Questions tagged [boot-partition]
Questions about boot-partitions (/boot) in Ubuntu system. Ubuntu may have /boot directory under the system root partition/directory or it could have a different partition of its own.
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Ubuntu crashed after browser froze and I powered off. When I tried to reboot, everything was gone
As I said, I was listening to a podcast, browser froze, computer froze, I powered off and when I tried to reboot, everything seemed to be gone. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.
A couple other pieces of ...
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Change grub controller in two Linux dual-boot
I had windows-10 dual booted with Ubuntu 20.04 earlier (Ubuntu was installed later).
Now I uninstalled windows and installed Manjaro 20.2.1 instead (alongside ubuntu).
I am in UEFI mode.
My partition ...
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Unallocated Space showing up as sublist in GParted while Extending Root Partition(Screenshots attached)
Hi i am using dual boot(Windows 8.1) and Ubuntu 18.04.4 and trying to extend my root partition of ubuntu.I had three partitions for ubuntu (root which is about 20GB,home which is about 75GB,swap which ...
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How to create a dual boot in SSD in which Ubuntu is already installed [duplicate]
result of df -h|grep sdresult of sudo parted -l I have a 240 GB SSD in which I have already installed Ubuntu. But now I have to dual boot with Windows10. But I'm unable to create a partition.
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Should I install Ubuntu on primary or logical partition
Should I install Ubuntu on primary or logical partition. Is there any speed comparison?
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Can't read HDD partitions from Live USB
Hi got a problem with Linux today.
At boot show a message:
fsckd-cancel-msg: Press Ctrl+C to cancel all filesystem checks in progress
And stay stuck.
Trying to access the HDD from another Live USB to ...
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My Ubuntu partition is appearing as full and not allowing me to resize it even when unmounted
I have Ubuntu installed on a ~500gb boot ssd and I wanted to install a dual boot. I booted into Ubuntu through recovery USB and the yellow bar that indicates free space in your partition was ...
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Stuck in "Installation type" section
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 on an Asus ROG Strix G512LI. After disabling secure boot and setting to AHCI, I started the install process on a Crucial SSD NVMe M.2. It is now stuck in the ...
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Boot partition missing? Can't boot into Ubuntu anymore. Does it have to do with GRUB or Boot partition or similar?
So I had a Dual-Boot system. Then I deleted Windows and also decided to use a software called DBAN which erases everything that it can on your hard drive. So I did that (picked the option "Quick ...
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Backup and Restore Ubuntu partitions (that exist on dual-boot system) to New Machine that is not dual-boot
Here is the scenario:
I have a dual-boot system that looks like the attached picture on gparted below. Anyways I would like to be able to take the partitions that Ubuntu needs and move them to another ...
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Unallocated Partition is not showing while installing ubuntu
I have a new Dell desktop which has 512 GB SSD. Now I have inserted an additional 1 TB HDD and from this HDD I have unallocated 100 GB. Please check the screenshot attached. But while installing ...
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how to unmount a part of a single partition which is in used?
I have ubuntu 18.04 currently on my pc and some important docs on it. I want to install windows alongside my ubuntu.
as you know, to install windows we need a primary NTFS Partition for and first, we ...
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Partition and Boot problem Ubuntu 20.04 (GRUB 2.04)
My computer boots with GNU GRUB Version 2.04 right after I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (with LVM and full encryption). I arrive directly to GRUB console (Minimal BASH-like line editing is ...
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Separate SSD exclusively for Ubuntu on a Windows Machine
The title might not be enough to explain my problem, so I will try to explain it briefly:
I have a Windows Computer and built in a new SSD, which I want to install Ubuntu on, and nothing else.
There ...
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I am trying to understand step 6 in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MovingLinuxPartition
I am trying to copy a partition and make the copy bootable (the original is bootable). Step 6 of MovingLinuxPartition refers to something called [instance]. What is that?
Given that one of the ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 as dual boot with Windows 10, I created a partition, live USB boot using RUFUS, but when I start the Ubuntu installation it everything is okay until the "...
