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ext4 partition works but fdisk shows no valid partition table

I have a 1TB disk with a single ext4 partition. here's some output of parted print all command Model: ATA Hitachi HDS72101 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B ...
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How to expand the ext4 primary partition size in a VMware Player virtual disk?

I have a VMware Player virtual machine setup, running Ubuntu 10.04 as the a guest OS. The VM was created on a 20GB virtual drive, with a single partition for working space. Finally I got to the point ...
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Resize ext4 /home partition from start sector

I need to resize my ext4 /home partition to make space to my boot partition before it. The thing is to do so I need to change the start sector of my home partition (the boot partition is extended on ...
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Ubuntu and fat partition, why and can I change it?

I have a mac from 2006 and it is already not supported by new Apple system. So I did get back to Linux and I did chose Ubuntu 13.04. I did install Ubuntu side by side with OSX, but I did notice that ...
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Hide ubuntu partition in win7 [closed]

I was searching forum but I didn't find solution to my problem. I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 and Win7 on one HDD in UEFI mode. I'm able to boot in both OS'es separately from grub (added some entries). ...
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Hard Disk Formatting Error

so here is the situation.. I installed Ubuntu, pretty sweet.... all was going well till i tried to install an application " LPCXpresso IDE for ARM micro controllers" now the PC hung up as soon as the ...
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How to shrink an ext4 /home partition without using a LiveCD and losing data?

I need to shrink an ext4 /home partition (/dev/sda9) to make space for something else. I would prefer avoid live CDs (boot troubles with new EFI and. I don't have a CD/USB in hand in the office). I ...
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How do I fix my broken/damaged Kubuntu installation?

(I am dual booting Windows 8 and Kubuntu.) I've been having a lot of fun with Kubuntu. I've done a lot with it, including installing GNOME desktop, just to try it out. One day I was in Steam and I ...
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Messed up SuperBlock/Journal SDCARD

I had recently partitioned my SDCARD to work with my phone. Added an EXT4 and FAT32 partitions. After a power failure the data got corrupted. I can still see it but it's not the same as before. I've ...
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ext4 partition ubuntu lost after Windows 7 installation

I've got this problem: I have one hdd and use ubuntu 12.10 on this hdd with several partitions(one nfts, two ext4 and one unallocated). today after windows 7 installation, and booting with live usb, ...
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Why is disk usage greater than the size of all files on it?

I have a 3TB HDD. In the properties screen of the HDD, it says that I have used 471.4GB, but when I select all the files in nautilus, it says that 321.0GB is selected. If I only have 321.0GB of ...
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Ext4 error “something wrong with extent”

After splitting HDD into system and home partitions I get the following error at the very beginning after computer is turned on: error: something wrong with extent Then Ubuntu is loaded and ...
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Automount ext4 partition with user permission/ownership (fstab?)

I just installed Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" on my Acer Aspire One D257, creating the partitions: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 15G 2.1G 12G 15% / ...
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Recovering deleted ext4 Ubuntu partitions using TestDisk (None partition media table type)

Recovering deleted ext4 Ubuntu partitions using TestDisk Question How do I write (recover) found partitions from [None] None partition media table type (unallocated space?) in TestDisk? Problem ...
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How to convert ext2 to ext4?

I installed Ubuntu 12.10, and I don't know why, I have an ext2 partition. How can I convert this ext2 file system to an ext4? Will I lose all my data?
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How to create a common ext4 [ read / write ] partition with all ubuntu users?

I have a shared EXT4 drive with 777 permissions for all users to use. Problem is : When a user creates a new folder / file, it gets 644. I guess that is because of the umask for that user. Now, I ...
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Uninstalling ubuntu + partitions

I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed onto my dual-boot system; how can I uninstall it? Which partition(s) should I delete? As you can see, I have two used/Full up 'Other' partitions and one ext4 ...
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EXT4 Ideal Size?

I have 1TB HDD and I will use ubuntu and won't use dual boot with windows, any tips about partitions' size and how many partitions, can I have just 2 partitions? The second question is about swap ...
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Can I format my Windows 7 NTFS partition and use it in Ubuntu even if it appears earlier on disk?

I have installed and working Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I discovered that I do not need all this space that I have assigned to my D:\ drive in Windows and now would like to include it as a partition ...
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FDISK Logical Partition

I have tried to create a logical partition via Fdisk for a flash drive. The problem is that I choose the option -n to create a partition, of course , and fdisk gives me only two options "extended and ...
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Recover EXT4 Partition from Interrupted Resize

world! [that's funny, it automatically takes out leading "hello"s] I'm installing Ubuntu on a friend's laptop, and I encountered a problem while resizing the Ubuntu partition. I was expanding it to ...
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I can't copy any file to ext4 partition! [closed]

I converted on of my NTFS partition to EXT4 format with GParted tool, But now I can not copy create any files to that partition, also on start up I have error reading of one partition so I have to ...
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Move ext4 partition

