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What to do when a drive is no more recognized under Linux?
I was salvaging a hard drive with damaged sectors using a bash script performing calls to ddrescue. That drive was known as /dev/sdc and connected in eSata via an ExpressCard.
I could not find any ...
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Can't boot into linux on gpt-partition external drive on a pc
I've got an external HDD "Seagate Backup Plus 1TB". It's partitioned using the GPT scheme and carries two file partitions, an hfs+ OSX partition with OSX operating system installed, and an ext4 ...
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Mounting local external hard drive on a remote machine
I have an external hard drive, which stores extremely large files. This is LOCAL and is connected to my laptop/desktop.
I run many different programs on a REMOTE Linux server.
I need to use some of ...
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Linux - turn off externally powered drive
I'm running Debian (Raspbmc). I have a number of external hard drives connected via USB. These HDD are powered by an external power supply.
Since I often fall asleep while watching movies, I want to ...
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Why should I make a separate partition for /tmp?
A few years ago I installed Debian which is my favorite OS. There are many things in this system which I still don't understand.
For instance:
why should I make separate partitions for /tmp, ...
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Hard drive file systems for use with multiple operating systems?
Where I work, we constantly switch between Linux, Windows and Mac OS X machines. We use a lot of external hard drives which mostly come preformatted as NTFS. This is a problem because Mac OS X by ...
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What is the default mount point on Linux systems (all)?
My question is very basic in nature. Is the mount point for external media (like USB) always /media?
Because in a Debian system, if I plug in any USB device that goes to the /media folder. So is it ...
