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RAID 1 on internal hdd + usb external hdd?
Unfortunately my internal hdd is probably going to die soon and I dont have money for a new one. But I have an external Hdd which I was using as a backup, so I thought of a solution. RAID
But I have ...
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What are good permissions for a USB disk when security does not matter?
I have an ext4 formatted usb hard disk, I want to use to move between different computers with different users. How should I set its directories' permissions it, so that every user can r/w? What ...
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What is the best filesystem for an external USB drive - 2 - 3 TB shared between OSX/Windows/Linux? [duplicate]
I have been using NTFS, but I recently took a drive which is normally attached to a Mac mini running Lion (using Paragon NTFS) and attached it to Windows 7 because the drive was disconnecting ...
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Booting Linux from USB 3.0 External Hard Drive [duplicate]
When I boot my computer, in the boot manager, I have the option to click "Windows 7" (my default OS).
When my External Hard Drive is plugged in to USB 2.0, it boots Linux (when I click on "Windows ...
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Formatting and Partitioning 1TB external hard drive [duplicate]
I just bought a 1TB external hard drive from Western Digital - My Passport.
I am planning to use it for couple of things;
Store my music
Store my videos
Store my pictures
Store my designs
Work as a ...
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Installation of CentOS on external Hard Disk
I installed CentOS on an external hard disk and it works correctly with one of my computers. However, when I boot CentOS from the external disk on my other computer, it throws an error: kernel panic - ...
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Trying to rescue data from WD My Book Studio II, raid 0
For a friend I'm trying to recover data from a Western Digital My Book Studio II external disk drive enclosure in raid 0 mode.
At first I tried to rescue the data under OSX, the OS used by the ...
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devices after rsync df output not matching for “used” quantity?
I am making a backup from a two software RAID eSATA 2 TB drives formatted as ext4 to a 2 TB LaCIE rugged drive formatted as ext3. After re-formatting the rugged drive I did an rsync to make the copy ...
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Linux at USB HDD: should I install it as persistent?
I want to install Linux on external USB hard drive. Should I install it like at flash-drive, i.e. with persistent mode enabled?
HDD: 1 TB, USB 3.0 but I'm likely to use it with 2.0 because my PC ...
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What is the difference between “drive letter” and “volume label”
I am under the impression that "volume label" is available on linux, too whereas "drive letter" is windows specific. Where can I read that up?
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What could be the reason behind this kernel panic
My laptop boots from the Fedora,Ubuntu live cd normally.But with Centos live cd there seems
to be a problem as it displays the below lines.
slab error in kmem_cache_destroy():cache ...
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booting into a virtual machine from a linux installed on external hard drive
I am running windows 8 and have a linux Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an external hard drive, can I install a virtual machine on windows and run the linux system installed on my external HD?
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Unable to deleting damaged files on external drive as root
I have an encrypted, external hard drive that I use for backups. The backups are hardlinks to simulate incremental backups (using rsync). I am using Debian stable.
Apparently some of the files are ...
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Turn off write cache on all USB External Drives (Debian / Ubuntu / Linux)
How do you turn off write cache permanently for external USB drives in Linux (I'm using Ubuntu)?
I've tried:
Command line method :
hdparm -W0 /dev/sdb <---- that works but only for the current ...
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What makes a Partition Table valid?
QUESTION:
What makes a Partition Table recognizable and valid to an operating system? (Linux specifically) ?
Optional Background Info:
I thought there was some sort of "signature" that defines a ...
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External hard drive to work with Windows, OSX & Linux?
I have an 1 TB external hard drive and I'm going to use it with OSX, Windows XP/7 and Ubuntu, mostly for backup. I'm thinking of creating a bigger FAT32 partition to exchange files between the OS's ...
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External drive corrupted or inaccessible in Windows XP, but works on Linux
Today I connected my Western Digital 1 TB HDD to my Windows XP system and discovered that in Explorer, its name was changed from My Passport to Local Disk K which shows 0 KB and is inaccessible.
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How to automatically take daily HDD backup?
I think my HDD might have crashed. I don't want to lose data if this happens again. I have dual boot Windows/Ubuntu system. What is the best way to backup data and other software settings in Ubuntu? I ...
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How do I recover data from a HD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover lost/inacessible data from my storage device?
Today I tried to read an external HD, and it was dead. The only way it could be re-detected by the system ...
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Why is my portable WD My Passport drive not recognized?
My Western Digital My Passport portable drive is not recognized in OS X. It used to be recognized, but not anymore. It does not appear in /Volumes.
The hard drive is recognized by a Linux machine. I ...
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Is there a way to view Windows recycle bin information from Linux?
I have several Windows hard drives with various files in their respective recycling bin directories: '$RECYCLE.BIN'
Is there a way to view information about these files to tell if they are no longer ...
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My external USB drive was suddenly only visible via Linux but not Windows [closed]
I already solved my problem but felt it important to post it here since no one else on the Internet seems to list this issue or it resolution. After partitioning a new internal hard drive, I realized ...
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mounting a multi-drive USB enclosure in linux
I have a OWC Mercury Elite 2-bay USB drive enclosure (OWCMEPT934AL2C). I have it set on "individual" settings for the disks, so the 2 disks show up as two separate drives on my Mac (no raid, or ...
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How to automaticaly mount luks-partition only when disk is plugged in
I have the following scenario:
I want to automatically backup some data from my Laptop(Fedora Core 17) to a external encrypted(luks) hard disk.
The disk can be opened by a key file, which lies on the ...
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“plug and play” hdd (Arch linux)
I'm using Arch linux. I have a sata HDD that i use as storage disk. It's always off until i need it. Then i plug it into (running) computer and with Windows 7 it's easy - i just go to the "Management" ...
