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Convert MBR/BIOS to GPT/UEFI (infodump)
I wanted to upgrade my 1.5TB HDD to a 4TB SSD, none of the internet resources I found correctly matched my situation from beginning to end, and I ended up spending about 20 hours getting it to work, ...
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How to enable hardware encryption on my Crucial MX500 drive
I have a Crucial MX500 1TB drive and it supports hardware encryption. I need to attach it to my Raspberry Pi 4 running ubuntu 20.04 and enable encryption. I also need the drive to be auto attached to ...
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Swap logical device names of two NVME SSD drives
Is it possible to swap logical device names of two NVME SSD drives installed in a laptop (Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 2022) without phisically swapping their port positions?
I would like the current /dev/...
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Isolating I/O issue with NVME or hardware?
Hardware:
Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD (MZ-V8P2T0BW) (2TB)
Beelink GTR6, with the SSD in the NVMe slot
Since the hardware arrived, I've installed Ubuntu Server on it as well as a bunch of services (...
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Software caused connection abort
I've got an external ssd that was giving me Transport endpoint is not connected errors after a few hours of a lengthy rsync I was doing. So I set the 'advanced power options' to never power-off :
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How to configure disk space in Ubunutu with SSD and HDD without dual boot?
I recently added an SSD (240 GB) to my laptop and installed Ubuntu on it.
Since my HDD (1 TB – not external) wasn't being used, I mounted it at /Disk.
Now I can't utilize the complete storage of the ...
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How to find out my laptop secondary memory's interface?
I own this old laptop that is starting to feel way too slow, it uses a HDD as secondary/nonvolatile memory, and I'd like to buy a SSD to replace it, is there a way to find out the memory interface ...
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i have linux in my hdd, how can i transfer all my linux system files to ssd. the ssd was already in my laptop?
I just installed Linux Mint with dual boot (in windows). Linux is installed in Hdd and windows is installed in SSD. And I deleted windows, so now my ssd is empty. Now how can i shift my linux system ...
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Ubuntu crashes due to read-heavy operations/high SSD temperatures
For a few days, I've noticed that my Ubuntu-based machine has started to freeze while performing read-intensive operations. The freezing, however, does not occur during write-intensive operations. ...
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Is cp faster than rsync during the first run?
I am currently using rsync to copy a 73GB file from a Samsung portable SSD T7 to an HPC cluster.
rsync -avh path/to/dataset [email protected]:/path/to/dest
The following applies:
My local machine (...
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Are any of the Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based distros or Fedora flavors using the kernel that fixes the bug with some Samsung SATA SSDs?
I have a Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD that seems to disppear at random times when installing or attempting to use my OS.
It has happened on multiple different distros, but not on Windows. All SMART tests ...
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After inserting m2 ssd only grub is starting but not Linux (Ubuntu)
I have Ubuntu(20.xx) on a 250gb ssd and MS-Windows on another 250gb ssd. As soon as I insert a 1tb m2 ssd in the motherboard (which had previously ubuntu 18.xx installed), ubuntu would not start, only ...
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How do I get my HDD in my in my freshly installed Ubuntu?
I have a SSD and a HDD on my system. I had wiped my SSD and installed ubuntu a few days before. My HDD had three partitions at the time. Their names were GApps, TMV, and study.
But ubuntu only ...
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How to use the internal HDD in a SSD+HDD laptop?
My Dell Vostro 3491 came with 1TB HDD and 256 SSD. Ubuntu was installed on the SSD and I can use the drive for storing and accessing files. But I am unable to access the HDD.
From the disk utilities, ...
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I have ubuntu on SSD and HDD. How to boot into ubuntu on SSD instead of ubuntu on HDD
I had ubuntu 20.04 installed on my HDD and i copied it to my new partition (/dev/sdb4) on SSD, then i installed grub.
Now whenever i select ubuntu on /dev/sdb4 (i.e. ubuntu on SSD) boot option, my ...
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