Top "Disk" questions

How to empty/flush Windows READ disk cache in C#?

If I am trying to determine the read speed of a drive, I can code a routine to write files …

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Per Process disk read/write statistics in Mac OS X

How do I get programatically per process disk i/o statistics in Mac OS X. In 'Activity Monitor' application or …

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How do we access MFT through C#

I need to access Windows MFT(Master File Table) using C# in my .net application. I have googled about this …

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Cross platform way to list disk drives on Linux, Windows and Mac using Python?

I am using Python2.6. I am trying to list the disk drives that a system may have. On Windows, it …

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What is the difference between compaction and defragmentation?

My operating systems textbook says that compaction is a process that rearranges disk blocks such that all free disk blocks …

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How to remove old SVN revisions

Our SVN repository is approaching 0.5 GB. We have nowhere near that amount of code in our production system. Is it …

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How to open disks in windows and read data at low level?

I know in linux it is as simple as /dev/sda but in Windows how do you open a disk …

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Vagrant VirtualBox second disk path

I have Vagrant + VirtualBox. In my Vagrantfile I have config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v| v.customize [ "createhd", "--filename", "disk", "…

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What is a sparse file and why do we need it?

What is a sparse file and why do we need it? The only thing that I am able to get …

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Xcode 4 became extremely slow and kills my hard drive

My machine has 8 GB or RAM, Core 2 Duo 3,06 GHZ and it seems it is not enough for Xcode 4 (4.0.1). From some …

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