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How can I use DD to migrate data from an old drive to a new drive?
I am upgrading the internal SATA hard drive on my laptop from a 40G drive to a 160G drive. I have a Linux/Ubuntu desktop which has a SATA card. I would actually like to do the same thing for a couple ...
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How to properly unplug/plug removable LVM2 device?
How to properly unplug (remove) and later plug (insert) removable (hot-plug, usb etc) storage device with LVM2 on it ?
I've found this note
Remove (unplug, eject):
lvchange -an ...
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Move qcow2 image to physical hard drive
I have a qcow2 image that I use to boot an installation of linux using QEMU; I would like to place the contents of that image directly onto a physical hard drive so that I can boot to that linux ...
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how do I wipe a server that I don't have physical access to?
I have a Godaddy dedicated server that I would like to cancel. Before I do that I'd like to do a clean format on the server to make sure that the next person who gets the server isn't able to undelete ...
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How can I check the condition of an SD card?
How can I check the health condition of an SD card?
When I want to check a hard drive, I can use SMART, how should I check an SD card? Is there a universal approach?
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How to resize a VirtualBox HDD image
I initially created a dynamically expanding VirtualBox image, and have tried to increase its hard drive space:
VBoxManage modifyhd "VirtualBox VMs/JHBuild/JHBuild.vdi" --resize 16384
After that, I ...
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How do you layout extra storage
When I was doing dual boot all my extra storage was simple in /win/d, /win//e, /win/f, ... and formated ntfs.
Now the desktop only runs Windows in a VM, and I access all my partitions from samba ( ...
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Can lvm2 volumes based on device names like sda, sdb etc be mounted if their names change?
Lets say I would like to make a large volume from external usb drives. I create the lvm volume on drives that have been given certain device names sdf sdg or whatever and at some point they are ...
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Is there a more modern or more popular version of evms2?
I've just re-discovered evms having forgotten about it years ago thinking it was overkill for my needs. To my disappointment it appears to be unmaintained and not very well supported anymore.
It ...
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How to enable (format) a disk in SunOS then add it to a DiskGroup?
SERVER # vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c1t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c1t1d0s2 auto:none - - ...
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Share unchanging data from a central repository on a network
I have a bunch of different binary files (total size of all files is circa ~500GB) stored in a hard drive that is mounted to machine001.
I have 200 other machines that need to access this data for ...
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linux: How can I view all UUIDs for all available disks on my system?
My /etc/fstab contains this:
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=77d8da74-a690-481a-86d5-9beab5a8e842 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
There are several other disks on ...
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ReFS but for Linux
Microsoft is going to bring a "Resilient FileSystem" with Windows 8, but only for servers. I'd like that on a Linux desktop, but my search reveals no contender. There are so many filesystems for ...
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Running comprehensive speed tests on a drive
I'm wondering if anybody knows of any free packages, scripts or command line tools that can report a comprehensive speed test on a drive (e.g. generating random data, and testing how long it takes to ...
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slow media - disk cache tuning?
Is there any way to make the system more consistent when using LUKS? (or slow storage in general) as it is everything is snappy until the write buffer is full, then everything grinds to a halt as the ...
