GRUB and LILO both fail to install to NVMe hard disk when installing Debian
I’m trying to install 64-bit Debian stable on a Lenovo Thinkpad. When I get to the installation step that installs the bootloader, I get this message:
hard-disk
recovery data from RAID and disk failure (Linux)
1st attempt: Mounting disks alone
View physical location of a file/directory on a hard disk
Is there any Linux program which offers the same (or some of the) functionality of Sysinternals DiskView, especially being able to view to physical location of a file on a hard disk?
How to ignore write errors while zeroing a disk?
Say you want to zero-out a failing hard disk. You want to overwrite as much as possible with zeros. What you don’t want is: the process aborts on the first write-error. How to do that?
can ‘dd’ be used to clone to a smaller HDD, knowing that partitions will need editing?
I’ve used dd to clone disks like this:
How to time grep commands accurately?
I want to compare the speed of these two commands:
Pre-encryption wipe, why?
I wanted to know why, before encrypting and installing itself on the drive , Kali :
How can I find out which files are lost through a ddrescue recovery atempt?
I am in the process of salvaging data from a 1 TB failing drive (asked about it in Procedure to replace a hard disk?). I have done ddrescue from a system rescue USB with a resulting error size of 557568 B in 191 errors, probably all in /home (I assume what it calls “errors” are not bad sectors, but consecutive sequences of them).
Faster disk recovery (ddrescue running slow)
I am learning the value of having good backups.
Names for ATA and SATA disks in Linux
Assume that we have two disks, one master SATA and one master ATA. How will they show up in /dev?