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Can't format external drive
I am trying to format an external drive, but getting the error
/dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
Based on the internet, I have to
run cat ...
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Removing leading zeros from DATE
I made an alias of the date command to display date in the following format:
2013.06.14.12.10.02
using this command:
alias date = date +"%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S"
Everything works great, except i ...
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Reformat terminal output and save to file
I was wondering how to reformat terminal output for logging information. More specifically I would like to reformat the output of the sensors command from the lm-sensors package and write it to a ...
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Format drive and all partitions, start from scratch on chromebook
I have a chromebook which ... someone ... may have messed up some partitions using fdisk while ubuntu was installed. Now, after doing a recovery re-install for chromeOS I'm unable to install ubuntu ...
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How to format large Size HDD quickly
In windows we can do a Quick format just by right clicking the device and boom format.
In linux How to do the same I mean if the size of HDD is 2TB or more it takes along time to format using
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How to partition 22TB disk?
I have a 22TB disk on /dev/sdb. How do I create a 22TB partition? Don't really care about the file system - ext4 or zfs is fine.
Running CentOS 6.2 - Partition will be used as a data dump. Only a ...
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How can I display octal notation of permissions with ls - and can octal represent all permissions? [duplicate]
After looking at the man page for ls on my system and searching Google, I see there IS a hack of way to use awk or perl to show octal permissions when using ls, but with bash is there anything more ...
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Quick USB pendrive formatting under KDE
Is there some way to quickly format a USB pendrive in KDE (with a GUI interface), without having to open the main "KDE Partition Manager"?
In particular I'm most interested in something like a ...
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How to generate a year-quarter date from the command line?
I'm interested in outputting a representation of the current year-quarter, as well as the year-quarter for the previous month.
If today is 2012 January 1st, I'd like to get
2012q1
and
2011q4
as ...
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Trying to install Windows on a system that has Ubuntu 12.04 installed
I'm a novice in installing & debugging OS errors. I had Windows 7 installed & it crashed today (the great blue screen). No matter what I did (tried to install Windows 7 again & again from ...
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How to format USB drive in Linux Mint 14 with GUI? [duplicate]
I'm new to Linux Mint and I've just installed Linux Mint 14. Now I need to format my USB drive, but I'm not getting any option to do that.
Please suggest me anyone, how can I do that with a GUI?
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Cant install Linux Mint over Ubuntu , Help…migrating from Windows 7…first time Linux
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on HDD. Over the last 2 days I have been using Linux Mint on LiveCD and decided that that is what I want.
When I partition the hdd should it be in fat32? fat16? or one ...
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How to Format an LVM partition
I need to format a partition.
But I have one LVM on my machine (VirtualBox) that is composed of two different two partitions of two Virtual HDD's (sdb5 and sdc5)
fdisk output
df output
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How to format Partition
I need to format Partition on Redhat 5.2
/dev/mapper/VG00-LogVol 148G 111G 36G 76% /u001/app/oracle
Please advice how to do it.
Thanks
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How can I low-level format flash memory in Linux?
My friend was having problems with a USB flash drive, and I suggested he do a low-level format. Then it occurred to me that I don't even know how to do that in Linux. So... how can I low-level ...
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Where to find printf formatting reference?
Where is the offline reference of the format specifiers (e.g., %i, %s) which are supported by the Bash/system printf command? I've looked in help printf, man 1 printf and man 3 printf without luck.
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Output png as binary [closed]
Title says it all. I'm on a unix machine, can't figure it out. Sublime Text 2 opens the PNG as Hex and TextMate as ASCII. I need binary. How can I do it?
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Format disk through rootfs terminal
I've got into a strange situation (because of my own stupidity of course:-)). I kept failing to install Chakra Linux from Live USB, so I was thinking that the reason could be that I created the Live ...
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Format external hard drive to linux compatible file system
How do I format my external hard drive to a very Linux compatible file system?
I am using L-Ubuntu 11.04.
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Prevent watch breaking colors
I'm altering scripts at work that monitor log files to single out certain items and colorize them. The final output is a list of 6-digit numbers in several columns. I've been able to add a ~ to the ...
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To which audio format can I convert aac lost-free with ffmpeg?
Since I did not manage to get the audio work with
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy out.avi
I'm searching for an audio format to which I can convert aac lost-free.
Does such an ...
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How can I format a thumb drive so that I delete all existing files?
I have a usb thumb drive that I want to reuse.
How can I format it?
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du (disk usage) and format specifier for file/directory sizes strings?
I am really fond of du, and I often like to use it like this:
$ du -hsc /var/mail/ /var/log/ 2>/dev/null
4,0K /var/mail/
5,7M /var/log/
5,7M total
However, I'd like to be able to ...
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Solaris disk failed, how to remove it?
I have a system with Solaris 10. One of the internal disks is broken:
c0t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk1_1 rootdg online c0t0d0s2 -
c0t1d0s2 auto - ...
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How to convert dd disk image to Clonezilla?
I have disk image from VirtualBox, it is a raw image, just like dd makes it, now I would like to restore the system to real machine using Clonezilla. However Clonezilla does not recognize the image ...
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Do I need to format a CF before installing Linux?
I recently purchased an 8GB Patriot CF card, like this one:
http://www.frys.com/product/6094878?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
I also have a Syba CF/Sata adapter:
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Will formatting my drive TRIM my SSD?
Will a standard fresh linux (Ubuntu 11.10 to be exact) install and drive re-format (full) successfully TRIM my SSD, or do I need to do something extra?
I know that ext4 will TRIM blocks on erase ...
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Backing up chroots for host reinstall
I've had my workstation for a couple of years now and its slowly become a complex beast, taking on many roles for my dev and test work. I have done some research and was thinking of setting up some ...
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Expanding text format in VI
The following code is taken from the superfish module for websites:
(function($){$.fn.hoverIntent=function(f,g){var
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How do you format a USB stick after it is being labled “unrecognised” by Ubuntu?
I have a memory stick which I had cleaned of old data fragments.
The memory stick was mounted on /dev/sdc1 so I did:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
After the task was complete, my usb memory ...
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Formatting secondary hard drive that has windows on it
I recently installed an setup an Ubuntu Server machine. It has two drives in it and the other drive has windows installed on it. (I didn't want to overwrite the windows installation until I had my ...
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129 MB used space shown in the SD card even after formatting it with mkfs.ext4 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ext4: How to account for the filesystem space?
The full 2 GB space doesn't get shown as free space even after fully formatting it with mkfs.ext4. Are these some system ...
