Ubuntu :: USB External Disk Strange Behaviour?
Jul 19, 2011
Whenever I remove my external Freeagent Go USB external harddrive my mouse and keyboard stops responding and all I can do after that is hard-reboot pressing the key on the cabinet.It happened when external harddrive was connected while a powercut, though drive works fine when ever I disconnect it mouse and keyboard stops functioning and I have to hard reboot machine again.
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Oct 16, 2010
Today I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 and I notice that the rename function is different from before.
Now it select all the filename including the extension while before it select only the filename. How can I fix this problem? It's very uncomfortable rewrite the extension everytime or remove the extension from the selection.
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Feb 7, 2010
I added the following lines to my /etc/rc.local file:
Code:
ifconfig lo:0 10.10.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig lo:1 10.10.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
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Jul 1, 2010
I have a small script that takes input from one file, and uses this input to do a find/replace (with sed) to make an executable snmp trap.The input file could look something like this :JOHBURG SOUTH AFRICAOSLO NORWAY..etcThe script takes the input from this file, and preserves all words in one line as a variable (so that the variables are "JOHBURG SOUTH AFRICA" and "OSLO NORWAY", instead of JOHBURG, SOUTH, AFRICA, OSLO, NORWAY.This is working ok (in the given example, I get two variables).sed is supposed to take this variable, and use it to substitute "HITME" with the new variable.
#!/bin/bash
N=0
cat tutticodes | while read LINE
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Jul 19, 2010
One strange and little annoying issue I notice with my openSUSE 11.3 installation is my Synaptic touchpad behaves way too strange.... Dragging a window or icon - half way around - a click is generated (probably a middle click I guess) and I need to re-drag it again.... In the browser when I try to select a text - again by dragging - a middle click gets generated... The same happens when I use gvim in visual mode too - I end up pasting the code I had selected halfway because of the middle click....
Middle click can be generated only if I press both left and right click buttons - which I'm pretty sure I'm not.... I tried playing around with the touchpad settings but no good.... I'm not able to find anything related to the middle click on the settings application... My touchpad works fine in Ubuntu and was in 11.2 as well.... Yes it works fine in Xp too.
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Oct 26, 2010
I've got a simple software RAID1 configuration (2x250gb disks) running on Centos 5 where one of the devices appears to have failed.Whilst the system is continuing to run, the ext3 filesystem on the raid device has been placed into read-only mode Is this normal behaviour? As one of the devices is still operational I can't see why this should have happened. Can anyone explain what may have caused the OS to do this?Output from /proc/mdstat is:-
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Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sdb2[2](F) sda2[0]
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May 4, 2010
I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 without any visible issues. But after a few days system started to behave strange - first it shows the message that gnome-power-manager is not correctly installed on login screen. The it wasn't able to log in even - so I found that problem might be that it shows not enough space on the root partition.This is really strange for me - I do not have any special data there.
See what I have after df command:
/dev/sda2 9614148 8618864 506908 95% /
none 1024128 360 1023768 1% /dev
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May 10, 2010
I don't know were this goes so I'm just gonna put it here
Basically earlier today i figured i wanted to try out backtrack 4 but I could only have a maximum of 4 partitions on an hd at a time.
So i deleted my partition that contained my arch home directory (didn't really have any data on it and i figured i could just make a new one later) to create an extended partition to put backtrack on. Well all went well except now when I select arch instead of backtrack i get a disk check error.
This is the first part of the error, I can't exactly copy and paste it as its on my laptop. code...
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Apr 5, 2011
I have a 1T Western Digital external hard drive. As usual my first thing to do was use cfdisk to wipe out the existing partitions and create new ones. When I plug it in, it mounts a "partition" which does not show up in fdisk, and it mounts it as if it were a CD (ie. /dev/srx instead of /dev/sdx) labeled WD Smart Media or something like that.
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May 14, 2010
I had a dual boot (windows 7 + debian), both of them installed in my internal hard disk, with the GRUB in it. I have recently installed a second linux distro (mint), but I put it in an external hard disk. Now the GRUB allows me to boot any of the three operating systems, but I need the external disk to do it. It seems that after the mint installation the GRUB is now working from the external disk (if the external disk is not connected, the machine does not boot.) �Is there a way to change the location of the GRUB, to the internal hard disk of my laptop?
