I have recently installed solaris 11, but I am an absolute beginner in unix systems. The only unix like environment I have got myself into before is ubuntu which was quite a bit different from solaris in my opinion. The main problem I am facing at the moment is that the NTFS windows HD partitions are not appearing in solaris file system, which was not the case when I used ubuntu. Every single file on my HD was exposed to me when I was in ubuntu.  I have already tried to find the solution in the internet. Tried to solve it with the help of  But had no success. The download links given for both FSWpart and FSWfsmisc is not working(giving a 404). I installed something called ntfs -g drive but I think I am not using it correctly as most of the time I am copying and pasting commands because I do not have sufficient knowledge to write them myself.  Please any assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Not sure if I have come to the right place with the right problem but I don't really have much option as I have not found even a close solution to my problems in any other website during my tireless search times in the internet. So, here it goes-------  I have recently installed solaris 11. The main problem I am facing at the moment is that the NTFS windows HD partitions are not appearing in solaris file system, which was not the case when I used ubuntu. Every single file on my HD was exposed to me when I was in ubuntu.  I installed something called ntfs -g drive but I think I am not using it correctly as most of the time I am copying and pasting commands because I do not have sufficient knowledge to write them myself.  Any assistance in this matter?  ** Yeah I am talking about the exact same ntfs -3g. But how can I see the windows HD partitions in solaris?
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I just noticed that the root partition of my not-so-long-ago configured server is only 5gb  thats not much seeing as i allready use 4gb and still need to install a lot of things...  i was foolish enough to use the default config from OVH assuming they know their stuff :P  since i have some data on the data partition it would be a pain in the ... to backup and reconfigure it all  is it possible to repartition the drive to use a new part of the drive say 15-20gb without data loss ? by simply copying the root partition to a new place (from sda2) ? i can live with loosing the 5gb of the start of the drive :P    heres df -h  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1             5.0G  3.9G  897M  82% / tmpfs                 998M     0  998M   0% /lib/init/rw udev                   10M  144K  9.9M   2% /dev tmpfs                 998M     0  998M   0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2             226G  7.2G  208G   4% /home   and fdisk -l  Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000db26     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *           1         653     5242880+  83  Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.    &lt;== now this is bad.. thx OVH :F /dev/sda2             653       30336   238426112   83  Linux /dev/sda3           30336       30401      526016   82  Linux swap / Solaris
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I have Windows 7 installed in my PC. In a failed attempt to create a partition my disk has been converted to dynamic including system and boot volumes. How can I install Ubuntu in a partition without affecting the Windows system?
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I have an NTFS partition. The idea is I can use this for data on either Ubuntu Mate or Windows 10 dual boot. It worked fine when I first installed Mate, but recently I no longer have the delete option when I right-click on a file or folder. The delete key does nothing. I also can't paste into the partition (Paste greyed out). It's as if the whole partition is read-only. In Gparted, the partition is marked with a key. Does this mean anything? I'm not aware of having changed anything, however, Windows recently did a big update - have they hijacked my drive?  I've read related posts, but people speak of returned errors - I have no errors, just nothing happens. Also, suggested solutions seem far too technical for what must surely be a simple tick-a-box fix!  Please note - for me the Terminal is where I get off a train and Sudo sounds like a Japanese noodle dish. ;) GUI's preferred if possible! Thanks for your patient help!
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I have a 230 Gigs HDD on my laptop, i have 50 gigs extended for my linux, i have 80 gigs empty ntfs partition, and 100 gigs ntfs partition where i store all my important data, (i have about 50 gigs of important things) today i mounted the 100 gigs partition took something from it, unmounted it back, and then when i mounted it again it was EMPTY !!! all the data is gone !!!! i used to mount it via the terminal : sudo mount ntfs /dev/sda5 /media/E where E is a dir that i make (when i make it i change the permissions of media to 777 then after creating the dir, i change it back to normal)  Guys you cant imagine how much this data is important to me, Plz HelP,  thnx in advance
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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 recently. During the installation I did not create a separate partition for my home folder. I also accidentally encrypted my home folder. When i did    sudo df   I got the result as  Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root  455G  181G  251G  42% / ....   Why does this have a funny name instead of a normal '/dev/sdx'?  Please explain to me what this is?
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My Portable harddisk was working fine. I once accessed it from a linux terminal. Later when I tried to use it in window it said You need to format it before you can access  In Ubuntu also when I plug it, it does not appear.  I tried running chkdisk but Windows says Raw file system could not be processed.  Is there any way I can get back the disk data?  Recovery software does not preserve folder when it recovers data. Also When I tried it it says "1 days remaining to process" nearly 350GB data.
