For questions regarding file formats, or formatting hard drives.
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How to format a USB or external drive?
Using Ubuntu 11.10, how do I format an external or USB drive? I don't find an option to 'format' when I right click. In the new version, the drives don't come up on the desktop but instead come on ...
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Is there any recovery software available for ext4?
Well, I have accidentally deleted my Ubuntu drive. I just want to recover all the contents of /home.
Is there a way to do it? I referred to foremost, where I need to specify the extensions of files. ...
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How do I clear everything (data, viruses) from a thumbdrive?
Say I used some thumbdrive on a public Windows computer and I copy some data to my Ubuntu computer with it. I cannot be completely sure that the Windows computer was clean, and it might have put ...
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Partition does not start on physical sector boundary?
I've one HD on my laptop, with two partitions (one ext3 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and one swap).
fdisk is giving me a Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary warning. What is the ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu with encrypted home directory?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed with encrypted home directory. /home is on a aseparate partition. Can I just boot from 10.10 cd, reformat '/' and install as usual? I think it should work if I use the ...
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How to format a USB flash drive?
In Windows there is a straightforward "Format" option in a flash drive's right-click pop-up menu. Where's that in Ubuntu?
I understand there's always standard partition management command line stuff ...
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Reinstalling Ubuntu without formating /home, as well as without any old config files?
I have /home on a separate partition. I want to reinstall Ubuntu.
I don't want to lose my personal files in /home (I already have a backup but I would like to avoid the hassle of restoring the ...
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Why is there 4.86(maybe 15.1) GB of USED-space on a newly partitioned and formatted 298 GB drive (as ext4 by Gparted)
Well the question says most of it...
Gparted reports the used space as 4.86 GB
Nautilus reports used space as 15.1 GB...(via Properties of /media/U_0298_data)
Why is this space used? and who is ...
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Formatting Pen Drive causes 'Daemon Is Inhibited' Error
Am trying to format a drive with Disk Utility and everytime i try to format this pen drive i get 'Daemon Is Inhibited' error. How can it be solved since the pen drive works on other PCs with no ...
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2answers
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How do I completely format my disk?
I want to format because my laptop has stopped connecting to my wireless connection and hopefully this will fix it.
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How do I format or partition a read-only USB drive?
Whenever I try formatting my Sandisk Cruzer Glide 16GB, I get this error message on Gparted.
GParted 0.11.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid
Libparted 2.3
Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 14.42 GiB) on ...
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1answer
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How to format datetime indicator in Unity's panel to show in two lines?
Is it possible to format datetime indicator in Unity3D to show in two lines?
I tried this:
how-to-customize-indicator-datetime-to-two-line-configuration
But that seems to work only when I run my ...
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1answer
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I cancelled gparted operation ,what to do next?
I cancelled gparted operation by mistake .Now one of the partition became corrupted ,what to next? Should I format it? Data is important to me ;(
Edit1: I tried to recover partition using testdisk ...
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1answer
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How to remove swap from RAID1 Array?
Can anyone point in the right direction on how to remove SWAP out of a RAID1 configuration? According to the Ubuntu Advanced installation guide, here, it said to add swap to the raid but I am having ...
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1answer
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Formatting C:/ in Windows while ubuntu is installed in D:/
I had installed Ubuntu 11.10 through wubi installer in Windows Vista in D:\ a few months ago. I am able to dual boot to anyone OS. But, now I have a problem with the Windows so I want to format my C:\ ...
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2answers
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How do I format my entire HDD?
Ok I have recently made some mistakes with installing some operating systems that I should have just kept on a live cd not ubuntu but another os and with my ocd when I saw my lot's of different ...
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1answer
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External USB HDD Unreadable After Formatting
I am using a Western Digital 160GB External USB drive.
It was working fine earlier but for some reasons I formatted it using the 'Disk Utility' in my Ubuntu 11.04
I chose 'Dont Partition' while ...
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Can't format DVD+RW disk [closed]
I have a DVD+RW disk that i burned a daily build of elementary OS on and now I'm wanting to format it so I can burn a newer build on it but I haven't been able to format it. I tried using brasero, the ...
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How do I create a file with a given structure?
How do I create a file that has X bytes of 0, Y bytes of the number 7 (i.e. 0x07 in hex, 00000111 in binary), Z random bytes and T bytes of the number 25(0x19 in hex, 00011001 in binary). Finally, ...