I have an ext4 partition at the end of an hard drive, and want to resize it to the full disk size (the rest of the disk is empty). It's not the root partition, just a data partition, so it's no ...
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Stuck on 12.04 install [closed]

brand new HP box -- installing from cd that is a good burn, have tried several times. I am stuck at "creating ext4file system for / in partition #3" Been here for 25 minutes? Normal on a new ...
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Formating NTFS partition into EXT4 and setting up as home

i know that this question may be asked before, but i couldn't find it. If you find out that this is a duplicate question feel free to close it and post link to that question in answer. Thank you. So ...
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New ext4 partition and used space

I have fresh ext4 partition, which means I just formated it with mkfs.ext4 -m 0.1 /dev/mapper/abak-home, and there's already 27G space used. Setting reserved root space (-m) to 0 didn't have any ...
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(No Root File System)-ergo no install 12.04

I have my HDD 1Tb partitioned with fs ext4. Previously I was booting from the 2TB Hard Drive...I disconnected that. Now I want a clean install 12.04 but cannot figure out "Root File System" ("/") ...
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How to overwrite Ubuntu with Windows 7? [closed]

So I have a Windows DVD and it works. But when it gets to the part when it says "Upgrade" or "Custom" I click on custom and at the bottom it says cannot install over it because Windows 7 can only be ...
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Utility for resizing partitions

Is there a partition utility in Ubuntu from which I can break my existing 'ext4' partition into more partition w/o loosing this partition's data?
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How do I change the size of an ext4 partition? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Resize partition with GParted I upgraded the hdd in my FOG server (Ubuntu 11.4) to 500gb but I can't find a simple way to enlarge the partition to take up the empty ...
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Vanished partition recovered, disk still half full but no data to be found! [closed]

I recently had a hard drive partition vanish on me while moving the drive from one machine to another. In an attempt to fix the problem I took it out of my Ubuntu box and put it in a Windows machine ...
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How can I tell what kind of partition I have? (ext2,3,4)?

I read this article talking about chopping boot-time in half with e4rat, but in order to do so your partition has to be ext4. How can you check what kind of partition you have? Thanks in advance ...
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How can I check if a particular partition ext4 is journaled?

I need to know this because of this: Add the data=writeback mounting option if you formatted the disk without journaling. Otherwise add data=ordered which sould be a good compromise between full ...
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Ext4 disk partitions are not visible

I'm a new user of the Linux environment. I have just have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my system and I'm unable to see the disk partition in which I have installed the OS. Size of the main disk is 100 ...
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Should I use btrfs or Ext4 for my SSD?

Should I use btrfs (with discard, compress=lzo and space_cache options) or Ext4 (with discard option) for the SSD for my Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) amd64 desktop root partition of my office machine? ...
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mke2fs writes 2.4 GiB to disk

Using the Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit Desktop LiveCD, I created a 149.04 GiB partition using gdisk on an unpartitioned SSD. I opened gparted to notice that nothing has been written to the new partition. Then ...
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ubuntu partitioner [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is gparted a good tool for resizing an NTFS partition? I have a backtrack 5 distribution which is based on ubuntu. During the instalation it somehow managed to create a ...
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How do I repartition with GParted? [duplicate]

I wanted to create more space for Ubuntu on my hard disk in favor of my Windows partition. I booted the livecd and resized the NTFS partition to 100 GB. Then I wanted to resize my Ubuntu (ext4) ...
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ext4 partition size / free space discrepancies

While creating a 250GiB backup partition for my data, I have noticed lots of discrepancies between reported partition size and free space in Nautilus, gParted, df, tune2fs, etc. At first I thought it ...
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used space in a new empty partition

I've created an extended partition (ext4) on one of my hard-disks. here is what it looks like: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc5 158G 5,9G 144G ...
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Is there a file system best suited for a torrent partition?

Following on from an excellent answer provided by user Gilles, I'd like to ask whether there's a file system particularly well-suited for fairly heavy torrent use. Soon I'll be setting up an Ubuntu ...
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If I change my home from ext3 to ext4 when installing will my data be lost?

If I change my home from ext3 to ext4 when installing will my data be lost?
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How to resize a ext4 root partition at runtime?

How to increase the size of the root partition of a system a runtime? I have a partition that is not allocated after the root partition (which is in ext4), how can I add it to root without having to ...
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JFS vs. EXT4 vs. EXT3 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the best way to partition, and what is the best file-system for a new Hard Disk? I've got a 2TB external HD on which I save valuable data. so far I'm using NTFS ...
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Change swap (potentially with user data) to ext4

I have a 1 TB external harddisk where I recently installed Ubuntu onto. Before I had some backups there which I didn't want to lose. Therefore I created a new partition for Ubuntu. During this process ...
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Is it possible (aka safe) to resize a partition while the system is running?

I'm talking about resizing my root partition (/), while the system is on (I know that's usually impossible, but I'm just hoping there is some way to do it). I want to know if there is some way I can ...
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Recover EXT4 partition

I was trying to resize my EXT4 partition and something went wrong. I lost it. The space in once consumed is now being represented as Unallocated. How do I recover the partition?