Questions tagged [external-hdd]
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When is it safe to disconnect my external HDD?
In Windows, there's an option to "safely remove hardware".
Ignoring the fact that it almost always fails, and that most of the time I simply have to plug the device out, I get the initiative behind ...
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Seagate external hard disk creating problems
I've bought a new hard disk, a Seagate (Backup Plus), but I'm having problems with it.
Firstly, it doesn't mounts every time I plug it in. In such cases, I've got to restart the machine to work with ...
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Preventing access blocking while external HDD spins up? [closed]
I have an old laptop where I installed Debian along with a samba server which I am using to share read-write access to 4 external hard drives, which I use to stream my media from.
All works fine, ...
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Mounting external drive does not work anymore
~$ dmesg | tail
[ 479.558062] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: S07F1601A00000090095
[ 479.559231] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 480.557093] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ext Hard Disk PQ: ...
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Home server not mounting external disks
When I plug in a flash drive or hard drive to my local server (running debian squeeze) the machine doesn't seem to be mounting the devices in /media/usb*. Is there an step that I am missing? I trued ...
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External Hard-Drive not visible in /media
I cannot seem to ssh into my external Hard-drive on "/media" it used to show up there, but now it doesn't.
I have erased the Disk and verified it (on MAC OSX) and it still does not show.
I ...
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Fixed mount point of external usb hdd
I'm doing a backup script and need to have a fixed mount point for an external usb drive. If it is the first usb connected it will mount in /media/usb0/, however if it is the second, third... it will ...
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How to clone linux installation onto an external harddisk?
I see a lot of dd related questions, but could not find answers to the following. If question/answers already exist, please point to them, then flag to close, delete or merge.
Can a working linux ...
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access external hard drive to delete folder on terminal Mac
I want to delete a folder of portable hard drive on terminal in Mac. Are there any command line ?
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Gnome on an external hard drive?
I have a GuruPlug computer with an external HDD mounted. I would like to set up Gnome and try to access it via remote desktop. My first roadblock is installing Gnome. I tried running sudo apt-get ...
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External drive chmod does nothing
Why is it that I can do chmod on my files when they are on my laptops hard drive, but when i make files on my external drive, i can't change their access rights.
I do:
chmod 755 somefile,
and on my ...
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No permission on external drive [duplicate]
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can't change file permission
On my hard drive everything is fine, but when I go onto my external drive I can't chmod. I get no error message but the changing simply doesn'...
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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 ...
