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hdd recognized as ssd after windows 10 update
I received the Windows 10 update and installed it without any problems to a Lenovo computer running Windows 7. So far, everything works fine except that
when I go to defragment the drive, the media ...
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How to set umask for a samba mount?
On linux (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid) I want to mount a samba share to a remote Mac (OSX) such that files created on the share have full read/write permissiona across user/group/other (like umask 0)
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Combining two disjoint ddrescue backup images
I have a 3 TB drive which recently started to malfunction. I was using the ddrescue utility on Debian to read data off the disk to a different external hard drive. However, after 2 TB of data had been ...
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How to create a loop device without using mount (without loop.ko)?
I was trying to do the following:
mkdir loop-mount
mount -o loop output loop-mount
The problem is that I don't have loop.ko and can't add it to my machine.
Is there a tool or other way to create a ...
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Is there a way to verify the integrity of a rsnapshot backups?
I'm using rsnapshot to make daily backups to a second hdd.
But how can I make sure, that no file in my backup is corrupted?
If I use the checksum option from rsync, the whole backup will take much ...
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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Hard drive causing BSOD
I've come across a problem after building my new PC and installing a clean Windows 7.
I originally planed on a RAID 1 or 0 but after further research I decided against it.
So I was left with two 1TB ...
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Why are file permissions "delayed" when mounting NTFS drives from WSL?
I am mounting a Windows/NTFS drive in WSL:
sudo mount -t drvfs F: /mnt/f -o uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=177,dmask=077
I then check the permissions of an arbitrary file in the newly mounted filesystem:
$ ...
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Internal SATA-HDD Doesn't Spin Up With Data Cable Connected
What's happening here is beyond me and what I keep finding on the internet is talks about the PSU, but I doubt that it is my issue here. Then again I'm not a hardware person and the things I read may ...
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How to mount Windows share using Kerberos with custom keytab automatically?
I have to mount a Samba share using Kerberos on a SLES 12 system automatically from boot on. The problem is, that the Kerberos ticket does not get automatically requested when trying to mount the ...
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Is it possible to disable an M.2 SSD without physically unscrewing it?
I want to be able to "hide" the presence of my M.2 NVMe ssd. For example, it can be useful when experimenting with OS installation to experimental drive, and you want to be sure it wont ...
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How to set all HDD drives always on and prevent from sleeping or spin down in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?
On a pretty large system with 1,000+ HDD drives I have a problem where HDD drives are going to sleep or spinning down.
The system is running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as stated in title, but I think it is ...
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Is there a software way to unlock a hdd?
I have a SATA hard disk which is firmware password locked.
QUESTION: Is there a software way to unlock a HDD, plugged on an USB enclosure, without losing its contents? (Windows or Linux)
This is the ...
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Mount Linux USB drive via WSL2
I'm following this guide from Microsoft describing how to mount an external Linux drive via WSL2.
I have 10.0.20279 N/A Build 20279 on an ARM64 machine. I inspect the available drives with this ...
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Bitlocker not compatible with current version of windows
I have an issue that I can't resolve through googling apparently. The issue seems to be that my external drive that I encrypted with BitLocker no longer works. Let me explain.
It happened after I ...
