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How to delete a partition on a USB drive?
I have a USB drive that I accidentally partitioned when trying to put Ubuntu on it. It's a 16 GB Kingston flash drive but it is now split to two partitions, 7.30 GB each.
How do I combine the two partitions into one? I have tried Disk Management in…
Megaeverything
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How can I get control+left arrow to go back one word in iTerm2?
I was reading up in the Linux manual and I noticed that it said I could use control+left and control+right to move forward and back words in the terminal while editing.
"Pressing Ctrl plus the Left or Right arrow key moves backward or forward a…
cwd
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Mass deleting files in Windows
I have a directory, that contains ~ 3 million files in certain subdirectories on a Windows 2008 server. Manually deleting the files via SHIFT+DEL on the root dir takes ages. Is there any other way to do the deletion in a faster manner?
aaginor
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How can you see the actual hard link by ls?
I run
ln /a/A /b/B
I would like to see at the folder a where the file A points to by ls.
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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How to view SSL Certificate details on Chrome?
Before somewhere around Chrome 55, I could look at the details of a certificate a website is using by clicking on the Green lock icon. Now that functionality seems to be gone; see picture below.
How can I bring this back? I know I can go into…
tyteen4a03
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Why do modern computer cases still have USB 2.0 ports?
I'm currently planning the setup for a new computer. As I were browsing through computer cases I realized that most modern computer cases still have a mix of USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports on the front panel.
Is there a legitimate reason to still have or use…
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Windows Linux Subsystem - Accessing Files outside of Ubuntu
Why, when I create a file from within Windows for example,
can I not see it under the Linux sub system in Windows 10 (bash.exe)
The screenshot should explain.
Folder: OMG was created from within Windows Explorer.
Folder OMGBash was created from…
Dave Hamilton
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Why are laptop screens sized the way they are?
We've been discussing this in the Comms Room on Serverfault, and thought it might make a good question on SuperUser...especially if there's a clear answer. The hope is that it is a Good Subjective question.
Why do laptop screen sizes come in the…
TheCleaner
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Google Chrome - Clear Cache for Specific Website
I recently created a free web hosting account on x10Hosting. Let's use www.example.x10host.com as my example domain. Before signing up for the domain, I visited the domain to see if it was available. When I saw that it was, I registered it, and…
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What does /dev/sda in Linux mean?
What does
/dev/sda
stand for? What does it mean?
I have both Fedora and Ubuntu installed and if I explore them using Ext2explore from Windows, I see these names:
/dev/sda6
/dev/sda9
Please explain to me what that means. I'm referring to the…
saplingPro
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What Tiling Window Manager for Windows do you recommend?
What is the best tiling window manager for Windows?
I'm looking for something like awesome.
It would be nice if it removes the title bar and has "comfortable" shortcut keys (for me that's vi keys, but feel free to use your own reference). Open…
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mysql how to fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Before I screw up something, when I login using $ mysql -u root -p, and show databases:
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql |
| performance_schema |
| game_data …
Vogelsire
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How do you re-install a package with Homebrew (Mac)?
Struggling to find good Homebrew documentation (or tutorial)...
In the mean time I need to reinstall ImageMagick that was installed with Homebrew (brew install imagemagick) and not sure if I should first brew uninstall imagemagick or go ahead and…
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How to wget a file with correct name when redirected?
So after some time of searching on Google and Super User (and scanning man pages) I was unable to find an answer to something that (I think) should be simple:
If you go here:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2340
And try to download…
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