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parted magic Archive
Check For Bad Sectors On A Drive With Badblocks
At home I have a pfSense firewall, the thing about my firewall is that I did a full installation on a Compact Flash card. Because, I want the benefits of a full installation like not loosing RRD graphs in case someone accidentally pulls the plug. The downside of using Compact...
Read More Parted Magic: Erase A Hard Drive
I have blogged several times before about Parted Magic the open source live distribution that can do pretty much anything(test, backup, partition) when dealing with drives. This time I will focus on a specific tool found on Parted Magic meant to provide a method for the secure wipe or deletion...
Read More VMware – Mouse problem when using a live cd
I had this recurring problem with VMware Workstation and Player whenever I tried to use a live cd like Parted Magic to partition a VMware virtual machine the mouse would not respond or stay of course the whole time, meaning I could never click on what I intended. The problem...
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