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Copying and expanding partitions
I currently have the following setup:
2TB HDD /dev/sda:
/dev/sda1: (NTFS) Windows 7 Boot Partition: 100GB
1TB HDD /dev/sdb:
/dev/sdb1: (EXT4) Linux General/Backup Partition - 1TB
256GB SSD ...
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Clear unused space with zeros (ext3,ext4)
How to clear unused space with zeros ? (ext3,ext4)
I'm looking for something smarter than
cat /dev/zero > /mnt/X/big_zero ; sync; rm /mnt/X/big_zero
Like FSArchiver is looking for "used space" ...
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Backup of LVM2 logical volume
I'd like to make backup on external drive of LVM2 logical volume in dd manner.
Approach I consider is to
make lv on extranl drive with identical size
copy with dd
(Please let me know if you see ...
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Keeping multiple root directories in a single partition
I'm working out a partition scheme for a new install. I'd like to keep the root filesystem fairly small and static, so that I can use LVM snapshots to do backups without having to allocate a ton of ...
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back-up database in Linux partition from windows partition!
Hello I am in a very embarrassing situation, I was trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from ubuntu 9.10 yesterday and while updating I forgot to put my laptop on charger and the battery ran out. Since ...