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How to fix hard-disk error connected by usb?
My system is Linux 64bit, my hard-disk is a 1TB WD HD, connected to my computer by USB3.0. I found some files cannot be copied, they are video files, and it seems I can play the video. I ran e2fsck ...
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Does symlinking from Drive A to Drive B affect I/O on Drive A?
I was wondering if IO through a symbolic link affects IO on the host drive even if it points to a seperate drive?
My setup is,
/dev/sdb2 1.8T 443G 1.3T 26% /home1
/dev/sda3 1.8T 1.7T ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.01 Hard Drive Drop In [closed]
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Moving linux install to a new computer
I have two similar machines running Ubuntu Server 12.04.01. They are not the same machine, but similar. Can I take the hard drive ...
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I/O error but no bad block is reported in syslog
I got errors like this in my syslog, but there's no bad block or sector defined in kernel report, I can't just replace the HDD right now and I prefer to reallocate the bad blocks for now, so I need ...
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Install Linux on two hard drives
I am new to Linux. I have a machine with two hard drives, the first one has 80GB and the second has 120GB. I am about to format this machine and install Linux.
I want to install all the main ...
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HDD allocation fstab
In my PC running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I have installed three SATA hard drives. Two of them are installed near a cooler. I want to physically switch two drives (one that is not near the fan should be moved ...
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How to Throttle per process I/O to a max limit?
I'm looking for a way to limit a processes disk io to a set speed limit. Ideally the program would work similar to this:
$ limitio --pid 32423 --write-limit 1M
Limiting process 32423 to 1 megabyte ...
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Hard drive writes freezing up Gnome
I'm currently running Debian 6.0.5 on my white Macbook 2008 (4,1) and have recently noticed that when I download, move, or decompress a file, Gnome freezes up completely for at least 20 seconds. These ...
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Fedora installer doesn't see my Windows 7 partitions
I tried to install Fedora 17 on the same disk I have Windows 7. First I got the message, that there are no free space to create partition, even in Windows part of disk was marked as unallocated.
I ...
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Find when a hard disk was first installed
What's the command in AIX to find the first time a given hard disk was installed?
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Recreating EXT4 partition without losing data [closed]
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Can't mount EXT4 hard drive after mounting it in windows
I have a 2TB Western External USB harddisk.
I formatted it to EXT4.
one time I plugged it to a windows ...
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Why does e2fsck fail during boot, but not later?
When booting my Debian server, I'm presented with the following error concerning my external hard drive:
/dev/disk/by-label/elements:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ...
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Trapping “READ FPDMA QUEUED”
Recently I encountered a kernel message:
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata3.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
ata3.00: cmd ...
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Hotplug area too small error
I have VM running under RHEL6, which is running under HyperV. It has a lot of important soft installed, but does not have suffocating workload (~10% CPU is used). It's been really unstable recently ...
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Two EFI disks with Grub2
I bought two SSD disks and as usual I though that installing Windows on a completely separate disk would be the easiest solution, but I can't find any tutorials for dual booting with grub2 (efi). All ...
