Questions tagged [disk-image]
Questions surrounding the creation and use of disk images (created via dd, ddrescue, or other means)
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Erasing Ubuntu image on external hard-drive
I have burned an ubuntu image on an external hard-drive and I am trying to erase it. I have first tried to erase the image through the pi-imager but for some reason I get the error:
Error formatting (...
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Unable to boot from cloned drive using DCFLDD
Original system drive is 1TB NVME M.2 SSD. running Ubuntu 22.04.
created an image file using DCFLDD running off a Live USB on said system.
Moved the image file to another system, and restored it ...
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Zeroing to achieve compact dd image of NTFS flash drive
I have a partly filled USB flash drive containing a small FAT16 and a large exFAT partition. I would like to make a compressed backup image of its contents. A failed restore of an image created with ...
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Create disk image of system with data on Dropboxsync
Every month I create a clone of my system disk (containing Ubuntu 20.04.6) using Clonezilla. Recently I started to save my work to Dropbox. For this I use the Ubuntu Dropbox app. The actual Dropbox ...
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Error finding matching public key for signature with ubuntu-image device
I am following the tutorial for creating a Ubuntu Core image on the Ubuntu website and getting an error. Here is the link to the instructions:
https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/create-model-assertion
The ...
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Resizing a BTRFS image without mounting it
I'm trying to resize an image containing a btrfs filesystem:
btrfs filesystem resize 16G disk.img
But I get the following error:
ERROR: resize works on mounted filesystems and accepts only
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22.04.2 server image is *three* times the size of 22.04.1: why?
I'm sorry to have to say it, but the 22.04.2 server install has exploded. Unreasonably. What's going on?
I've been packaging Ubuntu-based VMs for several years, first on 20.04.x, then 22.04, 22.04.1, ...
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How do I create disk partions using ubuntu that has already been launched? [duplicate]
Ive been trying to partion my disk using ubuntu but anytime I try to resize it it says error in unmounting...target is busy!How do I go about it since am a new user in ubuntu?
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Can't boot from flash drive with custom .img
I recently tried using this answer to create a custom .img of my system.
I created a fresh Ubuntu Install in a new partition, set everything up, installed all the bloat I need for some stuff and then ...
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Disk Cleanup utility on ubuntu
This question is influenced by the diskclean utility in Windows.
Is there a tool (and a need) to perform the task. I tend to used when imaging a hard disk.
Thank you
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Disk image mounter defaults to read-only
when I try to mount a LUKS encrypted volume in the disks GUI it defaults to "Setup read only loop device".
Also, when I open an image file from the file manger I get prompted for the ...
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Mount .img disk image using Disks utility in Ubuntu 22.04
Simple question, probably naive.
I have a .img file (with password) that I want to “attach and mount” in Ubuntu 22.04, then explore through the graphical interface. (Read-only will be enough.)
Using ...
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Lost /home partition after resizing with kde partition manager
The disk name is /dev/sdd and the partition table was as it follows:
Partition
Type
Label
Size
Used
First Sector
Last Sector
Number of sectors
/dev/sdd1
unknown
Microsoft reserved
15.98MiB
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building ubuntu-image creates CalledProcessError
I'm trying to create an ubuntu-image on a VM with the following command: ubuntu-image classic --debug --output-dir /tmp/image/ --workdir /tmp/work/ --project base --suite focal --thru prepare_image /...
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username/password for jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.img?
what is the username/password combo for https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.img ?
i have tried root:blank and ubuntu:blank and ubuntu:ubuntu , wasn't any ...
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How to backup a Ubuntu USB installation as a disk image?
I have Ubuntu installed in an USB drive. It is not a live or persistent live install. It is a regular, full install.
Is there any way to backup the USB drive to a .img or .iso file, which I can later ...
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Is there a way to "fake-install" Ubuntu filesystem into a directory or a tar from an old .img installation medium?
