Questions tagged [storage]
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How do I increase the size of swapfile without removing it in the terminal?
Is there a way to increase my existing "swapfile" without having to destroy and re-create it?
I would like to up my swap space from 1GB to 2GB. Currently it is set up as such:
$ sudo swapon -s
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How do I mount an SD card?
My computer has an SD card slot. When I put a working SD card into the slot, nothing happens. When I put a CD or DVD in, or plug in a USB drive, the medium is mounted and available. Is there something ...
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Can Google Drive desktop be used on Ubuntu?
I'm thinking of switching my operating system from Windows and I use Google Drive desktop with all of my video work.
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Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / '
I was lucky enough to be given a 40 GB SSD as a Christmas gift; and, given the inherent speed of these drives, decided it would be best used as the / partition; but then it occurred to me that this ...
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Is there a Gmail Drive?
is there the gdrive in ubuntu? like windows have.
Or similar
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Duplicity - storage location not available, waiting for Google
I recently upgraded Ubuntu from 17.10 to 18.04 LTS and used my usb key as a backup for my files. Now that I am on Ubuntu 18.04, I have a problem with duplicity. In fact, when I run the restore process,...
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Disk has 1TB but I can only use 7.7GB [duplicate]
I bought this computer one year ago and it came with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I used the computer as it came and I didn't have problems until now when I can't even download photos because the storage is full....
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How file system block size works?
All Linux file systems have 4kb block size. Let's say I have 10mb of hard disk storage. That means I have 2560 blocks available and let's say I copied 2560 files each having 1kb of size. Each 1 kb ...
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Why is my external USB hard drive sometimes completely inaccessible?
I have an external USB hard drive, consisting of an 1 TB SATA drive in a Rosewill RX35-AT-SU SLV Aluminum 3.5" Silver USB 2.0 External Enclosure, plugged into my SONY VAIO VGN-NS310F laptop. It ...
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USB Storage Device Automount
Under Ubuntu 10.04 one of the problems which appeared is that USB devices would no longer automatically mount when plugged in. Normally I would get a pop up message asking what application I wanted to ...
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How to deal with snap using a lot of storage space?
I have Ubuntu installed. I have a partitioned disk with a root / partition of 20 GB and a /home partition of 60 GB. I thought that this would be enough for Ubuntu, but snap is using a lot of storage ...
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Is there an upper limit to Ubuntu One Storage Subscriptions?
At Ubuntu One Services it is possible to purchase 20GB of additional storage space for $29.99/year. There is also a box which appears to work as a sort of quantity selector. My question is:
Is there ...
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SD card doesn't work well under Ubuntu, but does well under Windows
I own a laptop with a built-in card reader. For the past year or so, I've been coping with a curious problem that seems more software related than hardware.
I run a dual-boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu ...
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Changes to SD card undone after re-mount (e.g. deleted files re-appear)
After having a corrupted file system on my SD card due (probably due to unsufficient power supply) I want to make a new filesystem. (e2fsck fails, log below.)
However, any file-related changes on the ...
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Where exactly are programs and files saved on a non-persistent live system?
Recently, I needed to test various kernel boot-options with a live system and had to install a program to check system information on every boot (I did not have a USB drive available and the CD was ...
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Recommended storage scheme for home server? (LVM/JBOD/RAID 5...)
Are there any guidelines for which storage scheme(s) makes most sense for a multiple-disk home server?
I am assuming a separate boot/OS disk (so bootability is not a concern, this is for data storage ...
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Is it safe to delete /var/lib/snapd/snapshots?
I had to reinstall Spotify because of an issue, which is now resolved but something else came up. I was notified that my root partition was filling up and I realised that in /var/lib/snapd/snapshots, ...
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Virtual RAM folder in Ubuntu?
I would like to have a folder mounted as temporary, which is actually my RAM. This is so that, for example, I could copy a movie into my RAM, unplug my external drive, and then watch it. Can this be ...
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Moving home/user directory to another drive?
I'm installing a SSD and to save space I want to move my user folder to another drive, is there a way to do that?
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Why can't I buy more storage?
Im trying to buy 2x20G of storage but when I try it says "Sorry something went wrong".
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Where is the storage location of Ubuntu terminal in Windows 10? [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu terminal(Ubuntu app) in Windows 10, I have enabled the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
The problem is that I cannot find the path where the files that I am using are getting ...
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Is it possible to grow a luks-encrypted external raid5 array?
I'm planing to buy an external raid array (hardware raid5). My intention is to outfit it with 4 disks initially and encrypt it using luks and dm-crypt. My question is: Will I be able to hot swap disks ...
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What is Ubuntu One?
are there any paid subscriptions available for Ubuntu One?
What additional features does it have?
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Understanding disk space using WSL2
Complete novice here, so please tell me if this should be posted in a different forum. If the answer is already available online, I haven't been able to find it in my searches.
I set up Ubuntu 20.04 ...
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Is there are way to read a windows storage space from Ubuntu?
I have a windows storage space setup on my windows 10 instalation. The storage space includes only a single NTFS drive (sdb) and the drive is only used for storing media, windows is installed on a ...
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How can I get a redundant filesystem which grows easily?
I want to use Ubuntu Server on a computer which I want to use for my backups.
I would like to be able to add extra disk space if that would be required in the future.