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Jul 1, 2011
whether all 2TB external hard disks will run on ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)? I was under the impression that Seagate and Western Digital would, but the store where I went to buy it told me they won't. I really need to buy an external hard disk as I'm running out of the space
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Jan 11, 2010
I have just updated to karmic, and I found that my external hard disk partitions, previously mounted under /media/disk and /media/fat are now referenced by something looking like a UUID, namely /media/7b096ea4-60ee-46b1-95cd-1851b051c40d and /media/4951-95D9.
Is there a way to revert to the old settings? Any application relying on the files on the external hard disk has now stopped working. While I certainly could just change reference (assuming the UUID does not change every session), I'd rather use the old names if possible.
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Jan 18, 2010
I've 2 computers (one at the job, one at home), different motherboard types but same chipset, having AM2 AMD CPUs but different clock speed. I don't have (I don't want to buy) internal hard disks for these computers.
I would like to buy one external USB HDD and install the latest Ubuntu. I will carry this HDD to my job and my home. Is it possible to use this HDD as boot HDD on both computer? Even they are not same just similar? Is this a problem for Ubuntu?
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Mar 29, 2010
I am trying to mount an external hard disk using a USB docking station
I can see the entries for different partitions of the hard disk in fdisk -l but there is no node file created in /dev folder. So, I am not able to mount.
Something like this -
#sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdd: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf5bdf0ff
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Apr 20, 2010
I have an external hard-disk with two partitions, a fat32 and an ext3.I open gparted to resize the partitions but the only allowed operation is to check for information (see screenshot).
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Apr 23, 2010
my old pc died not long ago so I retrieved its hard disk and bought a USB enclosure. that HD had a ubuntu 9.04 partition and an XP one. Something must have gone wrong somewhere as, although i could still boot from jaunty, I was not allowed to upgrade.
It therefore seemed to me natural perform a clean install, so here's what I did:
- on a win7 computer, I inserted a 9.10 bootable disk
- with usb-disk creator, I wanted to install via a spare image so re-formatted the HD
- I couldn't install a mythbuntu 9.10 after that as I giot an error message ("can't mount the drive" or something similar). yet, in win7 the HD is recognised.
So, what am I doing wrong? Are USB HDs not included as USB devices that you can make bootable? Or should I be installing a !straight" ubuntu version, then install MythTV?
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Jan 16, 2011
My ubuntu login window seems to be chrased and seems no way to restore it. I was planning to move ahead with reinstalling it but could any1 tell me how can i copy data to external hard disk. I am in Mannual restore section with promt staying at root@ubuntu :/#
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Nov 18, 2010
Trying to install 10.04 to an existing Win7 (64) system that uses a RocketRaid 2340 controller. Windows installs just fine; reads the external driver file every time. Linux never has installed on this machine.
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Mar 22, 2010
Trying to install 10.04 to an existing Win7 (64) system that uses a RocketRaid 2340 controller. Windows installs just fine; reads the external driver file every time. Linux never has installed on this machine.
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Jan 6, 2010
I have an external hard disk for USB port. I formatted it on MS for NTFS system.working fine on MS. But can not write while on Debian. Permission denied. Want to use for both on Debian & MS.
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Aug 17, 2010
I have this unique situation, I think. My TV plays certain files only through external USB storage. My Ubuntu server stores all of these files on local hard disks. I do not want to buy an external hard disk and then keep moving it between both. Now, strange as it may sound, is it possible to somehow connect my server to the PC and expose a given local hard disk connected to the server, as an external USB drive to the TV?
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Sep 9, 2010
System: ubuntu server edition 10.10
Hardisk: a 160g usb external hard disk, formatted in win7 with NTFS format.
%fdisk -l
returns:
Device Boot .... System
/dev/sdg1 NPFS/NTFS
%sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdg1 /media/external
returns:
fuse: failed to create temporary directory
Have anyone seen this before?
