Tag: SATA

How to boot into VirtualBox from USB

In this post I will tell you how to connect a USB disk (or USB flash drive) to a virtual machine so that the guest system treats it like a regular hard disk. This trick will allow you not only to boot from the installation USB – which is rather pointless. If you connect a USB disk or flash drive...

How to know when the ext4/ext3/ext2 filesystem was created and when it was last mounted

How to know when the ext4/ext3/ext2 filesystem was created The ext4, ext3, and ext2 file systems store their creation date. This date can be the first day the disk was used or the day it was last formatted. You can find out the day the file system was created using the tune2fs and dumpe2fs utilities. tune2fs allows the system administrator...

How to find out the number of starts and the total working time of a disk in Linux

You can find out how many hours any hard drive or solid state drive has run. You can also view information about the number of times the disc has been turned on. Some discs store information about the total amount of data read and written, as well as unexpected shutdowns (for example, due to a computer freeze or power outage)....
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