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No space left in device error despite being empty
FAT32 32-bit short file names must also be uppercase (technically any ASCII character in the range below 0x80, excluding space), to hit the maximum of 65,534 files.
Long file names will take up more ...
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Configuring a system to persist deleted files
For your requirements (continuous snapshotting, user with root access, hiding backup-action from user) the right choise of the filesystem should be the easiest way to realize your aim.
One keyword you ...
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How to delete the Recovery Partition in Windows 10?
Disable Recovery Agent Environment
First, you should check if the recovery agent is using this drive as the recovery environment. You can check this by running reagentc /info from an Administrator ...
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How do you TRIM unallocated/unformatted space after partition shrinking on an SSD in Windows?
I think what OP means to do is reserve for example 10% of LBA space and not do anything with it so the drive can use it for overprovisioning. By making certain this area is trimmed you'd be certain ...
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No space left in device error despite being empty
You already have the answer
I keep reading online that FAT32/vFat have some limitations, including:
Maximum of 65,534 files in a single directory. Less if the file names are not (8.3).
You are ...
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How to expand the Windows partition when the Recovery one is in the way?
you don't need to even reboot for this.
after you disable the recovery partition, you can
launch diskpart and do the steps from there:
you'll be able to
delete the recovery parttion
extend your C: ...
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Can I move my D drive to a "D" partition on my C drive?
In general your scheme will work. However, you need to copy the
files so as to keep all their properties.
I would suggest doing it this way :
Create the new partition and assign it a temporary drive-...
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Configuring a system to persist deleted files
Have you looked into GitFS? It looks like you need full auditing capabilities in your filesystem, which is a characteristic of a version control system. GitFS is a FUSE filesystem that will commit ...
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The best approach to creating EXT4 partitions copy (without need of restoring them later)
Assuming you don’t need an exact copy of the on-disk layout of blocks, and that this is intended to be a read-only copy, my tool of choice would be SquashFS.
SquashFS is, as the name implies, a ...
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How to expand the Windows partition when the Recovery one is in the way?
Moving the Windows Recovery partition to the end of the disk is (ironically) much easier with Linux. So if you already can boot a live Linux CD (or USB or over PXE), it probably has gparted which you ...
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Is it possible to remove protection from a GPT Protective Partion HDD without formatting it?
Is it possible to remove protection from a GPT Protective Partion HDD
First, to address the title: "GPT Protective Partition" doesn't protect the data from being accessed; it tries to ...
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If I deleted a partition, will that delete the data on this partition?
If I deleted a partition, will that delete the data on this partition?
Strictly: no. Deleting a partition means removing the relevant entry from the partition table. This does nothing to data inside ...
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Configuring a system to persist deleted files
My initial thought is to try Syncthing to provide a one-way (read only) replica of the target folder/s somewhere else, and enable versioning.
As a solution it avoids the need for low-level cleverness, ...
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What is the purpose of these overlapping partitions?
What the hell is going on here? Is this how burned iso-images always look, or is Parabola doing something weird and special here?
"Burned ISO images" do not change their appearance; the ...
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Can I move my D drive to a "D" partition on my C drive?
It should work fine. I would copy the files over first, instead of moving them.
Then rename the drives. Depending on what you have running, you may have to do the renaming in safe mode.
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I cloned Windows to a larger SSD and computer won't show additional storage, no unallocated partition
I do not have unallocated partition, all partitions are allocated > the rest of the storage simply doesn't show
They are allocated, but not part of the main partition (the C: partition) and do not ...
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Cannot mount sda3 "mount: /media/drive: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'."
You need to understand the difference between a partition and logical volume.
You are trying to mount a /dev/sda3 partition but there you already have LVM managing it (show as type lvm).
This part
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Enlarged partition of remote Debian server, now it does not boot
Your current /dev/sda2 is an extended partition, a container to hold logical partitions. Now no sane tool expects a filesystem or LVM structures directly in it.
You should not try to create any ...
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No space left in device error despite being empty
As mentioned in the other answers, a second directory entry is created with the long filename, since "txt" is lowercase (instead of uppercase) and thus a LFN entry is generated to store that....
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Get the default cluster size for NTFS
From Microsoft NTFS Overview
With (2^32 – 1) clusters (the maximum number of clusters that NTFS supports), the following volume and file sizes are supported.
That means a maximum of 4,294,967,295 ...
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The best approach to creating EXT4 partitions copy (without need of restoring them later)
but also I don't want to wait forever to unpack dense archives.
Don't use Tar as the archive format then. Most other archive formats (7z, rar, zip) are non-"dense" by default and allow ...
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How to mount BTRFS partition multiple times both using the same space allocation?
You can already do this without subvolumes, using any filesystem. Mount it at one location, then use bind mounts to mount that onto the locations you need. (Bind mounts have equal standing to the ...
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Formatting 500gb HDD NTFS to FAT32 then returns: The volume is too big for FAT32
The "failure" that you are seeing is a limitations in the built-in Windows tools which are limited to 32GB for FAT32 partitions.
As per the Microsoft page Default cluster size for NTFS, FAT, ...
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USB totally damaged after used with Rufus
In all likeliness, Rufus didn't ruin the drive, it just gave an already worn / failing flash drive that past push.
No Media USB Flash Drive
Disk Management 'No Media' essentially says, I see a storage ...
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Windows 10 moving EFI and Recovery partitions to a new drive
Your answer is wrong! And it's not advisable from Microsoft:
Disks that require an MSR
Every GPT disk must contain an MSR. The order of partitions on the disk should be ESP (if any), OEM (if any) and ...
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Configuring a system to persist deleted files
Your rm aliasing won't work. It is still possible to type /bin/rm bypassing the rm alias.
Changing rm won't work too. touch dummy; mv dummy file_to_erase will replace your file with an empty file. ...
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How to confirm dd does Not erase the bad blocks list made by e2fsck?
What do you want to achieve? -- Achieve HDD with no errors.
That lets disk reallocate errors to spare sectors.
Reallocation of sectors does not heal a dammaged disk. The reallocation process is ...
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How to expand ubuntu server root storage?
Okay, this helped me:
To add more space to the Ubuntu partition (/) inside the LVM volume group (ubuntu-vg) on Ubuntu VM running within a Windows Server host, you need to follow these steps:
Resize ...
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Is it possible to install windows 10 on old BIOS PC with GPT drive?
It must be Windows 10 + old BIOS + GPT drive or nothing
If so it won't be, period.
Unlike most Linux based OSes, Windows strictly requires 'msdos' (MBR) partitioning for BIOS mode (or Legacy/CSM ...
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With raw disk, before Partition, before filesystem, how to map bad blocks?
Linux has the badblocks command reference here:
https://linux.die.net/man/8/badblocks
Also see here
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/badblocks-command-in-linux-with-examples/
badblocks -o out.txt -s /dev/...
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