I installed Ubuntu app on Window 10 OS and trying to run dd command. But the dd command is not listing all drives present in system. I am not sure whether is it Ubuntu app limitation or something is missing in configuration. Please provide me inputs to resolve this issue.
There is any good hex editors that can open a drive not just a single file? Something like Hex Workshop? I'm looking for something for my Computer Forensics class.
Thanks
I've tired a number of things to get this to work and I'm missing something.
I ran out of space on my 8gb bootable flash drive. I'm running 12.04 server. The drive has sda1 (primary 4gb), sda2 (extended 4GB) and sda5 (swap 4gb).
I tried copying old drive to new drive using ddrescue (whole drive copy) and then resizing on another linux box using gparted. I made sda1 ~22Gb (75% of the drive) and used the remaining space for sda2 and sda5. When I tried booting it I get to the GRUB menu and when I select the OS I get a message about not enough room or space.
Next try.
I dd'd the MBR of the new drive and then created sda1 - primary linux 83 (75% of sectors on drive), sda2 - extended 5 (25% - remaining sectors), sd5 - logical linux 82 swap (same sectors as sda2). I then wrote the changes and exited fdisk. I then ran ddrescue with the following command: ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 (old drive copied to new drive). It competed successfully. I mounted the new copied partition and ran df to see the free space and it shows the same amount as the old small drive -97% used. I thought I had to resize or something so I moved drive to other linux box and ran gparted. Didn't find that the partiion needed resizing.
The new partition has the same UUID as the original but I think i might need to copy the old swap partition UUID to the new one and I don't know how - only how to randmly generate a new one.
So, where did I go wrong here. Am I close to getting this right?
What forces a file manager to show unmounted partitions in the left pane?
That is - what process is it that causes filemanagers to show drives - it's not fstab - I can show that here, I know that inserting a mountable volume makes it show.
I'm trying to understand what it is that actually gives the filemanager the signal to show the partition in the first place.
In DOS, I switch between different drives by typing c:, d:, e: and so forth. But it doesn't work that way in Linux.
Could anyone please tell me how to switch between different drives?