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/dev/sda1, /tmp,/dev/shm
I'm actually putting some files into temporary folder /tmp. And I want to know the capacity of /tmp. I do the 'df -h':
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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Boot problems - Mac OS X not booting
I am having trouble with my Macbook Pro (late 2008, OS X 10.5) at boot.
Here is an outline of my problems and attempted solutions:
As the computer was going to sleep it got stuck such that when I ...
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How to image / copy my drive to a new drive on a Mac
I am looking into upgrading my MacBook's drive and would like to transfer the current's drive contents on the new drive.
This is a relatively well covered topic here, and several solutions such as ...
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Cost of disc I/O read versus write [closed]
Is writing to a disc more costly operation then reading from a disk. For example - writing a 1 GB file of records as compared to reading the whole file.
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Windows Vista activation after moving disk inside another machine
I have a strange hardware problem on a workstation. I have another workstation available with exactly the same specifications and want to move the disk and RAM from the problematic machine to the free ...
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Unable to create a logical drive, all drives are dynamic
I am unable to create a logical drive from my unallocated space. When I click on New simple volume and proceed, it creates another dynamic drive. I tried to creating a logical drive from my Windows 7 ...
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Creating recovery flash disk-on-key using recovery dvd disk for hp pavilion dv6510ej laptop
I have hp pavilion dv6510ej laptop and recovery dvd disk.
Recently I have to format all my hard disk so I lost my recovery partition.
I want to restore my laptop using the hp recovering dvd disk, ...
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How to disable autoresume of a ZFS-formatted drive on Ubuntu
I've bought an external hard drive. I want to use it with Ubuntu 11.04 (kernel 2.6.38-11-server) and the zfs-fuse package. I've successfully formatted the disk to zfs. The disk is suspending when it ...
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How do I create a Windows 7 system image?
I have to create a disk image of Windows 7 with all the installed applications on it, so I can restore this image later.
I am modifying my partition scheme from MBR to GUID partition table, and ...
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Disk errors persist after cloning
I have an Asus Laptop that came with a Seagate HDD. Chkdsk could not fix some errors on that original disk, so I decided to buy a new one: a Western Digital with the exact same size (500 GB).
Then I ...
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How to replace the hot plug disk in CentOS 5.4 with Dell servers?
I am running a server in Dell which has RAID1 and hot plug 2 disks. It's been running for a while, but I was thinking it may crash anytime. So got a spare one, and wanted to test it how it works.
I ...
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Is an external hard disk with a metallic chasing better for heat dissipation than a plastic one?
I thought that since the metallic chasing goes warm but a plastic one remains cool the metallic chasing will be very good for releasing heat. Is it true?
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How can I see all the drives on my system, both mounted and unmounted?
How can I see all the physical hard drives on my Ubuntu system — regardless of whether they're mounted — as well as their partition info, sizes, &c.? I have three physical drives, but ...
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How does a HP Data Vault (using Windows Home Server) share a logical drive across multiple physical drives?
I've recently procured a HP Data Vault, and have been looking at the partitions in Disk Management.
D: (a logical drive) links to two physical hard drives (each with a NTFS partition).
Total Disk ...
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Can't boot from Disk; Ubuntu onto old Win XP
I'm trying to boot Ubuntu on an old PC with Windows XP. I've changed the boot order in BIOS several times and have even purchased an external optical drive because I assumed it couldn't read the ...
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what's the rate of return of defragmenting our hard disk?
I know some people who swore by Disk Defragmenting.
But basically I was wondering if the result (a more responsive computer) is worth the effort (running defragmenter - in a 2GB ram environment that ...
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Can a RAID 0 be “seen” but not accessed when a drive fails?
I have a machine running Windows XP SP3 with a RAID 0 (2x 500GB). A few days ago, a message appeared in Windows saying one of the drives had a problem, but it ran a test (with Windows RAID Manager, or ...
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Does Microsoft offer disk images of their products? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Where do I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)?
How can I reinstall Windows 7 if I lost my installation DVD?
I have a valid Windows 7 Home Premium key. I want ...
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Cannot mount disks after installing Fedora 15
In short, this is where I found the best answers to my problem with my disks: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
During Fedora 15 installation, I added all my 3 drives to be mounted on ...
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Full Disk Encryption with Two-factor Authentication for Ubuntu: How?
Background Information
I'm a Linux newbie recently weaned off Windows. I'm currently using Ubuntu 11.04 without full disk encryption. Only my home directory is encrypted, and with eCryptFS. Lately, ...
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How can I resize an NTFS disk image in Windows?
I saved a disk partition to an .IMG file, but it's only 128MB. What tool can I use to resize it to 256MB and keep it still bootable?
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Is rsync --delete safe in case of disk failure
I have two data hard drives on my Linux server and I use second as a backup for a first drive.
I use rsync for that purpose. An example would be:
rsync -r -v --delete /media/disk1/ /media/disk2/
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Windows partition manager from command line
Is there a tool that can be used to partition a disk (SD card in particular) from the command line? The purpose of this is for batch processing and customized GUI.
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How to find out do I have MLC or SLC SSD? (model: TOSHIBA THNSFC128GBSJ)
Please help to find out is TOSHIBA THNSFC128GBSJ SSD
MLC or SLC SSD?
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Application to take snapshot of files/registry?
To investigate how a Windows application works, I need a software that will take a snapshot of the whole disk, including the registry and hidden/protected files, take a second snapshot after running ...
