Questions tagged [gnome-disks]
GNOME Disks is a utility that allows users to handle storage devices. It uses udisks as its underlying engine.
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LUKS keyslot damaged?
I have two LUKS-encrypted SSDs in my laptop: one is the system SSD (nvme0n1), which contains my Home folder encrypted with eCryptfs, and the other is a Data SSD (nvme1n1), which is fully LUKS-...
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Why can I format a disk without password using gnome-disks?
I am running Debian GNU/Linux (Bookworm) and by using the gnome-disk-utility 45.1 (UDisks 2.10.1) I like to put a spinning disk immediately to stand-by (via GUI). Doing so I'm being prompted for a ...
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USB not detected and can't perform actions on it
While installing ChromeOS Flex into a machine, the installation process froze and we had to stop the installation. Now, the USB is not recognized in any machine, no matter if Windows or Linux.
When ...
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Why doesn't Gnome Disk's Drive Setting work?
Gnome comes with "Disks". If you select a disk, click the three-dot button, and select "Drive Settings", it shows Standby or APM settings. But these does not seem to work. Judging ...
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SSD performance different results in dd and gnome-disk
I wanted to measure my SSD read/write performance and found some recommendations for using dd and gnome-disks. (from my understanding, hdpart is not relevant since it's not using the disk itself but ...
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How to move free space from the middle of a disk with Gnome Disks or blivet-gui
I used to dual boot Windows and Fedora 35, and decided to just run windows in a vm. I deleted the Windows partitions successfully, but now I have free space in the middle that I can't figure out how ...
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Btrfs automounted and mounted via gnome-disks : "Error finding object for block device" on umount in terminal
I wanted to use btrfs on my Linux Mint PC more, but I keep encountering new issues. Now I've found out (tried on two USB sticks) that btrfs formatted USB stick can be properly unmounted/ejected via ...
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Shrinking debian partition with gnome-disks results in same size and more disk usage
I have a USB key with the following partitions:
FAT EFI 300MB
EXT4 Debian System 200GB (40GB used)
FAT 16GB
Swap 18GB (I think I should remove this partition anyway)
I decided to shrink the EXT4 ...
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Linux Mint Not Recognizing New External Hard Drive Properly
I recently bought an external hard drive by maxone to use with a Mac that I have. The instructions that I got with it was to connect it to a Windows PC and format it before I can use it with a Mac, ...
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Mkusb error leading to unusable flash drive (mangled partition table)
I struggled to title this so if you have a better title please edit or request a change.
Trying to dual-boot windows and Ubuntu. I used mkusb to create a bootable Ubuntu disk, installed it, then went ...
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How to edit/resize an LVM partition graphically (with a GUI)?
I want to resize an LVM partition (specifically,
I want to increase the root / mount and decrease the /home),
because I am running low on disk space on one virtual partition.
Now people say LVM has ...
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Why are my LVM Partition Sizes Different to What I have Entered?
I'm trying to create a 64GB LVM partition for my root volume.
lvcreate -L 64G volume0 -n lv_root
However, when I start gnome-disks the partition is listed as 69GB? Incidentially this is the same size ...
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Spin down of Icy Box Raid Enclosure not working
I am running Ubuntu server 18.04 and I am using an ICY BOX IB-RD2253-U31 enclosure with two WD Black disks (no NAS disks) in RAID 1 mode (mirror).
I want to put the two disks in sleep mode / spin ...
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why can gnome disks not format ext2 or ext3?
Why does the GUI tool for formatting disks have no option to format with ext2 and ext3 filesystems? Why would a tool used for formatting exclude these filesystems? What is the rationale behind this ...
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Linux stops detecting new disks/block devices after certain number
I have a computer I use for imaging disks running Ubuntu 16.04. Each disk is inserted into a USB 3.0 dock, imaged/wiped, and then disconnected. The disks don't have any mounted filesystems which need ...
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