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What is a file system which has r/w on all major OSes [duplicate]
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Cross-platform filesystem
What is a file system which has r/w on all OSes like windows, linux and Mac.
Windows comes with FAT and NTFS support and EXT3 support can be added. ...
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How to switch OS in Dual Boot from remote?
I want to setup my desktop with dualboot such that i can switch between the two OSes from remote. Specifically, Windows 10 and Fedora 38.
I usually boot it remotely using Wake on LAN, so it would be ...
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Dual boot Linux with Windows 7
I am trying to recover an installation of Linux on my machine, preferably without having to reinstall Linux (and possibly Windows) altogether.
I have installed Pear OS first, and then installed ...
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SD card not getting formatted [duplicate]
I have a 32 GB micro SD card which got kind of corrupted during file transferring from my computer. Now, I am not able to format it.
On Linux:
I have tried Disks utility of Linux, it has no effect on ...
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Equivalent of Unix find command on Windows
What is the equivalent of the Unix find command on Windows?
I see that the find.exe on Windows is more like a grep. I am especially interested in the equivalent of
find . -name [filename]
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Convert Unix line endings to Windows
I recently moved back to Windows from Linux. I have some files with CRLFs, some with LFs and some that are mixed. Is there a utility that will help me find all my Unix-touched files and convert them ...
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How to SCP from Linux server to Windows client
I'm SSHing into a Linux machine using PuTTY and trying to copy a file down somewhere (anywhere) to my local machine. I figure SCP is the best candidate for the job but don't really care, so long as ...
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How to pipe text from command line to the clipboard
I'd like to do something like
dir *.* > clipboard
ie. get to get the standard output of a command line program copied to the clipboard. Can this be done on a standard XP machine without ...
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Completely reinstall WSL
I installed WSL 1, enjoyed having Linux on my PC, then discovered the limitations of the scarce interoperability over files between the two operating systems.
So I installed WSL 2 following the specs (...
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What filesystem to use when using both Windows and Linux? [duplicate]
I will be buying a 2TB hard drive soon, and would like to use it as media storage. I would like to be able to read/write from both Windows (version 7, 64bit) and Ubuntu Linux, and I need support for ...
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What are the differences between Linux and Windows .txt files (Unicode encoding)?
I am only using the 128 character set defined in the original ANSI standard.
But as a whole how are the files implemented differently.
I am not concerned with the display, i.e. if a tab is displayed ...
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Use VirtualBox to boot a physical drive/partition [duplicate]
I have two partitions on my hard drive, one for Windows and one for linux. I would like to use VirtualBox in Linux to boot the Windows partition as a virtual machine. How can I acheive this?
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Command prompt in Windows and Linux -- What is their language called?
When the command prompt is being used to do networking, searching, setting parameters in the localhost, etc, what is the language used to enter in the command prompt in Windows? How about in Linux? ...
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Can Windows use a Linux shell instead of cmd?
I was wondering if it is somehow technologically possible for Windows to add some sort of Linux interface? I think it would win over many programmers to develop on Windows.
Any ideas on this?
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Can I access Microsoft Outlook PST archives with any other tools?
I would like to access my Microsoft Outlook archives (pst files) from machines that do not have Microsoft Office installed. Is that possible? Think of several years worth of PST archive files.
My ...
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