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Server cannot boot up
My IBM server is running RHEL 6, and it cannot boot up. The BIOS seems to be OK (since I was able to go in to change the boot order), and during boot-up, it will stop at a black screen with a picture ...
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df command redondance?
I have some strange problems here about the df command.
Could and one tell me why I have the redondances in the default df output please?
[root@localhost ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks ...
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How to access old partitions after installing Ubuntu?
This might be a really silly question, but I installed Ubuntu yesterday (which is awesome) but I can't seem to locate any of the other drives that I had hooked up. It's as if the partition with the ...
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Single disk space quota across home directories and relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) on Linux
Relational databases usually have their data over in /var/lib/something. Users are in /home (with data in /var/www). How can I apply a single total disk space quota across all of these independent ...
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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)
It's very tempting for me to go on a rant here about GParted and Linux, but I'll do my best to avoid it. :)
Question:
Why does GParted claim that my disk is corrupted and GPT, whereas the Disk ...
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Error on loop disk in Ubuntu
I had a disk, but unfortunately it had errors from a hard reset on the laptop power.
How do I know?
$ file cache.disk
cache.disk: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data, ...
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Possible to access Intel Matrix Raid 1 partition from chipset without ICH*R?
I have got 2 HDDs that were part of an Intel Matrix Raid (now "Rapid Storage Technology") where I had it setup as half RAID 0 and half RAID 1.
The motherboard had an ICH9R chipset I think.
The ...
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Mount Ubuntu .disk file as Virtual Drive on Windows
I installed Ubuntu "on" Windows Vista using the Wubi installer.
The Ubuntu "disk" files are located in C:\ubuntu\disks\. (So, there's a large 30GB .disk file in that directory.)
How can I "mount" it ...
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How to tame Linux responsiveness, memory, and paging
First question on overflow =)... +100 bounty. Couldn't think of something I really cared about until now:
I'm really fed up with the state of Linux desktop responsiveness, e.g. ...
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Which SCM is less disk intensive? (GIT vs SVN vs others)
I wonder which of the pouplar SCM's (especially I am interested in GIT, SVN)
is less disk intensive.
The thing is that, I was going to get an SSDisk (SSD) ) and they have limited write cycles.
And I ...
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Booting a PC to disk partition format tool
I often need to format a partition disks on my windows based machines. At the moment I do this by using a Win 7 install CD and going as far as the custom install page. Is there an easier way to get to ...
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Disk copy of failing drive with Fedora 14
I have a WD disk drive of 1 Tera Byte capacity with Fedora 14 installed. On it I also have Virtual Box with a Windows XP guest installed.
Now BIOS startup and Fedora is reporting that disk failure ...
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Seagate Barracuda 7200 issues
I have a Seagate Barracuda SATA Model: ST31500341AS, Serial: 9VS3C36R, Firmware: CC1H and it worked perfectly until two days ago, it crashed everytime I tried to boot the system, and it makes the ...
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How can I remedy a conflict between a USB disk and USB legacy support in the BIOS?
When I enable USB legacy support in my BIOS, it seems to work fine, as long as I don't have a particular external USB disk connected and powered up. If I do have that, the computer locks up during ...
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How long to image a 500GB disk? [closed]
I need to image a 500GB disk (as in 480GB of storage used on a 500GB disk). How long would this take with eSATA (a modern SAN or NAS)?
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What is a good, free, windows disk wiping utility similar in functionality to DBAN?
I have an external ESATA drive I want to do more than zero, (I would rather clobber with random data, such as the U.S. Department of Defense disk wiping policy), that is free as in GNU/OSS.
Short ...
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How to know which disc is which?
I've got a couple WD 1TB drives in my computer and I want to give them labels. Right now, I've two identical disks (save logical size, no partitions, yet different content). I want to give them the ...
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How to boot Windows 7 SATA disk if IDE disk with boot info is removed?
I had an old IDE hard disk with Windows XP Installed.
Then I switched to Windows 7 but that was installed on another drive, this time SATA and then I reformatted the drive with Windows XP.
However, ...
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1answer
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A disk read error occured when reading bootable USB
I'm trying to install Windows 7 from a bootable USB stick. My other laptop read it properly. However when I try to boot from a defective laptop, it tells me:
A disk read error occured. Press Ctrl
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Computer disk or DVD disk virus
Can a disk get a virus? I played it in my computer and another computer and a DVD recorder and it all jammed
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How do I copy the boot sector from one computer to another?
I have a pair of identical computers. One of them stopped booting the other day (it gets past the BIOS screen then goes black). Booting from a USB recovery stick I've verified that the partition is ...
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DISK BOOT FAILURE
I had Windows 7 installed on my system for a few months. But i started having some problems while connecting to internet. I got my hands on Ubuntu Ultimate, so i tried linux for last one month or so.
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can't run chkdsk, autochk.exe corrupted
Vista64 - at least 3 files are bad, disk may have bad sectors.
One broken file is the one that runs CHKDSK at re-boot: AUTOCHK.EXE.
I believe the disk has bad sectors - from err msgs.
Now: how can I ...
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How to undo a “active” command in DiskPart
I tried using DiskPart utility in Windows 7 so that I could make my Windows drive as the boot drive( previously i had the drive on which Ubuntu was installed as the boot drive). These are the steps I ...
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Harddisk failure when I use last 10 GB of it?
I've been having some trouble with my computer for a long long time!
I have a Lenovo 3000 N200, with a 100 GB Hard-disk. I've always had trouble with it. At the start I had vista installed. At some ...
