formatting

Hi everyone, I am a bit of noob when it comes to Linux and have a few questions regarding formatting using PSID. I want to reformat these 2 drives and eventually use them on my mac (APSF) The situation: Have a good deal on Western Digital 14TB SATA HSH721414ALE6M0 HDD (2x) which is perfect as...

Hi. I'm trying to create regular files and set them up to be used as disks. I'm using fdisk utility, and AFAIK, we must first create partitions and then format them. Here are my steps: Creation of the file dd if=/dev/random of=file2GB bs=1MB count 2000 Create new partition and its partition...

Hello to all ! I'm coming to you for help with a personal project In a few words : When opening the Ubuntu session I would like a script to be activated when a user enters a wrong password The script should run for example after the 3rd try and if the 3rd try is wrong, a partition or...

I'm using Linux Mint 21 XFCE and my new MP3 player won't auto-sync. It will show up in disks, but not Thunar. While searching for a solution, I encountered this thread on the Mint forums: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=360397 When the person was told they needed to format it, I...

When you choose to completely format the disk to install only Linux, does the installation delete also the drivers of the hardware? Recently I installed Linux Mint in an HP and after the installation it says that the battery is not HP anymore.

Need to format an external hard drive partition. It's not a system drive/partition so no system log files will be written to it. (who uses an external hard drive to write system log files anyway?) By default when you format a partition as ext4, the system reserves 5% of the disk space. So, only...