Questions tagged [external-hdd]
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How to copy full external drive to larger drive when plugging causes crash
I have a linux machine running, and an external hard drive which is full. I want to dd all of the data to a new larger drive. However, just simply plugging it in crashes my host. If I boot with it ...
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Bad magic number in super-block on external HD after multiple power outages—still OK to use?
I have a computer at home that I use as a file server, using Nextcloud. Every computer at home is Ubuntu/etx4. I've had multiple outages recently in the neighborhood, and I think the sudden shutdowns ...
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Files size changed after copying them between external hard drives
I just copied ~120G worth of data from one hard drive to another one (I have both mounted at the same time while copying the files). But what caught my attention was that some files are taking more ...
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Umount + hdparm setting for an external hd
How can I obtain that in umount state but connected to usb port my external hd don't work to preserve it? It's possible to re-mount it any time? I would like to keep it on for just an hour a day to do ...
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Power Outage Has Subtly Corrupted External Hard Disk
Added a 3rd Addendum to respond to the question/comment of Archemar.
Added a 2nd Addendum to give a more complete response to the question/comment of sina bala.
I use a USB cable and an external ...
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Recovering "invisible" files from external HDD
My external HDD (WD Elements) just went into a strange state and I am asking this question to see if anyone can make sense of this.
I was running a long job overnight which reads some large files from ...
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500gb external hard drive listed with 512b only
Has anyone experienced this problem?
I have a 500GB Seagate external hard drive that recently had some problems. Due to these problems I tried to format but unfortunately the formatting shows an error
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Erase external SSD completely, including SWAP
I have an external SSD which I need completely wiped. I had Mint installed on it, with SWAP and some root dir. Those I somehow cannot get rid off. I tried sudo dd but that just wipes sdc and those ...
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LUKS on LVM – how to manage suspend/resume on external hdd?
I've just set up LUKS on top of LVM on my external hard drive. However, when I leave the hdd idle for an hour, I am getting I/O errors in dmesg when the drive spins up again:
[170969.546887] usb-...
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How to give Transmission permissions to write on external HD on Raspbian Raspberry Pi media server?
I've installed Transmission on my Raspberry Pi with Raspbian on.
Want to download torrents (legally of course) to an external hard drive.
Permission is denied. root is owner and group for the drive
I'...
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Windows 11 Pro laptop does not boot an external SSD with LinuxMint on it
I have a Windows 11 Pro laptop and I created an external SSD with LinuxMint 21.2 on it. The external SSD has the full Grub bootloader on it as well. I tested the external SSD on two other laptops, one ...
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Hard drive issue on Linux
I'v recently bought some old hard drives from a company that barely used them and wanted to use them to create a RAID 1 array. When I connect them to my linux desktop it doesn't reconise the drives at ...
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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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Formatting the same drive with gparted: original NTFS=232.28MB used | Ext4= 1.92 GB used Why?
I'm formatting an external hard drive with gparted.
The original NTFS read 232.28 MB used.
Now, with Ext4, it reads 1.92 GB used.
Questions:
Why?
Is there a better file system I should use for ...
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LuckyBackup with network drive, rsync errors 95 and 23
I installed samba on my Raspberry PI (Raspian OS Lite, latest version) to mount an external hdd (ext4, luks) connected via usb to my pi which is mounted and unlocked on boot.
I then mounted the ...
