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I get a "serious errors while checking the disk drives for /boot" error while booting
I have just set up my new system by creating three partitions on a whole hard disk (/boot, /home, swap and /). I saw this article and now I am getting those errors and the system provide me with some ...
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How to use fsck in Ubuntu?
I intend to use fsck for checking my Linux partition of the main disk, because its file system is suspicious of being not unmounted cleanly by shutting down the system. I have searched in my ...
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Unable to mount NTFS hard drive partition "The disk contains an unclean file system" [duplicate]
I have dual booted ubuntu 13.10 and windows 8.1 in my laptop.
Earlier my window partition(C drive) and other NTFS partition was accessible from ubuntu.
Now its giving me this error and not mounting:
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UUID=xxx does not exist. Dropping to a shell
Because of a hardware failure my motherboard has just been replaced. After the replacement, my system (Ubuntu 17.10) doesn't boot:
ALERT! UUID=dd84f4b3-d5bf-42e4-9b5e-ec685a461fad does not exist.
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Repairing the FSTAB
I recently changed my /home to another partition and after it caused problems (I had it formatted as NTFS) I wish to change it back to it's original location. I changed the FSTAB listing for /home to ...
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Filesystem shows /dev/nvme0n1p1 instead of /dev/sda [duplicate]
I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu 16.04 (Windows being my other OS) two months ago to try it out. I want to allot more space to it on my hard drive. I was looking up tutorials, and I noticed that my ...
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system mounts /dev/loop0 on /snap/core/3604 and it's 100% full, where is it coming from? [duplicate]
looking at df -h, I realized I have this /dev/loop0 mounted on /snap/core/3604 and it's always 100% full :
root@maxipc:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G ...
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How to change UUID in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I am asking how to change uuid in /boot/grub/grub.cfg, so that grub can load OS on a specified partition.
I have two disks:
SSD /dev/sda1 with uuid d7f0cf11-3edf-4859-b65a-3b5bc60ea7b9
HDD /dev/...
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Mount an external drive at boot time only if it is plugged in
I've got an entry for an external harddrive in my fstab:
UUID="680C0FE30C0FAAE0" /jgdata ntfs noatime,rw
But sometimes this drive isn't plugged in at boot time. This leaves me half way ...
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Fstab edit crashed system
I really need some help, I am new to Ubuntu and I think I really messed things up.
I am running Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.2 LTS, and I wanted to mount two additional hard drives at boot.
I edited the /...
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Disable Docker autostart at boot?
I was trying to experiment with docker, Ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit. I managed to run an image, and I gave it the path on one of my removable drives, /media/Drive1.
Now, whenever I reboot, I see there is a /...
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Crash: systemd-journal Failed to write entry. Ignoring: read-only file system only
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, Gnome 3.28.2 with no dual boot and no external USB devices. Once in a while I get a black terminal screen with several errors like this:
[ 5307.281824] systend-journald(539]: ...
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unable to mount samba share on boot (ubuntu 15.10)
I am following MountWindowsSharesPermanently to mount a samba share on boot
As said in wiki, I added these lines to /etc/fstab:
# auto-mounting the samba share 'Seagates' on raspberry pi
//192.168.2....
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How to mount Windows partition on boot?
I'd like a GUI method to set my Windows partition to mount on boot, using the same options as when it mounts by me opening it in nautilus.
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Cifs does not mount network device at boot
I have the following instruction written in /etc/fstab used to mount a samba shared NAS at boot of my Ubuntu server
//192.168.100.104/creativelab /home/pec/CreativeLab cifs credentials=/home/pec/....
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