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Internal and external fragmentation

Can anyone please tell me the difference between internal and external fragmentation while allocation of disk space for files?

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NodeJS How do I Download a file to disk from an aws s3 bucket?

My goal: Display a dialog box prompting the user to save a file being downloaded from aws. My problem: I …

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How to purge disk I/O caches on Linux?

I need to do it for more predictable benchmarking.

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How do I retrieve disk information in C#?

I would like to access information on the logical drives on my computer using C#. How should I accomplish this? …

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How to correctly convert filesize in bytes into mega or gigabytes?

I'm using the DriveInfo class in my C# project to retrieve the available bytes on given drives. How to I …

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Difference between sequential write and random write

What is the difference between sequential write and random write in case of :- 1)Disk based systems 2)SSD [Flash Device ] …

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Is it safe to delete the journal file of mongodb?

If I delete the 3.1G journal file, sudo service mongodb restart will fail. However, this file is taking too much …

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How much faster is the memory usually than the disk?

IDE,SCSI,SSD,SATA or all of those.

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How to repair/isolate hard drive bad blocks

During the last month Ubuntu starts having some problems: it shuts down suddenly without any apparent reason.. I figured out …

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Are tables created with "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE" in memory or on disk?

In MySQL, when you create a temporary table, for example, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ..., is that table created and held in …

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