Cloning a Linux installation onto another drive is possible with Clonezilla.
I just cloned my Alma Linux install on a new SSD. Clonezilla is very easy to use.
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How to list all serial numbers on your hard drives in your Linux PC.
How to list all HDD serial numbers on Linux easily.
Read MoreHow to format a USB drive easily in Linux and have it be visible in Windows.
How to properly format a USB drive to make it visible in Windows easily.
Read MoreHow to bypass the Google Drive download quota.
How to bypass the quota restriction on Google Drive downloads.
Read MoreWD Elements 18TB USB 3.0 Desktop External HDD. This would be great for storing all of your precious files.
Christmas will be here soon, here are some very useful Christmas gift ideas for the media content creator in your household. They will love these gifts!
Read MoreHow to build an Arma 3 mod without needing a P drive.
How to build an Arma 3 mod without needing a P drive. This actually does work very well. This is a very neat trick for Linux Arma 3 players.
Read MoreHow to mount a Linux formatted external drive in Windows Services for Linux on Windows 11.
I plugged my old Ubuntu HDD into an external housing and I needed to mount it in Windows Services for Linux on Windows 11. This is not too hard at all. Firstly run this Powershell one-liner to find the drive you are looking to mount. The WDC WD10 drive is…
Read MoreHow to add a directory in a mounted filesystem as a directory accessible by your user.
How to mount a partition on Linux and make your old home directory accessible to your user To add a directory in a mounted drive as a folder accessible by a normal user, use this command to change the ownership of all files and directories to that of your current…
Read MorePerforming forensics on files with Linux.
There are many ways to find files embedded inside other files, one way is using binwalk to find embedded files inside another file. This is how to use binwalk to list all embedded files inside a larger one. This takes a while with a multi-gigabyte file, but it does work….
Read MoreHow to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu.
Mounting an HDD formatted with the Xbox filesystem can be a pain, but it can be done. Run this command in the terminal to get the filesystem offset of the current filesystem. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo head -c 4k /dev/sdg | grep -aobuP ‘\x00\x00\x00NTFS’ | sed ‘s/\:.*//’ 2048┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼…
Read MoreHow to view comprehensive information about your hard drive using Linux.
The smartctl utility for Linux is the best way to get comprehensive information about all of your hard drives in your Linux system. This can be used to get the health of your drives and see if they need replacing. This is how you do it. 4.4 Mon Mar 25…
Read MoreHow to format a drive to NTFS using the terminal in Ubuntu.
To format a drive to NTFS using Ubuntu, we need to use the terminal. The command used to create a filesystem on a drive is used here. But you must unmount the drive first, otherwise it will not work. 4.4 Thu Dec 20 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdf6 1)…
Read MoreHow to find movie downloads on the largest repository of pirated material ever.
There is a massive repository of pirated material out there, and it is not Pirate Bay. It is Google Drive. There is practically anything you can dream of on there. Use this search term to find pirated movies. site:drive.google.com "yify" -"Whoops!"site:drive.google.com "yify" -"Whoops!" This returns a massive listing of all…
Read MoreHow I fixed an external hard drive that was not cleanly unmounted in Windows.
How I fixed an external hard drive that was not cleanly unmounted in Windows. This simple Linux utility is very good to fix filesystem problems.
Read MoreStar Wars Rogue one used conventional tape drives to store data.
The recent Rogue One Star Wars movie had a nice scene where the Death Star plans where stored on a hard drive and this was stolen and the data was uploaded by a satellite dish to the ships in space. The disk that stored the plans looks just like a…
Read MoreGoogle search terms to find interesting stuff on Google Drive.
To find a lot of interesting stuff on Google Drive, Google Dorks can be of assistance. Various search terms can find interesting files and information that people have stored on their Google Drive. This is the search term: site:drive.google.com [your search term] -“Whoops!”. How to find new open directories: http://palined.com/search/…
Read MoreSeagate ships new 8 terabyte hard disk drive.
Seagate company have shipped a new 8 terabyte hard disk drive; this offers a lot of storage space for the price. The price is not available, but the TCO is claimed to be the lowest of any hard disk drive on the market. I am waiting to find out how…
Read MoreAsteroid DA14 and thoughts on space travel in general.
The asteroid that came so close to Earth recently is the closest a stellar body has come to the Earth in a very long time. It was 17,000 miles away from the Earth at the closest approach and this resulted in some small rocks entering the atmosphere and either exploding…
Read More256 Gigabyte USB drive available on Amazon.com. Is this a good deal or what?
This is a 256 Gigabyte USB flash drive. This shows how far we have come since the early days of portable storage of personal files. This will cost you US$545.67 on Amazon.com and would be able to store a huge movie collection and/or a good supply of music in MP3 or…
Read MoreNew 2TB external drive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136471 Just got a 2TB external hard drive to backup my machine, it made a huge difference being able to copy everything off my 500GB hard drive and make some more space for other files. This is the amount of space I have now, and it is very useful as…
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