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How do I add additional locations to the Windows 7 Recycle Bin Properties?

I have set up a home network with a small file server running Samba. I read on a forum post that by re-mapping a user folder on Windows 7 to a network drive, a reference to that drive will be added ...
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GParted can't grow /dev/sdb, apparently in use [closed]

I'm trying to grow a partition using GParted from 1.5 TB to 1.82, however keep receiving this error: I unmounted the drive beforehand with sudo umount /dev/sdb which seemed to work, and it's ...
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Setting up Fedora alongside Windows 8 with special considerations

I've recently found myself much more comfortable using the console and other tools on my Mac than their counterparts with Windows. Specifically, these tools include LaTeX/xindy, emacs and its load ...
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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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how to convert NTFS to ext4 in windows?

I want to convert one partition of my windows which is NTFS (or can be FAT32) to a linux file system partitioning? I'm looking for some tools or ways to do it for me!
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Recovering data from two partitions, one NTFS, the other ext4

I have an external HD, and it had three partitions on it. One was a 4GB ext4 filesystem ,and two others 120GB NTFS and 120 GB ext4. I created an image on the 4GB using the Linux utility dd on Fedora ...
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How do you make NTFS living with ext4 safe for windows to mount

Hi I want to partition a hard drive with NTFS and ext3. I was going to partition the drive all with primary partitions (don't need 5+ parts) in windows XP then change the last partitions to 83/Linux ...
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Is ext4 more expensive than ntfs?

I have just converted an NTFS partition to ext4, however the total space seems reduced from 421G to 415G. Where did the 6G go? And, the reserved space is grown to 199M in ext4, much larger compared to ...
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script to convert ext4 filenames to ntfs

ext4 allows certain chars in filenames which ntfs doesn't. Is there a script to replace those chars in filenames?
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are there any drawback for using NTFS for linux?

I use linux for work (perform c++ calculations, latex) and I use windows for entertainment (dj software, tablet functionality). I'd like to access (read and write) to my linux partition from windows. ...
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Identical hard drives with different sizes (formatting)

I have two hard drives, which are identical, same model though purchased at different times, but in all respects the same. Afaik the manufacturer hasn't changed capacity (Seagate expansion). However, ...
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Why is an Ext4 disk check so much faster than NTFS?

I had a situation today where I restarted my computer and it said I needed to check the disk for consistancy. About 10 minutes later (at "1%" complete), I gave up and decided to let it run when I go ...
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Is there any way to restore EXT4 partition

Is there any way to restore ext4 partition after formatting the entire hard disk then making two partitions of NTFS
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Windows with a better filesystem

From my observations as a Java developer working on Windows workstations, NTFS is slow compared to Linux filesystems. Question is, is there anything in the NTFS driver that can be manually tuned, for ...
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how do i recover files and directory structure of an NTFS volume that was formatted as ext4? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Free NTFS partition recovery last night (at an hour i should have been asleep) i installed ubuntu 10.10 0 onto a disk partition that had many files. the partition was ...