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| How to Manage disk Quotas for users | | 2008-08-08 00:34:00 | | Quotas are defined per-filesystem. Most distros support quotas, although not all do it out-of-the-box, and you may have to install the quota package. To enable quota support, edit /etc/fstab as root and add the usrquota and grpquota options to the filesystems you wish to enable quota support for. For instance:
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults,nosuid,nodev,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
Once you have made
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| Data Case: trasformare l'iPhone in un hard disk | | 2008-08-04 05:41:01 | | Trasformare l'iPhone in un hard disk esterno wireless...Oggi è possibile con Data Case.Questo nuovo software di casa apple per trasformare l’iPhone in un hard disk esterno wireless per lo storage dei vostri file. Il sistema si basa su un’interfaccia drag&drop votata alla semplicità d’uso, in grado di visualizzare i file direttamente su iPhone o iPod Touch. La compatibilità è estesa sia a Mac che ai PC Windows e l’applicazione sarà a breve disponibile sull’Apple Store al prezzo... | | By: AllNokiaSymbian | | |
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| Make Windows Vista SP1 Permanent and Save Disk Space | | 2008-07-21 21:13:00 | | After you install SP1 in Vista and you’re happy that this service pack will work out well, you may want to delete the uninstall directories that are taking up a lot of space on your hard disk. With Windows Vista has a handy tool which is called VSP1CLN.EXE, short for Vista Service Pack 1 Cleaner. The tool can be found in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 and when run it makes Windows Vista Service Pack 1 permanent on your computer. In short that means that all files that are backed up dur... | | By: SparksSpace | | |
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| How to DIsable Low Disk Notification Message | | 2008-07-16 21:39:00 | | When free disk space reaches 200 megabytes (MB), you receive the following message for 10 seconds, once per session: A full hard drive can lead to all sorts of problems! Your computer will run slowly, programs may stop working, and you may even lose some of your important data. So before disabling the low disk space warning in any version of Windows, it is important to determine if your computer is actually running out of disk space. If you have lots of disk space left, then disabling t... | | By: SparksSpace | | |
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| Arkiva - Virtual Hard Disk | | 2008-07-11 08:38:00 | | Arkiva is a virtual disk that offer up to 1 GB of free space. You can upload and backup any file type and access oline from anywhere.They offer an email account specially designed to share the uploaded content in Arkiva and allows you to edit documents online.A good free option for backup and storage our information.... | | By: Live Internet News | | |
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| Can’t Open Hard Disk Drives | | 2008-06-27 10:28:00 | | When you open C drive or other drives by double click it'll pop up Open With windows and ask you to choose the program to open that drive.?Or errors such as Access Denied VBScript error with error code of 800A041F Drive opens in new windows Solution-I Open control panel (classic view)/folder options. Scroll down advanced settings window and uncheck the "use simple file sharing".Apply and right click on the volumes in question, select pr... | | By: SparksSpace | | |
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| How to create a password reset disk for XP? | | 2008-06-24 10:51:00 | | The steps to perform the task differ for domain and workgroup scenarios. To create a password reset disk: 1) Insert a blank floppy disk into drive. 2) Open User Accounts in Control Panel. 3) Double-click on your account name. 4) On the left side of the window, under Related Tasks, select Prevent a forgotten password. A wizard will pop up and walk you through the process of creating the password recovery disk. If the related tasks does not show up you are not double clicking on the us... | | By: SparksSpace | | |
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| Check you Disk speed | | 2008-06-21 08:38:00 | | Using some simple command you can check the performance of you hard disk, just execute following command…
# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 732 MB in 2.00 seconds = 365.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 114 MB in 3.05 seconds = 37.38 MB/sec
Substitute /dev/hda with the name of your disk device.
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| TrueCrypt - Best Free Disk Encryption Software | | 2008-06-13 04:45:18 | | TrueCrypt is an open source project that is extremely simple to configure and use, which is all most people really want. TrueCrypt does not provide boot sector encryption for full disk encryption like DriveCrypt or the upcoming BitLocker in Vista but does allow a user to mount a virtual encrypted volume on a hard drive instead,very cool file encryption software.If you want to protect certain sensitive data, the most viable and simple solution is data encryption. There are many encryption programs to choose from, but when it comes to ease of use and value few can compare to the open-source TrueCrypt software.TrueCrypt can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a virtual disk that can be accessed via a drive letter. It can also encrypt entire hard drive or removable media, such as USB flash drives, floppy disks, and memory sticks.Any file that is saved on the encrypted virtual drive is automatically encrypted on-the-fly, and can only be accessed while the drive is ... | | By: Free Software For Pc | | |
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| Free registry and disk cleaner | | 2008-06-10 20:17:00 | | Does your computer work at arm's length? Or how long you don't 'clean' it? May be CCleaner is one of many solutions for your computer. CCleaner disk and registry cleaner and also privacy tool. CCleaner is very simple application and easy to use. You don't have to configure any option for first run. It is able to handle many applications' junk such as Adobe Photoshop, MS Office, Flash Player etc. CCleaner armed with software uninstaller and startup program. Just try it, and don't forget t... | | By: Computer Stuff | | |
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| SQL Star Bangalore opening, HP-UX , EVA Disk Arrays, HACMP, VCS | | 2008-05-21 10:30:00 | | This is Ruth PremLatha, from SQL Star International. This is with reference to an exciting opportunity we have at SQL Star for Software Engineer position in HP-UNIX for Bangalore Location. We came...
