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Wikipedia - Disk Partitioning

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SCAN and CSCAN algorithm in Operating system

With and I've gone through some notes and coursebook regarding the drawing of SCAN and CSCAN algorithm, given a queue of requests and the position of head starts in the example. I wonder if it is a must to move from the starting position to the…
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Getting Volume by Path using PowerShell

I know my volume has this path, and it's inside Disk number 3: \\?\Volume{4c1b02c1-d990-11dc-99ae-806e6f6e6963}\ How do I get the actual Volume object using the Path to locate it? I have tried with Get-Volume -Path…
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How to create simple volume from unallocated partition

I'm trying to open a place on my harddisk to store some licensing files. So far I have tried diskpart. It looks easy to use but I could not format the unallocated partition with diskpart. I have found a way to create the unallocated space but I have…
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Win32: Accessing a partition beyond the end of a volume?

It's possible to open a disk volume as a file by using a function call like HANDLE hDisk = CreateFile("\\\\.\\G:", GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL); However, that only allows access to…
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How is a MBR signature stored on a hard-disk?

I have a dump from a hard-disk which has aa55 at offset 510. But the places where I have read about it says it is 55aa in dump. 000001fe: aa55 So, I'm wondering if the data is stored in big-endian or little-endian on my disk? Thanks
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Repartition a USB device using DiskPart

I would like to repartition a USB drive using DiskPart from a C# application. This seems reasonably simple: I collect data about plugged disks using the Win32_DiskDrive class and then use DiskPart to run a script that will change the partitions.…
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Windows Volume without a Partition

Background: I'm working on a powershell script to automate installation from a USB stick via WinPE. Because the target systems have several drives, each possibly having a couple partitions, Windows quickly runs out of drive letters. Part of my…
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C# write to ext2 linux partition from Windows

I'm quite new to C# and I need to write a file (grub) on an EXt2 linux partition from windows 7. What is the good way to do such thing? Do I need to mount the partition with external program?
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How to run diskpart and process its output in a loop without using temporary files?

I'm on my very last challenge before wrapping up this project's coding. I am trying to filter the output from diskpart's list partition and list volume commands without using temporary files. I have the solution: set /A hdd= 0 rem Use this for the…
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Disk Part If based on volume number or drive type?

I have 2 scripts for imaging new PCs. 1 for if the PC has a CD rom and one for if it does not: With CD Rom: select disk 0 clean create partition primary select volume 1 assign letter="C" format quick fs=ntfs active …
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Easiest way to merge partitions under debian (unix)?

I have two unix partitions under debian which I would like to merge (disk space problems :/). What would be the easiest way to do it? I think it would be best to tar or copy files from one partition to the other, delete one and resize the other. I…
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Answer questions sequence using Open3.popen3 in Ruby

I'm trying to answer different questions from external script using Ruby. This is working code Open3.popen3("cp -i 1 0") {|i,o,e,p| i.write "y\n" i.close o.read.split("\n").each {|l| puts l } } But, what if external command asks a question…
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WinApi: Access denied when creating disk

I'm running the following code with administrator privileges: HANDLE hDevice = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE; // handle to the drive to be examined BOOL bResult = FALSE; // results flag DWORD junk = 0; // discard…
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libgio: get_connected_drives() returns an empty list

I'm linking to libgio and using the VolumeMonitor class to retrieve the current mounted volumes. When i call get_connected_drives, it should return a list of drives (usb mass storage, cd drives) but it returns an empty list. I made certain that i…
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Loading files from a different partition

I'm working at C:\(...)\Desktop, and I need to require my scripts at G:\scripts. I tried to change the $LOAD_PATH: $LOAD_PATH << 'G:\\scripts' require 'filename' and also the argument of require: require 'G:\\scripts\\filename' but I always…
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