Category Archives: Linux

Error while mounting external disk (NTFS is either inconsistent … $MFTMirr does not match $MFT)

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Thomas Cokelaer

I encountered a cryptic error message while trying to mount a disk under Fedora (39) using the desktop file manager. I went to the shell command to mount manually and hoping to get more information using sudo mount /dev/sda1 /run/media/cokelaer/ext … Continue reading →

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Efficient File Copying with Rsync: Including Only Certain File Types

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Thomas Cokelaer

When it comes to efficient and reliable file synchronization and copying, Rsync stands out as a powerful tool. Not only does it allow you to transfer files between local and remote locations, but it also offers the flexibility to include … Continue reading →

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Setup ssh server on Fedora Linux platform

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Thomas Cokelaer

It could be useful to set up a SSH server on your Linux box. For instance, once set up, you can copy files from a Windows machine to your Linux box using ssh/ftp protocol. It is actually quite easy. Here, … Continue reading →

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Fedora 32 installation and post installation

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Thomas Cokelaer

A new laptop ! Great, let’s install a new Linux Fedora version. Insteresting to see that from 4 years ago, the version number has jumped from 23 to 32. 10 version in 4 years. Anyway. This is surely for the … Continue reading →

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how to set the logging in DEBUG mode when using the python requests package

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Thomas Cokelaer

By default when using the excellent requests package, there is not much on the screen to figure out was goes wrong with a specific URL requests. In general, you do not need it but from time to time it is … Continue reading →

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How to Mount and Use an exFAT Drive on Fedora Linux

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Thomas Cokelaer

Yesterday, I got this hard drive from a collaborator with huge amount of sequencing data on it. Under fedora 23, I pluged in the hardrive, open the browser, click on the hard drive name and and got this error message: … Continue reading →

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git error solved: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Thomas Cokelaer

Sometimes, when you clone a git repository you may end up with a fatal error “The remote end hung up unexpectedly”. For instance, typing this git command to clone a repository of mine: git clone https://github.com/sequana/sequanagit clone https://github.com/sequana/sequana led to … Continue reading →

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How to find differences between two directories using diff command

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Thomas Cokelaer

When you copy a directory with many files, you may want to check whether the copied directory is indeed an exact copy of the original. You can do that by comparing all files. You can write your own script checking … Continue reading →

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format USB key under fedora

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Thomas Cokelaer

I created a bootable USB key and needed to format the key so that others could use it again. Using the format option (see image below) in the KDE file environment, I got this error: This partition cannot be modified … Continue reading →

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How to prevent wget from creating duplicates

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Thomas Cokelaer

wget is used to download file from internet. For instance: wget http://url/test.csvwget http://url/test.csv So far so good but two things may happen. First, you may interrupt the download. Second, you may load the file again. Sometimes, files are huge and … Continue reading →

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