Anything related to disk-like storage media, like hard-disks, CDs, DVDs, etc. By extension it could be applied to other mass storage media that are commonly referred as "disks", like SSD, flash cards, etc.
Questions tagged [disk]
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seek for an useful and free utility to clean my OSX
Recently, I run out of my disk. Core dump in /cores occupied most space in my OSX. After clean it, I save much space. But I don't feel like to delete them manually each time,running commands in terminal. Is there an free tool to help me out.
I also…
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How do I write to a disk directly with .Net?
I have found a way to read from a drive, using the method posted by Darryl Braaten
How do I read a disk directly with .Net?
I am now trying to find a way to write on a drive, and in his method the write method is not implemented. Anyone could…
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extract file from linux bootable disk
I have a bootable IDE hard drive which has Linux on it(with GRUB bootloader).
I need to extract files inside this hard drive, but the problem is the booting fails
because of some reason... super-block or boot sector must be corrupted. (the hard…
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Disk Management with visual basic
I want to format a drive from visual basic application. Can anybody help me with it ?
I have tried shFormat(), but it is not completing my task. And If I Format my drive through CMD, it should be a background process for my application.
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Linux discover disks and partitions
I am looking for a script to discover disk usage/total size, its partition info. I understand commands like 'df', 'fdisk', 'blkid' will produce such information, and a lot of more than I need. So I am wondering whether there is a script to cut info…
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How long will it take to retrieve the data?
This is more of a hardware question than software.
I want to retrieve a 512 byte sector of data off a hard disk drive. The average seek time is 9 milliseconds and the disk spins at 7200 RPM. Once positioned over the data, the data can be transferred…
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Different ways that data of tables can be physically organised on disk
Can anyone help me with this please?
What are some of the different ways that the data of tables can be physically organised on disk?
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Serilog and Manage Sql Disk Space
1: How can set limit size for srilog sql table ??
2: how add condition When the size of the table reaches the limit?
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How to remove space if is after a slash in php
Example:
/var/www/media/ Book 1 Chapter 1 - Video 1 Part 1
to become
/var/www/media/Book 1 Chapter 1 - Video 1 Part 1
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How to track disk sector read/write in details in Linux?
I am learning Linux disk IO, and I met a disk corruption.
A disk sector is being written with garbage data.
I want to track the write to that disk sector, i am not sure if there is a way in Linux.
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Running a script Ubuntu
I am trying to run the command:
$ sudo ./mk2partsd /dev/sdb
mk2partsd is this file:
https://github.com/gumstix/meta-gumstix-extras/blob/dizzy/scripts/mk2partsd
I get this error:
sudo: ./mk2partsd: command not found
mk2partsd is saved on my Desktop…
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Is there such thing as a Perabyte?
I recently saw a marketing video that cited the "Perabyte" as a unit of disk storage measure. I emailed a representative responsible for the video and got a response that "1 Perabyte (PB) = 1024 Terabytes (TB)."
A quick google search seems to…
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How to get current disk number/name which contains running Windows/Linux?
Let's assume that a PC contains several storage devices and we have C++/Qt utility which contains 2 blackbox functions (we don't consider their implementation here):
QString get_disk_serial(int drive_number); //for Windows
QString…
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sequential vs. binary search
Consider a file on disk containing 100 records.
For both searches, what is
the average number of comparisons needed to find a record in a file.
number of comparisons if the record is not in the file
the average number of comparisons if the record…
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Difference between (in fault tolerance) RAID 10 and RAID 01 (RAID 0+1 vs RAID 1+0 )?
RAID 10 seems to me as a permutation RAID 01. Then how can it be more fault tolerant than RAID 01?
I see the description here but it explains by dividing disks into groups and one disk if fails in each group there is no data loss in raid 10 but…
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