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I have a lot of filesystems:   / on a PCI-E SSD swap on a SATA SSD /media/ned is a RAID5 array /tmp lives on RAM Parts of /home/oli are symlinked and bind-mounted in from ned I also have /media/jeff/ which is RAID1 that I store backups and bind-mount ~/.wine in off.   It's actually a lot more complicated than that. There are all sorts of extra symlinks that I need to untangle in the long run but for now I just need a nice way of taking a path and finding out where it physically lives.
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A few nights ago I have created a backup of my data on an external 500 GB NTFS USB hard drive.  I have then formatted my computer, reinstalled Ubuntu and started transferring back the data from the external HDD.  Unfortunately some files have became corrupted and Ubuntu is unable to copy them over. The same issue happens if I login using Windows 7.  Disk Utility detects with SMART that there are "a few bad sectors".  Some of files are perfectly intact, but other files cannot be accessed (nor read, copied...) although they are displayed within nautilus and show the correct file size.  Is there anything I can do to recover this data? I have thought of using TestDisk but this utility seems more useful for repairing lost partitions or deleted files.  I have also thought of using ddrescue so I could at least have a low level copy of the disk but I am not sure what use to make of it in order to recover the data!!!
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I installed Windows 8.1 Preview using the DVD yesterday after wiping off my HDD (I made a backup prior to that). While installing Windows I created only the partitions necessary to install Windows (System Reserved, C: shown in second screenshot). Further I installed Ubuntu 13.04. During Ubuntu installation I created necessary extended partitions (for OS, swap and home directory - all ext4 except swap). Later within Ubuntu I created a NTFS partition at the end (partition 4 in first screenshot). This was a primary partition. The objective behind this was that the partition must be accessible from Windows.  While Ubuntu disk utility reports the partitioning just fine (as below)  Windows disk management is showing all partitions as primary.   Thus within Windows I am able to access only C:! What puzzles me is one can't create so many primary partitions! How can I solve this issue?
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I have dual booted Windows 7 &amp; Ubuntu 14.04 with EasyBCD, i.e. I have installed grub on the Ubuntu root partition &amp; added entry of linux to Windows bootloader using EasyBCD. So effectively i am using Windows Bootloader to boot into either of them. Working perfectly.  As i already had 4 primary partition on HDD, i converted one of  that (NTFS-Windows 500 GB) to Logical using EaseUs Partition, so that around 70GB of uncollected space on HDD could be used.  NOTE: Before that the 500 GB partition was Primary &amp; i was able to see all partition in Gparted. "What i mean to say is all was working properly".  The problem (i.e. after conv. of primary to logical) is i am getting this message after starting Gparted &amp; shows entire partition as Unallocated.  Unable to satisfy all the constraints on the partition  $ sudo fdisk -l  Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors  Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe6bfc2a4     Device Boot       Start         End      Blocks   Id  System   /dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   /dev/sda2          206848   427624447   213708800    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   /dev/sda3       427624449  1805438975   688907263+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)   Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.   /dev/sda5       427624512  1532823551   552599520    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   /dev/sda6      1532825600  1780301823   123738112   83  Linux   /dev/sda7      1780301824  1805438975    12568576   82  Linux swap / Solaris   So what is the cause of this problem.  I know there might be duplicate for this at "" (that was bug probably &amp; was for old version of Ubuntu 13.04) &amp; ""  Also, if there is any chance that both errors are related or complementary to each other?  So, is this problem caused because of Sector Size (512 bytes/4096 bytes) or my mistake of converting a Primary partition to logical using EaseUs rather than some of the Ubuntu Tools. How can i rectify this?  If any further info needed, feel free to ask.  UPDATE  @psusi, sudo parted -l says same as what gparted said. (Unable to satisfy..) @oldfred, i have started chkdsk, will update you with the same.  (Thanks to both)  @rod smith, I will try your suggestion after i done with chkdsk.Thanks !
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Sorry if this question is already solved.  I changed my Operating System, from Windows to Linux Ubuntu 13.04.   I have 2 partitions:   C: (system) and  M: It's NTFS; there I have my information, music, photos. When I want to access the Disk to use the information, I can't get past this error:   Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/love/Mis Archiivos: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda2" "/media/love/Mis Archiivos"' exited with non-zero exit status 14:  The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).  Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.  Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown  Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume  read-only with the 'ro' mount option.    Clarification: I don't have 2 OSes. I only have Linux installed.
