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Kevin Blalock

Posts Tagged ‘storage’

September 16, 2008

Reclaiming ext3 disk space

The other day while working on my GPT article, I had noticed that there was alot of space being used with a clean partition and zero data on the drive. What is this about? So, I hit up Google. I found the following: The most likely reason is reserved space. When an ext2/3 file system [...]

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September 12, 2008

Creating GPT Partitions

I have run into an issue where I needed to boot off of a partition larger than 2 TB, which was created as a hardware RAID 5 array. Here is the problem, the partition end’s up being a GPT partition and you cannot boot off of a GPT partition. So, after carving out a decently [...]

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January 5, 2008

Waterproof flash drive?

Now what is the point of this? Corsair has decided it would be a great idea to spend the time and money to produce a waterproof flash drive! Now the CNC machined, aircraft aluminum casing is cool. I could use a flash drive like that, instead of the cheap plastic, but how many army rangers, [...]

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