Questions tagged [fdisk]
fdisk (for "fixed disk") is a command-line utility that provides disk partitioning functions.
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Why does mkfs.ntfs count one Byte less?
Apparently, ntfs.mkfs counts one byte less when checking if the block device is large enough; or I have made some kind of mistake.
After creating a partition of 2048 512-byte sectors (exactly 1MiB ...
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What should I backup before using parted or fdisk to resize a partition?
Let's say I have disk sda with format MBR and I have N partitions and I want to resize partition K (allocate more space on partition K)
I will use a USB device and use a Linux installation medium so ...
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How to create partitions on a volume with the root filesystem mounted on the enitre disk
I have a server with the root filesystem / mounted on /dev/sda, i.e., the entire disk, which has no partitions. This situation makes me uncomfortable, and I would like to partition the disk and put ...
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Can’t see partition device after creating GPT partition on 6TB disk
I have a 6TB disk in Debian Linux 12, let's say the disk is /dev/sdd. It's just for data; no parts of the OS are on it.
Now I’m trying to use it as a normal disk with the full space in a single ...
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How to extend a logical volume mounted on /home directory?
I was given a CentOS 9 Linux distribution server inside a virtual machine to whom I can connect using ssh protocol (from command line). I am running svn checkout command in order to clone a remote ...
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Partitioning or duplicating corrupted SSD
My SSD died and all its data seems to be inaccessible and my Windows computer won't boot anymore.
After going to a local computer store I was told that they could fix it by wiping all the data. I can ...
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Need help for a manual calculation of MBR after /bin/dd of Virtualbox flat hard disk image to actual HDD on 32-bit P4 laptop (2003)
I have an old laptop which I am trying to install OpenStep 4.2 with Patch 3 pack (Which supports over 8GB and has a VESA driver) on to a 2003 laptop which is a 32-bit pentium 4 with 512MB RAM and a ...
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Extending Logical Volume Size Beyond 2TB in CentOS 7
I need to extend the size of the logical volumes in a CentOS 7 system and noticed that the current partition table cannot handle the updated disk size, which is around 5TB:
Disk /dev/sda: 5497.6 GB, ...
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Why does fdisk create a 512B partition when I enter +256K?
I am trying to create a partition of 256KB on my flash device. I begin by entering the default values for the partition number (1) and first sector (2048). However, when I enter "+256K" for ...
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Resize partition that is mounted on root or "/"
Not too sure whether this has been done before.
I am trying to resize a partition /dev/sda3 on a single disk /dev/sda.
When I tried to use "resize2fs /dev/sda3 10G" directly, the console ...
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Problems partitioning HDD for windows 11 dualboot
I'm trying to set up a dualboot of windows 11 (currently installed) and archlinux. I've done this before on a machine running windows 10 and I had no problems, however with this machine I run into ...
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fdisk: /dev/sd1c is not a character device
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to you because I am attempting to format and partition a drive in OpenBSD but have been met with the following message:
virtual-server# fdisk /dev/sd1c ...
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Why does FDisk's Editor Close when Running the Command 'a'?
I hope this message finds you well.
I am writing because I ran the following in my OpenBSD device
and am uncertain why it stops running:
virtual-server# fdisk -e sd1
Enter 'help' for information
sd1:...
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how to provide the device name that related to LVM2_member
LVM2_member could be different according to device partition number
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lsblk -f | grep LVM2_member | awk '{print $1}'
└─sda3
or on other redhat machine
lsblk -f | grep LVM2_member | ...
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Resize Disk Image with Protective MBR and GPT table
I've got a disk image that I need shortened slightly (long story - but it deals with variances in flash drive sizes). The partitions are already short enough, but the drive size is not.
Basically, I ...
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