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| Hard Disk cu racire activa | | 2008-05-13 02:30:00 | | Transcend scoate primele Hard Disk cu racire activa, pe eSATA. Acest HDD are o carcasa din aluminiu si un cooler pentru racire de 80mm. Transcend anunta ca viteza de transfer este de 3GB/s pe eSATA si de 480MB/s pe USB 2.0, teoretic vorbind ca practic se stie ca este mai mica. Este compatibil cu orice sistem de operare Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS si Linux. Vine in varianta de 500GB, dar poate... | | By: Eu si atat | | |
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| OpenSUSE Hard Disk Configuration Survey | | 2008-05-07 02:14:00 | | In order to optimize the YaST partitioner module for openSUSE users the user experience team decided to conduct a small survey to figure out how you deal with hard disk configuration. The survey contains some basic questions and its results will directly influence the redesign for the partitioner module.
The survey will be online until 28th May 2008 and the results will be published on
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| Protecting flash disk from virus. | | 2008-04-23 10:57:00 | | When we have to use public computer sometimes we often sulky because when we finish using it, our flash disk is full with virus, worm or other malware. There is an easy way to overcome this matter. Yesterday when I surfing at a site, I see an article concerning to this problem. The article advise that is a function in registry to protect flash disk. The principle same as protect our hard drive. Actually if our flash disk own a knob for locking flash the disk to become write protect, this thing is not a problem. But how with flash disk which don't have the knob? Of course this will become a problem . For protecting flash disk, we open a value in registry at the following address :"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies"With dword value" WriteProtect". We remain to change value found on dword value" WriteProtect" to become 1 .If the registry editor is protected, we can make a program functioning to alter value registry with Batch Programming. All we nee... | | By: The IT News and Tutorial | | |
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| How To add another disk to running Linux system | | 2008-04-23 01:38:00 | | In this example we will fdisk the disk attached to our 2nd array controller.
1. fdisk the new drive
* fdisk /dev/sda
* Make a new partition using fdisk (/dev/sda1)
2. format the new partition using mkfs
* mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1
* Note, if you will be storing lots of small files, you may need to increase the inode count. You do this when you format
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| How to find - Size of a directory & Free disk space | | 2008-04-10 12:12:00 | | ‘du’ - Finding the size of a directory
$ du
Typing the above at the prompt gives you a list of directories that exist in the current directory along with their sizes. The last line of the output gives you the total size of the current directory including its subdirectories. The size given includes the sizes of the files and the directories that exist in the current directory as well as all of
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| Disk enclosure | | 2008-03-10 01:29:52 | | BenefitsFactory-assembled Buffalo external hard drive in a disk enclosureFactory-assembled Buffalo external hard drive in a disk enclosureKey benefits to using external disk enclosures include: * Adding additional storage space and media types to small form factor and laptop computers, as well as sealed embedded systems, such as digital video recorders. * Adding more drives to any given server or workstation than their chassis can hold. * Transferring data between non-networked computers, jokingly known as sneakernet. * Adding a backup source with a separate power supply from the connected computer. * Sharing the data on a drive in a network-aware enclosure. * Preventing the heat from a disk drive from increasing the heat inside an operating computer case. * Simple and cheap approach to hot swapping. * Recovering the data from a broken or damaged computer. * Lower the cost of removable storage by reusing hardware designed for internal use. * More memory th... | | By: Free Download Books | | |
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| FDRERASE/OPEN a “Secure Erase Utility for Enterprise Disk†earns US Government EAL2+Certification | | 2008-02-21 00:48:01 | | (BUSINESS WIRE)--INNOVATION, using the SHARE 2008 Users Group Conference in Orlando as a backdrop, is announcing that FDRERASE/OPEN and FDRERASE for z/OS both earn US Government EAL2+ Certification for secure erasure of open systems and z/OS sensitive data. FDRERASE/OPEN and FDRERASE for z/OS meet US Government standards for purging and sanitizing large amounts of data on EMC, HDS and IBM disk storage systems. FDRERASE quickly and safely erases data from disks prior to disposal, reallocation or following a disaster recovery test and provides full verification of results and reports to auditors for review.“FDRERASE, in the combination of FDRERASE/OPEN and FDRERASE for z/OS, is the only US Government and international CCEVS certified data protection solution for the fast, secure and verifiable removal of all accessible data from enterprise disk systems shared by z/OS mainframe and open system servers. Joining FDRERASE for z/OS and FDRERASE/OPEN users now have a way to remove critical p... | | By: Indonesia Type Approval/homologation/Compliance ce | | |