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Nov 27, 2010
I plugged my external hard disk into my computer and it gives me this message: Quote:Unable to Mount:Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread
failed: Input/output error
Failed to read of MFT, mft=6 count=1 br=-1: Input/output error
Failed to open inode FILE_Bitmap: Input/output error
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Sep 14, 2010
Since I installed 11.1 and now 11.3 I haven't been abble to access my LaCie 500gb USB 2.0 external disk. So I asked LaCie support about it and they replied as follows:Windows 2k or SuSe Linux 11.0 can not see device in any USB 2.0 portsIs this a known problem and will it ever be fixed?
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Apr 29, 2009
I have Fedora 9 on an external disk, I use it at home on a desktop and at work on a laptop. It works great except that the two machines have different display adaptors. I currently have the xorg.conf arranged so that I manually comment out the driver that I am not using. It works, but I would like not to have to edit the xorg.conf every time I switch machines:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Thu Feb 5 00:18:17 PST 2009
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
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I have tried googleing for something but cannot arrive at a satisfactory search phrase to yield the required results. I looked at [URL] and tried multiple Device and Screen sections but could not get it to work.
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Aug 1, 2010
I have an internal hard drive split between Windows 7 and Fedora 12. The Fedora 12 install exists on a LVM which presents a bit of a challenge when trying to mirror the drive. I was trying to use gparted but it doesn't have support for LVM. I discovered g4l, which does a bit-by-bit copy and ran a full disk copy using that from the 500 GB internal to a 500 GB external. Inspecting it with gparted, the copy LOOKS like it went correctly.
However, when I disconnect the internal and attempt to boot to the external (specifically in the BIOS), it's unable to boot to it. It instructs me to insert bootable media and try again. Has something gone wrong with the copy? It SEEMS like g4l finished faster than it should have given the copy rate it was operating at (I had figured out when it should finish up), but the screen saver had been on and when I came back it was back at the menu, so I don't know if it got to 100% or ended prematurely? There were certainly no error messages...
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Jun 30, 2010
I want to install Ubuntu onto a partition on my external hard drive, but my CD burner is broken so I can't just boot up with a live CD and do it that way. So can I install Ubuntu onto my external hard drive with the Startup Disk Creator that comes installed on Ubuntu? And if not is there another way I can do this?
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Jul 30, 2010
Almost every time I use my external Hdd the drive gets named with an appended underscore. this is the list from my /media folder.
/media$ ls
1CF44533F4451106 F Drive G Drive_ G Drive___ G Drive_____
E Drive G Drive G Drive__ G Drive____ G Drive______
i have tried to remove the directories in terminal by using sudo rmdir but this is the error i get:
sudo rmdir /media/g drive
rmdir: failed to remove `/media/g drive': No such file or directory
now each file in the /media folder has a white x on them and i don't not know what that means. but i attached a screen grab of the folder.
how to know how to delete all the underscored folders.
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Nov 21, 2010
I recently upgraded to 10.04 and during the upgrade process my external hard disk was plugged in. Now everytime I boot up ubuntu informs me that sdb1 is missing and wont boot up till I ask it to "skip" waiting for it. Also I am assuming because of this I have trouble mounting any other external hard disk other than my own, keeps giving some sort of unable to mount problem
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Dec 9, 2010
In the past I have been able to succesfully install ubuntu on several external usb drives with up to 500gb in size.Now I am trying to install a copy of ubuntu 10.10 on an external usb iomega 1tb eGo drive but I am having major issues.The installer reports the total disk size as only 124 gb, instead of the 998gb that gParted reports for the same disk. Proceeding with "use the full disk" installs ok, but it doesn't boot.Grub2 reports that it cannot find the kernel.After some desperate attempts to repartition and after some googling I think that the issue may be with the sector size, which fdisk -l reports as 4096kb (all my other drivers report 512kb) and I have the impression that linux is not ready for it (or I lack the knowledge, which seems more likely).I have also tried to install fedora 14. This distribution reports the correct disk size, installs properly, but again, it cannot boot (Fedora uses grub, not grub2), with a very similar message to the grub2 installer.Because of the way I work, I need my external usb drive to be able to boot linux. And I find it difficult to believe that linux doesn't handle 4096kb sector disks, so here I am asking for help . Please note I am not a linux expert.
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