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The arrangement of data for storage or display, also used as a term to empty a partition.

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After writing the FreeNAS IMG to a 16 GB USB flash drive, I can now only use 938 MB. I used the Win32 Disk Imager tool to write the IMG to the device. Then later, when I inserted the the USB drive ...
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I am trying to convert a .mov video to .mp4 with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i ~/Desktop/Sample.mov ~/Desktop/Sample.mp4 This doesn't work though, and when I try to open the produced video in quicktime it tells ...
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I was looking over documentation for ZFS for Linux and I came accross a command that the instructions tell me to run to prepare a disk for use. The command was; sfdisk -q /dev/zvol/tank/fish <<...
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Note: I'm not asking how... I know that. I'm currently using Paragon Software's drivers which let you access all drive formats from all OSes (e.g. the Linux drive from OSX or the OSX drive from Win7, ...
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What video formats are supported in the WhatsApp for Android and Whatsapp Windows desktop apps (specially the later one)? I receive the error Video is not supported when I drag a video file into the ...
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In Windows XP, I used to use sndrec32.exe (Sound Recorder accessory) to open a wav file and the get properties on the file. This would display the length, data size, and audio format (e.g. GSM 6.10 8....
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When installing Windows XP, there is a prompt for formatting the disk. What is the difference between an NTFS 'format', and an NTFS 'format (Quick)'?
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When selling / throwing away / giving away HDDs I always use DBAN to do a DoD wipe first. Is this still a valid thing to do on an SSD? Will it have an adverse effect on the SSD's lifespan?
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For a long time the TextFX plugin did the job for the Notepad++ 32-bit version via the menu TextFX > TextFX HTML Tidy > Tidy: Reindent XML. In January 2012 Notepad++ v5.9.8 didn't include the ...
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I ordered a bunch of 1GB usb drives from a semi-shady Chinese company. Most of them work just fine, but a couple of them won't let me format them because they are "write-protected." There is no write ...
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I'm working on a little util tool written in bash that gives me some information about a game server on Linux. For that reason I need a possibility to display the size of the file contents. I'm doing ...
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I am installing Windows XP on a computer and again I got to the point where it asks you to choose between a quick format and a full format. What is the difference? I know with Windows 7 & 8 ...
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Is it open? According to Wikipedia, PDF is an open format. But the ISO charges 198 Swiss francs for you to download the PDF 2.0 specification. Now according to free_file_format (first ref in the ...
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I needed to download the Ruby Source recently from here and it says, "available in three formats" which are .tar.bz2, .tar.gz and .zip. Is there any reason that we need all three formats? At least on ...
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I would like to convert image formats. I can use 'convert' command, but it made another image. So I searched and find 'mogrify' command in ImageMagick official page. What I did was mogrify -...
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