Right now I'm using Windows XP and Macintosh on my MacBook Pro via Bootcamp. Sometimes my XP would crash and when I restarted it it would have to go through disk check, although it says I can skip it by pushing a key, but this never worked for me. I did a bit of research online on how to disable disk check and found chkntfs /x c: but when I tried…
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have multiple family members working on it with there own home folder.
I have an USB disk and want to use it to backup my home folders. Trying this, I got some questions.
When my disk auto mount, it is not visible for each user. It seams to be visible for the user the time I connect the usb disk.
I want to create…
I do a lot of live system building, which eventually involves imaging a USB drive with the built binary image:
dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdX
sync
...where /dev/sdX is a USB drive. As part of my workflow, I like to have Ubuntu's Disk Utility open so I can verify the drive letter and unmount anything that gets mounted automatically. I also use…
I have on my hard drive 2 OSes: Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows Vista (I keep it just because of school). Everything was OK on both OSes, but one day on Ubuntu I was getting awkward noises from my notebooks' hard drive and then everything stopped and I couldn't do anything. On Windows everything was OK.
Every time I boot Ubuntu I can get 5 minutes…
When I list virtual disks within diskpart:
DISKPART> list vdisk
VDisk ### Disk ### State Type File
--------- -------- -------------------- --------- ----
VDisk 0 Disk 2 Attached not open Fixed C:\Disk.vhd
Interesting part for me here is file name. I tried to find equivalent of function…
I have an HP Proliant ML110 G5 server with Windows server 2008R2 only dedicated for DPM 2010. This server has a limit in HD of 8TB which has already been met.
I'm now stuck in this situation where my disk keeps failing "Disk failed or Disk not found" in the disk management. Only after I reboot the system the disk comes back up. Today I was…
Its a long explanation. I have a HP Pavilion dm4 notebook. It has pre installed Windows 7 Home Pre. Recently, I tried to install Windows 8 developer preview on my notebook, but while installing, it only allowed me to insatll it on my primary Windows 7 drive I.e. drive C. I had kept 1 empty partition for Windows 8 but when I selectced that…
How come os shows 6.5G used but I see only 3.6G in files/directories?
Running as root on an Amazon Linux AMI (seems like Centos), lots of free memory available, no swapping going on, no apparent file descriptors issue.
The only thing I can think of is a log file that was deleted while applications append to it.
Diskspace usage is…
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Boy, they sure were ambitious back in the 70s; while today we’re happy to have a small apartment-sized environment in orbit, back then they were dreaming of entire cities in space. Courtesy of the NASA Ames Research Center archives, we’re treated to artist renderings of the space colonies of the future as imagined from the 1970s.…
I just added a disk, with partitions but none of them are mounted. The disk will still spin up every now and then. it goes like this:
### disk spins up
hdparm -Y /dev/sdb;date
/dev/sdb:
issuing sleep command
9 feb 2011 23.37.08 CET
### disk spins up
hdparm -Y /dev/sdb;date
/dev/sdb:
issuing sleep command
9 feb 2011 23.46.12…
I have seen questions similar to this, but the answers are either beyond me or the situation doesn't quite match mine. Would appreciate some direction.
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The OS is on a disk formatted as ext4. I added another disk to the system and formatted it as W95 FAT 32 (LBA) (0x0c). I did this because…
I've added another 1 TB Western Digital disk on my computer (there is a disk with 250 GB already), and after booting to Windows 7, it recognise the disk, but in the Disk Management panel, it says the disk has only 31 MB TOTAL space, so is what it shows in the EVEREST information.
And when I rebooted the computer and entered…
I tried to put everything in the title : I'm looking for a software that is able :
to work with image (raw file), partition & whole disk, without
distinction
to copy whole image or only selected part (let's say .. from 0 to end
of last partition, excluding free space for example ; or with start +
offset/end system)
to…
Im trying to make a function for picking objects with a bounding sphere however I have run in to a problem.
First I check against my my bounding sphere, then if it checks out then I test against the vertexes. I have already tested my vertex picking method and it work fine, however when I check first with my bounding sphere…
I'm attempting to convert from world space coordinates to screen space coordinates.
I have the following code to transform my object position
Vector3 screenSpacePoint = Vector3.Transform(object.WorldPosition, camera.ViewProjectionMatrix);
The value does not appear to be in screen space coordinates and is not limited to a…
This is the first post in a what will be a series of posts on working with a sub-optimal disk configuration to squeeze as much performance out of it as possible. You might ask what a Sub-Optimal Disk Configuration? In this case it is a Dell Powervault MD3000 with 15 Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS 1 TB 7.2K RPM disks…
I had a spare, old external usb hard disk which stopped working long time back due to improper removal of disk. I tried fixing it in windows (when I did not have ubuntu yet), however I couldn't fix it.
So I tried formatting the disk and creating a new partition using the disk utility in ubuntu. However it seems to keep…
When I first installed Ubuntu, I had a new PC with Windows 7 installed. It was my first installation of Ubuntu so I only allocated 45% of the disk for Ubuntu. Now I find that I have been using Ubuntu exclusively so I would like to change the allocation of the disk so Ubuntu has say 75% of the disk and Win. 7 25%. Is…
Background
Together with a friend I'm working on a 2D game that is set in space. To make it as immersive and interactive as possible we want there to be thousands of objects freely floating around, some clustered together, others adrift in empty space.
Challenge
To unburden the rendering and physics engine we need…
I've got a ProLiant DL360 G5 server (Fedora 13) with two SAS disks in a hardware RAID 1, working fine.
Now I hot plugged another SAS disk. I'd like to configure this new hard disk out of my RAID, as a single non-RAID disk (ex. /dev/sdb).
Even after rebooting the server, I can't see the new disk with "fdisk -l". It…
A very common question I often receive is how to detect if the diskspace is running low on SQL Server.
There are two different ways to do the same. I personally prefer method 2 as that is very easy to use and I can use it creatively along with database name.
Method 1:
EXEC MASTER..xp_fixeddrives
GO
Above query…
Maybe it is for the best to close this question. This has nothing to do with a bluray drive in general anymore. Probably a hardware defect. I will try to test it with a windows system and different cables again... Thx so far.
I have a bluray/dvd/cdrom drive with SATA.
Ubuntu wont find it under /dev/sd
wodim…
I am currently trying to switch from mac to windows/ubuntu dual boot (on 2 seperate internal HDDs), but ran into some trouble restoring my documents. I am not sure all the information below is necessary, but if I knew how to solve it, I wouldn't ask it here.
I backed up my mac before buying this laptop on an…