Questions tagged [hard-drive]
Questions about hard disks' performance, issues, tips, and software.
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How to recover data from entire ext4 disk wiped (now unallocated) [closed]
While going through a routine install of nixos the installer swapped sda and sdb. I made the mistake of not taking note of the disk size and ran the installer to entire wipe and install on the wrong ...
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Linux disk space running full
Trying to understand more of Linux and why our diskspace keeps running full with what. Little to none experience with Linux so bear with me
/dev/sda2 is mounted on / and this disk keeps running full
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Hard drive makes clicking sound when system starts but works if I keep it disconnected at start and connect after three seconds
I have a testing system with two 500 GB HDD (RAID 1) with an Intel based MB and Linux OS. (I don't know if these information are useful, the problems seems unrelated to OS or similar but I wrote them ...
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Ubuntu: Use anacron and rsync for monthly backups to external drive
My goal is to write monthly backups of my ubuntu /home/ directory to an external drive, which after connecting it to the computer I can see at /media/ironman/Elements. To this end I use rsync.
The ...
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How to use an external hard drive as my main storage device which I can access/sync to my laptop like Google Drive? [migrated]
I have a MacBook laptop which I use to work from home and at the office. The Mac has a 500 GB hard drive which is not enough. I currently use Google Drive (1 TB used) and an external hard drive at ...
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Can I see fsck.exfat progress info, somehow?
e2fsck supports the -C switch for printing progress information; however - fsck.exfat does not. Is there any way to track its progress externally? perhaps something like a disk map which lights up ...
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EventID 51: "An error was detected on device during a paging operation", but disks are fine
We are an MSP and receive this warning on several servers. But we are pretty sure all is fine.
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR3 during a paging operation
https://learn.microsoft....
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single RAID0 Harddrive stalls when mounting
This is a cross post / repost from my linux/Unix question, after I didn't get any further comments/answers to the adittional data I gave:
Problem Description
We are using a Debian 12 Server with a ...
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HP ProLiant 380G8 HDD tray staus blinks
I upgraded my RAID6 with two additional drives. Now have six 8TB drives in it. After adding, I modified arraysize to max (SSACLI installed on PVE), restarted and tuned the partition (parted, ext4).
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One bay of RaidSonic Icy Box suddenly stopped working, other 3 remain functional, how to diagnose root cause?
I have a RaidSonic Icy Box IB-3740-C31, USB-C 3.1. It's served me well for the last few years and paired with an N100 16GB mini pc it acts as my personal home server and NAS storage. Suddenly, one ...
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Are RAID controllers blind to partition tables on individual disks?
I'm curious how the concept of partitions (and partition tables) co-exist with the concept of RAID arrays. Here is my current understanding (correct me if I'm wrong anywhere):
A physical hard-drive ...
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Is my dedicated server HD dying?
I have a dedicated server with 2 3TB SATA HDs. I use the server to create and share torrents. Recently I got the following error message when trying to create a torrent based on files on that server.
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For a storage server, practically do we need to worry about reading undetectable bit rot on hard drives?
Practically speaking, with a modern hard drive, do we need to worry about a bit rot goes undetected on a hard drive when read? Assuming that the bit rot occurs on the disk, not in memory or elsewhere.
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GCP Compute Engine CPU peaks every 10 min during disk load
I am experiencing CPU peaks during disk demanding tasks on the GCP Compute Engine every 10 minutes. I want to understand the reason why these peaks occur. My goal is to either eliminate these peaks or ...
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Free disk space of Zabbix server is less than 20% on volume /var/lib
Zabbix server's /var/lib free disk space is running low. See the picture below
https://i.sstatic.net/Jpbx7kl2.png
Checking the server, the ibdata1 file is causing the problem. See the picture below
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