Long story short, I'm trying to create an ARM architecture docker image of Ubuntu 10.04 (don't ask me why) because Docker Hub only contains the amd64 version.
The furthest I got is finding that the ....
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Where to find the script to build images like here: https://partner-images.canonical.com/oci/?
Other answers point to https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/+git/livecd-rootfs/+ref/ubuntu/master as the basis.
I cannot locate the scripts found at the links here: How are the ...
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How to import images in MAAS
How to import images for deployment other than ubuntu like VMWare ESXi, Windows, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu
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Copying Image file to microSD card how best to validate
I use DC3DD to copy Raspberry Pi image files to multiple microSD cards using a Lexar card reader. This has been working well for years, but I've recently encountered a batch of faulty microSD cards.
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How is the Ubuntu server image for Raspberry Pi built?
I am trying to figure out how the Ubuntu server images for Raspberry Pi are created. The ones you can download from here: https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi
In my search I have found a few tools,...
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How to create an image as small as a cloud image?
Creating an Ubuntu 22.04 server image with the official .iso and VirtualBox, for it to be on BTRFS subvolumes, I ended up with more than 4GB of virtual disk.
How do I create an image that is as nice ...
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Internal HDD cannot give partition
I am having a weird kind of problem. I have a 640gigs internal hdd but it is unusable. It shows up in disks but in weird way.
Image of disks
It just gives format partition option and nothing else. The ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 auto setup image
I'm trying to work out how to make an ISO image for a Ubuntu 18.04 that I can use to install on a remote server from OVH.
Using there BYOI system if I can use an image thats been preseed with the SSH, ...
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Is it possible to rearrange and recreate a single disk partition in a raw image file?
Host: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Current status: Raw image file has 2 partitions, p1: boot and p2: rootfs.
Disk original.img.bak: 3.25 GiB, 3487742976 bytes, 6811998 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 ...
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Create a browsable rootfs image
How to create a browsable rootfs image in Ubuntu? E.g. that I can extract files that I need in a matter of minutes?
Have already considered dd and tar-gzing root fs, but both don’t answer the criteria ...
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Syspreping an Ubuntu image
Is there a way to make a capture-ready Ubuntu image? something like Sysprep for Windows, where you remove all the user-specific data from the image (like user accounts, passwords, etc ...) to make a '...
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ext4 FS image gets corrupted on first mount
I"m in the process of replacing my M.2 SSD with a new and larger one. I want to save an image of my existing partitions before I take out my old SSD so that I can refer to it when setting up my ...
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moving KVM image from one server to another and then resize
host1 has a 40G guest image inside an LV.
host2 has a 50G guest LV partition available.
dd to transfer host1/guest(40G) --> host2/guest(50G).
gdisk to correct the location of the GPT table -
root@...
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How to decompress .img.gz a compressed disk image to .img?
Probably this is duplicate, i can't find out related from search engine. How i can extract .img.gz file into .img file?
i have files archived as .img.xz and .img.gz. i can extract .img.xz using xz-...
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Make an image of my complete linux installation including all my personal files?
Is it possible to convert my Kubuntu to one single ISO? This should also include all the files that I've saved in here (folders on desktop, pictures, etc.).
Moreover, how to restore the image to the ...
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Ignore label when mounting boot partition of os image as a loopback device
I would like to mount the boot partition of the ubuntu-21.10-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img.xz downloaded off the Raspberry PI web site.
Unpacking the image file and mounting the boot partition ...
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Use img file as block device
I created an img file using dd (sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/danialbehzadi/dong.img bs=1000K count=32) and now I want it to be used as a block device, so I can restore a filesystem saved by ...
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Read DVD image with dd until empty
I want to compare the SHA hash of the .iso file that I burned to a DVD with the image of the DVD itself to see if they are identical if the burning was succesful. The problem is that they are not, not ...
