When trying to recover data from old failed hard disk, I managed to get it detected by BIOS. I didn’t have ddrescue prepared so I tried using dd, in case the disk won’t start again next time. I tried copying random parts like this: dd if=/dev/sdb of=dump00000mb.bin bs=1k skip=0k dd […]
Monthly Archives: April 2025
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In one worksheet I need to show lists of codes in specific cells to show their placement on a hazard table, which is a 6×4 table (From left to right on top: F, E, D, C, B, A. From top to bottom on the left, I, II, III, IV). In […]
When Tabby terminal is opened it opens by default with 1 Window and can be created N tabs, if that window is closed with the x icon (there is no other way – perhaps some plugin to install? – pls let me know) If later Tabby is re-opened it opens […]
There are plenty of questions here asking for how to list all mounts, which mostly get answered with /proc/mounts or similar. But this list is not complete. I want to know every block device that is mounted, even if it is not mounted for my process or the mount is […]
I have seen this other Super User question, but it does not really answer my question. Running blkid can list both partitions and partition labels on a disk: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL ... sda 111.8G ├─sda1 vfat 350M SYSTEM ├─sda2 ntfs 50G Windows ├─sda3 ntfs 1.5G Recovery ├─sda4 1K […]
This is my backup command: sudo rsync -avh --progress --stats --delete-before /mnt/source/ /mnt/backup/ /mnt/source and /mnt/backup are identical disks with identical size. But after major file operations (e. g. accidental change of datetime stamps of all files in a big directory somewhere below of /mnt/source), the backup fails because the […]
All files on centos are owned by me, goofy/domain. Uploading a plugin to the server using Filezilla caused one of the files to appear on server as apache/apache rather than goofy/domain. How/Why does this happen? How to prevent this from happening? Now that it has happened and I no longer […]
I want to manually (not programmatically) add or edit an entry in a mobile (Android) browser’s local storage. I know how to do that on a Desktop browser and I know how to programmatically do that cross-platform. Is there any mobile browser that would let me do that? If so, […]