Basically, I like what the Drobo ...
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How can I safely remove the ~/Snap folder?
I'd love to delete the Snap folder in my home. It takes 97 GB of space. No package manager should be allowed this amount of space in the /home mount point!
How can I safely delete Snap and all its ...
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Is there an item limit for the file explorer?
This is a question regarding Xubuntu 14.04.
Very long story short, I had to use the program recoverjpeg to restore some photos that I forgot to back up after a fresh install. This resulted in 850k ...
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Show disk usage in Nautilus/Thunar
Is there a way (or an extensions) to display disk usage/remaining disk space, in Linux file browsers (Nautilus/Thunar) like what happens in Windows when you open My Computer/PC. I know conky can do ...
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How can I find out the EXACT storage space of my USB drive?
I'm planning to burn a Windows 8 image on my USB. Win is 3,9 GB, and so is my USB, according to Files > USB > Properties, but how can I tell the exact storage size of my USB, in case Windows is few MB ...
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btrfs for deduplication and compression at the same time?
I'm thinking about using btrfs functions for both deduplicate and compress my storage...
My question is: is it efficient?
I mean, does it deduplicate AND compress at the same time efficiently?!
I'm ...
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Errno 28 No space left on device even though there is space
Hi I am fairly new to ubuntu, and today when I tried to open jupyter notebook I got the following error:
myname@My-Laptop:~$ jupyter notebook
[I 2022-08-08 07:58:41.188 LabApp] JupyterLab extension ...
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Cannot remove /snap directory even after removing snapd
I prevously removed snapd, however, the /snap directory is still there, and consumes a lot of space. How to remove it?
I tried sudo rm -rf /snap, but that says
rm: cannot remove '/snap/path/to/file': ...
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How to make journald increase logs storage capacity?
I would like to have persistent logs via journald. I created /var/log/journal and reloaded the service. Now logs are saved on the disk. But the log size limit is low.
I added /etc/systemd/journald....
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Log file eating up whole space in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Fix?
I have recently got into Linux and it's dual booted in my pc with windows 10. I installed a few files in Ubuntu 16.04 and a space of 41 GB is allotted for Ubuntu in my pc. But all of a sudden a prompt ...
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Try Ubuntu - Where does it store my files?
I am wondering, when you select the option of just "Try Ubuntu" instead of installing, where does Ubuntu store the files that you download / copy / save?
I right click in the Home folder, and it ...
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How do I get Skydrive working?
Does anyone know how to make Skydrive desktop tool work with 12.04?
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Multipath only sees 2.0T of 4.8T
I have been given 4.8T of SAN storage to my Ubuntu 10.04 64Bit server. multipath only sees 2.0T. Is this a limitation of Ubuntu or Multipath; or am I doing something wrong?
Example output:
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Multiple gnome files in /snap
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop and checking my storage usage. I have four files in /snap named gnome 3-38-2004, gnome 3-34-1804, gnome 3-28-1804, and gnome 3-26-1604. Do I need all of them?
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How to manage imported certificates?
I've got a X.509 certificate file (with a .der file extension) of a certificate authority that I want to trust (it's required to connect to my academic network). When I double-click on a .der file I ...
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Can't access any storage devices on 12.10
Hi I've just started using Ubuntu 12.10 (today!) my first time with any non-windows OS. I wanted to retrieve some files after windows stopped working. I boot Ubuntu from a USB and it seems to work ...
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Disk space suddenly 100% used? [duplicate]
I'm trying to identify why, suddenly, 100% of our disk space is in use. I have already rebooted but the issue persists.
Here are the outputs of some commands that are showing some strange (for me) ...
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How do I enable low disk storage warnings?
I haven't been getting any low disk space warnings even though nautilus tells me I've got little space left (varies between reporting 1.4G free to complaining that it's unable to save a small file ...
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does btrfs/ZFS make ECC RAM obsolete?
ECC RAM is recommended to be used in a server in order to minimize/prevent data corruption.
Would ECC RAM be obsolete if your server uses btrfs (or ZFS) as filesystem (which both are said to prevent ...
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How to find superblock?
I am trying to find the superblock with dumpe2fs command, but with this output there is no information about superblocks.
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Change where basket saves notebooks?
Currently I am trying to use Basket but, I can't find the place where it lets me change where my Baskets are stored. I need to keep them encrypted from prying eyes and want them located in /media/...
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Fake RAID (dmraid) not seeing new SATA drives
I have three drives in my machine, one SSD with 32GB and two 1TB drives, attached to an Intel 82801JI (ICH10) SATA AHCI Controller. The problem is, that I can access only one of the 1TB drives when ...
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Sd card bigger than 2gb is not recognized in ubuntu 12.04
When I insert a card up to 2gb it is immediately seen by the system but if try it with bigger one it's not seen. I presume the issue is not due to the card reader itself as it reads all cards under ...
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How is disk space shared from nodes when using Ubuntu Cloud?
I'm thinking about setting up a private cloud using Ubuntu with 2 nodes, but I don't quite understand how disk space from each node is handled in the cloud.
Can somebody explain how (and if) the disk ...
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Cloud init - storage configuration
I have two problem in the section of the storage (user-data file)
1. When I try to increase the /dev/sda2 with Gparted I cannot do it because the creation of the volume boot. ( see picture bellow)
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