Questions tagged [fdisk]
fdisk command-line utility that provides disk partitioning
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How do I create and tune an ext4 partition from the command-line?
PARTITIONING (e.g. fdisk)
What are some useful commands used for partitioning an additional hard drive from the command-line? Since most published guides steer towards GParted and other graphical ...
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How to resize / enlarge / grow a non-LVM ext4 partition
I have already searched the forums, but couldnt find a good suitable answer:
I have an Ubuntu Server 10.04 as KVM Host and a guest system, that also runs 10.04. The host system uses LVM and there are ...
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Mount dd image for my USB
I'm trying to mount a .dd image. I followed 2 methods without success ...
Method 1
1st step:
root@evilcode1:/root# blkid qassam.dd
qassam.dd: UUID="524F4B6665E82B4E" TYPE="ntfs"
2nd step:
I ran ...
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In Ubuntu ISO MBR, why does a GPT partition overlap the boot partition, and make MBR uneditable?
Question and context:
In the MBR partition table of distros like for example ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso, why does a GPT partition appear to overlap the primary boot partition? This seems to ...
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How to make an external hard drive bootable with unetbootin?
The SATA hdd is connected with a USB adapter cable.
How is unetbootin used to write an ISO image:
to an external hard drive for installing Ubuntu?
It's not clear that unetbootin is listing the ...
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Text User Interface for fdisk?
Is there a TUI for fdisk ?
Where can I get it from and how can I use it?
I would like one which is in the ubuntu repos
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How to setup a 6TB HD on Ubuntu
I just bought a 6TB HD from WD and I cannot make bigger partitions than 2TB. I looked up in some tutorials like this one, but I still have the problem that fdisk, parted and lsblk display that there ...
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Gparted Error "Unable to satisfy all the constraints on the partition"
I have dual booted Windows 7 & Ubuntu 14.04 with EasyBCD, i.e. I have installed grub on the Ubuntu root partition & added entry of linux to Windows bootloader using EasyBCD.
So effectively i ...
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Whole disk unallocated? Gparted error or partition overlapping?
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Yesterday I wanted to make my Ubuntu partition bigger so I ran Windows (Dual boot) and decreased size of my D drive size. It wanted me to reboot computer, when it was starting up it done ...
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Add two new HDD in Raid 1
I just made a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 on a new SSD (/dev/sda). Now I would like to add two 1TB drives (/dev/sdb /dev/sdc) in RAID 1 but I'm pretty clueless on how to do it.
This is what I came ...
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File system has become read-only after updating to 15.04?
I stupidly decided to update from 14.04LTS to 14.10 and then 15.04.
Since doing that, my website has gone down and file system has become read only. I have no idea what has gone wrong, as the updates ...
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The state of partitioning tools?
What is the state of partitioning tools in Linux? Which tools are recommend and which should I stay away from? Namely I am interested in fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk and the fdisk and cfdisk variants that ...
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cannot create a partition table on /dev/sdb
when I'm trying to create a partition table on my 8gb sd card, its showing this error:
fdisk: unable to read /dev/sdb: Input/output error
I have used sudo fdisk -l , there the /dev/sdb is not ...
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how to completely reformat a usb using fdisk?
I have a usb drive which I would like to put a linux distribution on but it already has some files on it on /dev/sdc1. Using fdisk, I deleted the first partition and wrote the changes. When I ...
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USB stick shows up as two drives!
I was given a free 1GB USB at an event a few months ago - however, when I plug it in to my Ubuntu laptop, the USB shows up as two drives (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc). I have checked it isn't just ...
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How to find superblock?
I am trying to find the superblock with dumpe2fs command, but with this output there is no information about superblocks.
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The CRC for the main partition and back up partition table are invalid
I've been having problems with my HDD since I tried dual booting Ubuntu 14.04 with Windows 8.1. When I was installing from the Ubuntu installer I was receiving input/output error during write on /dev/...
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where did my 766 kb in partition go?
I used fdisk -l and saw this.
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size ...
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Resize a 2TB partition on a 3TB disk created with fdisk
I recently added a new 3TB hard drive to a headless media server (HP proliant microserver) running Ubuntu server 12.04. I followed this tutorial, which uses fdisk to create a single partition of the ...
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how to use the free space after increasing the size of the disk on VMWare Workstation
I have ubuntu installed in a VM run by VMWare Workstation.
I was able to increase the size of the disk via VMWare Workstation to 70Gb (which I see on the line Disk /dev/sda: 70 GiB) but I cannot ...
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Weird NTFS partition display
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my PC next to Windows 8.1. I have a second HDD which I use to save my documents etc... I have partitioned the disk (SDB) in four NTFS partitions (I made them in ...
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Why don't all programs recognize certain drives that have mounted at startup?
My internal Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB drive contains my OS. I have two Crucial internal solid-state drives that contain files, and have defined symlinks so that I can get to them from ~/Documents. I've ...
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Instructions to mount an internal hard drive?
How do you mount an internal hard drive? I have a 500GB internal hard drive that has both linux and windows 7. Upon booting up I decide which one to use. My windows 7 OS has a user, which requires ...
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MP3 Player: "This does not look like a partition table"
First of all, I'm not sure if this belongs on AskUbuntu. I'm sorry if it doesn't.
When I ran sudo fdisk -l I get some messages that worry me.
This is the output:
> robin@robin-Latitude-D620:~$ ...
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Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary
I Installed Ubuntu erasing Windows couple of days ago. Now Ubuntu is using the entire HDD.
When I run fdisk -l result shows something like:
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Disk /dev/ram15: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 ...
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Partition doesn't show after formatting failed
Installed ubuntu alongside windows (windows doesnt show in boot menu that is another issue)
After loggin in to ubuntu, I formatted a partition (not one which the OSes were installed on. It had just ...
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Merge partitions (that aren't next to each other)?
All,
So I've already read through quite a few threads, but didn't quite find an identical situation. I have 4 partitions, and I want two. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. I have gParted installed (KDE ...
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Dual boot disks not being detected and nouveau unknown chipset
I have a Dell XPS 15 and have a dual boot setup with ubuntu 16 and windows 10. It was working fine then one day randomly ubuntu stopped loading and i started getting the error:
[ 2.597747] nouveau ...