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Linux won't boot
I just installed my new SSD, and I put Windows 8 on it. Previously I had a hard drive with both Windows and Linux partitions. After finishing the installation of Windows 8 on the SSD I formatted the ...
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Linux boots when I click “Windows 7” in boot manager
I've been trying to dual boot, which has pretty much been successful. I have Linux installed on an external Hard Drive. In the boot manager when I click on Windows 7:
(with the hard drive plugged ...
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Partitioning best-practices for SSD+regular HDD with multi-boot
I have a (couple of) regular HDDs on my machine , and I'm about to buy an SSD, probably 128GB, for it.
I would like the machine to be a Dual-Boot Linux (3.x kernel) + Windows 7. My question has two ...
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Disk not found after running badblocks -vws
Ok so I have this one disk that is about 5 years old, Seagate.
Prior to running badblocks it was it was in a striped raid array with an identical disk that apparently died.
I kept this one disk ...
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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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Having installed fedora, I have lost capacity to boot into any OSs via BIOS or UEFI
(Running on Asus TaiChi)
When I try to boot without USB, I get sent straight to setup screen. If I press esc prior to setup screen, I enter the Please select boot device boot dialog. However, my only ...
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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”
In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them.
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How do I restore windows 8 / hard drive after hard drive overwrite?
So I have been a bit of an idiot... I was installing fedora and I clicked through the partitioning without much attention assuming that fedora would be installed in dual boot. It seems to have ...
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How do LVM Snapshots work on the PE level?
How do LVM Snapshots work on the PE level? What is stored where? What data is lost when the snapshot runs out of COW space?
(description + explanation below)
I was experimenting with LVM and ...
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control mount order of partitions on a USB disk in linux
I have a backup external hard drive in a USB box that is identical to my laptop's boot drive so that I can swap it in if my boot drive fails. When it's connected to the system for normal use (e.g., ...
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re-mount two old disk from raid0 setup to recover data
I had setup two 500gb disk in RAID0 on my server, but recently suffered a hard disk failure (saw a S.M.A.R.T error on the HDD at boot). My host has put 2 new disk in RAID-0 again (re-installed the OS) ...
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Will Linux Boot Faster if I install it to My Hard Drive?
I currently have a live usb of Linux Mint 14, and while I'm pretty happy with it, I just want to confirm, will it boot faster if I actually install it onto my hard drive? That would be the main reason ...
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Where can I find a comprehensive explanation of hard drive partitioning? [closed]
I have been messing around with linux distros and have been asked to create partitions. I generally just click through the standard options without really knowing what I am doing. Since this kind of ...
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Is it possible to boot a single Linux installation from both inside a VM and as host?
What I am thinking about is, that I'd install a linux on a hard drive to boot it normally. In addition to that, I'd create a VM on Windows, that would use the same raw mapped hard drive.
That way I ...
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Gparted live CD UI crashed, gpartedbin still running. Anything I can do?
I'm running Gparted live CD v0.15.0-1 on a production file server (after having tested
successfully on a similarly-partitioned test server).
The actions I wanted to do are:
delete /dev/sda5 ...
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USB flash drive doesn't appear in any OS
Hi I got new Kingston DataTraveller drive. I have repartitioned it in OS X than dumped and image of another flash drive on it. Few more times of the same but now it doesn't appear in any OS when I ...
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Can I use cp to backup and restore Linux
On the same physical machine, the partitions of / and /home are both not large enough. I cannot extend the two partitions directly, since they are the last two partitions. I deleted the two partitions ...
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How close to death is my Linux hard drive [duplicate]
I want to test my hard disk that is on opensuse 12.2 -
update see some results below
I have installed S.M.A.R.T.
How would you start the tests?
note: can I run a single test that runs all the ...
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mdadm RAID monitoring no DegradedArray email
So, I have a couple of MDADM RAID arrays and I want to set up monitoring with email notifications for drive failures through sSMTP but I can't seem to get it working.
The system in question is a ...
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Safest way to recover data from a broken hard drive
A portable external hard drive was dropped a couple of days ago by someone I know. It is a 320 gb seagate 2.5 inch usb 2.0 hdd. If you plug it into windows it shows up in the disk manager as a "raw ...
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Utilize unused hard drive space
I have a MK802 Mini PC with a nice 16gb SD card running Rikomagic Linux; however, I can't even tap into more than 3.7gb of it. The system image (.IMG) I installed on the SD card was ~7.8gb.
"fdisk ...
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Transitioning to Ubuntu
I am currently running Windows 7 with 2 hard drives.
An SSD where the OS and apps are stored.
A HDD which stores all my videos, music, files. (NTFS)
If I was to format the SSD and install Ubuntu, ...
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About fsck and a HDD's reserved space for bad sectors
So when you do a full fsck on a hard drive to find bad blocks, does it ignore or exempt that space on the drive where it puts (reallocates) bad blocks into?
I'm talking about the space implied by the ...
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How come writing varying file sizes results in varying speeds? [duplicate]
Here is some output from the dd command:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=10M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.130214 s, 80.5 MB/s
$ dd if=/dev/zero ...
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How to check space on a opensuse-linux-system?
I wanted to check the space that I have on the machine: I tried it with this command:
df -h
linux-wyee:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 20G 6.9G 12G ...
