Questions tagged [storage]
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autoinstall storage using lvm layout and XFS as fstype
I'm trying to configure autoinstall storage with XFS as fstype.
Using this automatically creates ext4 volume
storage: # This should set the interactive (lvm set) default
layout:
name: lvm
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Nas storage expansion [duplicate]
I have a server that I use for Minecraft and a shared folder. I would like to know how to turn the rest of the unused hard drives into NAS storage. I have one 14TB drive so far.
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LXD - How to resize "default" zfs storage pool?
I am using lxd to host a windows 11 VM and followed this guide to setup.
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-install-a-windows-11-vm-using-lxd#4-install-windows
The storage pool i created uses the zfs ...
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Intel VROC support on Ubuntu 22.04
I'm thinking of setting up 2 x NVMe drives in RAID1 using Intel VROC. Has it been tested and/or supported configuration?
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Low disk space after 24 lts upgrade [duplicate]
Due to sudden issue in 22 lts (losing audio, being unable to play video, music or anything in the browser) I opted for upgrading to 24 lts.
Upgrade did solve aformenetioned issues. However I now have ...
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I can't get Kup to backup to my Qnap NAS
The Kup configuration allows me to point to a destination folder on my Qnap NAS. File manager can see the Folder. The Kup pop up reports that "Backup destination not available"
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Ubuntu 22.04 from LXC not supporting standard XFS args
I'm setting up a demo k8s cluster for use with MinIO storage system. I've encountered issues with the nodes running on LXC/LXD with Ubuntu 22.04. According to one of the MinIO project members, the ...
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Is the fact that I have a ton of disc things in System Monitor > File Systems that all have either 90% or 100% bad?
many disc icons of varying filenames all with either 90% or 100% s
I tried opening Steam recently, but it said that I don't have 250MB to install an update. For some reason, I didn't believe it, but ...
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Enable Ceph Dashboard in Microceph
I have a microceph cluster running via snap and would like to enable the ceph dashboard for visibility it disk utilization and other metrics (not for service configuration). There are some ...
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Ubuntu Server 22.04.4 LTS. /dev/mapper/vg0-lv--1 issue!
Hello I have the issue that my /dev/mapper/vg0-lv--1 gets full if I try to install something and if I run a app then it gets from 70% to 73% and at installations to 100% and it says: (ERROR: Could ...
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Storage issues ubuntu 24.04
I am using sudo apt-get clean, autoclean, and autoremove. My cache is full and only clears one percent. What is the correct way to free up some space from the command line?
Here is the result of ...
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Impact of software raid on IOPs performance
Today my server is a ubuntu 22.04 setup where I am starting 2 VMs namely mgmt-vm and storage-vm using LXD. Both the VMs are using lvm based storage pool which is on top of logical software RAID5 drive ...
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Writing permissions on mounted NAS in my linux machine
I have a NAS in my home with all my shared files. I want to mount this storage in my linux terminal and I have accomplished that by adding:
//192.168.0.145/TARDIS_Share /mnt/nas cifs username=...
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Logical Volume Management in Linux (Ubuntu)
I'm encountering an issue with my virtual machine. Initially, I allocated 25 GB of storage to it, installed Docker, Jenkins, and several other applications, and extended the LVM to 18 GB. Now, I'm ...
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Upgraded ubuntu, now bootup takes longer
On startup, the system starts looking for 3 drives/partitions which it will never find within it's 2 minutes and 30 seconds of waiting time. In the previous version, the boot time was super fast, but ...
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How to Reverse Disc Partition?
I made a Disc Partition so that I could use Oracle VirtualVox to run Windows, however I no longer need it and would like to be able to use that storage again. Do you know of any way to reverse the ...
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Multiple Storage [closed]
I want to switch from Windows to Linux soonTM and I wonder how does Linux handle multiple storages.
I have 1 m.2, 1 older sata and a very old HD. Can I simply install Linux on my main m.2 and that's ...
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lubuntu - Live USB Installation Keeps Warning "No Space Left on Device" But Swap, RAM, and Data Partition Have Space
I installed lubuntu on a flash drive along side a few other distros using ventoy, there is also a ~10GB partition for data. But it seems the storage space is shrinking. Its a new drive, 64 gigs, but ...
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What does backing store option do while creating a VM in Virtual manager?
I am creating a virtual machine using virtual manager in linux. While adding a new instance it provides us an option to add storage. When we create a new volume storage. It provides us an option of ...
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Extreme Lag when connecting Docking Station with HDD
Currently Using 22.04
I just bought a mini pc using a intel i9 processor. I also jusat bout this dual HHD docking station
There is an extreme lag when I am connected to the docking station. Using my ...
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Auto fills root storage problem
After install ubuntu every things is perfect but root partition storage consumption is Rising automatically and it fills the root of 150GB in 40 min and it make the ubuntu unusable and stuck in black ...
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Using autoinstall storage sizing-policy all, does not work
I'm preparing an Ubuntu 22.04 iso. I want the default lvm size to be all, and not scaled as Ubuntu's default https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall-reference.
sizing-policy
The lvm layout ...
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Preventing Ubuntu upgrade to switch the storage driver from Overlay2 to aufs for docker container
I am upgrading an old server which is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 22.04.3 LTS, going first from 18.04 to 20.04 and then to 22.04 LTS.
The old server with 18.04 has some docker container that uses the ...
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Docker taking too much space, even after removing all the images and containers
I started using Docker recently and Docker was taking up too much space even after i prune all the dangling containers and images.
When is try to run sudo docker system prune --all -f it shows "...