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Mount a full disk / memory image that contains multiple partitions formatted in FAT32, EXT3 and EXT4 (Android type)
I have made a full memory backup of my rooted Android phone and I would like to be able to mount the images of the Internal Memory and the SD Card in Ubuntu. The Internal Memory has many different ...
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What are the different versions available as Ubuntu cloud-images?...General Guide for Ubuntu Cloud Image use in Virt-manager 2021
I'm soooo thrilled to finally find prebuilt Ubuntu images. I was using osboxes, but the file size when converting is 500GBs and tedious to compact. Fresh installs are tedious, especially when 90% of ...
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How to write a disk-image to SD/USB safely?
I am looking for a tool to write disk image to SDcard or USBstick safely. I have the following requirements:
graphical user interface (i.e. no clonezilla or dd)
tool is specialized for removable ...
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Using dd with conv=sparse for creating partition or full disk images?
For some reason there don't seem to be too many questions or answers about using dd for creating "smaller" image files with the conv=sparse option here.
So when using dd for image creation, ...
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How to create an image of system partition without booting from live DVD or USB? (Emergeny mode?)
I'd like to create an image of my 20.04 system partition as a backup in case that anything goes wrong so that I can restore it later.
Additionally I want to make the system partition smaller (maybe ...
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how to mount a writable loopback image as easily as we can create it?
To create a image we just run gnome-disks and then format it. And the 1st time it will be (auto?) mounted writable.
but after that, I can only mount it readonly with the "open with disk image ...
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Disk Image Mounter does not show hidden files/folders when it opens an ISO file
I archived a lot of files and folders into a .img file... it is a disk image I made using dd and rsync. I then made an .iso file from the .img file (using ImgBurn in Windows 10).
Using Caja file ...
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.img file restore to disk partition
I had created a backup.img file from a hard disk having two partitions. Now I want to write these partitions to another hard disk. But the problem is I don't know how?
If I use dd than it write the ...
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Imaged a LUKS drive while unenencryted, now can't mount
while imaging a LUKS drive I accidentally imaged it while it was unencrypted (only imaged sdx1 instead of whole drive, sdx2 was boot). Now it won't mount. I've tried pretty much all methods to try and ...
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Restore a linux partition image (by Macrium Reflect) after HDD format
My previous setup had Windows and Ubuntu in two primary partitions on the same HDD. I had backed up the Ubuntu and EFI partitions (using Macrium Reflect) before giving to service center, where they ...
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How to build preinstalled Ubuntu server image?
There are Preinstalled Ubuntu server image for Raspberry Pi on https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/focal/release/:
Where can I find the build scripts to build such image?
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Moving Linux image to Windows disk and vice versa, in a dual partition system with two disks
My dual-boot laptop has two SSDs:
A 480Gb disk containing the master boot record and Windows. (This disk has lots of free space because I no longer user Windows.)
A 180Gb disk containing my Linux ...
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fdisk showing inconstant data, it shows /dev/sda twice
I boot a laptop off of an Ubuntu USB drive. I want to to use dd to image the laptop so I can have a copy before I format it. When I do fdisk -l I get
root@ubuntu:/mnt/nfs/volume2/drive2/fpp/test# ...
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Vm and Ubuntu on mac
I have a problem with the very start of setting up ubuntu with a VM on mac
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
SessionMachine
Interface:
ISession {c0447716-ff5a-4795-b57a-...
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The cleanest way to compile Ubuntu from scratch?
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I heard Ubuntu is safe because it is open sourced, we can see what code is running on our machine. Although there is source code of the linux kernel and many open source modules, but how could ...
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How is Bootabiiity Restored to an SD Card (Ubuntu-MATE / Raspberry Pi 4B)?
How is Bootability Restored (Repaired) to an SD Card; Raspberry Pi 4B, Ubuntu-Mate 20.04
I don't want to lose my files or customizations.
The SD card for my Raspberry Pi 4B became un-bootable after ...
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