Questions tagged [gpt]
The GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a method of partitioning disks. It features up to 128 partitions by default and it uses 64-bit pointers, which means it fully supports disks of up to 8ZiB, as opposed to the 2TiB limit of the older Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme. GPT is most often used on EFI-based computers, but it is sometimes used on BIOS-based systems, too.
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server installer for 22.04: can not select boot drive
I am providing an ubuntu installer from PXE boot with uefi/grub following this guide, except I have to use grub because syslinux/pxeboot doesn't run on uefi. The installer boots fine.
I the drive I ...
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Installing Ubuntu on MacBook Air 1,1
I've wanted to give my MacBook Air 1,1 a new life with Ubuntu. It seems this computer has a 64-bit CPU, so it should run current versions of Ubuntu.
However, when I try to I install the ISO to the USB ...
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converting MBR disk with UEFI boot to GPT
I have a MBR disk which I want to convert to GPT without losing my data and OSs (ubuntu and Manjaro)
(my boot is UEFI not BIOS)
this is my fdisk -l /dev/sdb output :
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, ...
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Dual Boot Windows/Linux—Same setup on Two Drives—Boot in Grub for all Four?
I have an old HDD (GPT) with Win 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. I added an SSD (GPT) with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04. I unplugged the old HDD before I installed the SSD. What do I need to do to safely get ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dual boot with Windows 10 goes to Grub2 Rescue when reinserting old drive with both OS's
My system is old and bios only. However, I created a dual-boot setup on SSD for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Windows 10 in GPT format. Yes, I got it to work. Everything worked fine until I plugged the old HDD ...
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grub2 cannot detemine new created nvme1n1
I add drive nvme1n1 GPT, add the partition nvme1n1p1 (ext4)
Here some outputs:
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 55.6M 1 loop /snap/core18/2667
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Fix USB flash drive with corrupt GPT table
I have a problem with USB flash drive (32GB) after unsuccess TransMac usage.
Now the flash drive contains two partitions that can't be deleted and an empty space.
gdisk:
root@user-virtual-machine:/...
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My /boot/efi is not pointing to the right ESP partition
I have a computer with 2 storage devices.
I would like to have Windows on one and Linux on the other.
For a variety of reasons, I want them as separate as possible.
I'm using UEFI.
I installed Kubuntu ...
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Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme1n1 grub-install failed
I had already installed Ubuntu 22.04 in /dev/nvme1n1 before but due to my incorrect fiddling with the wrong NVIDIA drivers I got the system unstable so decided to reinstall it. In /dev/nvme1n0 I have ...
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Trying to access data from PMBR / GPT disk
I've taken an SSD from another (Windows/Linux dual boot) PC and I'm trying to access the data.
The problem is that GParted reports 'unallocated' and Ubuntu's "Disks" utitilies reports '...
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gdisk MBR and GPT damaged
I'm trying to clone my SSD into a bigger one using CloneZilla, but I got a problem saying that my disk contains mismatched gpt and mbr partition. I tried the gdisk command to see what is wrong in ...
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How to boot Ubuntu with legacy BIOS and GPT, without to need Grub, LiLo or UEFI in extra partition or on ubuntu partition?
How to configure to boot Ubuntu with legacy BIOS and GPT, without to need to install Grub, LILO, UEFI or other additional bootmanager in extra partition or on ubuntu partition? Or does the GPT no more ...
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How to expand the space of the partition /dev/sdf4 until the end of the sdcard ? Neither resize2fs nor gparted work correctly
I would like to resize the /dev/sdf4 partition located on the sd card mounted on my Ubuntu 22.04 distro. I tried to accomplish this task using two approaches :
using the command resizefs,but it ...
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How to extend root directory from 2TB to 4TB
I have a situation to extend root directory from 2TB to 4TB because of low diskspace. I have updated it in vmware setting 2tb to 4tb. In lsblk I can see /dev/sda is 4TB. when I was doing fdisk on /dev/...
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Executing grub2 command nativedisk before boot (for huge disks)
I moved an Ubuntu 20.04.4 to a 4TB GPT disk, booted bios_grub (i.e. using legacy BIOS). Grub2 allows this, as long as its stage2 code is installed at the start of the disk (like in sectors 34-2047).
