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NTFS disk is visible in windows but wont mount in Linux
I have a USB storage drive which is using NTFS.
It works perfectly in Win10, I can see the drive and the files and read and write without issue.
I was previously able to mount this drive on my Arch ...
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GRUB not booting any more after system update: How to set the root variable the correct way?
Today I ran an upgrade on one of my debian 11 VMs to get the latest security updates. Obviously, the GRUB system has been broken by the update. The VM uses EFI, so there is a sort of "...
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3 NVME Acer 2TB drives have the same Hardware UUID?
The Question: Is it normal for three drives made by the same manufacturer (all having the same capacity 2TB in this case) to have the same Hardware UUID in Linux?
Not the partitions, the hardware.
The ...
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Unique device path for generic SCSI device /dev/sgX
[This is on Debian 12]
To fully access my DVD drive, I need to also know its SCSI generic path (/dev/sgX) in addition to its expected CDROM-/dev/srX path.
The specific device is important, though, and ...
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changing uuid of /run/media/root/ partition
I have a usb disk and after formatting it shows up as /run/media/root/abc213 where abc123 is some much longer complex string that no normal person would be able to remember... typical of what you ...
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Rename file and convert to lowercase
This command is to rename files using uuidgen:
zmv '(*)(.*)' '`uuidgen | head -c 8`$2'
Could someone show how to convert resulting string to lowercase?
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What is UUID_SUB?
The output from blkid shows a post called UUID_SUB on my BTRFS-volumes. What does that mean and where can I find more info?
/dev/sdc: LABEL="example" UUID="e7c116be-e3ba-4097-857b-...
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Linux creating new media every time
I'm new Linux user so be kind.
Whenever I boot my Linux on PC I get different uuid from media.
See this dir: /media/my_name/2B283D3C465F37B722/folder_name/folder_namev1
And when I open for example ...
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Trouble Mounting RAID
I have a RAID array that I cannot seem to mount after a power failure. The mount error says it cannot find the UUID even though it is to UUID reported by mdadm.
mdadm --examine --scan
ARRAY /dev/md/0 ...
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grub still tries to mount cryptodisk by its old UUID after changing it
I have a Linux system with the following disk setup (MBR-formatted, BIOS-booted):
sda 32G disk
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How can you give a disk and a new UUID?
I just used sfdisk to clone my partition table to a new disk,
sudo sfdisk -d /dev/nvme0n1 > /tmp/part.txt
sudo sfdisk /dev/nvme1n1 < /tmp/part.txt
However, now both drives have the same uuid. ...
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Are UUIDs and PTUUIDs important for MBR disks? If so, how do I create them on my own?
I'm studying partitioning under Linux, starting with sfdisk. If I copy a partition table from one drive to another, it'll copy the device UUID and the PTUUIDs for each partition, but if I'm creating a ...
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Systemd is eternally stuck on a start-job when I go to boot from my cloned-to NVME. How do I get my system to boot?
I cloned my hard drive using Clonezilla Live to an NVME SSD. My system is EndeavourOS, Systemd, KDE.
When booting, Systemd makes it to the Basic Machine job and then it starts the A start job is ...
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how is grub(2) able to hardcode root=
I just had a whole series of problems with boot on my Debian system (SID) suddenly it reported:
/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found.
Eventually I got it back (fsck moved lots of stuff from /boot into ...
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Unable to change UUID of exFAT USB drive using tune2fs [duplicate]
I am trying to change the UUID of a USB stick formatted with exFAT. I double checked that /dev/sdb2 is the correct target. The entire USB contains one exFAT partition with no empty space. When I try ...
