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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Deleted Partitions while installing Ubuntu
I am new to linux, as a windows user i thought installing Ubuntu on my old windows laptop will be as similar as installing windows later after installing Ubuntu, I realised that I accidentally deleted ...
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Grub 2 Booting from ISO file gives error "attempt to read of write outside of disk (loop)"
I am trying to add a menu entry to Grub2 to boot a live USB iso I have created with cubic. It has what I think is a fairly standard layout with encrypted LVM. Notably, it has flash memory so it's /dev/...
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Couldn't read my external disk
My External disk couldn't be read by fdisk or GParted, but when I ran lsblk ->
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sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
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How to increase existing partition
Good day StackExchange Community,
I have server with 36TB attached storage with a couple of partitions created on them. One of the partitions are becoming full and I would like to increase it but it ...
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Looking for a better understanding of how this UEFI workaround for Sophos XG should be performed
I have found a workaround to allow Sophos XG to boot without CSM but it requires this workaround.
I don't totally understand Linux but I'm working on it. I can get the /boot to mount on sda1 but I ...
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How to change volume/mount name of freshly mounted storage drives?
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu desktop for a Plex server I am building, and I had to manually format/partition the two 4TB HDD's I installed. After using the command sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc (and ...
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Kubuntu partition/disk doesen't show up on Asus Zephyrus bios
I have an Asys Zephyrus M15 GU502LW with two SSDs. My goal was to have Windows 11 on one drive and Kubuntu on another one, with secure boot running for bitlocker.
I installed Windows 11 on the first ...
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"Next" Button grayed out when Manually Partitioning during install
Currently attempting to install Ubuntu 23.04 dual-booted with a PC running Windows 11. Additionally, the PC has two drives: the C, where Windows is running, and the D, where I want my Ubuntu to run. ...
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On sfdisk specifying partition size
How do we do sfdisk, when specify a partition size eg:
/dev/sdb2 : size=
it'd be the size of remaining space available ?
guide to the correct solution
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Deleted Partition Recovery Into System
I was installing ubuntu 22.04 on my system. There were 4 partitions on my system and I selected one of the four partition for the installation and chose the option of resizing the partition. Initially ...
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Ubuntu extend harddrive to mounted one seamlessly?
I have two mounted harddrives (one hdd and one nvme) besides my main hd, my docker file (weaviate) will install massive code, and also data. I want the code on HDD and the data on nvme.
I suppose my ...
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Error in permission, sudo and space problem in Ubuntu v20.04.6
I am trying to give you all the info.. I am quite new on all these things...
Last week I received this while I was trying to install a package on R:
R error: Installation paths not writable, ...
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Does ldmtool work properly for windows mirrored drives?
I'm dual booting windows 10 with ubuntu. My windows installation has a 4 TB mirrored drive that I'd like to mount in linux as well. I read that ldmtool is the proper way to do this (according to https:...
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Creating Live USB for both 22.04 and 23.04
I have a Live USB with 22.04 and I want it to be able to run both 22.04 and 23.04. I'm a novice. Can I erase the USB, create two partitions then use Startup Disk Creator? I'm currently downloading ...
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Ubuntu installation on laptop. What to do with Windows partitions?
I don't have important data on the device.
Are there some partitions I should keep? If no, will I be able to revert back to Windows and possibly reactivate my copy if I change my mind in the future?
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New Install of Ubuntu 22.04
Had a series of problems. All my folders showed up LOCKED. Every single folder. I searched and tried a few solutions. Figured I would continue in the morning. Next morning booted to a strange screen. ...
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Hidden disk usage
I have a problem with hidden disk usage on my Ubuntu 22.04. As you can see, the ncdu utility only finds ~30GB on the system:
Whereas Ubuntu's System Monitor finds that 88 GB are being used:
What's ...
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docker ubuntu wont start again on Ubuntu 23.04
In an online docker training course, the instructor mentioned that he has an
Ubuntu virtual machine installed with Docker
So I created via virtual box on my windows 11 host a ubuntu 23.04 VM which for ...
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dev/sda2 almost full; Low Disk Space on "Filesystem root"
I work in Ubuntu 22 on VirtualBox. /dev/sda3 is almost full:
df -h --total
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 720M 1,6M 718M 1% /run
/dev/sda3 24G 23G 411M ...
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Can not mount a partition having XFS filesystem and block size of 64K
I am currently testing SQL in a container. I have attached a 6TB volume from XtremIO to this box and mapping my database directory to this volume(Partition name-/dev/sdb1). To get the optimal ...
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Install Ubuntu Alongside Windows Partitions
I am trying to install Ubuntu with Windows 11 on my device to make it as multi bootable OS.
I chose the installation Type:
Install Ubuntu 22.04 alongside Windows Bootable Manager
I have 2 Drives on ...
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How to mount an LVM formatted hard drive connected through a USB adapter?
What would be the standard directory to create for an external hard LVM hard drive?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ ls /dev/mapper
control vgubuntu-root vgubuntu-swap_1
nicholas@mordor:~$
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What is the path to the files on this external hard drive connected via a USB adapter?
I'm not seeing a hard drive connected through an external USB adapter:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 010: ID 0461:3f41 Primax Electronics, Ltd HP Wired Desktop 320K ...
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Select default boot partition after cloning a partition (Ubuntu 20.04)
I have two disks each with two partitions, one SSD (/dev/sdb) which had the main boot partition and another HDD (/dev/sda) for backup.
Then I cloned the SSD's main partition (which had the boot) with ...
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How to change permissions of ntfs partitions?
I have this directory:
/second -> with "/dev/sdc2" partition.
I've used the file /etc/fstab to mount it:
/dev/sdc2 /second auto defaults 0 0
When I try to change its permissions using &...