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What is the solution for this error ' the instraller can't partion on the disk while installing lubuntu?
When installing Lubuntu, I get an error, how do I fix this?
Error
Installation Failed
The instaler failed to create partition on disk 'ST50OLMO12 HN-M500MBB
===z*s*==asas*
=s======= =====s
Create ...
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How to resize media partition? [duplicate]
When installing Xubuntu, I ended up with a media partition that was 120GB and a home partition that was 20GB.
Gparted display of partitions
Is there any way for me to move some of the storage from the ...
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Accidentally deleted bootloader partition
I have a system with Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (only).
I have accidentally deleted the small 512MB partition which contained the bootloader (thinking I was modifying a USB drive - oops). Now it looks like ...
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No space left on device, not able to install anything [duplicate]
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1pljOCSln5zwNsQO5gcv5Kx1qNM7KH-Uh
Please refer to the above link. My 19GB / partition is 100% full. I understand that root / partition /dev/sda8 is filled, but I ...
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Dual Boot issue - AHCL or intel rst premium with intel optane system acceleration
I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu 18.04 on my new laptop, which is an Asus ROG with windows 10 UEFI, core i7, 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM.
On the installation type page, there were no download options and ...
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Ugrade to 20.04 point release - how to increase boot partition
When I try to upgrade to Utuntu 20.04.1 I get the message that my boot partition is too small. How can I increase my boot partition (I already removed all the old kernels).
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Is it safe to split the disk partition I installed Ubuntu on? [duplicate]
When I installed Ubuntu,I made a disk partition of 120 GB, which of course is too much as I don't have many heavy weight software. I'm currently using only 16/120GB, I was wondering if I can split the ...
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Do I need to create a separate EFI partition during installation of Ubuntu (dual boot) [duplicate]
I am installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS alongside Windows 10.
The Windiws is installed in the EFI partitioning style.
When I'm installing Ubuntu, and goes to the "Something Else" option, I am ...
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I have just one OS in my laptop, why Have I 3 partitions?
I am QUITE new in this topcis.
My laptop has only one OS, ubuntu 20.04
When I come to gparted, I saw 3 partitions and one unallocated.
1- /dev/sda1 ext4 => I read this should by my OS, (ext4 is ...
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Understanding data partition in dual boot [closed]
I am new to linux, and I just installed ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop (dual boot with windows). I am most likely not going to use Windows anymore, but it's kind of nice to have it there, just in case. ...
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How to boot from SATA3 drive, but install rest on NVME + PCIE Adapter
I have a older PC with mostly SATA3 connections, and wondering how best to keep it chugging along with linux for a few more years.
4 x SATA3 ports
1 x PCI-E card for NVME (not bootable)
Motherboard ...
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Which partitions are my OS installed on?
I previously have Ubuntu-19.10 in C drive then I installed Kubuntu-20.04 with option guided partition. And I think 19.10 is also present in HDD and I want to remove it.
This is screenshot of my ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS partition not visible
I installed the ubuntu 20.04 lts alongside the windows boot manager going through the easy setup and didn't select the 'something else' option.
I didn't create a partition beforehand.The setup ...
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Windows7 Ubuntu dual boot issue partition table
I installed Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS after Windows 7. I had freed up some space from 2 different Windows volumes and shrank both to have around 104 gb of allocated disk space. Then I instated Ubuntu ...
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Increasing the size of windows boot partition
So I have read that I can install linux's boot partition on the same boot partition as windows. I want to do this so I can have windows be in my bootloader. But linux needs 500 MiB for it and it only ...
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Reinstall ubuntu in dual boot disk
I have installed 2 OS in my disk, first one is windows and the second one is ubuntu, I want to reinstall ubuntu and combine partitions however I'm not sure if I do it, it could cause some trouble.
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Keep /home on HDD and move other files into an SSD
I installed Ubuntu on my HDD, there are two partitions on HDD: ~2TB with ext4 (sda1) format and 8GB for swap (sda2).
There are a lot of files in the /home directory but it is not separated. I did add ...
