Questions tagged [disk]
Questions about disk drives under the UNIX and Linux systems. See also the "filesystems" tag.
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Boot error after disk rename
I Installed Debian Buster OS with luks encryption. Stupidly, after the install, I opened-up the gnome disks utility and changed the name of the drive from something like "sda5_crypt" to &...
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Formatting SCSI Disks
I have a vintage Sun Fire V440 running Solaris 9 and recently purchased 8 "refurbished" Seagate ST3300007LC Ultra-320 SCSI 300 GB disk drives for cloning the system's four disks (which are ...
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how to replace non LVM disk that is full, on the fly
we have rhel machine 7.2 version
disk sdb size is 3.9G
and the following disk ( non LVM disk ) is full
/dev/sdb 3997376 3911504 3911504 99% /hadoop
we add additional disk - /...
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Linux: DRM: Failed to create kernel channel, -22 Nothing to read on input
When following a youtube video,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3q9S0FkvcA&t=456s
I got to install drivers, so I installed NIVIDIA.drm and tried to reset the computer. The problem was after I ...
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Faster Disk side of the HDD
So the internet is saying that the inner part of the disk is FASTER then the outside of it. Now do explain me that this is right and if it is right please tell me how to transfer my data to the ...
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Extended a partition error
I'm trying to extend the main partition to 40G from 30G after modifying the EC2 volume.
This is what I have:
xvda 202:0 0 40G 0 disk
├─xvda1 202:1 ...
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What does `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null` actually measure?
I was doing some hard drive speed benchmarking and decided to try the following command to see what would happen:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
After I canceled it, I got:
(269 GB, 251 GiB) copied, ...
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Question about Disk Partitioning
I'm new to Linux environment and trying to get some clarification on the Disk partitioning.
I've installed new RHEL 8 vmware workstation initially with 20GB Disk and later expanded with additional ...
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How can you move an image of a GPT drive to a smaller device?
I have a 64GB SD card with Linux (Debian) installed on it.
I want to move it to a smaller SD Card (16 GB).
I used resize2fs and cfdisk to resize the filesystem and partitions, so that now, they look ...
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Is my drive failing and is this the same reason my laptop is running slower?
I run Ubuntu-20 and I have scanned my laptop using smartctl. The test results are as follows:
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 32
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ...
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What is the meaning of “Lifetime_Remaining%” in smartctl?
Recently I had an fsck error on boot, where I had to run fsck manually. So, I did it and the problem disappeared. After that i run smartctl -a /dev/sda and i saw the following attribute
ID# ...
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Linux + how to simulate JBOD disks that are out of service in shelf
We have Kafka machines installed with RHEL 7.2 servers on Dell HW and a shelf includes 15 disks.
We want to understand what happens when we push out one of the Kafka disks, and see if Kafka is still ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade killed automount of removable USB disk
When I built my DIY NAS running Ubuntu 18.04, upon connecting my external backup USB disk, it would automount to /databackup. /etc/fstab contains:
UUID=c4001f83-8a1b-458d-b1f0-07ed6b481d26 /...
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device-mapper: table: 253:1: multipath: error getting device
I have 2 ProLiant DL380 Gen9 servers. one of them is primary and is giving services. the other one is standby. both are configured to be exactly the same. OS is CentOS 7.5. both have HBA card and 5 ...
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How to create a new encrypted LUKS-partition in GParted?
I want to create a new encrypted LUKS-partition in GParted.
I've searched the UI and the help, but the only thing I can find is how to open and close an existing LUKS partition and how to to copy and ...
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Restore ENTIRE system ROOT / (CLARIFICATION)
I recently had to restore the disk with borg. So via live linux, I entered my disk file system, deleted everything (root /), and restored a backup of a specific date. Now I ask myself: do you need to ...
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Mounted network disk, how to determine whether the network disk is dropped
I'm trying to use fuse file operation for control, now I mount the network disk to the local, when cp a file to the inside, the mounted network disk suddenly dropped, in the cp file when the program ...
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Grow Fedora partition after removing Windows dual boot
I have a single 1TB SSD that initially had Windows 10 on it, then had Windows 10 and Fedora 33 configured to dual boot.
Now I want to only run Fedora. I have deleted the Windows partitions and wish to ...
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“wrqm/s” vs “w/s” in iostat: which one reflects disk load better?
I have a HDD which should top out around ~90 IOPS. iostat -x shows w/s at 50 and wrqm/s at just 5. Which one more accurately reflects the disk load?
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My linux server uses less space than ACTUALLY available
I use linux only to run my TF2 server and host some private shit. Today I tried to upload 80gb file but failed several times. I found out the issue. I have 250gb SSD but my linux for whatever reason ...
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How to make the HDD spin down after x seconds permanent (setting fixed in the HDD hardware)?
NB: This is a question about software solution; here I'm looking for a hardware solution.
Following this answer, I can set the spindown time of my USB3 external HDD:
hdparm -S4 /dev/sda # spin down ...
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Why is the output of free -h different from free --giga?
I am facing a very weird problem.
On my Fedora PC I have 12 GB swap file.
But when I issue free -h I get :
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: ...
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Discrepancy between file size and disks occupied [duplicate]
I created a file with a single "A" character in it.
Ran the stat command and got as part of the information:
Size: 2 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Why does a 2 ...
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Delete corrupted apfs volume when diskutil fails
I'm trying to delete an apfs volume on my MacBook but Disk Utility keeps giving the error "The chosen size is not valid for the chosen file system."
I then tried booting into recovery and ...
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change du behaviour not abort but skip
I am running this puppy
root# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.6 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS"
VERSION_ID=&...
