Questions tagged [ssd]
A no-moving-parts all-electronic storage device which replaces a spinning hard disk drive.
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How to extend btrfs subvolumes space using separate SSD?
$ lsblk -f -o +SIZE
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS SIZE
sda ...
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Unusual disk space occupied by wsl (ubuntu 20) in windows 11 system
I have installed WSL (Ubuntu 20.04) on my Windows 11 system with a 1TB SSD. After working with the WSL setup for a couple of weeks, I've noticed that WSL occupies almost 620GB of disk space, whereas ...
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Clear SCSI Log Pages
I am using a couple SAS SSDs. A while ago I started a "background long test" on one of them, unfortunately there was a blackout and the test was therefore interrupted.
After the power was ...
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Many of my text files are suddenly missing
I am using Manjaro linux with a Samsung SSD 840 Pro.
Ive noticed my Documents folder is suddenly empty.
After rebooting, most of the text files I had saved are no longer there.
The problem is some of ...
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Understanding nvme over fabrics configuration and its persistence
I'm experimenting with understanding the NVMe protocol and for that creating a local NVMe over fabrics setup using a Linux VM, two VMs actually. These VMs are on the same network.
One of these VMs act ...
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Is my SSD dead? can't mount. I/O errors, 29k+ fsck errors
So I work with a couple of people and we ssh into a Linux server for work. There are several SSDs, and one of the non-boot Samsung 870 SSDs crashed the other day in the morning. This led to an ...
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SSD partitioning on Linux (data loss)
I wanted to create new partition on SSD (i need it to create disk image using clonezilla).
I started from creating while I'm on ssd boot (means the system is running on ssd.
Then i got message: ssd ...
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fedora 9 install on sata internal SSD
Am Interested to know whether FC9 can be installed on internal sata SSD or it supports pata drives only?
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Hardware Theory: Read only Scrub of HDD/SSD drive using dd
Claim
If drives are capable of hardware controller correction of data upon read, then it is possible to routinely catch and repair silent data corruption by simply reading it.
Premises
Normally, when ...
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System with / & /home on SSD freezes & lags on `ntfs-3g` HDD load
Again, the / and /home and all the software and cache and data folders are on SSD.
Everything just freezes with periodic (seconds to minutes!) updates: bar stop updating (custom eww one + shell ...
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ATA error count increased / failing ssd?
So, being annoyed with the constraints of a "fixed" disk layout on my desktop, the other day I decided to migrate my / and /home to a LVM based configuration. A part of this process I did an ...
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(New Zorin OS user) Can't run Steam games unless on my SSD/install drive, and those I can run are excessively slow
I'm having some trouble. This is my first attempt at Linux and I'm already running into a wall. I installed the normal version of the latest Zorin OS on my SSD because the nvidia version failed twice. ...
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ext4 /Home filesystem won't mount - possible to recover?
I am using Pop! OS on a workstation PC in my workplace. However, today the machine crashed into a recovery mode on boot, apparently because the /Home filesystem wouldn't mount. The filesystem is ext4 ...
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Does Linux Log Unreadable/Unrecoverable Sectors from Drives?
Occasionally a drive sector is so corrupted that even the controller cannot fix it, and the data is lost. It may then be marked as a bad sector.
Does Linux make a log of such lost data in journald or ...
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Can I safely use "Erase disk and install" to install Linux Mint on a second ssd on my laptop?
I recently decided I would like to switch from having a WSL installation on windows to dual booting. I work in the Linux environment but need Windows for games, and since I recently got a second SSD ...
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All non-Bash commands freeze the system after booting
Recently, my Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS seemed to have stopped working suddenly after having continouosly run fine for 2+ months (headless mode), as it didn't respond to SSH login requests ...
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How can I resize my Fedora Btrfs root partition to take up Windows space with my boot partition in the way?
I have a UEFI system on a laptop that's currently dual-booting Windows and Fedora 39 (KDE Plasma). I don't use Windows much, and need extra space on my Fedora partition. So, I need to shrink nvme0n1p3 ...
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How to generate daily report of total bytes written (TBW,DWPD) to disk (SSD) in Linux
What is the best way to get the correct value of total bytes written to disk per day?
My goal is to log it over time, so as an admin you can gain some sense of activity on a Linux Server and have a ...
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My SSD filled up mysteriously; now I can't boot Debian 12
I have a (new) Lenovo notebook and was using Debian 12.
I was working in a Google Docs file
and suddenly received a message saying that I should empty my SSD
because it was almost full.
When I ...
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Correct way to enable TRIM on recent Debian/Ubuntu
It used to be that properly enabling TRIM for SSDs on Linux involved two steps:
Running fstrim once, to take care of all the "untrimmed" blocks to date, then
Setting the discard flag in ...
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Arch Linux 6.7.2-arch1-1 sporadically crashes / reboots
I have recently built a new PC rig. At first everything seemed to work fine, but after a while, the system started crashing seemingly randomly.
"Randomly" meaning that it sometimes happens ...
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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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Corrupted portable SSD, wrong size detected, what to do?
I have a 240 GB portable SSD from Transcend.
ESD230C Portable SSD
Model: TS240GESD230C
SN: F43849-0038
Recently there have been long delays in reading data.
During another such long delay, I ...
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Erase external SSD completely, including SWAP
I have an external SSD which I need completely wiped. I had Mint installed on it, with SWAP and some root dir. Those I somehow cannot get rid off. I tried sudo dd but that just wipes sdc and those ...
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erase hardware-encrypted SSD
Disclaimer
I'm not robbing someone, didn't rob someone in the past and don't plan to do so anytime soon.
Situation
Imagine I own a Samsung 2.5" SSD (850, 860 or the like) which is encrypted.
If ...
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Dual Boot Issue: Arch Linux SSD Not Recognized in BIOS After Windows Installation
I’m currently facing an issue with my dual boot setup. I have two NVMe SSDs: a 1TB SSD with Arch Linux and GRUB configured, and a newly installed 4TB SSD with Windows.
To avoid any complications ...
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Is my brand new USB SSD defective?
I've had a few times this problem in the past few days (but not in the previous weeks and I haven't changed anything besiders package updates) in a Debian 12 system (kernel 6.1 - haven't tried 6.6) ...
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How to extend existing /root parition (ssd sata) with nvme ssd
I'm on /root which is filling up fast it uses ssd/sata based i want to expand with new ssd (nvme) is it a good idea to extend based upon two different hardware specs but one logical volume using ...
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Large files end up corrupted when copying to a compressed NTFS3 win drive
I have two SSDs, one Linux, one Windows 11, and an HDD. I can copy normal-sized files just fine to each other, generally they are under 2GB.
Recently, I tried to copy a big file (32GB) from Linux (...
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How can I retrieve data from a HDD that couldn't finish os reinstall?
My sister asked me to fix her laptop that couldn't recognise some of the peripheries including the network cards. She hasn't used it for almost a year. First (almost half a year ago) I asked her to ...
