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Searching for strings in a dd image, extracting data from it
I am trying to recover the contents of a text file that became corrupt following a power outage. The file size is still correct (14 MB), but the text in the lower half of it has been replaced by ...
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GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)
Linux gives error "GPT PMBR size mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)."
The error message is far from self-explanatory. Does this mean that Linux will (attempt to) resize the GPT partition ...
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Reading a file using LBA addressing
Is it possible to read/execute files/programs using the LBA addressing rather than the file system location?
For example can I execute /bin/sh using the LBA sector locations of it obtained using ...
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How do I determine what is the best block size for a 960 PRO M.2?
I have a Samsung NVMe SSD 960 PRO M.2.
I was in the process of installing Gentoo on it. gparted notified me that the physical block size, is different than what the kernel reports. I thought the ...
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Partition Hard disk with start sector 1
I have a new Hard Disk which I want to use for NAS drive. The requirement is that the partition as seen in fdisk should be as below.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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Partitioning an SSD with sfdisk
I have been trying to partition this SSD (Samsung 840) nicely for a while now. I want to make sure the pages line up with the SSD pages to limit the amount of writes. I found this site which ...
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What does the output of fdisk mean?
I've got a flash drive and I want to understand the properties of it as is outputted from fdisk. I inserted it and check the dmesg and I could see that it was mounted as /dev/sdb1 so I ran fdisk to ...
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NTFS; marking sectors bad using Linux
I have a massive ZFS array on my fileserver. Whenever a disk reports bad sectors to smartmon, I order a replacement, and I shelve the failing one.
And by "shelving the failing one", I mean that I ...
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4k Sectors: Which Drives Don't Lie About Having 512b Sectors and Correctly Report 4k Sectors?
I recently returned a Western Digital WD20EARS drive with 4k sectors (Western Digital refers to this as "advanced format"), because I found out that it lies and reports 512b sectors to the OS, and ...
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