Tag: SSD

By Posted on Posted in Fedora No Comments Tagged with , , , , , , ,

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? …

Enable and Disable Thumb Drive Write Protection Read more »

By Posted on Posted in Linux, Mac No Comments Tagged with , , , , , , ,

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 …

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