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I already have Windows XP, During installing Ubuntu(dual boot) the disk drive just stuck up at one place and doesn't seem to move ahead.. Is there a disk bad sector mark utility that just marks these sectors so that the disk doesn't seek them later. I tried running Seagate Seatools on the drive but both the short test and long test fail even before they start even chkdsk /f/r doesn't seem to work as the system locks up at stage four.
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On several machines that I've upgraded from Natty to Oneiric, I get an error every boot (one for every NTFS partition):  Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /windows/c.  Press I to ignore, S to skip mounting, or M for manual recovery   Following the suggestion in , I ran fsck from the manual recovery shell. I got this output:  fsck from util-linux 2.19.1 fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sda1   I can't find fsck.ntfs, and command-not-found doesn't help either. How can I make this error go away?  By the way, I've tried booting into Windows (XP) several times, thinking that Windows would repair the filesystems. But apparently Windows thinks the filesysystems are just fine. And it's odd that all NTFS filesystems are affected.  Also, I can work around this problem by dropping to a recovery shell and issuing mount -a, but for my coworkers' sakes I need unattended boot.
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I have a formatted 55GB partition as NTFS, the other part of the hard disk has Windows 7.  Is NTFS the right format for Ubuntu? If not how should I format it and with what format?  Once I finish preparing the partition, how do I install Ubuntu on that partition? I'm not sure how to set up dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows.
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Triple Booting Xubuntu, Ubuntu and Windows   I'm an avid Xubuntu (Ubuntu + XFCE) user but I also dual boot with Windows XP.  I originally created 3 partitions and wanted to use the empty one as a storage volume but now I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (the one with Unity) to do advanced testing and packaging. Ideally I would love to keep these two totally separate as I had problems in the past with conflicts between Unity and XFCE.  This way I could wipe the Ubuntu w/ Unity installation if there are problems and really mess around with it.  My disk looks like this:   Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *          63    78139454    39069696    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2        78141440   156280831    39069696   83  Linux /dev/sda3       156282878   386533375   115125249    5  Extended /dev/sda4       386533376   390721535     2094080   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5       156282880   386533375   115125248   83  Linux   Keep each in it's own partition and totally separate and be able to select from each of the three systems from the GRUB boot menu...  sda1 ---> [Windows XP] sda2 ---> [Ubuntu 12.04] "Unity" sda3(4,5) --> [Xubuntu 12.02] "Primary XFCE"   What is the safest and easiest way to do this without messing my system up and requiring invasive activity?
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I installed 11.10 ~two weeks ago and run into some strange troubles recently.  Installation was on brand new laptop with clear 160GB SSD. I opted for encrypting home directory. Apart from that I accepted defaults during the installation. There is no other OS on my laptop.  I had circa 40GB in use when (for the third time) I got to see this very unpleasant window:    Twice situation was pretty bad and whole system slowed down considerably. After reboot I could not login to graphical interface (with an error message informing about insufficient space) and had to remove some files from command line first.  Third time I still managed to quickly delete some files and it helped.  My laptop is mainly work environment: so no torrents, games, just two movies. Only media filling space are ~20GB of pictures, and bunch of pdfs. Working mostly on PostgreSQL &amp; PostGIS, GeoServer and QGIS recently.  Although I had lots of opportunities to test and practice my backups I would be extremely grateful if somebody could point me to any potential solutions to this problem.  My laptop has been bought just before I installed Ubuntu, and it came without OS. Could that be hardware issue?  Or is the encrypted home causing me headaches?  Thanks for help!    Update 1: As suggested by , here is current output of fdisk -l:  WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.   Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1               1   312581807   156290903+  ee  GPT     Update 2: As suggested by , output of df:  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2            149802648  31411456 110781576  23% / udev                   1959764         4   1959760   1% /dev tmpfs                   788276       992    787284   1% /run none                      5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock none                   1970684      2716   1967968   1% /run/shm /dev/sda1                19363       129     19234   1% /boot/efi /home/rdk/.Private   149802648  31411456 110781576  23% /home/rdk   And sudo parted -l:  Model: ATA INTEL SSDSA2BW16 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 160GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt  Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags  1      17.4kB  20.0MB  20.0MB  fat16              boot  2      20.0MB  156GB   156GB   ext4  3      156GB   160GB   4177MB     Update 3:  Yet another window with low memory message :/  Working recently mostly on VirtualBox and using Remmina.  Following this information I deleted virtually everything from my home directory. Rebooted. There was ~20GB in use after that [~10GB for VirtualBox disk image which I wanted to keep if possible]. Following  comment I was trying to recover more space and running Bleachbit application when I got another error of low space on HD. Then the system froze. How on earth can my Ubuntu fill up HD with over 100GB within minutes?