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Options for treating multiple partitions as one
I have an HDD partitioned with one partition used for media files, mounted somewhere on my system (which is a Debian Wheezy box). I would like to expand the space available for files in my mount ...
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Is my UNIX command du failing?
I was checking the space occupied in my hard drive, and I saw strange results when executing the du command.
Here you have a sample of what I've typed:
marcha_r@Risa marcha_r $ du -cksh *
28M ...
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Block Devices & Partitions
I partitioned a microSD card (mmcblk1) into two partitions mmcblk1p1 and mmcblk1p2.
If use a dedicated card reader I am able to see the entire SD card and its partitions using various disk management ...
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Partition hard drive to install windows
I need to partition my hard drive to install Windows.
My current operating system is Ubuntu.
I google'd for "partition hard disk/drive ubuntu" - Not much luck. Anything else you suggest me to ...
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Can't mount image of NTFS partition created by ddrescue
I've used ddrescue successfully in the past but I'm having no luck this time. Usually, I make an image of the partition, run a fsck or whatever else on the image to fix file system errors, mount it ...
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Why make a partition at all for mdadm/raid?
i have 4 disks, sd[a,b,f,g] of various sizes that I want to 'merge' together. I am using mdadm to achieve this.
my question is, what's the difference between --
mdadm --create /dev/md0 ...
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How to recover data from a formatted hard drive? [duplicate]
I am pretty much new to Linux. I have given my hard disk for someone to install ubuntu. He formatted my entire hard disk. I would like to recover some of images that I lost. Previously my hard disk ...
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nginx configuration forvideo streaming server
I run nginx for few websites and for video streaming using h264 module from code-shop.com.
When I start or restart nginx it works normally for a while after it starts generating very high load ...
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Partitioning / data layout with SSD and HDD in (X)Ubuntu
So my system has a 60GB Mushkin SSD, and a 1TB Seagate HDD. Both of them use SATAIII. I'm going to be using a fresh install of Xubuntu (from Windows), though I haven't ever manually set the ...
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Stress testing all SATA links
I have a few servers. Each has 9 backplanes, and each backplane has 5 hard drives. Once in a while, one of the cables connecting a backplane to the motherboard (actually a pci card on the motherboard) ...
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Mint cannot find HDD
Something went wrong with our home computers boot files for Windows XP, thankfully we had all the files backed up but we no longer had the Windows XP installation CD to reinstall Windows XP. So I have ...
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Hang during reboot
I've recently installed a second HDD bay in my laptop, but now, every time I issue a reboot, the computer hangs for about 1m30s (completely freezes on a black screen, with the fans at the maximum ...
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real number of sectors on HDD
This is part of output of fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector ...
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Is it possible to migrate a software RAID5 array to RAID0?
So last year I helped my father in France set up his Office machine with a RAID5 array of 3 identical 1TB drives (for a combined space of 2TB). Last week one of the drives died, he's using the machine ...
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How to get partition's free space in a linux machine
I have to get harddisk's free space available from 7 Windows 2008 servers and 4 Linux machines. For windows machines I wrote a tiny .Net Program. This will get details from all windows machines.
In ...
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Is HDD recovery possible in this case?
I have laptop HP 4320s with seems to be dead disk, but I could get some info from it.
Seems to be dead it is because it isn't seen by BIOS and hence there is no boot from it. But when I'm looking ...
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How best to partition an SSD boot drive and HDD storage drive for Windows and Linux
Okay I'm not 100% sure if this question belongs here or the unix stack exchange.
I consulted the following thread(s) on superuser and while helpful don't answer my questions:
Dual Boot Windows 7 + ...
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Make two disks appear as one big share on LAN
I bought 2 x 2TB disks for a NAS server, (linux debian). I want to make both drives appear as one big 4TB disk on the LAN. This can be done with software RAID (JBOD) or LVM I suppose.
There are other ...
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gparted doesn't work with an external hard drive with sector size of 4096
When I open gparted, I got below:
sudo gparted
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libparted : 2.2
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Device /dev/sdc has a logical sector size of 4096. Not all parts of GNU Parted support ...
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Can I move Linux from running on a USB to a hard drive partition?
I'm working on helping my brother with a project. He has been running Lubuntu Linux from a USB drive while he was setting up some server and web projects (proof of concept). Now that he has the ...
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What do different values of hard drive's Advanced Power Management feature (hdparm -B) affect, except spin-down?
hdparm's -B parameter is documented as:
Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low
value means aggressive power management and a high value means better per‐
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Forcing a verbose fsck on reboot (Ubuntu)
I'd like to force a verbose fsck on reboot of my Ubuntu linux server, I can get fsck to run on reboot by creating a file /forcefsck in my root dir ...
Additionally, by adding a y into the contents of ...
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Where to put default setting from “/sys” folder in Fedora 18?
I have an SSD main disk and I want to use noop IO scheduler with it, like this:
echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
But this setting gets lost after reboot.
What is a right place to save ...
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OS agnostic (external) hard disk drive preparation
I am a trans-OS user (coming out, I love linux and windows, one with the heart and both with the mind ;))
Somewhere in the back of my head I remember, formatting an external usb drive with windows or ...
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How can I run a command on disk error?
System: Debian Squeeze
What's it for: A System where any new disk is DoD Wiped.
I'm looking for a method to fire a command on a disk error that the kernel throws, sometimes we get bad disks and it ...
