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Questions tagged [gnome-disks]

GNOME Disks is a utility that allows users to handle storage devices. It uses udisks as its underlying engine.

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Write-benchmark of gnome-disks

Does the write-benchmark of gnome-disks write back the original data after the test? It is destructive? The Benchmark Settings window only states this: Please back up important data before using the write benchmark. Furthermore, how does it handle…
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Btrfs automounted and mounted via gnome-disks : "Error finding object for block device" on umount in terminal

I wanted to use btrfs on my Linux Mint PC more, but I keep encountering new issues. Now I've found out (tried on two USB sticks) that btrfs formatted USB stick can be properly unmounted/ejected via GUI (Nemo), but not from terminal. $ umount…
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How to edit/resize an LVM partition graphically (with a GUI)?

I want to resize an LVM partition (specifically, I want to increase the root / mount and decrease the /home), because I am running low on disk space on one virtual partition.  Now people say LVM has resizeable partitions… they claim, at…
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Spin down of Icy Box Raid Enclosure not working

I am running Ubuntu server 18.04 and I am using an ICY BOX IB-RD2253-U31 enclosure with two WD Black disks (no NAS disks) in RAID 1 mode (mirror). I want to put the two disks in sleep mode / spin them down with hdparm (lowest power consumption sleep…
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How to format a usb flash drive to Ext2?

When I use a GUI environment, I have there only ext4, NTFS, FAT and other, but I need to type their name. I tried one time to type there ext2, but it seems it gets stuck. I was waiting a lot and it still did not format. My OS Debian, using Gnome 3.
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Boot time has drastically increased after restoring partition

I have made a backup of my Linux Mint Xfce partition and I have restored it (all with "Disks" - gnome-disks) twice. (More here). The partition includes all the system (no separate partitions between /, /home/, /boot etc, just /.) After each…
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How to correctly restore system partition (iso image) with 'Disks'

I have been able to backup and restore a Linux Mint system partition with 'Disks' (command to run: gnome-disks; package to install: gnome-disk-utility) from a live session, but I am not sure that was the best way to do it: on the contrary! I need…
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Change gnome disk utility to use binary units

When I open gnome disk utility it shows disk capacities in decimal. Is there a way to make it so that it displays disk sizes in binary? I'm running gnome 3.22.1 on Debian sid.
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Can I find out the auto-mount options?

If I edit mount options, I can untick "Automatic Mount Options" and define my own. However, I would like to use those options it would normally use as automatic ones, just with one change (mount on stratup). How do I find out what the auto-options…
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GNOME Disks Sample Size

I'm trying to use GNOME Disks to test my disk performance and, according to my previous experience, I'd like to set the sample size to 8K, 16K and 32K. However, I see the minimal sample size in its interactive interface equal to 1MiB. Is it any way…
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USB not detected and can't perform actions on it

While installing ChromeOS Flex into a machine, the installation process froze and we had to stop the installation. Now, the USB is not recognized in any machine, no matter if Windows or Linux. When executing df -h, the device does not show up.…
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SSD performance different results in dd and gnome-disk

I wanted to measure my SSD read/write performance and found some recommendations for using dd and gnome-disks. (from my understanding, hdpart is not relevant since it's not using the disk itself but only cached data). The problem is that I get…
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Linux Mint Not Recognizing New External Hard Drive Properly

I recently bought an external hard drive by maxone to use with a Mac that I have. The instructions that I got with it was to connect it to a Windows PC and format it before I can use it with a Mac, but since I only have a Linux machine available I…
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Mkusb error leading to unusable flash drive (mangled partition table)

I struggled to title this so if you have a better title please edit or request a change. Trying to dual-boot windows and Ubuntu. I used mkusb to create a bootable Ubuntu disk, installed it, then went to create a bootable Windows disk in the same…
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why can gnome disks not format ext2 or ext3?

Why does the GUI tool for formatting disks have no option to format with ext2 and ext3 filesystems? Why would a tool used for formatting exclude these filesystems? What is the rationale behind this annoyance?
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