Questions tagged [hard-disk]
A permanent data storage device used for storing and retrieving digital information using rapidly rotating discs (platters) coated with magnetic material in a rigid form factor (as opposed to floppy disks).
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How to reliably mitigate TOSHIBA HDWL120 (2TB, 2.5 inch) from aggressively parking its heads even with hdparm -B 254/255?
When it parks any of its heads, a distinct click is heard and I thought my new HDD is already failing and that's why I checked SMART and seeing this is a bit ridiculous (only relevant lines):
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Seagate Pipeline HD hard-drive not found in Asus UEFI bios
Seagate Pipeline HD hard-drive not found in Asus UEFI bios. Though when the machine is booted into Arch Linux with a live usb on the same machine it shows up.
Hard-Drive
Model Name: Pipeline HD
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Unable to mount Full "md3" System Partition on CentOS Server, preventing Boot
I'm facing an issue with my server running CentOS. The system partition "md3" (raid1) is full due to a backup script error that failed to delete old data. As a result, my CentOS system has ...
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CPU IDLE low as results of bad disks is it the case here
Low CPU IDLE can be caused by a variety of factors, including:Insufficient RAM or slow Hard Disk Drive
but in our RHEL server RAM memory have enough RAM but from dmesg we found couple errors about the ...
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Dmesg reports a lot of "Unrecovered read errors" and yet rsync copies just fine. Why?
I've been copying moderately valuable data (nice to have, not the end of the world if it is lost) from a bunch of old HDDs to my new NAS with more reliable storage.
During reading I get a bunch or ...
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Manjaro Linux HDD Cloning/Backup to External Storage
I have Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop with Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format.
Now, the issue is when Manjaro Linux is accessed, there is a Continuous "Stroking"/"Screeching" Sound or ...
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Does snapper (creating btrfs snapshots) spin up or keep spun up my hdd?
I am concerned that:
snapper (when creating snapshots) might prevent my drive to go sleep or
when the drives are sleeping that snapper might wake them up?
If yes, how can I prevent that? My goal is ...
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Moving hard disk from one laptop to the other: how to update OS drivers?
I have moved a hard disk containing openSUSE Leap 15.5 from one laptop to the other. The two laptops are from two different manufacturers.
The OS runs fine on the new laptop. But there are some ...
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How to debug missing drive slowing systemd boot process?
After swapping an HDD for an SSD, I realized that my headless NAS system was booting slower... much much slower! I could not find anything in systemd-analyze blame, systemd-analyze critical-chain, or ...
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my usb hard drive is only showing up in lsusb
I have a 500GB WD My Passport Hard Drive And it doesn't show up on my computer, Which is running arch linux. i've tried searching for solutions, however most of them are only if the drive dosen't show ...
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Meaning of Smartctl output
I'd like to use smartctl to see how long each of my external hard drives has been running (for planned replacement) though I don't understand the man page. I can't see what command I should be ...
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Diagnosing unwriteable HDD
I am currently dealing with an HDD, which I cannot write to, but I do not understand the reason for it. Here is what I have observed about the problem:
Running a read-only benchmark works fine; read ...
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How to check if ssd/nvme/flashdrive/external-disks is fake
Since there's a lot of counterfeit disks lately (external disks that claim to be normal 500GB/1TB/2TB/4TB but inside it's only 16GB flashdisk and heavy iron, or nvme but it's just small microsd ...
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SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) and (OfflineUncorrectableSector)
I have been receiving the following error messages every day for several months now, and I do not know how to stop receiving these messages.
CurrentPendingSector
This message was generated by the ...
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Upgrade HDD on PlayStation 4, clone with dd and enlarge the partition using GParted?
Will it work if I use the dd command to clone the almost full 1TB hard disk drive from my PlayStation 4 to a new 2TB drive, then resize the partition using GParted to utilize the full capacity of the ...
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Why is my drive showing almost 1TB usage when I just now created the partition? [duplicate]
I just now got done wiping an 18TB drive, formatting it, making a new partition, and creating the filesystem on it. Below is the output of df -h on another machine that's connected via Samba.
