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It is clear that when a LUKS disk is mounted and the password/key has been provided, anyone with direct access to the computer can access the files in decrypted form. I am wondering if unmounting the ...
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I am attempting to copy an Arch Linux ISO image directly to a USB drive. Previously, I have simply used either cp or dd to do this, such as: sudo cp image.iso /dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is the USB ...
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I'm working my way through understanding more about unix/linux and how the various tools/packages/options interact with one another (for example, the role of systemd, or how fstab works). I'm also ...
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I have a laptop without an internal hard drive. To get some use out of it, I'm considering putting the root partition on external media, over USB. I can't see any reason this wouldn't work, but I ...
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I'm still relatively inexperienced in Linux and this is my first post here. I configured mdadm raid 10 far acording to archlinux RAID wiki page but with custom chunk size 64K. It contains 2 older ...
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I have a small bootable system which requires access to storage devices, but not at the data level (i.e. just firmware commands), with the exception of a USB floppy drive whose data is accessed raw (...
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I am attempting to store some large files and I thought an encrypted ext4 partition would be excellent. However the GNOME Disk Utility appears to state ext4 as for internal disks and xfs only for ...
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Sadly the issue reported and described here: Pernicious USB-stick stall problem. Reverting workaround fix? and Is "writeback throttling" a solution to the "USB-stick stall problem"?...
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I've added the following line to my /etc/fstab to mount a ramdisk. none /media/ramdisk tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=2048M 0 0 It shows up in my desktop as a removable drive, and it is ...
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I have several menuentries in my grub2 menu, some of which point to removable devices (Ventoy, Windows, etc). Is there any way to configure grub to automatically and temporarily hide (or grey out, or ...
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While installing ChromeOS Flex into a machine, the installation process froze and we had to stop the installation. Now, the USB is not recognized in any machine, no matter if Windows or Linux. When ...
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I have put a CD into my drive. How can I find the rainbow book color on Linux (Red book/Yellow book/Blue book/...)?
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I am trying to install a USB memory stick as a (grub2) multiboot and am having trouble booting the Windows installer. Arch Linux doesn't work either, only with KDE neon everything works. I would ...
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Somehow I can see the sd-card in gnome-disks as /dev/sda, but it won't show up in gparted. In gnome-disks it shows as a mass storage device with no media, or size, and it won't allow me to edit ...
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Even after many years, I'm still an 'arms-length' user of linux. I switched to Mint when XP stopped, use the default configuration, and have not had to interact with Grub before. I use it to get the ...
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