Tricks in category 'Storage'
HowFlow —
If you want to erase all your data from a hard drive, hdparm is the right tool for this job.
Posted by 
aroedl 8 months ago
Posted by aroedl 8 months ago 
HowFlow —
File system fragmentation is the phenomenon in which free storage becomes divided into many small pieces over time. The result is that, although free storage is available, it is effectively unusable because it is divided into pieces that are too small to satisfy the demands of the application. Learn how to find out if your XFS file system is fragmented and how to defragment it.
Posted by aroedl 8 months ago
Posted by aroedl 8 months ago 
linux.com —
FUSE filesystems look just like regular filesystems to other applications on the machine. In this article we'll look at compFUSEd, which is a compressed FUSE filesystem. Using compFUSEd can save a significant amount of disk space for files that are highly compressible, such as many text documents and executable files.
Posted by 
flood 6 months ago
Posted by flood 6 months ago
HowFlow —
Fdisk returns: "Error: Unable to open /dev/sda - unrecognised disk label".
Posted by aroedl 8 months ago
Posted by aroedl 8 months ago 
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