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12 questions linked to/from Windows does not mount USB NTFS superfloppy
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Format whole disk as NTFS (without partitioning) [duplicate]
TL;DR:
# mkntfs --label media1 --fast /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb is entire device, not just one partition.
Refusing to make a filesystem here!
Why does the script "refuse to make a filesystem on the ...
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Uses of single-partition disk configuration
I see in my company's IT installations that there are numerous disks with one partition occupying all of the space on disk. There is typically something like a /dev/sdb with a partition /dev/sdb1, and ...
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Advanced Format HDDs, USB enclosures and Windows / Linux compatibility
The environment
I just bought a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000LM048 HDD. It's an Advanced Format drive, with 4096-byte sectors.
I planned using it with my cheap-but-trusted (and I do mean cheap, it'...
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How to 'fix' disk with 512-byte sectors, formatted using an enclosure that translated to 4k sectors
I have a 1TB hard disk with 512-byte sectors that I have been using through a USB disk enclosure for a good many years. However, the enclosure has now died.
When I transferred it to a new enclosure I ...
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How to create a partition table on a drive with a file system occupying the whole drive?
I have a 4TB hard drive /dev/sdb, which has a formatted NTFS filesystem occupying the whole drive. It apparently has no partition table of any kind, or if it does, it is out of date or corrupted.
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What partition table use for a hard drive containing only media data?
I have a 250 GB hard drive that I'm going to use exclusively to store media data like videos, images and musics. I'm not going to load any OS on it.
So I've completely wiped its content and it ...
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
I want to mount a hard disk in remote debian server to retrieve some important data. The fdisk -l info of the disk :
Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors ...
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Do non-bootable data drives have boot sectors?
Possibly a stupid question here, but I'm wanting to confirm a small detail about hard drive workings that up until now I've just assumed.
I understand that the 440-byte bootloader won't be present on ...
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Mount virtual vfat drive to raspberry pi
I'm trying to mount virtual vfat drive to Raspberry Pi. This solution was working then we formatted the vritual vfat drive via USB OTG, now I cannot mount the drive back to pi but I can still mount ...
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NTFS filesystem used on both Linux and windows
I've copied pictures from my Slackware/Linux computer to an external NTFS hard drive many times before. The NTFS device is mainly used on Windows computers. It has worked very well until the latest ...
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Disappearing RAID array aka nested partition table within a partition?
I am having trouble with unsustainable RAID array, it keeps on disappearing in random fashion. At creation time the warnings related to lost / meaningless partition table are displayed, even though a ...
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Partition table incorrectly displayed inside partition software tools
I would like to do some work on sdb3 partition:
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1938021 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors ...
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