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How to copy a linux to a portable hard drive
I already have a linux running on my laptop.Is it possible to port the entire system to a portable hard drive by copy all the file to the hard drive with the existing folder structure and reinstall ...
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What causes my USB harddrive to stop working after unmounting?
I have recently bought an external harddrive to use with my Linux notebook. The harddrive is spec'ed at USB 3.0 while the notebook only supports USB 2.0.
The drive seems to work fine when I plug it ...
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Resume interrupted multiple-file disk images created with dd?
This is the effort to recover a failed hard drive containing several important research works. To sum up: with the method I tried (described below) I could not resume failed multiple images created ...
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Is my HDD toast?
My hard disk keeps getting remounted in read-only mode. Disk is a 1.5TB external USB2 on Debian squeeze (armv5tel).
Had similar errors previously so reformatted with a full surface scan (mkfs.ext4 ...
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How to partition and format a new HDD when it is connected via USB 3.0 (Linux)?
I just received a new unformatted 2.5" hard disk (1 TB) and an external USB 3.0 enclosure to use with my laptop (Thinkpad). I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.
How do I access and format this HDD ...
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Hard drive size 'loss' using EXT3 Filesystem
We have an Ubuntu backup server with removeable hard drives in caddys.
They are standard IDE/PATA, it came to light that although the drives in the caddys are 160GB in size they where only ...
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How to access encrypted external hard drive on Windows 7 Home Premium?
I encrypted my external hard drive using Linux Mint (Ubuntu) and password protected it. Now I can't access it on Windows 7 as it gives errors and won't mount. Is there a software that will allow me to ...
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Operation not permitted error when deleting as root
I got into a weird situation. I got a 1Tb portable HD filled with some contents. It was used in Windows and as always packed with virus. I tried deleting some folders as root. But the following error ...
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Suitable USB external disks for a home Linux server [closed]
I've been running Ubuntu Server on a mini computer (fit-PC slim) for a few years. This box takes a single 2.5" IDE disk and has USB ports. I'm currently at Ubuntu Server 10.04. I use it mainly as a ...
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Do I need to reformat my new NTFS disk when using it on Linux, even if it's working?
I recently purchased a Western Digital External Hard Disk. My computer has only Ubuntu 11.04 runnning on it. The disk also seems to be working fine. I can mount it, store and copy files to and out of ...
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Trouble viewing files with non-English names on hard-disk
I have a problem that I don't even know where to begin looking for help (google isn't helping)
I have an external hard drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I had been using it with my ...
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sharing an ext3/ext4 partition on external drive
is there a way of sharing an ext3/ext4 formatted partition on an external USB drive between different users (uids) on different Linux machines without creating a group for this purpose, setting the ...
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Best Drive Format for a 2TB Seagate External HDD, which can be supported in all OS
I have a 2TB Seagate GoFlex Desk External HDD. I want to format it. Which is the best disk format, which will be supported in all OS, like Windows, Linux and Mac?
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Make partitions on /dev/sdc, one of them bootable, and others for data
I have a 320 GB portable and external hard disk. Is there a way I can make partitions on it, just like we make partitions on the hard disk that comes already in our laptops?
Out of these ...
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Laptop gets GRUB error 21 when turned on without external hard drive (w/ Linux) attached
I have Windows Vista on my notebook's internal hard drive and Kubuntu Linux on the external hard drive.
My notebook has lost all portability because it cannot boot into Windows without the external ...
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Recovering files on external disk caught in OS installation
I was installing Ubuntu to the internal disk in my main machine, with all external drives unplugged for safety - then discovered I had accidentally chosen the external drive and it wasn't unplugged. ...
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Accidentally changed partition type while trying to get a ext/luks encrypted linux partition to mount under windows 7 x64
As the title suggests, I was fiddling with ext2 volume manager trying to get my unencrypted removable ext/luks drive to show up under windows. I accidentally went to 'change partition type' and ...
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external drive enclosure -> software RAID 5?
I have two older PCs on my LAN posing as 'servers'; one running FreeNAS off a USB stick using three 500GB HDDs in a ZFS RAID-Z pool serving as storage for the LAN and one running Debian Lenny with an ...
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faster dd backup by differential copy
im looking to use dd to back up my whole hard drive regularly but it takes around 1.5 hours and want to know if there is a faster way to back up.
possibly just by updating the bytes which are ...
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power management of USB-enclosed hard drives
With a typical USB hard drive enclosure, is the full range of drive power management functionality available?
In what may be an unrelated matter: is it possible to suspend a PC without unmounting an ...
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How to Enable an External USB Hard Drive with Ubuntu
I'm trying to install a new LaCie Hard Disk design by Neil Poulton 1TB USB 2.0.
GParted reports
/dev/sda1 (with exclamation mark and key sign) ntfs 1 KiB
unallocated 320 MiB
/dev/sda2 hfs+ 2.84 MiB
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Are operating systems able to run on different hardware?
My friend boots Linux from an external hard disk (500 GB). My question is he installs the operating system for one particular motherboard processor; the system may have additional stuff like a ...
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Installing Ubuntu on an External Drive
I am trying to install ububtu on an external drive.
I am a programmer who wants to start using Linux. I downloaded the usb installer from the ubuntu website and followed all the steps.
But when ...
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Linux won't let me mount an external hard drive as read/write
I try
mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/sdb1 /mnt/exthdd
it doesn't give me any response so I presume it succeeded but when I try to touch it, it tells me it's a read-only file system
This is driving me ...
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What is best unix/linux filesystem for external hdd?
What is best unix filesystem for external hdd. I don't want to share data with Windows.
