Questions tagged [partitioning]
Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'
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Blank screen with no grub menu
I tried to customize Ubuntu and broke my installation. I tried reinstalling Ubuntu without a USB or DVD by using grml-rescueboot to boot to a live environment. The installer failed. I suspect it ...
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How to merge two partitions in gparted?
I have installed ubuntu and I guess it gave itself a ~15gb partition. Windows still had 1tb. I finally formated the windows partition, or at least a part of it. I want to get the unallocated space on /...
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Ubuntu 20.04. SSD & HD. Permissions good on SSD. Permissions wrong on HD. Want to change permissions HD. UDATA at /dev/sda3 Terminal command?
Inspiron 3891. Running 20.04. Gnome version 3.36.8. Ubuntu on a SSD. My data drive is 2 TB hard disk located at /dev/sda3/ Partition has several folders. Folders have some files. Both the ...
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Help to choose right file system type to create
I need help about a file system creation on Ubuntu server 21.10 installed on a virtual machine hosted on vmware environment.
In particular I'm like to know which kind of FS I should use for my ...
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Use other volumes space for root
I have a too limited space for home so I get regular pop up to ask me to increase its size
below an image of the scan
I have several discs, on one of them is the Windows OS, but still I have plenty of ...
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can't acces data after mounted iso file on external hard drive
I tried to install a software on my Ubunutu 18.04 computer, but I did it by using an .iso file and installed everything on my external hard drive.
After did this, I can't access my data from the ...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 webmin shows 196GB hard drive space but it's 1TB
I have loaded webmin on my Ubuntu Server 20.04.3. The dashboard of the webmin says 16.67 GB used of 196GB. But my disk size is not 196GB. I have a raid array of 1TB. If I click on hardware and look at ...
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Split (root+home) into / and /home, with limited space
I have a system with a single (/+/home) partition, with 275Gb and 18Gb free.
As per du, my /home takes 221Gb, so / would be about 36Gb.
I want to split it into / and /home partitions.
Besides the fact ...
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How to resize in Ubuntu 20.04 Filesystem Partition 1?
New user of Ubuntu and so far loving all the features!
I am booting it using VM. I have a small problem right now that I hope someone can help me with. My RAM or overall memory on partition 1 is ...
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GRUB cannot install after upgrading Ubuntu
Last year, I converted my MBR SSD drive to GPT and enabled UEFI on BIOS even My old laptop does not support UEFI completely! and it was working until today. I'm afraid if I cannot boot it again...
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How to fix "Folder is Empty" in one partition of external hard drive in Ubuntu 21.04?
I have a 3TB hard drive, which has two partitions. The first partition has 1TB storage and the 2nd has 2TB storage.
My second partition(2TB) has 1.1TB data, but when I mount it on ubuntu it displays ...
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How to read proprietary Windows LDM partition (or convert to NTFS) on Ubuntu?
I removed Windows 10 from my 240GB SSD to use Ubuntu 21.10 as default system.
But I can't read a partition in my 1TB HD which I created using Windows.
The partition I am referring is was on a 1TB HD ...
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Mounting partition LVM in server
Installed server with 1TB hdd. Server created a logical volume for the boot.
This is the only logical volume right now
Need help with next steps to mount the remaining 730GB to some location.
I ...
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/media has mysterious disks mounted containing imperfect copies of things like /bin and /etc
Today I accidentally removed python from my computer. I reversed some of the damage by reinstalling the purged packages according to a .log file. However, after python was removed, six mysterious ...
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GParted "ERROR: Volume is full. To shrink it, delete unused files." when I'm trying to enlarge (NTFS)
GParted is giving me a wrong error message, which makes troubleshooting rather hard.
I've got an NTFS partition, 100% full with one file (the .vdi for a Win10 VM using VirtualBox). I'm trying to ...
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122gb of free space needed but partition has 298gb and is empty
I have an old pc set up with ubuntu server 18.04.6 and I've set up an ntfs partition (entire disk) mounted on a directory thats shared via Samba.
