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Fedora

Enable and Disable Thumb Drive Write Protection

Dave Jul 10, 2017 Tagged with disable, enable, hard drive, jump drive, sd, SSD, thumb drive, write protection

This works with thumb, SD, microSD, SSDs, and hard drives. UNIX was intentionally written to use terse commands “ls”, “su”, “cd”… So, why the F do I want to type “sudo ” before every root command on my personal machine? …

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Linux, Mac

[HOWTO] Test a hard drive, SDD, or thumbdrive for bad blocks

Dave Nov 5, 2013 Tagged with bad blocks, badblock, badblocks, hard drive, Linux, SSD, test, thumbdrive

Warning! This is a destructive test! Badblock utility writes a value to the drive, reads it back, and compares the two. Where X is the drive letter: a,b,c,d sudo badblocks -wvs /dev/sdX To test a particular partition, X is the …

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Enable and Disable Thumb Drive Write Protection

[HOWTO] Test a hard drive, SDD, or thumbdrive for bad blocks