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| Hard Disk Upgrade | | 2008-01-16 12:59:46 | | I am not very conversant with all the electronic hardware. I wanted to upgrade hard disk for my laptop (Compaq Presario R3310US, 3 yr old). The original disk it came with was Hitachi DK23FA-60 60GB, which I found on the net to be listed as ATA-6. So I ordered "Western Digital Scorpio WD1600BEVE 160... | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
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| Google´s hard disk | | 2007-12-13 04:24:24 | | In 2008, Google will offers a online memory location for songs, videos or photos. The location supposed to be a hard disk and with password you can access from every computer or smartphone with connection to the internet. The basic offer should be free.... | | By: Pipsnet Technology | | |
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| Netapp : disk zero spares | | 2007-12-06 01:23:00 | | To clean up the spare disks and zero them, use the below command. Having a zero'd spare disks can reduce time when on volume creation or on volume reconstruction.filer1> disk zero spares.filer1> vol status -sSpare disksRAID Disk Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type RPM Used (MB/blks) Phys (MB/blks)--------- ------ ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------- --------------Spare disks for block or zoned checksum traditional volumes or aggregatesspare 2a.37 2a 4 13 FC:A - FCAL 10000 68000/139264000 68444/140174232 (zeroing, 10% done)spare 3a.56 3a 3 8 FC:A - FCAL 10000 68000/139264000 68552/140395088Please note that, this command only zero's spares that are not already clean.
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| Netapp tips : Disk firmware upgrade | | 2007-11-30 00:49:00 | | After a Netapp failed disk swap, if an autosupport message is sent saying that the disk firmware is downrev, please run the following command.filer1> disk_fw_updateMake sure that the disk firmware is upto-date by checking /etc/messages file for the below message-- Firmware downloaded on disk -- Firmware is up-to-date on all disk drives
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| Easy CGI Hosting increased disk space and bandwidth | | 2007-11-29 10:32:07 | | Easy CGI Hosting has significantly increased disk space and monthly bandwidth for its Virtual Private Server customers – at no extra cost to existing customers. Disk space has increased by 30% to 67%, depending on the hosting plan, while bandwidth has increase from a minimum of 100% to nearly 170% for some plans.
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| Disk information using smartctl | | 2007-11-12 03:05:00 | | /usr/sbin/smartctl - controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive, give detailed information and and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests. With "-a" option it prints all the SMART information on the disk.[root@un1xf00 root]# smartctl -a /dev/sdasmartctl version 5.1-11 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce AllenHome page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/Device: SEAGATE ST343427UC Version: D713Serial number: MK63N0OQDevice type: diskDevice supports SMART and is EnabledTemperature Warning EnabledSMART Sense: Ok!Current Drive Temperature: 31 CDrive Trip Temperature: 68 CError counter log: Errors Corrected Total Total Correction Gigabytes Total delay: [rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected minor | major rewrites] corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errorsread: 7040161 0 0 7040161 7040161 669.647 0write: 0 0 0 ... | | By: unix - linux - storage | | |
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| How to check free disk space on a linux server | | 2007-11-11 21:46:23 | | Question: How do I check the amount of free disk space on a FreeBSD server?
Answer: The best way to check how much free disk space your FreeBSD server has available is by using the df command. This works on linux/unix servers, not just FreeBSD. After you SSH into your server you can either type [...]... | | By: Japan it UP! | | |
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| SpaceObServer – View Your Disk Usage | | 2007-11-10 01:29:48 | | SpaceObServer is a hard disk space manager for Windows 2000/XP/2003. A background service scans directories and stores collected information in an SQL database. A Unicode enabled user interface reports space usage, wasted space, compression rate and more in tabular views, 3D bar, pie and line chars. Tracks the development of the space usage in database. [...]... | | By: Software Review Blog | | |
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| Speed up the Hard Disk on your PC. | | 2007-10-07 07:39:00 | | PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION:
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| Hard disk optimization tool. | | 2007-10-05 07:47:00 | | PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION:
What’s the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance? It’s disk fragmentation. IObit SmartDefrag helps defragment your hard drive more efficiently than any other product on the market –– free or not.
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| Portable Hard Disk | | 2007-09-10 03:00:46 | | The long awaited Comex computer show finally arrived. On 30 September, Sunday, despite feeling tired and having headache still, I went to the computer show. I need to get myself a portable hard disk. I have been looking around. I went to Causeway Point, but there was not much choices there. [...]... | | By: Moments That Inspire | | |
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