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How to format ubuntu without deleting data?
Somehow I have got boot failure message while the ubuntu is loading. I want to format the OS keeping the data I have undisturbed. The datas are kept in root partition. Will formatting the boot ...
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What does it mean to have 0x00 partition type?
I created a bootable pen-drive some time ago and recently I tried to mount it on Mac. It gave device not readable error. It was mounting perfectly on linux (ubuntu). I started to investigate why that ...
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How to add external SSD over already existing HDD and boot Ubuntu through it
I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on 500GB HDD, I want to upgrade it to boot through newly bought 120GB SSD. How shall I proceed to boot my Ubuntu on SSD rather than HDD and keep both drives as well. Do I ...
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Which partition in my computer has Ubuntu installed on it?
I was trying to uninstall Ubuntu and install another Linux distro, but I can't figure out which partition in my computer has Linux installed on it.
Results of fdisk -l :
Device Boot Start ...
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Ubuntu 19.10: EFI boot options gone after deleting Windows
I had a working dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.10, both on separate SSDs and decided to remove Windows altogether. I use gparted from a live usb to wipe the Windows 10 SSD altogether ...
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No Partition to Select - Ubuntu 18.04.3 Fresh Install
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.04.3 on an old HP Desktop. I already reformatted the hard drive (tried both unallocated and EXT3) and yet haven't been able to select the partition during install. Any ...
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upgrade lubuntu without erasing disk
(see solution at the end of this post)
I have my hard drive partitioned in 2: one for OS (lubuntu 18.10) and the other for my data. I want to do a 'fresh upgrade' to version 19.04. So I created a ...
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How do I format my Ubuntu recovery media pendrive?
I got a new laptop with Ubuntu installed and during setup. I was asked if I wished to have a backup. I was asked to use a pen drive with a minimum of 2GB space. I used a 16GB pendrive. After the ...
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Delete Swap Partition on Dual Boot
i've been using dual booted ubuntu 18.04 and windows 10 for awhile now, and i just realized that swap partition can cause damage to my SSD. i alocated 16 GB of swap when i installed ubuntu, i had 8 GB ...
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Ubuntu installer showing partition but not accessible
I shrunk around 50 GB of my drive E, but when I'm going for Ubuntu installation, the partition is named as "unusable" and I'm unable to access it to create root and home partitions. What could be the ...
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Performing a dual boot of Windows and Ubuntu on a PC with 4 GB RAM?
Is it okay to do dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10 on my PC with 4 GB RAM or would there be less RAM available for either OS? I don't want my gaming performance on Windows to suffer.
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How do I put two Ubuntu OSes on the same hard drive?
I don't want windows at all. I want two Ubuntu OSes on the same hard drive on my laptop. I use one OS for security and the other as a regular laptop since linux is so much faster than windows on old ...
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Separate Partition for Windows 10
For my university, we are required to have a separate partition for Ubuntu but I am unsure how to create a separate partition. I have looked around online but there is no clear explanation on how to ...
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How do I move /boot to a separate partition on UEFI system with current boot on btrfs?
I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on a UEFI system with /boot on a btrfs partition (subvol=@).
Because of recent changes in Ubuntu I always get grub timeout 30 sec. This is by design if /boot is on a ...
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Ubuntu reinstalltion asking for boot loader installation
Following this answer on how to reinstall ubuntu without loosing data when the reinstall ubuntu option is not directly available, when selecting Something else, it asks to select the Device for boot ...
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Unable to utilise complete harddisk space of my laptop with dual boot?
I have 5 sda partitions on the system -
sda1 ----> 100M ----> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT.
sda2 ----> 97.6G ----> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT (I HAVE WINDOWS IN IT).
sda3 ----> 345.6G ----> Linux swap / Solaris.
sda4 ----...
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How to install and setup docker to use folder outside boot?
I want to use docker to run a couple of dockerized 'apps/services' from time to time on my laptop. I have a boot partition with 100 gb (50gb occupied) and a 900 gb home folder setup via fstab and ext4....
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