Questions tagged [partition]
Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.
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Problem with GRUB in a Quad Boot system
I have a quad boot system, with Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, and RedHat/Fedora, and I'm having trouble with GRUB. More specifically, I am having "thought" problems with GRUB, i.e. I have not yet ...
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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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cryptsetup block size preventing from using it
I used cryptsetup to encrypt a disk. I followed this tutorial, which uses the default values. Afterwards I used the disk with no issues and backed up my data.
Now I connect it again and returns error ...
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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 install a second GNU/Linux in dual boot, with the first distribution already installed and full-disk encrypted with LUKS?
This is not a duplicate of How to install two GNU/Linux in dual boot with one under LUKS and the other not?, since it assumes newly installing both distributions.
I have a Linux distribution installed ...
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Failed to mount partition
This is my fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name ...
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How to optimally partition new second NVME for both Linux and Windows?
(pre-dual boot on single drive) Bought new SSD, how to partition it to allocate space to both Linux and Windows?
Current Specs: 512GB SSD pre-installed in laptop. Running Dual Boot with Win11 and ...
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EXFAT usb drive not accessible in Windows 11 - how to properly format for EXFAT in Linux?
Some info:
I partitioned+formatted the drive in my Linux PC using gparted. gparted created a new /dev/sda1 partition as part of the process.
It is recognizable in other Linux PCs.
It is recognizable/...
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How much disk space is occupied by a filesystem's metadata?
My disk is partitioned like this:
# fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 411647 409600 200M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 ...
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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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Install Debian to premade partitions
After running in to some problems with my initial attempt to install, I've premade the partitions I want to use, and I want to install Debian using those partitions.
One of the problems I had was that ...
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resize luks encrypted xfs on lvm partition to extend root with additional space
i have a ~200GB luks encrypted partition on a dual boot setup and i've just shrunk my windows partition by a bit so i can use the unallocated space on my root partition which is xfs. how would i go ...
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How do I thoroughly wipe a corrupted drive and reformat on Debian?
I bought a brand new 4TB Western Digital Blue HDD, which is connected to my NAS running Debian via usb with an external HDD enclosure.
I used the following commands to setup the drive:
(parted) ...
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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 install POP OS dual boot with windows on separate drive without erasing data of other drive?
I have windows 11 on 250gb ssd and a 500gb empty hard drive. I want to install POP!os on one of the partition of this Hard drive and let the windows be on the ssd. So while partitioning space to ...