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populated hard disk partitioning/moving (a lot of operations) [closed]
I have a HHD which is actually a mess. I would like to organize it and exclude some partitions I don't want to use anymore.
Positioning the HD partitions beautifully require moving entire partition to ...
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Weird behaviour on ext4 dd performance test
I'm testing the performance of ext3/ext4 on a raid1 system (but the same goes for a non raid system). The results from bonnie++ give a distorted image because they circumvent the delayed allocation on ...
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HDD is preventing ubuntu from installing
I have recently attempted to install ubuntu on my laptop, replacing windows 7.
The HDD was working fine with windows 7.
On my first attempt to install ubuntu it kept giving me an error that was ...
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HDD bad sectors with OS [closed]
I wonder is that possible for OS to make bad sectors on Hard Drive?
Preface:
I have bought new HDD on 1Tb WB Caviar Black. I have installed new OS on ext4 partition Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. After few ...
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Parted has no 'resize' command available
I'm trying to resize a partition using parted, but it has no the 'resize' command available
gchain@archbogchain@archbook:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! ...
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EXT4-fs error (device loop0) ext4_mb_generate_buddy
I've been randomly getting theses in my /var/log/messages
[5747511.945300] EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 1: 29505 blocks in bitmap, 29455 in gd
Not had any ...
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western digital caviar black. EXT4-fs error
Recently I update my HDD on desktop machine, and bought WD Caviar Black.
But after I format & copy information to it (using dd), and fix partitions size: I have next errors in kern.log:
Aug 27 ...
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Cannot mount harddrive from HP ProBook via SATA-USB adapter
I'm trying to mount harddrive from HP ProBook 4525s to another computer for data backup from damaged laptop. There are two ext4 and one swap partition on hdd. I'm using SATA-USB adapter, but after I ...
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Drive system file size
When i made a new drive it take some space for system file
FAT32 take the less space, then NTFS, then ext4
my question how to know the space will be taken for the system before make the drive, if the ...
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Filesystem config for 4k sector drive that reports 512 byte sectors [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Western Digital Green drive from 512 byte sectors (jumpered) to 4k byte sectors (removal of jumper)
I have just purchased two Western Digital WD20EARS disks and ...
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Questions about solid state drives?
How to tell if a hard drive is solid
state drive? For example:
For one laptop, its hard drive is 244GB Western Digital WDC
WD2500BEVS-08VAT2 (SATA)
For another, its hard drive is 98GB ...
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Invalid size displayed for SSD
I have an 80GB Intel X25-M SSD drive installed on a Linux box running Debian 5.0. The file system on the SSD is ext4. I've had no problems with the drive, and have been using it for quite some time ...
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3answers
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Linux driver keep saying 0 bytes free, and only root can write
I have a very very insane problem with my ssd sata harddisk.
I did fill the harddisk, and Thunderbird complained about "no space left on device".
But even if I delete some files from the harddisk, ...
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1answer
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Determine which sectors of a hard disk a given file occupies?
Is there a way I can see which sectors of the hard disk a given file occupies?
The filesystem is ext3 or ext4 on Linux.
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2answers
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Linux: mount options to improve performance on slow HDDs?
I encounter a performance problem with two HDDs. One is fast but mounted remotely through NFS, the other is local (ext4) but slow.
No, exchanging the two drives is not an option, because it would ...
