Questions tagged [external-hdd]
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Cannot shrink *unmounted* External drive ntfs partition
I'm relatively new to linux mint(4-5 months in [loving it!]) and I have a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD connected (WD Drive in the photo)
I'm trying to shrink the main NTFS Partition on said drive, and it says max ...
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usbreset does not reset negotiated speed
I have Ubuntu 24+ (6.11.0-26-generic) installed on a PC with a Asus Prime Z690-P D4 motherboard, Intel CPU and so on.
I have a WD MyBook 24 TB HDD USB which is always connected to the motherboard, by ...
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Why do the sync mount option kill the performance of NTFS partitions?
I have noticed that when I mount my external HDD NTFS partition with the sync option, the write performance is terrible (1MB/s max). But when I use async the system finishes the operation very quickly ...
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Is the Axagon EE35-GTR Ribbed HDD enclosure compatible with Linux?
The Axagon EE35-GTR USB-C 5Gbps RIBBED box HDD enclosure claims to be compatible with Linux and any capacity.
I need to use it with a 20TB Seagate HDD on a desktop PC with AMD A88X chipset, running ...
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Failing HDD causes boot hangs and became unreadable. how to fix this problem?
I have a problematic HDD (/dev/sdb)
Causes complete system during boot and freeze (on windows) drive listing
Appear in lsblk but shown as unreadable
Fail all standard repair attempts fsck, wipefs
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How can I debug NTFS corruption that occurs after successful eject?
Lately when I write to an external drive formatted as NTFS* and then eject it, and wait a full minute before un-powering, then upon re-powering it won't auto-mount and manual mount attempts give an ...
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Can't mount exfat external hard disk drive: "Volume was not properly unmounted."
I can't mount my HDD anymore. After the last time I used it, I clicked "Remove safely" in my file browser, and now I can't read data on it anymore.
Here are some diagnostic commands I ...
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Error in btrfs-receive when directory was replaced with subvolume
One the directories in my machine has a high turn-over of very large files, so as I was snapshotting the file-system, those files began to fill-up my hard-drive. I transformed it into a btrfs ...
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How do I install Steam games onto an external harddrive in SteamOS?
On Windows and other Linux distros, I simply go to Steam Storage Settings and add that external harddrive as a library storage device from here:
When I try to do it via the "Add Drive" ...
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Difficulty mounting external drive after certain boots
I have a RasPi 4 connected to a 12TB EXT4 hard drive in a Sabrent cage hub which I use for an OpenMediaVault NAS. The drive worked fine for about a month until its file system started to go missing in ...
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How to recreate file system in an external hard drive from scratch?
I've got a Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 25A2. This is the way it introduces itself through the lsusb command.
Unfortunately, I cannot format it. Through Gnome Disk Utility the command ...
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Command to know the speed between mainboard and HDD/SSD
I want to know the speed of data transfer between a HDD or SSD and the
mainboard. It through a command. If is possible through a GUI, it is accepted too
Goal:
I want to do a comparison of speeds ...
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Not authorized to perform operation (udisk-error-quark, 4) - Gnome Disks on DietPi (RPI2B)
I am having some issues mounting some partitions with my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B running DietPi. The software utilized is GNOME Disks.
Thank you so much for all of your time and energy. I immensely ...
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External hard disk not being connected
I recently install Debian Stable 12.7 and it is otherwise working very well.
I tried to connect an external hard disk (I presume it will have NTFS partition).
The light on the hard disk turns on, it ...
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External HDDs become read only every 2 days
I decided to have a media server running Linux Mint and CasaOS (Plex) and 2 HDDs connected via USB.
All works fine after I turn it on however, after 2 days or so, the drives become read only, causing ...
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