The partition hast 298Gb of space (checked with lsblk) ...
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Disk partition creates two folders
In Ubuntu 20.04, I have formatted a partition and on my /media/${USER}/ folder I see two folders:
viktormorales@HP-LINUX:/media/viktormorales$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-x---+ 4 root root ...
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Problem with partitions in Kubuntu leading to pc crashing
Question: Are my partitions causing problems with my Kubuntu and result in it crashing?
Problem: I think my partitions are wrong and thus my Kubuntu crashes often, which leads me to think it is a ...
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How to change partitions so Filesystem root has enough space
I am getting warnings that my Filesystem root is running out of space. I have tried a number of things which the internet told me to do, but nothing seems to be solving the problem.
I am running ...
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What is wrong with the internal hard drive?
On Ubuntu 20.04 I have a 2TB internal hard drive. In gparted I see that the HD is labeled 2TBDrive (which is the name I gave it). gparted shows that there are 30 GiB on this drive. When I view the ...
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Extending OS partition that is not the sda1
I have found two existing posts here that answer the first part of my question:
Increase partition size on which Ubuntu is installed?
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Resize Disk Partition on Remote VM Server
However both of them ...
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Dual Boot Windows 11 + Ubuntu on two separate 1TB SSD, How to share data?
I have finally fulfilled my dream of dual boot Ubuntu / Windows. Everything is also running well with both respectively. Mainly I use it for the university, whose most important data I synchronize ...
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Cannot install ubuntu alongside windows 10 on an MBR Disk
I've been trying to install Ubuntu alongside windows for 2 days now I'm new to Linux and all the videos I've watched are long and tedious and they all assume you have a GPT disk.
Here's the problem, ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu after reinsntallation, no available boot options for Ubuntu in the BIOS either
I previously had Ubuntu, but I had to delete it for some reason, so my PC just had Windows at the moment. Then for college work I had to install Ubuntu again. I installed Ubuntu again using the same ...
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Replace Drive with Ubuntu on it
I tried dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 on different hard drives, but messed up the installation of Ubuntu (It seems like I didnt create a partition for Ubuntu and installed it on the whole ...
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Not able to move a partition to resize the root partition on ubuntu
I was following this video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOOcg5Cm4DM. The video used EaseUS partition master but that didn't help because I can't move the unallocated space below the ...
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Truncated ext4 partition after trying to access my partition from windows with ext2fs
After trying to access my Linux partition from Windows operating system, my Linux partition is now truncated to a size 1K byte and I am no longer able to mount that partition.
"fdisk" shows ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu 2020 without creating partition. Cannot open Windows now
I had dual booted Ubuntu 2020 from Windows 10. However, I had forgotten to allocate separate partition from Windows.
When I restart, I can see Windows in the grub but Windows in not opening. I tried ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS on dual boot
I'm intending to update my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS distribution to the 20.04 LTS version. After googling a solution I've found that there are many ways to go about solving this issue. From the following ...
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Unable to dual boot windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04
I want to dual boot Windows 10 21H1 and Ubuntu 20.04, but when I load Ubuntu to install it, it does not show my partitions correctly. It shows all my partitions values in one place and sometimes it ...
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Having issues with fixing /dev/sda2 recovering journal
Today I saw that Ubuntu was cleaning up orphaned inodes. Here's the boot log message:
/dev/sda2: clearing orphaned inode 396229 uid=1000 gid=1000 mode 0100600 ,si
/dev/sda2: clearing orphaned inode ...
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Dual-boot partitioning: Where to place manufacturer recovery partition?
I own a Dell XPS Developer Edition which is shipped with Ubuntu. I would like to dual-boot with Windows 10 and am unsure about the correct partitioning.
Currently, I have three partitions on my SD:
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Why Cant I use the 30GB free space to install Kubuntu
I was trying to install Kubuntu 20.04 as a small partition on my HDD. All was going good until I was using the guided option to resize my HDD to make a partition to Install. When it finished creating ...
