Looking for a Reliable, Maintenance-Free Backup Solution for Ubuntu 24.04 I’m looking for recommendations on a reliable, easy-to-manage backup solution for my Ubuntu 24.04 system. My goal is to backup about 150GB of data, including files, images, and documents. My data is currently split between cloud services such as OneDrive and Google Photos, plus some …
Docker Relocate to external USB SSD Problem Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Docker version 24.0.2 I am trying to relocate the /var/lib/docker directory to my USB SSD flash drive to save memory on the internal storage, however, I am having difficulty doing so. I have attempted to modify the docker service to set a different data-root, but …
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 fstab (so the trimming would continue). I’m a little behind the times. Now …
Help needed regarding GRUB for Dual Boot from two different SSDs I am comparatively new to Ubuntu.I have a laptop with Windows10 installed on a 1TB SATA SSD.Today,i added another 240GB NVMe SSD & Installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I can successfully dual boot & change the OS from BIOS.But unlike my Desktop(Where I have Ubuntu …
Live usb does not recognize SSD: should I use AHCI/NVMe? I just received a new Dell Latitude E5440 running Windows 11. I’m trying to install Ubuntu but since I’m doing this once every ten years I got a new problem every decade. My problem is Ubuntu, on live USB does not recognize the SDD of …
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 when I’m AFK, and sometimes when I’m working on my computer, without clear reproducible action. Also, "crash" …
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 other two entries seem to be separate from sdc, …
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 it’s a software encryption like Bitlocker, FileVault or VeraCrypt, I can simply reformat the disk and …
Dual-boot windows and Ubuntu I have Ubuntu on SSD, use it as my main OS, but want to install win10 on separate SSD for gaming and to learn how to do it:) Need some help (good videos/articles/guides/solved question) to do it properly with GRUB and etc. I don`t want to reinstall Ubuntu and don`t have …
Cannot find boot device I have installed Ubuntu on my Acer aspire 7750, but when I try to run Ubuntu it says: cannot find boot device. I have checked if my SSD is giving any errors with the smart tools and it says it’ s ok. I also put my SSD (where Ubuntu has been …
After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, new icon with encrypted SSD I recently upgraded from 20 to 22. I suddenly have an icon on my left bar which says SSD and a lock on it. When I click it, it asks me for a password for an encrypted drive. It says there 91 GB of data …
Creating new installation for testnig hardware My desktop is really running slow. I am going to run a test to find out if my hardware is the problem, or if there’s just too much ‘stuff’ running on my existing LTS 22.xx.xx SSD system disk. I bought a new SSD drive, and I’m going to install …
Can't access windows 10 partition after update to 23.10 I used to be able to access a separate ssd for windows, but after updating to Ubuntu 23.10 it gives me the following error : Unable to access location Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/abdelrahman/2A907C5D907C3185: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or …
Do I still use the official documentation from seven years ago to partition a 2TB SSD drive for installing Ubuntu 22.04? Found an official Ubuntu documentation page from seven years ago about how to partition an empty 2TB HDD for installing Ubuntu. It offers the 4-partition scheme of four primaries: /boot (1GB), swap (4GB), / …
Debian GRUB installer partitioning step – Intel MacBook Pro I am trying to install Debian to a partition on my SSD. Currently I have three partitions on my SSD: Container disk1 – AFPS container macOS AFPS Volume Group Linux – PCI-Express Internal Physical Volume Bootcamp – PCI-Express Internal Physical Volume And I have created my …
ALERT! UUID=XXXX does not exist. Dropping to a shell. Ubuntu installation drive is not being detected I’m trying to install Ubuntu on my NVMe SSD however it doesn’t seem to find the SSD I installed Ubuntu on. I have Windows installed on my 2nd SSD and I’m also very new to Ubuntu. Here are the …
FIO reports slower sequential read than the advertised NVMe SSD read bandwidth TLDL For the very simple sequential read, FIO reports is much slower than the NVMe SSD sequentail read capability. Main Text Hello everyone, I have been facing an issue while trying to achieve the maximum read bandwidth reported by the vendor for my …
How to format NVMe drive in Linux suitable for raid 1 and lvm on xen Host I want to create a software raid on two identical SSDs How do I create partitions and format them optimal? lsblk nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk nvme1n1 259:1 0 953.9G 0 disk I probably have to use fdisk …
Ubuntu Nextcloud server stopped working with error on SQUASHFS Nextcloud is not running anymore, but I can access the server: I booted with "rescuefix" and started GParted: The Ubuntu install seems to be somehow a RAID or logical volume, because for Nextcloud the SSD was full. smartctl: Result of long test Now I have no …
SSD: `badblocks` / `e2fsck -c` vs reallocated/remapped sectors The badblocks utility allows one to find bad blocks on a device, and e2fsck -c allows one to add such bad blocks to the bad block inode so that they will not be used for actual data. But for SSD, it is known that bad sectors are …
