Questions tagged [external-hdd]
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Can't mount EXT4 hard drive after mounting it in windows
I have a 2TB Western external hard disk.
Its original filesystem was NTFS but I formatted it to EXT4.
I had no problem in Linux; but today after I mounted it using ext2fsd in a windows box, I can't ...
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How Do I use autofs to map a USB drive by its ID?
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I have a USB drive -- let's say the drive's ID is /dev/disk/by-id/thediskid
I would like to mount the drive -- by ID -- to a folder (let's call it /MOUNT_FOLDER)
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What is the best way ...
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smartctl on external hdd inside ide-to-usb enclosure
I have a very old 2.5" IDE drive inside a USB enclosure that gives some buffer I/O error. I tried to use smartctl to see what SMART says about it, but I can't manage to make it work. Being root, if I ...
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Connected external HDD slows down system
I need to connect large external hard disks (with many many files) to a system running Ubuntu. I have no idea how the Linux kernel is treating the inodes for the external drives, but attaching huge ...
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Locate disk in SAS enclosure
I want to blink the failing device in my 24-disk SAS enclosure.
I have found sg_ses --index 7 --set=locate /dev/sg24 which is supposed to identify slot 7.
But how do I figure out which slot/index /...
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Can you use grub to boot a RW partition file stored on a FAT32 HDD?
This is a bit tricky question. I have a Ubuntu 11.10 installed onto a USB 16GB Flash drive. I used the Ubuntu installer to do this. It runs great! Except the I/O is slow. I also have a 250GB USB ...
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How to give regular users the write privilege to an external drive? [duplicate]
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Mount permissions always blocked
I'm using a scilinux machine. Whenever I connect an external drive, it is mounted as read only (and the root has full access). What and how ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 and large external drives
I have a Hitachi USB external 3 terabyte drive attached to a Dell Precision T1500. When connected to the computer running Ubuntu 11.04 (2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 ...
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Loss of disk access on external USB system/boot drive
I'm running ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell D400 laptop. I'm booting and running the system from LVM volumes on a WD Scorpio Blue 2.5" drive mounted in a NexStar3 USB enclosure.
For the most part, this ...
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Install mandriva in USB HDD
I want to install Mandriva 2010.2 in my external USB HDD using the image file. The laptop's cd/dvd drive doesn't work, so I don't have the option of making a Live CD and starting the installation from ...
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Can't access USB HDD
I just bought a WD 1TB Caviar Blue drive, and a Bytecc HD-35SU enclosure for it. Snapped the drive in, went to plug it in on my laptop, nothing happened. I figured that probably meant I needed to ...
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Why is my fstab entry for an external USB drive not working?
I have an external USB drive which my system recognizes as /dev/sdb1. I want to have it automounted with 755 permissions on boot and shared over the network with samba. I created the mount point /mnt/...
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Adding efficient storage to a laptop-based system
I've recently asked an as-yet-unanswered related question.
My question here is a bit different: I want to know the best way to add storage to a laptop-based system without sacrificing power ...
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power management of USB-enclosed hard drives [closed]
With a typical USB hard drive enclosure, is the full range of drive power management functionality available?
edit: moved this into a separate question:
In what may be an unrelated matter: is it ...
