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Is my SSD dying?
I have a home server that I use for Home Assistant with Ubuntu Server. All was good but someday the server stopped responding. I plugged it into a monitor and it was requiring a manual filesystem ...
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Is there a way to recover data from a drive that was an LVM partition?
I'm a bit new to ubuntu, apologies upfront for gaps in my understanding.
One of our device broke down recently and needed to be RMA.
The device had 2 drives, an internal 30gb drive and a 1 tb ssd. The ...
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LVM merge destroyed hard drive
I tried to upgrade from Kubuntu 22.04 to 22.10, and borked it.
Accidentally pressed Ctrl-C with the terminal window active.
I think I was able to fix everything, but didn't want to chance it.
I had an ...
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Why is my Samsung 980 Pro SSD with LUKS and LVM locking up?
Brand new fully-optioned Alienware M15R7, dual SSDs, Windows 11 Home on disk0, Ubuntu LTS on disk1 Samsung 980 Pro SSD. LUKS and LVM configured in tandem on Ubuntu (disk1). Everything has worked ...
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LVM Encryption on Ubuntu Server
I have set up a small home server a few days ago and already configured some things. Unfortunately I have not selected the option Excryption of the LVM during the installation. Now I am looking for a ...
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Why is the read/write speed of two SSDs so slow when mounted as single logical volume with LVM under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
For scientific computing, we need fast read/write speeds. So I upgraded one of our machines with 2 SSDs. I used the command
hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
to test the read speed. As reference, our standard HDDs ...
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Optimal Disk Partition Scheme for Normal User
I am new to Linux, I have installed Ubuntu Desktop to my machine, and this post is about Ubuntu Desktop, not Server. However, as I do researches about Ubuntu and learn something about it, I have ...
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How to install Ubuntu with LVM & LUKS on a SSD and use an LUKS encrypted HDD for data on a Dell Inspiron 7580
The goal for a Dell Inspiron 7580 (smaller SSD and bigger HDD) is to install Ubuntu (LVM/LUKS) on the SSD and use the HDD (LUKS-encrypted) for the bigger files (e.g. Video, Pictures, Download, ...). I ...
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How do I combine an SSD and HDD for existing setup on Ubuntu 19.10?
I've been trying to combine my SSD and HDD under one partition so my user data ends up on the HDD and everything else ends up on the SSD. However, I've been having the hardest time doing this. Here's ...
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Looking for a storage strategy for hybrid and full flash storage with manageable configuration overhead
I have been using lvmcache with a larger HDD and an NVME drive (about one fifth of the size of the HDD) for a while for the space where I store my projects and data on my workstation at home, with ...
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Mounting a Luks partition
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I have backed up a drive with all its partitions using the command
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/oshirowanen/external-drive/backups-2019/ubuntu.img
/dev/sda is an ssd which has Ubuntu 18....
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LVM volumes on an external SSD in 19.10
I have a USB3 SSD which is an LVM VG and PV with two LVs on it. When I first insert the device, everything works fine; the volumes show up as /dev/dm-X and links are created in /dev/mapper/<...
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Ubuntu 19.04 freezes on writing to disk SSD
I just updated to 19.04 from 18.10 (and previously from Debian Stretch). Since the upgrade, any writing operation freezes the entire system, including mouse, for 3 or more seconds. It's quite bizarre ...
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Two SSD with or without LVM?
I've recently bought a new laptop that came with 250 GB SSD. I added 500 GB SSD as well. I've already installed ubuntu 18.04 in the 250 GB SSD.
Also I'm thinking of installing Windows on the 500 GB ...
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LVM over 1x SSD + 1x HDD
I am just wondering if somebody thought about this: in a system constellation with a SSD and a HDD would setting up a LVM that would include both generate something similar to a SSHD? Would the system ...
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