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Refresh devices - reconnect CF card drive by script (unplug-plug equivalent)

I plug a completely clean CF-card into my USB card-writer. Then I dd a mbr block of 512 bytes size to the device, which contains the partition table and the definition of one partition. Problem: While "fdisk -l /dev/sdx" correctly displays the…
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Running Trac from USB stick (Windows)

I am looking for some way to run Trac on Windows from a USB stick (usb flash drive). User wants to carry a small USB drive, which will contain everything to be able to run Trac on his or some other Windows machine without any installation. Just…
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Recommend a USB Flash copier (Software or Hardware based) for Keep-it-simple-stupid bitwise copy

Intro I'm looking around for a no-frills USB flash media copier that is brain-dead simple and copies a source to a destination, bit for bit, when the drives are approximately the same size. Untrained people will be using it to copy drives that…
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Plug-Start-Pull Windows batch script

I'd like to preface this by saying I'm not a system administrator at all, just a lowly Java programmer. However, I've been tasked with writing a batch script to be run on a sizable number of laptop computers. The script is done, but there's a catch…
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Is there a mapping of USB Flash Drives to Fat32 / NTFS / Ex-Fat?

I am helping with documentation for a hardware product that is compatible with Fat32 Formatted USB sticks. Instead of saying "Fat32" and confusing users who may not be tech-savvy, we'd like to provide a list of compatible drives and brands. Rather…
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Install Linux on USB pendrive for new servers

I wonder if installing (and running) Linux (CentOS, in this case) from a USB pendrive is a smart or stupid move. Please note that: I am talking about server environment, not clients; I mean full OS install, not a read-only ISO-like boot image (ie:…
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usb drive persistent mapping(ubuntu 16.04)

I'd like to map an usb drive to a path under ubuntu 16.04. The idea is to use rsync to backup some folders to this usb drive whenever I plug it. Is there any way for the system to recognize the usb drive from its manufacturer id for instance and…
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Copying large file to removable media

Using WindowsXP-Pro, I'm trying to copy a largish file (~28 MB) on to an SD Card. The copy gets almost completed, when it fails and returns with this error: Cannot copy file: Invalid MS-DOS function There's lots of room on the card 120+…
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Disable USB 3.0 per boot

CentOS 6.X does not support the option to boot off of a live USB. The issue is that not always am I able to disable the 3.0 port in BIOS. Is there any way of configuring CentOS to only use USB 3.0 on boot or not use USB 3.0 at all? (Ideally I would…
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How to install ClearOS community edition 6.5.0 from USB drive?

Due to the fact that pfSense 2.1 wouldn't detect our Thunderbolt Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57762 gigabit ethernet adapter, we are having a look at ClearOS. For ClearOS 6.5.0 community edition we couldn't find a USB installer, and the ClearOS CD fails to…
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ISO2USB vs Universal USB Installer vs LinuxLive USB Creator for a CentOS 5.9 install

Is there any functional difference among these three tools, if I want to create a CentOS 5.9 bootable USB installer using a Windows box? I realize ISO2USB was more CentOS-specific, but also that general-purpose Linux tools have come a long way and…
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Disable USB mass storage via group policy based on the time of day?

I would like to disable USB mass storage for a group of users during specific hours of the day (lets say, 9AM to 5PM). I know that with Windows Server 2008, there is a group policy that will disable USB storage at: \User…
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install Ubuntu in Pen Drive

Can we install Ubuntu in a pen Drive? Actually, Currently, i am using window system and running shortage of space. So, i planned for installing ubuntu in my USB pen drive. But, At the time of space allocation, it didn't recognize the drive.
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Disabling USBSTOR.SYS doesn't block USB

In my company, we have a policy to disable USB Storage by disabling the USBSTOR.SYS via GPO. Strangely, some computers (not all) seem to be immune from this GPO, even though GP Modeling and GP Result indicates that the USBSTOR.SYS-disabling GPO is…
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How do I permanently delete a USB storage drive?

Possible Duplicate: Zeroing SSD drives I have an external flash drive that I want to get rid off. I've deleted & formatted it from within Windows but I want to make sure no one can get to the data. Are there any tools I can run to make sure no…
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