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How to speed up rsync between two local disks?

First - the number of files in this case is going to be a major factor. It's an average size of 3MB each. There's probably an io bottleneck influencing the speed in the OP's case. More here - that's a ...
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

Use Microsoft one drive to open .msg files online via browser: Sign in to your Microsoft onedrive account and upload the .msg file. After upload, you can click on it to view the file contents. The ...
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What is this dm-0 device?

I wanted to comment on Pascal's post, sometimes you need to define the output columns to see the name. For example on CentOS 6 it displays them but CentOS 7 doesn't. Using --output resolves this. ...
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

It's not perfect but you can import .msg file with Mozilla Thunderbird (it works with on 52.1.1 on my Linux Mint). I had some encoding error but you can globally read the content. In Thunderbird you ...
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

Another free and cross-platform tool for extracting the contents of an Outlook msg file from the command line is msg-extractor. pip install extract-msg extract_msg file.msg Please note that while ...
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What is an .so file?

There are two Linux C/C++ library types that can be created. Those are Static libraries (.a) and Dynamically linked shard object libraries (.so) When it comes to (.so), there is only one form of this ...
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

I ran across such a file as well (provided to me by a colleague who saved an email message in Microsoft Outlook). file(1) identifies the .msg file like so: foo.msg: Composite Document File V2 ...
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How to speed up rsync between two local disks?

Avoid -z/--compress: compression will only load up the CPU as the transfer isn't over a network but over RAM. --append-verify: resume an interrupted transfer. This sounds like a good idea, but it has ...
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How to speed up rsync between two local disks?

You definitely want to give rclone a try. This thing is crazy fast : $ tree /usr [...] 26105 directories, 293208 files $ sudo rclone sync /usr /home/fred/temp -P -L --transfers 64 Transferred: ...
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

I've had luck with the MsgViewer application in Ubuntu, but it requires Java to work. The other option is to use an online viewer/converter, such as MsgEml.com.
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

If you're on Windows, Mac, or another Linux than Ubuntu, or you don't want to install random packages on your system, I'd recommend building on Georg Jung's answer by using this docker container: ...
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

You can also proceed like this: strings foo.msg |html2text
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What is this dm-0 device?

You could also use iostat for the purpose of identifying possible bottlenecks, for example: iostat -x -d 1
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What is this dm-0 device?

Since the title of the question is still "What is this dm-0 device", it should be mentioned atleast once that dm-X (dm-0, etc) are not always LVM related. More directly, they are part of ...
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How to speed up rsync between two local disks?

i found this as my answer https://gist.github.com/KartikTalwar/4393116 rsync -aHAXxv --numeric-ids --progress -e 'ssh -T -c [email protected] -o Compression=no -x ' <source_dir> user@<...
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PSD (photoshop) editing on Ubuntu

Krita is best for editing/opening .psd files in ubuntu. GIMP will not open the .psd files by default and may need further plugins, which might be complicated. Krita opens the .psd files without ...
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What is this dm-0 device?

I got the requested information on CentOS 7 by first listing LVM volume groups with vgs: # vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree centos 1 3 0 wz--n- <1.82t 4.00m Note the volume group ...
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Playing sound on local computer after command in SSH connection

(This is the answer by @xzfc with some corrections.) Install ncat on your client and server machine. Because nc in usual distributions (Debian, Ubuntu) does not have the options to execute commands (-...
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Ubuntu 9.10 Technika H16WC-01 Webcam

I have just installed my old cheap Technika H16WC-01 webcam on Ubuntu 16.04LTS x64. It took a bit of searching around and so here I compiled the steps together to make it easier for others to follow. ...
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Linux wc command

Wc command prints newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line, if more than one FILE is specified. Syntax wc [OPTION]... [FILE]... wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F Option -c:- print ...
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How to disable horizontal scrolling within virtualbox on Ubuntu guest, Windows 7 host?

I had solved this problem by hitting top options of VM view -> Auto-resize Guest Display
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How can I make Virtual Box sees my external hard drive

Another possibility would be to create a new shared folder in the VM's settings and map the shared folder to the external drive's root directory; this has the benefit that the Ubuntu install inside ...
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My control key doesn't work, how do I fix it?

Had the same issue, went to the GNOME tweak tool; under Keyboard & Mouse make sure "Emacs Input" is disabled.
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