Questions tagged [external-hdd]
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smartctl on external hdd inside ide-to-usb enclosure
I have a very old 2.5" IDE drive inside a USB enclosure that gives some buffer I/O error. I tried to use smartctl to see what SMART says about it, but I can't manage to make it work. Being root, if I just write:
#> smartctl --all /dev/sde
smartctl…
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Connection problem with USB3 external storage on Linux (UAS driver problem)
On Ubuntu 15.10, when I want to format using the NTFS file system an external 4TO disk connected by USB3 (on a StarTech USB/eSATA hard disk dock), I have a lot of I/O errors, and the format fails.
I tried GParted v 0.19, and GParted on the latest…
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How do you mount a USB hardrive that shows in lsusb but not fdisk or lsblk?
I'm running Mint/Mate 17.3 and normally external drives "just work" when you plug them in. I have one particular older drive that has been sitting on my shelf for about 10 years (an "EZ Quest" from about 2005), but it worked the last time I used it,…
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How to power on an external hard-drive after powering it off?
When I "safely remove" an external hard-drive from my file-manager (Thunar), the whole hard-drive is powered off and disappears from /dev. Therefore, I guess that under the hood, this is done by calling udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdX which has the…
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Why is rm slow on an external storage drive (USB-connected, type fuseblk) with 50Gb of files?
I have been trying to use rsnapshot for making backups, but I'm finding it unusable. While it is able to diff a directory (50gb) and duplicate it (hardlinking every file) in a few minutes, and I can cp the whole directory in about half an hour, it…
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Cannot boot because missing external disk
Using Fedora 24, I had configured in /etc/fstab an external usb drive:
UUID=6826692e-79f4-4423-8467-cef4d5e840c5 /backup/external ext4 defaults 0 0
When I unplugged the usb disk and reboot, it does not boot
That is the error message:
[…
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Can I port user permissions across computers for an ext4 external hard drive?
I have an external USB 3 disk drive (2TB capacity) that is most likely going to be moved from machine to machine. The disk has a GUID partition table and an ext4 partition. I am unable to write to the disk unless I elevate the process (sudo).
As of…
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How to get smartd to ignore an HDD?
I have an external HDD which does not report SMART information properly (it gives nonsense results).
As such, the smartd daemon (part of smartmontools) keeps giving false alarms on how the device might be failing.
In /etc/smartmontools/smartd.conf…
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How to calculate partition Start End Sector?
I am wondering what Start and End value to choose when partitioning my ext. SSD using fdisk.
fdisk suggests 2048-250069679, default 2048 but 250069679 cannot be divided by 512 nor by 2048. Wouldn't it be better to set the Start and End value to a…
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Is it possible to install a program onto an external drive?
I run Ubuntu 14.04 on a Toshiba chromebook using crouton. The drive my OS is installed on is small, with only 3.6 GB of free space. I'd like to install sage on my system but sage requires 6 GB of free space on the system.
However, I always keep an…
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Is btrfs suitable as a backup filesystem?
Right now I have a pretty traditional backup filesystem structure on top of ext4. Every time a backup is made, a new folder backup-DATE is created to which files are rsync'ed (with hardlinks made using rsync's --link-dest option).
Since I have read…
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"Permission denied" with ffmpeg (via snap) on external drive
I got a new drive and I can copy files fine with simple cp on the drive. However for some weird reason I get Permission denied with ffmpeg.
Permissions seem fine unless I'm missing something
> ll /media/manos/6TB/
drwxrwxrwx 13 manos 4096 Apr…
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Command line equivalent to "Safely remove drive"?
The file managers present in Linux Mint Cinnamon and MATE not only allow you to unmount external drives, but give you the option to "Safely remove" the drives as well, something not present in every Linux distribution.
When I unmount my external…
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access external hard drive to delete folder on terminal Mac
I want to delete a folder of portable hard drive on terminal in Mac. Are there any command line ?
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Mounting ExFAT on Linux
I've been trying to set up my Raspberry Pi B+ as a HTPC that also shares a USB HDD over Samba and AFP. The latter is working just fine, and the Samba share seemed to be working too for a moment. However, whenever I try to connect to the Pi now (no…
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