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There is no installation type menu
I am using a Satellite c850 laptop and I am trying to install Ubuntu 21.04 and dual-boot using the UNetbootin tool. I followed many tutorials on YouTube but none of them counter the problem I have (...
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Low disk space on "Filesystem root" even after creating a separate mount point for the \home directory
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a new laptop with Windows 10 pre-installed (which I then upgraded to Windows 11). When setting the partition table during the Ubuntu installation, I forgot to ...
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grub rescue> ls (hd0,msdos7) error: unknown filesystem
Recently I was trying to remove dual boot from my PC, I was using Linux as well as windows but later I wanted to use it as standalone Windows PC.
So I deleted the partition were my Linux system is ...
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USB HDD not recognized
I have purchased Western Digital 12TB Elements Desktop and took out HDD. Then I connected this HDD to SATA in my computer, kept all partitions, didn´t format HDD anything and moved a lot of files ...
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Ubuntu doesn't show install along side option
Currently my entire Windows 10 is in one partition on C: yes I know past me was dumb.
Originally I had wanted to move Win10 to a new SSD and dual boot form there. (See above)
My main HDD is 4TB that ...
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/dev/sdX changing every reboot | Ubuntu 18.04
I upgraded the Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 After upgrading the OS all the mount point changing every reboot.
"/" actual mounted on "/dev/sda1" but If I reboot the system device ...
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Mount drive and cd into a folder
I have my work files on a different drive. Every time I want to work on it, I have to click through files -> Other locations -> /dev/sda2. Then run the terminal in there. I am wondering if this ...
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Move fstab onto another partition
I am currently making a from USB bootable Ubuntu, which I want to use from USB. The thing is, that I want to save stuff like keyboard settings. I achieved moving ~ to the new partition, but when I ...
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Deja Dup restore fails with unknown error, creates a folder instead of a file
reviewing a bit about it, I found this unsolved question in another forum that perfectly describes my downside:
I'm a relative noob. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Backed up a folder
on my Data drive ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Booting Problem
Due to some reasons, I've installed Windows 10 on hdd, while Ubuntu was already installed on ssd. Most of the time, I use Ubuntu but when I start my system, Windows is booted every time unless I press ...
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Mounting external USB hard disk fails on Ubuntu Mate 20.04 LTS
I have a USB hard disk drive attached to my computer. This disk has two Linux partitions on it (both formatted as ext3). When I open "Computer" at my desktop, under "devices" it ...
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can not format the USB flash with Trojan ( write protected USB)
My USB have had many files with write protected permission and those are some Trojan, so I have tried the belewo methods :
sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1:
setting readonly to 0 (off)
readonly ...
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I reinstalled Ubuntu (by formatting the Ubuntu location), then windows 10 disappeared from dual boot
It was installed on the 1TB hard drive here. I can see the program files, but not the boot screen. So I can't boot Windows.
Windows Partition
I did the suggested solutions in the initial research but ...
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Unable to change partitions on my disks
I'm having trouble with disks on my machine. I'm unable to boot and currently trying to clean install Ubuntu. When I use Gparted with bootable usb disk, I can remove all partitions on my disk and when ...
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Ubuntu works so slow no matter what I try
So I have installed ubuntu 20LTS for a computer that was assigned to me but it is a painful to use it because it boots in 10 minutes. But that is not it, it is really slow, opening a tab from firefox ...
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Slow boot after partitioning on Ubuntu 20.04 (not a swap issue)
I have repartitioned my SSD recently, and after that, my machine takes over 1 minute to boot. During the partitioning I deleted the swap partition and fixed the related problems with the help of this....
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installed shim-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
I'm trying to install kubuntu 21.04 with windows on the same drive, I shrinked my D: drive for 80GB, installed iso from official site and wrote it to my usb drive with rufus.
When I got to disk setup ...
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