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Ubuntu 23.10 not fully loading in
When I power on my Lenovo Ideapad, my laptop goes to the `/dev/sdXX: clean screen, then goes to the loading screen, then back to the same screen as before and a minute or so in it says it failed to ...
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Full Storage issue with second Hard Disk on Ubuntu 22.04
I am trying to mount a second hard disk on my Ubuntu 22.04 Virtual machine to get rid of the full storage warning, but I can't seem to mount it correctly to extend the volume of the original hard disk ...
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something wrong disk size in vm under KVM
My VM in KVM looks disk full, then I checked df
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 392M 1.2M 391M 1% /run
/dev/mapper/...
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Storage pool unavailable
Hi I am trying to reinstall lxd because I messed up somewhere. Actually I tried to increase the zfs pool size, and closed the terminal abruptly. On restarting I created more problems, so I am trying ...
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How to move Dropbox and Megasync to sdb1 from sda2 - or mount /home on sdb1?
I am running out of space on my main SSD. I just realized that Dropbox and Megasync are mounted and syncing on sda2 which is on this drive (which accounts for most of space), although I thought I'd ...
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What is the best way of linking images and their credits?
I am wondering if anyone has a good solution for storing images and their credits, so that it's easy to attribute the correct credit to the correct image in, for instance, LaTeX or similar software.
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Multiple binlogs in /var/lib/mysql folder
Recently I did a website and server migration. It was working fine in the beginning, but recently I found that server has consumed 100% of the storage and there are multiple bin files in /var/lib/...
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Replicating an autoinstall
My scenario is as follows.
I've deployed several servers, and each has generated the /var/log/installer/autoinstall-user-data.
Of course, things have changed on the devices, i.e., network config and ...
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How do I fix linux partitioning for disks without reinstalling system?
I have a server where I have 2 x 1 TB of disks of storage. It seems that I did not configure them well on the start and now I have installed my applications and afraid that I need to reinstall ...
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Says i'm out of storage but i'm not [duplicate]
When I try and run any app or tab auto complete it says I'm out of space ex. -bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device
But when I run df -h it says I have 67% space ...
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Ubuntu keeps filling up despite no installs
I just cleared more than 600 MB of systemd journal files. I started VirtualBox, tried to create a new machine, and found out I couldn't. I type in df / on the command line. There's no space left!!! ...
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How to clear all my storage and get my GB back
So I want to know how to clear all my storage on my computer and have all 16GB of free space. The storage SSD I'm using is a 16GB Kingston SSD that is installed in my Chromebook.
The reason I'm doing ...
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Out of storage issue with hard drive
I am using a apple computer. I show I have a hard drive connected with plenty of space but I am getting low space notifications.
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Where would Monero node or blockchain data be stored?
I'm trying find particularly large files to free up some working space.
This is in the context of scanning the Monero blockchain for recovering a wallet.
Operating on the assumption that Monero has ...
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Ubuntu's sudden root storage volume is full ( 20.04 )
I have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 as a dual boot, for the third time when I turned on the system, the system did not enter the desktop anymore; After restarting it twice, it entered the desktop ...
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Can't increase the root partition size on Ubuntu 20.04
I am currently using ubuntu 20.04 (AWS Ec2) machine.
My root filesystem has no more space as per the below output
sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.6G 7....
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ubuntu zfs zpool lost after reboot due to /dev/sd* name re-ordered
create zfs pool with:
$ sudo zpool create -f data raidz2 sda sdb sdc sdd
$ sudo zpool status
pool: data
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
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Can we create two different filesystems on a single partition?
I'm currently using Ubuntu 20.04 on my machine.
Can we create two different filesystems on a single partition? Why?
Also if the size of the filesystem created in a partition is less than the ...
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Storage setup (moved from windows)
I recently moved from Windows to Ubuntu Server 22.04.
The server was installed by the VPS provider.
The Server has 2 SSD and 1 HDD.
I discovered that all 3 drives are used for two data systems.
Is it ...
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No storage in the disk error when there is plenty of storage left in it
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop. I'm trying to extract some file from a zip, during which I get low disk storage error indicating less than 1 GB is left and the extraction fails because of it. When ...
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Synchronize VScode projects between linux and windows with WSL
I'm new to WSL and got the advice to store my VScode projects on Linux for better performance.
The thing is, I would like to keep an automatic sync between these files stored on Linux and a folder ...
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Autoinstaller: keep the /home if available, (and automatically add users)
What I would like to do is to make an autoinstaller that only installs the OS but would try to keep, and attach, an existing home directory - and automatically make the user(s) again.
But looking ...
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Developing application with expanded Filesystem (Still getting no space left on device error)
After mounting a 64Gb sdcard (/dev/mmcblk1p1) to my embedded device that has topped out of its 16Gb emmc (/dev/mmcblk0p1) df -h returns the following which looks correct:
Filesystem Size Used ...
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Replacing motherboard - concerned about breaking volume groups
I am planning to replace my motherboard to get one with additional functionality. I currently have a volume group that spans multiple physical HDD. I plan to use the same o/s disk/config (just shut ...
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Ubuntu not enough storage space [duplicate]
I don't have enough storage space in my home directory. How can I increase the storage without reinstalling Ubuntu? Here is what my partitions look like.
I don't know what it means. I don't need /dev/...
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Why "mount | grep sdb" displays no output, when "sdb" drive is a [swap] partition?
I'm learning about lsblk and mount commands in Ubuntu.
I'm using Linode vps server, 2CPU, 4GB ram with 1 additional block storage volume attached.
I have 2 questions related with this subject.
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