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Disk size issue in Linux lite running in VirtualBox and different information from different apps
I have a VM running Linux Lite 5 for quite some time now. Recently I've been having disk space issues.
I have cleared as much as I can and I have also increased the size of the virtual disk in virtual ...
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Adding A Hard Drive To A Specific Directory
I am currently running a Plex server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. My hardware setup includes a 1TB SATA SSD, which currently houses the operating system and the Plex server. Additionally, I have a separate ...
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The dd command is enaugh to delete all data from an hard disk?
I need to remove all data from an hard disk where is installed lubuntu 22.04. I was thinking to boot from an Ubuntu liveUSB image and, from a terminal, use the command:
# the Hard Disk is the device ...
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Does hd-idle check if the disk is idle prior to spin down the drive?
I was thinking about to let hd-idle manage the spin down of all my drives after 3 hours because I am having trouble doing so with hdparm or smartctl in conjunction with apm or sleep command.
So my ...
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Mount More Space Under /
I am trying to install a package and apt complains of not enough space at /var/cache/apt/archives.
The usual commands:
apt-get autoclean
apt-get autoremove
do not work. Turns out because most of the ...
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Unable to Format my HDD
A Few Days Back i was using my PC it had a decent Startup Everything was Just Fine, But Suddenly Screen Glitched & all Sort of went downhill afterwards.
I, as i'm a normie when it comes to ...
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Does Smartctl require a file system to run a test, and is my drive toast?
I have a brand new drive that I want to test before using. Just installed it, did not format/partition, nor create a filesystem on it yet. First thing I did was check the smartctl stats, then start ...
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PCIe SATA controller problem in re hard drive capacity
I have tried two different expansion cards in a machine running Debian 11 -
An older PCIe SATA controller with:
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9215 PCIe 2.0 x1 4-port SATA 6 Gb/s Controller (rev ...
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Disable bad disk from spamming dmesg/journalctl
Is it possible to disable disk using command line?
I got spam like this:
[2245922.091035] ata3: EH complete
[2245922.150696] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
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Unable to boot on centos 7
Since today, I cannot boot into my Linux CentOS 7. I am directly taken to emergency mode.
I have tried the following commands without success:
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 and sudo fsck -p /dev/sdb1
I have ...
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Check if Docker volume-mounted path is on HDD or SSD?
In Linux, it is relatively easy to determine whether a drive is an HDD or SSD. However, is there a method to achieve the same result when you only have a path?
I need to check, from within a Docker ...
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external HDD drive become Read-only file system with wrong file system type
I have a Toshiba HDD with an ext4 file system that I have been using extensively until yesterday. Suddenly, it has become a read-only file system, and when I run fdisk -l, it shows the type as HPFS/...
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How to resolve dd error reading?
I have dd error reading
# sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=backup.img bs=4M status=progress
16478679040 bytes (16 GB, 15 GiB) copied, 154 s, 107 MB/s
dd: error reading '/dev/sda1': Input/output error
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Debian 11 - HDD isnt seen by installer and live version but perfectly seen by BIOS
HDD isnt seen by installer and live version but perfectly seen by BIOS.
I have 2,5 in HDD on 320GB connected to Asus AT4NM10-I motherboard with SATA2 cable.
HDD is set to ACHI in BIOS.
Ive been trying ...
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How can I get a notification when a drive enters standby, using UDEV?
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with OS Lite and some disk drives attached to its USB ports. I also have a Python script that I want to be executed when the drives enter and exit the standby mode. I made a ...
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how to access linux data from another machine physically?
My laptop is failing, but I know for sure the hard drive is okay and fine.
I want to take the data inside it, I connect my laptop's hard drive (open suse tumbleweed with btrfs filesystem) to my ...
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Troubleshooting error mounting /dev/sda2 after hard shutdown on Kubuntu 23.04
My system froze just now and I had to do a hard shutdown, held down power until it shut down, and now I can't access my second drive. I'm kinda worried that I have completely borked it somehow. :/
I'm ...
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How to quickly and securly erase data on a disk?
