has ...
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Help with creating a live USB with Ubuntu 20.10
I'm trying to create a live USB with the latest Ubuntu but without success.
Steps I did:
Downloaded the ISO image
Verified the image
I tried with gnome disks, ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator and ...
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USB stick detected, but can't mount from fdisk, and doesn't show as sdb or sdX in terminal
I was using a 32GB usb memory to transfer files from an old laptop with windows xp to a more current pc with ubuntu 18.04 and while moving the files from the laptop to the usb stick I left the process ...
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Gnome Disk Image Mounter Permission Issues
I am trying to mount an ISO but am getting permission issues:
I have tried running disk-image-mounter as root which works, but while in nautilus, under other locations I see the image but am unable ...
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how can I get my extended partition to come back after I used gnome-disk to create an NTFS partition
I am just using gnome-disks in 18.04.4 (disk OK, 1 bad sector)
The following partitions existed on 250GB drive from about 2014
windows recovery primary partition
windows OS primary partition
blank ...
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GNOME disk utility resize is taking forever! Where can I find the progress logs?
This is a 2TB external drive of which 111 GB full.
I am reducing the ext4 partition size to 700 GB.
The resize partition job is running for a couple of hours now.
/var/log/syslog has no relevant ...
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Duplicate partition in gnome-disks
I use a 525 GB drive that's dual booted with Ubuntu 18.10 and Windows 10. My Windows partition should be 425 GB and my Ubuntu partition should be 100 GB, but I see two non-NTFS entries:
One says ...
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How to disable write caching after switching distrO?
Recently I switched from Linux Mint to xubuntu. When I was using Linux Mint, I enabled write caching from the gnome disk utility. But now, in xubuntu in the gnome disk utility, it says write caching ...
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newly formated disk is read only
I just reformatted a hard drive, with the ntfs file system, and its showing up as read only. How can I make it writeable?
here is dmesg:
~$ dmesg | tail
[49340.213245] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching ...
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Error whilst creating partition
Original error message in german
Error wiping newly created partition /dev/sdc1: Command-line `wipefs -a "/dev/sdc1"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: wipefs: Fehler: /dev/sdc1: Initialisierung ...
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Disks Utility Drive Settings – how does it work? (no documentation available)
The Disks Utility gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0 has a lot of neat functions, but I can not find a documentation, especially about the options at Drive Settings. There can be several like Standby Time, ...
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Discs unable to set manual mounting options in 14.04
I've done a fresh install of 14.04 after I seen that the online upgrade process from 13.10 left me with a lot of unsolvable bugs.
The issue is that I cannot set manual mounting options from Discs on ...
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Failed to execute child process "palimpset" (No such file or directory)
I just started using Linux and Lubuntu. It's been several weeks of trial and error, with both breaking things and having to reload the OS several times. Specifically, I have Lubuntu running on a ...
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Burning an iso of a movie makes corrupted DVDs
I tried to create a DVD of an ISO (movie). The ISO itself was created with dd (dd if=... of=...). I get no issues when playing the ISO with VLC. First I burned the ISO with Brasero. The DVD would play ...
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