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Disk corrupted?
I want to install Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (for desktop) on my old Dell Inspiton 13-5378, but after first installation grub was loaded with "grub_native_sectors not found" and "...
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Kubuntu 22.04 stopped to mount Intel RAID0 device
I'm dual-booting Windows 10 and Kubuntu LTS for years. I have Intel RAID0 created in BIOS long time ago. I can confirm both Kubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 could work with it. It has NTFS filesystem.
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Partition disk when installing ubuntu using LVM
I am trying to partition my disk when installing my ubuntu image:
What am trying to achieve is:
Set up 3 main partitions / , /var and /home
encrypt all 3 paritions using LVM encryption module ...
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LUKS decrypted partition mapped name
I've successfully configured LUKS encryption on various partitions (root, home, extra) on ubuntu 22.04. I've to insert a password for decrypting the root part and after other partitions are decrypted ...
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Why does the Size increase but not Free space in cfdisk?
I'm running ubuntu in a VM on Unraid. I have increased the VM's capacity with:
qemu-img resize path/to/raw/img/vdisk.img +100G
After restarting I can see in the UI that the space has been allocated, ...
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Can I resize this partition?
My Ubuntu /boot partition is 243M which is just enough to hold one kernel and still be able to upgrade. The partition sits on a 120 GB disk which has this partition table:
Device Boot Start ...
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Ubuntu installation stuck on detecting file systems
I am trying to install Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS onto an external hard drive. I used unetbootin. I’ve manually partitioned my disk to have 4000mb for swap, 20gb for / and about 300gb for /home.
My ...
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What directories/files are actually installed by Ubuntu in the EFI partition?
I have dual booted Windows 11 and Ubuntu 23.04 on my PC, and for some reason I want to backup the EFI partition of the boot disk (C drive). I mounted it, and saw that there are a few directories:
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/var keeps filling up
I am on Ubuntu 22.04. My /dev/sda2 partition keeps running out of space. I delete files here and there as temporary fixes. I have deleted journal files and did auto-remove as well, but now these ...
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When Installing Ubuntu the partitions in my drive aren't recognised
I'm trying to install Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 10, which I already have installed on my laptop. I have reached the point where I can boot from an installation on an external USB drive, but ...
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I need partition scheme advice (MBR) for performance increase
i partitioned my 500gb SSD for 60(personal)-30(system)-10(free) rule but this is just big picture, i don't know details. I read there have to be swap, var partitions to increase performance. My pc is ...
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Gparted did not change home partition size as expected
Ubutnu 18.04.16 Server running on a ESXI VM standalone server.
df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 16G 0 ...
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GRUB Version Issue
I have a triple boot setup with Windows, Ubuntu18.04 and Ubuntu20.04. Both the Ubuntu installations were initially done without disk encryption, but it was later enabled. The 18.04 is used rarely. The ...
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Not all logical volumes appears during installation of Ubuntu Server 20.04.6 and 22.04.2
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 from the live USB stick.
I have 3 existing volume groups (LVM).
Some of the partitions has been created with Ubuntu 18.04 (and probably ealier versions too)....
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I installed grub on my Windows partition, now I can't access Windows
When I select Windows in the grub menu, it goes back to grub menu.
I wanted to delete the grub bootloader option from efi partition so that Windows Boot Manager would work instead, but I can't find ...
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Microsoft Reserved Partiton and Ubuntu partition have the same uuid
I'm on ubuntu 22.04 i have a 256gb SSD. i installed windows ltsc and after i booted into ubuntu it would show the error /dev/sda2 unexpected inconsistency run fsck manually. after a few reboots it ...
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I can't access Ubuntu after iwndows 11 update
i have two partitions on my ASUS laptop, and i was using dual booting to access windows 11 or ubuntu, however, one day windows 11 decided to update, after that, with each boot, the pc would give me a ...
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Make a partition read-only, and revert it
Is there a way to flag a partition in a disk (internal, for the case in point, although I doubt this is relevant) to be read-only?
I mean to do it from within Ubuntu (that's why I posted here). I ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu (former 20.04.5LTS, new 22.04.2LTS), completely wipe / and keep all /home in separate partition
I guess the title is explicit enough.
I have a PC with a single hard disk.
Can anyone provide info on how to:
Install 22.04.2 LTS into /dev/sda6, which now has 20.04.5 LTS (in /)
Keep all of the info ...
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Partitioning errors when attempting to install 22.04 on a HP Elitebook 840 G3
I am trying to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS an a HP EliteBook 840 G3. I have formatted the SSD to bare metal.
I can boot from my thumb drive and start the installer, but I error out at the screen where I ...
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Erased disk with grub2
I made a install of Uuntu 22 on an other harddrive, so I could dualboot between Ubuutu 20:04LTS and Ubuntu 22:04LTS. After a while there I have a lot of problem with Ubuntu 22:04 that i did not solved,...
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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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why my grub and linux efi not visible, directly boots to windows
I am new to linux, tried reading other post cannot find similar situation, thank you for you help and patience in advance.
I've set up a dual-boot system with Windows 11 and Kubuntu, each installed on ...
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Will gdisk or sgdisk commands delete my data? (mdadm e-mail alert)
I currently try to fix my mdadm /dev/md0 raid5 partition. I was informed via e-mail notification from mdadm e-mail alerts that there is a fail event and a DegradedArray event. I found this as a ...
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Kubuntu 22.04 made big mistake installing. It I no longer have acess to my other locked distros triple boot
I use 3 distros 18.04 20.04 and still have 16.04 i use 2 lasers with 16.04 2 3dprinters with 18.04,and general 20.04. I have learnt over 15 years to not trust new installations they alway cause ...