I'm going to securely erase the data on a HDD so that I can donate it.
I use shred which is a specialized the tool for this puprose.
So I run shred -vfz /dev/sdd1 and it does its job:
shred: /dev/...
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How do you erase the partition TABLE of a drive?
New(ish) to Linux, not new to hardware.
Got a new NAS which is to be hosted via linux. Before that I'm faffing about with the hardware, and things I will never get to do otherwise. Live distros are so ...
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Adding new hard disk to a RHEL9 virtual machine
It's my first post here, so forgive me if I don't provide enough info. I'm also a beginner Linux user as well.
At the moment I'm going through Sander Van Vugt's RHCSA RHEL 9 course and I'm fairly ...
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Pre-install debian on a drive by plugging it into a computer other than the one it is intended for
I have an APU2 machine which outputs everything via its serial console. Is it possible to plug its mSATA drive into my windows laptop, install Debian using a live CD and then plug it back into APU2?
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HD: Reformat - Device or resource busy (udisks-error-quark,0)
I am trying to reformat a Hard Drive from LiveOS. I am using the partitioning GUI tool. I am stuck on this error:
Error formatting volume Error erasing device. Error opening device /dev/loop2 for ...
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Is there a seamless way to cache the file table of an HDD to prevent unnecessary spin ups?
I'd like to be able to browse the file system of my external HDD without having it spin up. Is there an easy way to cache its file table in a way that allows me to use normal tools like Caja/Gnome ...
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how to minimize hdd spinups?
I have a mdadm RAID 1 of two Toshiba MG09 18Ts in my pc but I don't need to access them very often, maybe 1-2 times a week.
I'm booting the pc once per day which also spins up the hdds.
When using a ...
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How to enable hardware encryption on my Crucial MX500 drive
I have a Crucial MX500 1TB drive and it supports hardware encryption. I need to attach it to my Raspberry Pi 4 running ubuntu 20.04 and enable encryption. I also need the drive to be auto attached to ...
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Which hard drive failed SMART ? Synology NAS
I had 2 x 4TB Red Pro drives in a Sinology NAS. One of them was reported as failing (couple of years ago) by Synology. I believe it was a SMART failure. So I pulled out both drives bought a new one ...
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Faster wipe hdd with random data
I know that with
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=hdd_size_in_MB
you can wipe a whole disk with random data. But urandom is very slow. So I wonder if it would be possible to just create ...
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Why do sda5 uses so much disk space?
On Linux Mint, how should I free some space? I got an error "The volume "Filesystem root" has only 0 bytes of disk space remaining. I have
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used ...
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mint - change spare storage drive's UUID to something human-friendly
For noobs struggling with their migration from macOS or Windows...
By default, when formatting and partitioning a new drive, Linux will assign a UUID to the drive, however, this UUID now shows up in ...
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Change /tmp (to increase available space) on live system?
I use Ubuntu 20.04, on a machine that has a limited system drive.
I came across a build script that checks for available size in /tmp, and it refuses to run if it doesn't see 12 GB available, which I ...
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Recovery of a broken Hard Disk's filesystem using ddrescue and testdisk
After working on a partially rescued partition, I was told to use ddrescue to save a failing external hard drive and then apply testdisk over it to complete the rescue operation. Although the drive ...
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How to properly poweroff external HDD in HDD rack
I got Pi4 4Gb running rasbian (similar to Debian) and Orico 4bay HDD rack connected with USB3.
Earlier with same host and one HDD in separate enclosure I was able to power off disk using:
sudo ...
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Unknow ltp dio30 test error. The SSD disk is dead
Environment:
LTP version: ltp-full-20230127
CPU: FT-2000+(arm64)
Run LTP command:
nohup ./runltp -p -l /home/result.log -d /home -t 168h &
Bug description:
When I run ltp alltest, after several ...
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How do I change the drive that I boot from but still boot to the same distro?
I am using pop os and I just got an nvme drive.
I am not sure what I need to move there and how.
I am also not quite sure where to start as I have never done anything storage related more complicated ...
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