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  • Mindlight@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•How is it possible to partition a HDD without corrupting its contents?
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    1 year ago

    Essentially it only moves the borders of the partitions and “repairs” the filesystem inside each affected partition.

    If there is data in an area inside the partion you are manipulating gparted has to move the data to an area inside the partition that is unaffected or move it to the new parts of the partition. This can take a long time even if modern PCs easily move 100MB/s

    Also, even if gparted is mature software and the devs probably have implemented a lot of security measures you should always backup your data before manipulating the partitions. Especially when you’re playing around with filesystems that aren’t native like NTFS or more complicated filesystems like ZFS. I know people often nag about this but trust me… Blow 2TB of your data and you really really regret not spending 10 minutes backing up the essentials.

    I’ve been using gparted for as long as I can remember and only once or twice has it caused dats loss. Since I’m very old school (started playing with PCs when 386DX 16MHz was fairly hot and RLL disks were a thing) and nerdy I was able to use data rescue software that looked for filesystems over the whole disk and guessed where partition borders should be.

    Avoid this type of anxiety by backing up all data or at least backing up the data you can’t live without.

    Also, if you have a spare disk, it’s faster and much safer to partition the spare one and just clone each partition. Sometimes it’s even faster to clone the disk this way and then clone it back.

  • Mindlight@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•EU moves to outlaw fees on hand luggage, seat allocation
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    1 year ago

    While high speed trains reach speeds up to around 350kmh ordinary trains reach speeds up to around 250kmh.

    So while high speed trains can go about 50% faster than ordinary trains the price tag for building and maintaining is many times more expensive compared to ordinary railway.

    So let’s start maintaining the railways we have and build more. Making sure that it’s possible to go from point A to point B safely and in time

    Then we start building high speed railways, connecting major cities.

  • Mindlight@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Your choice of browser matters — Google's Web DRM and the open internet
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately this is coming and a majority of people are going to happily step on to the train.

    Think of it like this: 99% of all apps could have been just web apps in a mobile browser (Hell, a majority essentially are just a wrapped web app) but because of companies offering more/better functionality people choose to use the app.

    All that needs to happen is sites starting require DRM functionality for “security reasons” so that the end user can enjoy more features.

    A majority of end users don’t understand the implications when making choices like these.

  • Mindlight@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•No ads, No tracking and Opensource
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been jumping around trying 4-5 clients since the Reddit Exodus and all of them had some really anything bug. Voyager is the one that in my opinion is the best one feature and stability wise. However, voyager if giving me one big headache in the form of going totally black if I swap over to fx read an email. I don’t care if you’re my Firefox needing things up. I’m not going to opt in even more in Google Surveillance just because Voyager is open source.

    Sync for Reddit was my whole Reddit experience for the last 7-8 years. I think I tried a majority of the clients and Sync totally wiped the floor with the other clients in my opinion. Both in new features and stability.

    I use Windows and several dists on a daily basis. I have an Android phone and I truly like the philosophy behind open source… With that said… Competition is great. We’ll see what Sync for Lemmy can bring to the table. If it is as good as sync for Reddit was the other clients have to shape up and it’s us, the users, that will benefit.

    This message was created with Sync for Lemmy.