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Difference between BUFSIZ from stdio.h and block size from blockdev?
I'm reading The Unix Programming Environment (1984). In Chapter 7 (Unix System Calls) the authors note:
While the number of bytes to be read or written is not restricted, the most cmmmon values are 1,...
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Disk renamed automatically
One month ago I bought a new SSD disk for my PC, that I connected with the SATA3 port to my motherboard. I created a partition /dev/sda3 on that disk and I named it PatriotSata3.
It was working ...
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Disk space is missing
I've been running a program lately that creates about 100-200GB of temp files each time. When this runs I'm often now running out of disk space...but I'm really not.
When I run df -h I get:
Filesystem ...
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device label is not recognised - pendrive doesn't work
my pendrive doesn't work:
device label is not recognised
How can I fix it? I don't need the data from it, so it can be formatted.
There are some communicates:
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Dysk /dev/sdb: 3,...
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How to extend partition for Ubuntu?
I have 128 GB SSD in which 52 GB is allotted to ubuntu and 66 GB is free space. I want to add 66GB space to my ubuntu partition. What is the safest way to do this?
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How to address the error “Your data directory is readable by other users” with ntfs-3g usermap
I use the command
ntfsusermap /dev/sda1
in order to generate a mapping file to use a NTFS usb external drive (that has already many files written under Windows in it) with debian based linux distro.
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Fedora partition gone after battery drained out
I am on a laptop with Fedora 31 running.
I went to the Fedora gnome software center, update the latest firmware and left it running.
After sometime when I check the laptop, its battery drained out. I ...
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How do I reconcile the amount of data on my HDD?
I have a 500GB NVMe drive that has my entire filesystem. I am running in to problems where I am getting "low disk space" errors, when I really shouldn't be. I did find that my .xsession-...
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How do I measure hard disk READ latency?
I read on this blogpost that I can measure the hard drive write latency using dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/testfile bs=512 count=1000 oflag=dsync, and by reading dd's manpage I realized I can make it &...
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NGINX directio is not working (O_DIRECT flag in open(2) sys call )
Nginx configuration is
location /conent/ {
directio 200k;
directio_alignment 4k;
}
Using SSD with ext4 file system with 4k block size, and journaling has been disabled, linux kernal version is 5.4., ...
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why does fdisk add one additional sector when creating partitions?
I'm playing around with fdisk and I tried to create a partition on an empty USB drive. Here's how that went:
Command (m for help): n
Partition number (1-128, default 1): 1
First sector (34-61187102, ...
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Blinking cursor after checking /dev/sda2 on boot in Ubuntu
A few weeks ago, I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my Acer C720 (Intel Celeron 2955U, 2GB LPDDR3 RAM). (I used MrChromebox UEFI firmware). No problems, works OK, a bit slow, and some internal GTK errors ...
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Error installing Linux in external hard disk
I was trying to install ubuntu in an external disk, when i make the partitions, it says 'failed to format ext4'.
I tried with an older ubuntu version, and another distro and same error.
I disabled the ...
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How to free space in /tmp and then move that free space to /usr?
When I install Fedora, I was sure the space I gave to /usr was more than enough, but at the end, after I installed some development packages, I have used about 65%, which is unexpectedly much.
When I ...
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Linux (Feren OS) installation does not detect partitions of drive
I currenty have a system with three drives: two SSDs and one HDD. I have Windows 10 installed on the first ssd (C:/) and I want to install a linux distro - Feren OS 64bit JULY 2020 - as a secondary OS ...
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df and du average and send alert
I have nfs share which has mount point from all the container/pods as claim
NFS = 50GB and its used by container as
Java = 1gb -- mount point as java_data in container
postgres = 20GB -- mount ...
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How to log when a directory is no longer being written to
Without going into too many details, we have a situation where files are being written constantly to a drive on a RHEL 6 server. What we need to do is to log when a certain directory hasn't been ...
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how to format a partition of a diskimage?
I made an empty binary image file with fallocate -l 500M sd.img command and then partitioned it using gdisk and now I can see my partitions using gdisk:
Command (? for help): i
Partition number (1-2): ...
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Mount an existing partition without formatting
I've installed Arch Linux on /dev/sda2 and it is marked as boot.
But I have all my old files and documents in /dev/sda1 that is not accessible.
When I run sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt, there is an error:
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Cannot expand file system on CentOS 8
I have partitions in my CentOS 8 machine as below:
[root@XXXXX]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80 GiB, 85899345920 bytes, 167772160 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/...
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Undo a disk format while disk is still attached
I've been struggling with a disk that's a logical volume. Disk would not work with me and I decided to partion and format the disk.. Then realized that I have de-attached and attached the disk without ...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 - Finding SAS & SSD Disks Info
I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 system. I want to find SAS & SSD disks parts and which parts combine to form which mount points on system or database (Oracle 11gR2) level. For ...
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Add New Disks Using LVM to an Existing Linux System
We want to Add New Disk Using LVM to an Existing Linux System ( according to - How to Add New Disks Using LVM to an Existing Linux System )
We have the following rhel 7.2 server details
pvs
PV ...
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SATA disk drive behind Adaptec RAID 5405 can't be detected as block device
Due to shortage of free built-in SATA 3.0 plugs (6 totally) on my motherboard (Gigabyte 970A-DS3 rev.3) I've got an Adaptec RAID 5405 (3G SAS/SATA RAID) to move all "slow" SATA 1.0/2.0 ...
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Do docker container cause slow Disk/OS performance
We have 3 servers, each of which are running RHEL 7.6. Each machine has 64G of RAM and 15 CPUs.
We are preparing to install a set of services --- kafka, zookeeper, schema registry --- on all of the ...