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Gparted or mkfs corrupting GPT backup header/table
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This question is not about how to install Ubuntu to a USB drive (I already know how to do that). This question is about why standard utilities are corrupting GPT tables.
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How do I force a drive to use the backup GPT table?
Every question and answer I can find appears to be the opposite of my current problem.
8TB NTFS USB drive (~85% full) connected to single boot Ubuntu 20.04 server, shared with Windows workstations via ...
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In the ubuntu desktop os all hard drive installation process; manually partitioning process to create in a gpt disk an efi partition; which contains s [closed]
In the ubuntu desktop os all hard drive installation process; manually partitioning process to create in a gpt disk an efi partition; which contains some boot files; the partition is primary or logic?
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Errors while installing Ubuntu 20.04 on a Mac Mini A1993
Idecided to install Ubuntu on my Mac Mini, and delete the macOS partition. While installing Ubuntu 20.04 on my Mac Mini 2018 model A1993 I came across some errors and the installer wasn't able to ...
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restore ext4 HD after creating GPT partition table
I have a windows10 - ubuntu 18.04 dual boot computer. Three drives on it:
512 GB SSD with ubuntu system
1 TB HD with windows system
1 TB HD Ext4 formatted (the problematic one) for extra data ...
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Plugged in ext4 to Windows, how to recover the data in Ubuntu?
I moved all my data to a new drive and it seems to be lost. Please help me to recover the data.
Here is what I did to make the problem occur:
I moved, not copied the data. (First mistake)
The HDD was ...
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Corrupted GPT on disks in a Logical Volume Group
On a Ubuntu 20.04 box, I have two 6TB disks in a LVG spanning both disks for a Logical Volume of 12TB. It has been working fine since I set it up approx a year ago. The two drives are in an ...
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Ubuntu fails to boot : freezes while starting services
I use Ubuntu 20.04. I just switched hard drives. I went from an MBR to a GPT partitioned hard drive.
The problem is when I run Ubuntu on my new hard drive, the boot process stops when starting ...
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moving Ubuntu installation on a dual boot system to a new hard drive
I had an old Windows 7 pc in a cleanroom, on which I installed Ubuntu 20.04 last year. It boots in legacy Bios. But the hard drive was quite small and as I started requiring more libraries on the ...
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Recover damaged partition on SanDisk Ultra USB Thumb Drive
I most likely pulled the drive during a write operation and damaged the partition data. The drive now won't show in Disks or gparted but it will show in lsblk and fdisk, but not consistently.
lsblk (...
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Create Ubuntu usb drive on GPT
I'm trying to make a USB with ubuntu on it be bootable from Macs. I have made a working usb drive partitioned MBR, it boots on my laptop but not on Macs. I predict that the problem is that the usb ...
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Cannot boot ubuntu after fresh install
I am new to Ubuntu. I have erased windows and installed Ubuntu 20.04. But after installation I am not able to boot. In BIOS I can see Ubuntu option but when I click nothing happens.
I am using ASUS ...
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Boot problems, win8,win10,ubuntu, efi, gpt
I apologize as this I'm sure has been asked several times,it just seems I can't figure it out, I have win8, win10 and ubuntu, I installed debian once, before win8 I had win7, well, I add my boot ...
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Convert MBR to GPT on macbook
There is a nice thread here describing how to convert from MBR to GPT partition scheme. Unfortunately it says not to use it on apple macs. I have one of these, how can I here convert from MBR to GPT?
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Can I install Ubuntu in dual boot mode on a disk that has GPT partition style?
Now I am on Windows 10 but I want to use Ubuntu in dual boot mode. I have a disk named "Disk 0" and it's partition style is GPT. Can I do dual boot even if my disk partition style is not in ...
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Convert MBR partition to GPT without data loss
I have an MBR partition which I want to convert to GPT without loosing all my data. Bios is UEFI. I am not an expert of hard disks, so please be patient. I have seen this and this but I cannot ...
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Ubuntu MBR issue
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad e14 gen 2 AMD which came with 250 gb WD NVME ssd. I decided to install Ubuntu 18.04 in dual boot with windows in a separate drive. So, I bought a second ssd (Kingston 250gb ...
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ZFS partition type and GPT partition label
Earlier I created a new partition with FSTYPE zfs_member, and (I think) I set the GPT partition label to the new name of the ZFS pool, and then created the ZFS pool in this partition (zpool create ... ...
