Questions tagged [disk]
Questions about disk drives under the UNIX and Linux systems. See also the "filesystems" tag.
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Can I install Debian to a USB disk from a live USB?
I run Arch on my home server and after 2 years of infidelity I want to get back to Debian.
I will install it on a new M2 disk, but for comfort reasons I would like to avoid bringing the tower computer ...
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How to clone boot partition in another drive and make it bootable?
I am running Debian 12 on my system with two drives of same storage. The root and swap partition are in RAID-1, but I did not do the same for the boot partition since I thought the contents are same ...
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Simulate slow disks in KVM to see effect of LVM cache in test setup
I'm setting up a Linux system in KVM (QEMU) to test the effect of adding a writeback LVM cache on a fast disk in front of a logical volume that resides on a set of very slow disks (a RAID1 LV). This ...
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How to reinstate an invalidated DM snapshot?
I'm using device mapper snapshots.
Let's assume that /dev/sda is the read-only origin device, and /dev/sdb is the COW device. I created a persistent snapshot this way:
# cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdb
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Disk error by partioning dual boot and running fsck -b
so after I partitioned with mini partion tool the drive containing Linux and windows 11 broke the windows so I hoped on linux trying to fix it but the linux partition sustained some damage too it ...
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pv fails at the exact same spot
I have attempted to copy a hard drive's contents to an image file twice and twice I have gotten pv: (stdin): read failed: Input/output error at the same number of gigabytes in. This has happened ...
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Rescue/Emergency mode with Fedora 12 and GNU GRUB 0.97
I have a problem with a VM with fedora 12. When I try to start up the VM, it gets blocked with this message.
Looking in differents forums, they mention to get in rescue/emergency mode where I can use ...
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How to restore the disks in emergency mode without losing data
The server enters emergency mode after a reboot. There are two disks on the machine, a ssd /dev/sda1 and a hdd /dev/sdb1. Originally the ssd was mounted to / and the hdd was mounted to /home.
Now the ...
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No Bootable Devices Found after deleting and recreating fat32 and linux-swap partitions to increase size of /home partition
I have a Dell G15 laptop with one factory OS already installed Windows 11 and I installed Pop OS more or less 1 hear and 6 months ago in dual boot with the default Windows. I was with only 10GB of ...
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disk full at 100%
I have an ubuntu 20.04.02 running with an osticket server since 2021. Everything always worked fine until this morning when i had "http error 500" accessing the server via IP/browser.
I ...
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Failed to boot Debian server + slow in emergency mode
I am running Debian GNU/Linux 12.5.0 (bookworm) on a computer which has suddenly failed to boot and is extremely slow in emergency mode. Apologies in advance if I leave something important out, I am a ...
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Extend hard drive on Ubuntu (Server)
Im helping a friend with his small, self-hosted Ubuntu server. He wanted to install a larger hard drive. That's why I used Clonezilla to clone the HDD to a larger SSD so that the server doesn't have ...
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Not booting after converting Virtualbox disk to Hyper-V
I have a RHEL 8 VM image that I have converted from Virtual Box to Hyper-V but it fails to start (works in VB but not in Hyper-V).
Timed out waiting for device dev-di...97\x2d9636\x2dc104a96af2a5....
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Checking for bad blocks with smartctl or other means in RAID arrays
My aim is setting up a script that periodically checks disks in a RAID 1 and in a RAID 5 arrays and possibly sends an alert when a disk goes offline. I thought the option -H of smartctl was suitable ...
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What is a best way to do backups of Linux-based application running on computer with two disks?
I have a nettop PC on which the Proxmox VME is installed. There is a VM running there, which hosts application (on Ubuntu OS).
This PC has two SSDs installed. On first disk the Proxmox is installed ...
