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Tag: Hard Disk

  • Mounting USB Drives Under Debian

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    I’m currently designing a backup system built around Resitc and removable USB drives. Before I can really get started though I need to properly understand how to manage the drives, in particular mounting and unmounting them. What I’m hoping I’ll be able to achieve is a situation where I can mount a drive somewhere (let’s…

  • Disk Performance Testing in Linux

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    Testing the performance of a disk under Windows is easy, you download and install CrystalDiskMark and hit “All”. Of course it can get more complicated than that but if what you want is a quick and fairly accurate measurement it’s got you covered. Under Linux things aren’t quite as simple. Please don’t think I’m saying…

  • Checking Hard Drives from the Linux Command Line

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    When buying new hard drives it’s always a good idea to check them for bad blocks. If a drive had bad blocks it can be an indication it’s not long for this world, especially if the number of bad blocks grows over a short period of time. In this article I’ll show you how to…