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Many of my text files are suddenly missing
I am using Manjaro linux with a Samsung SSD 840 Pro.
Ive noticed my Documents folder is suddenly empty.
After rebooting, most of the text files I had saved are no longer there.
The problem is some of ...
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How can I (safely) refresh data on an HDD? [duplicate]
I have an HDD (for simplicity, let's assume it has a single partition).
I would like to refresh the data on my HDD: Read all data, and write the same data, possibly but not necessarily at the exact ...
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How to forward received data towards network namespace?
My goal is to forward received data to another pc. I have three devices (A, B and C) connected into the same network. A uses pyzmq to publish data in which B is subscribed. Then, B must send this ...
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What is the best place for storing of semi-short-lived data produced by a bash script?
UPDATE
Came up with an even better solution:
Base directory /var/tmp
Because think about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
| /var/tmp | Temporary files to be preserved ...
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Mounting an old JBOD array with two disks DOS formatted
I have a couple of 500GB disks with data inside that I would like to get back. The two disks were mounted inside a Lacie disk, part of a JBOD array and formatted FAT32.
I don't have the external disk ...
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Rsync transactions?
I use rsync to move changes in my data between two computers. I do backup of data dir from PC2 to usb stick and than I insert usb stick to PC1 and run rsync to update data dir on PC1 according to data ...
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Synchronize Data between two locations
I have to locations with a lot of data. Both locations have a slow Internet connection. So it's impossible to sync the Data between both locations via Internet. So the idea is to use a sneaker net to ...
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How to know if files inside an encrypted ZFS dataset are actually encrypted or not?
When you make any change on a zfs dataset, changes are not applied to already existant data. So, if you find a ZFS dataset that says it has encyption ON, there is a way to check if an individual file ...
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XFS version 4 vs 5 (RHEL 7 to 8)
In RHEL 7.9 I formatted my large /data volume with XFS 4.5.
In RHEL 8.8 XFS is version 5.0.
XFS v5 in RHEL 8 can mount an XFS v4 file system created by RHEL 7.9, however RHEL 7.9 cannot mount an XFS ...
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Bash manage space separated list
I have a rather complex shell script which processes several list of values which are read from a file as space separated values e.g.
SET1="value1 value2 value3"
for i in ${SET1}; do
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how to troubleshoot slow usb drive?
TLDR: How do I troubleshoot a slow usb 3.1 device plugged into a laptop.
ISSUE: When I copy (tried GUI and terminal) the first few .iso files copy almost instantly 300mb/s+, but then the 3rd/4th start ...
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How important is LUKS reserved block count for external drive?
I have LUKS FDE on my external data HDD but recently almost filled it up. When cleaning it up I noticed that the available and free counters don't match.
Read that LUKS reserves 5% of total capacity ...
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Strange data loss
My work laptops come with Ubuntu 20.04 and a very strange thing happened
to a colleague of mine (I'm asking here because I think what happened
doesn't depend on the distribution): he was working with ...
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Linux completely frozen
My linux system just froze and I can't even switch to tty.
I can't force reboot it because it is moving a partiton (a HDD with no system files) with really important data which I can't afford to lose.
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Can I backup my machine by just doing "cp -R / /pathToSSD"
I want to completely backup my computer. I got a 1TB drive. Normally backing up is a whole process and I find it would be so easier to just copy the filesystem into the drive then in the event of my ...