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Help with creating a live USB with Ubuntu 20.10
I'm trying to create a live USB with the latest Ubuntu but without success.
Steps I did:
Downloaded the ISO image
Verified the image
I tried with gnome disks, ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator and ...
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Kubuntu not bootable anymore
I am using Kubuntu 20.04 and I getting stucked on a normal Boot operation with/after the disk manager
So I guess the problem is the disk manager or the service which should came next (would be nice to ...
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Purple Lines at boot (possibly initramfs decoder error)
What is happening is that when I try to boot normally, I get stuck in a black screen with some purple lines. Before I did anything it was showing a Initramfs decoding error and after looking it up, I ...
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Correct partitions only show up in Disks, no other tool can read them
Here's how my partitions show up in the Disks utility. Note that trying to manage them at all e.g. deleting one gives a udisks-error-quark 0
I've been trying to figure out what's wrong, so I can ...
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Installing Lubuntu 20.04 with GPT and EFI
I had an existing installation of Lubuntu 18.04 which I wanted to upgrade to 20.04. Lubuntu docs say this requires a fresh install. My previous 18.04 installation was using GPT and EFI. During ...
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Single boot fakeRAID-0 UEFI GPT problem with a strange workaround
I wanted to install a single boot Ubuntu 20.10 on fakeRAID-0 UEFI GPT by a live bootable flash disk. The system did not boot after installation, so I checked whether Ubiquity correctly installed UEFI ...
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Grub only in shell mode, wrong root and prefix set
I am dualbooting a Laptop with Windows 10 and PopOS using grub2.
The problem is that grub doesn't show the OS selection menu and instead just goes to the grub shell. How can i configure/install grub2 ...
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Unable to install Windows 10 next to Ubuntu: GPT error
I have Ubuntu installed, but I need a Windows next to it. I'm trying to follow this guide to do so, but when I reach the screen where I'm supposed to choose the space for Win I'm getting an error: &...
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Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table
I hope this is the right place to ask this question since it's an issue somewhere between Windows and Ubuntu.
I used to dual boot Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu.
All worked fine until Windows forced some ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu on HDD and Windows on SDD, tried installing but grub not working
I have an SSD of 256GB with Windows 10 installed in it. I want to install Ubuntu 18.04 on HDD. I tried installing it on HDD by creating /, /boot, /home , EFI partitions ( I was unable to install ...
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contents unknown in disks under gpt partition
I changed the partition type to gpt on top but after changing this the,disks are showing the hard drive partition as contents as known and file system as unallocated space.I can't see my files and ...
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External Hard Drive "The backup GPT table is corrupt"
So, I recently installed Ubuntu on my old laptop after using Windows 10.
I was using an external HardDrive (Seagate Backup Portable 4TB - formatted as NTFS) on windows, that I started using on Ubuntu.
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BIOS Legacy and GPT partitioned external HDD installed with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Boot repair result shows error about sectors
Why does the error show during boot-repair? FYI: My external HDD size 4TiB.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on
I have my machine which shows as:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lscpu
Architecture: ...
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ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso installation fails on Laptop with NVMe drive
I am not able to install Ubuntu 20.04 on Lenovo laptop. Unfortunately, the installation stalls when I define the mount point, enter name and password to set up the computer name and then click on the "...
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3TB HDD in legacy BIOS or EFI?
How do I mark the unallocated space as bootable?
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l | grep Disk
Disk /dev/loop0: 1.93 GiB, 2049204224 bytes, 4002352 sectors
Disk /dev/loop1: 27.9 MiB, ...
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Dual-boot WIndows 10 (GPT) and Ubuntu 18.04 (DOS): Is that a problem?
I have a SSD with Windows 10 and a disklabel type gpt and a HDD with Ubuntu 18 and a disklabel type DOS. I have read that having 2 disks with 2 different OS, and one disk is formatted to gpt and the ...
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Questions viz. UEFI enabled post Ubuntu Mate installation while the Partitioning is still MBR
If 'UEFI Boot Support' is enabled in BIOS (was previously disabled) and if the 'Partitioning' is still 'MBR' then:
Would the OS boot?
If it boots, would there be any performance improvement?
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