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    Good Way to Test Hard Drive Clone?

    Hello! Yesterday I used the "dd" command to copy my active hard drive (/dev/sda) to a usb-connected hard drive (/dev/sdb). My intent was to create a full-system backup of my PC in case I have a drive failure at some point. After the dd command finished (about an hour and a half later), both...
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    Run command as user, not as root

    Hello! I have a program in my /usr/bin directory named qspectrumanalyzer. I can only execute this program if I switch to being root using the "su" command. I would like to be able to skip the change from being my normal user (curt). Using ls -la to see how the program permissions are...
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