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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Ubuntu 22.04 on Raspberry Pi: /var/cache/fontconfig Gets Created Before /var Is Mounted
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish, ARM64) on a Raspberry Pi. After imaging the Pi's SSD, I re-partitioned the drive and mirrored the contents of /var onto the new partition (verified), renamed ...
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How to merge a partition to my main file system
This is my gparted window:
How can I add Partition-2 (the selected row) to my main file system?
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Problems ubuntu live usb
I will preface this by saying that I am not extremely knowledgeable (in fact, I am not very knowledgeable, so my terms may also be wrong).
I installed ubuntu (dual boot) via usb and, once a few ...
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How can I use/extend a new hard drive on ubuntu from my main ssd? [duplicate]
I have my main(120gb SSD) drive with Ubuntu 22.04 installed on:
dev/sda1
I have another 3 TB hard drive which is formatted as ext4:
dev/sdb1
What I would ideally like:
I would like to "fuse&...
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Hard drive usage unreported/ can't find what's taking up space
So I have my ubuntu installed on a 500GO NVMe drive, and, because I needed the space, I decided I wanted to relocate it to a 120GO SATA SSD. I figured it would be enough, and, based on my information, ...
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Bootable hard disk image locked my hard drive
I recently followed this guide
in an attempt to create a Windows bootable hard disk.
Without any warning or confirmation, the console command chose and locked up my middle/largest hard drive with 7 ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 - How to set up hibernation with Secure Boot enabled
Working on a new Ubuntu install. On my ASUS laptop, Secure Boot is enabled (and likely may need to stay that way due to the pestilence of Windows 11). Reading from journalctl -b has some mention of ...
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How does RAID 5 handle unrecoverable sectors on a HDD
I'm going to set up a RAID 5 on 4 hard drives on my ubuntu system. I plan to use ext4 on a logic volume.
Suppose one disk reports an unrecoverable sector. How would RAID 5 handle this? My ...
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Enabling hibernation of Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 with swap on /dev/sda3
I've been trying to enable hibernation on my new Budgie installation. swapon indicates that my swap partition is located in /dev/sda3, and I have come to the point where I need to edit the ...
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No disk space on Ubuntu 22.04
I am new to Linux(Ubuntu), so please excuse my naivete. While dual-booting my computer (primary Windows 11), I allocated 150 GB, made a new disk for Linux, and booted Ubuntu onto it. But now, while ...
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VB Ubuntu says disk full but not
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 via VirtualBox from win11. Recently I had to extend the space allocated for the machine. I did that using gparted util. It was fine for a while but now I am getting warnings ...
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Removing Windows and redundant partitions and increasing Ubuntu partition size
I have a dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu system, however, I want to remove the Windows partition since I do not use it. I previously had dual boot and I unfortunately broke it and had to start again with ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 I cannot resize the system partition
I have a filesystem partition where the Ubuntu SO is installed and another one with 393Gb free space, how can I resize the filesystem partition and use the free space? What I did...
I started Ubuntu ...
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Is it possible to use old home folder after encryption?
My company wants me to format my computer and do disk encryption however I have tons of customizations on my pc so I don't want to lose them. I thought I can copy my home folder into external disk and ...
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How can I increase partition sizes when adding a new drive on Ubuntu 22.04?
Do the answers in How can I add more disk space to /boot for update still work in the newest Ubuntu 22.04? Can I just order a new drive format it and resize boot to the right and be done? And does ...
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Move Ubuntu 22.04 to hardware hp p410i RAID1 with encrypted volumes on BIOS
I have an old hp n40l microserver with Ubuntu 22.04 on board with quite old BIOS as of 2012.
Now my SSD 256GB disk is split to 2 partitions: /boot/efi and /.
I've bought hp p410i RAID card, and 3 more ...
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Surface Pro 5 cannot find bootable drive, trying to install Ubuntu in place of windows 10 os
I had successfully downloaded ubuntu in place of microsoft then was blocked from downloading a software packet through the terminal by secure boot. I went to the bios screen and disabled secure boot ...
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Remove Windows, install ubuntu while keeping backup partition (D:) + confusing partitioning [duplicate]
I have a 480GB SSD split into two partitions, denoted as (C:) and (D:).
My objective is to eliminate Windows from the (C:) partition.
Subsequently, I aim to install Ubuntu in its place, ensuring all ...
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Mounting Drives
The last time I touched Unix of any flavor it was Solaris, so please forgive me. I'm am so very rusty.
I decided to build a home lab and get back into things. I've built, destroyed, and rebuilt my ...
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Fresh installation of 20.04 makes three partitions - right?
Now to get to the bottom of my problems mentioned in another thread, I decided to install 20.04 anew. In order to not produce problems from the start on, I let the installation program do as it wished ...
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How to clone a specific partition of a qemu raw disk file to a physical partition
I have a raw disk file as bellow
$fdisk -l Monterey.img
Disk Monterey.img: 14 GiB, 15032385536 bytes, 29360128 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /...
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Install Error - Install on RAID disk failure
System: Fujitsu Primergy TX100, 8 Core 32G RAM system, RAID 1 - 1TB x 2 System
No UEFI, hence legacy
Load from USB is configured on BIOS and it does this well.
RAID - to my understanding is Hardware ...
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Gparted shows Linux filled less than it actually is. How to fix it?
I've had Ubuntu System with the size of 100 GiB. I've made some manipulations for repairing the system and, as a result, my Linux cannot boot, and GParted shows there are only 1 GiB filled on the ...
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Partitioned drives not showing when trying to dual boot
I have partitioned the hard disks and configured the UEFI firmware settings. Yet when installing Ubuntu, the partitions do not show up on the menu when installing and thus I am unable to configure.
As ...
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extending partition to root in ubuntu [duplicate]
I'm working on a Ubuntu 22.04 VM of 300GB , I got a warning " / is using 95.0% of 97.87GB" , I tried to increase my hard-disk space by adding additional 300GB of harddisk.
This is the result ...
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Ubuntu freezes when playing games or multitasking
I installed Ubuntu in this desktop PC for the first time and I don't know what's wrong with it.
The problem is the whole system freezes often, especially when playing games like Steam Project Zomboid, ...
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How to safely decrease size of Linux partition?
I've had 100 GiB of Linux partition in the right place of disk. I've recently increased the size of my Linux partition from 100 GiB to 150 GiB by moving all bytes to the 50GiB left.
(don't focus ...
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Mounting /tmp with noexec option in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
I have set up the Ubuntu VM (Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS) with the following options for /tmp: So that under /tmp, no execution is allowed.
cat /etc/fstab for /tmp:
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-tmp--lv /tmp ...
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Cannot reinstall grub after use of testdisk
I have 2 OS on my laptop: Windows and Linux. Once there was no space left on Linux, and, as a result, my important file was erased. I have tried to restore it using testdisk, but instead of after ...
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Ubuntu server LVM not using entire disk space [duplicate]
Running lsblk gives following output.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M ...
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My Aspire A-515-54 fails to boot. Got a software disk assembly mismatch
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed 9 weeks ago. Windows 10/11 deleted, disk reformatted NTFS. System worked like a charm for over a month. Then problem appeared.
I tried the command /etc/fstab to update the ...
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Installation mis-formatted a partition as W95_FAT32. Won't boot
I initially tried to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but it wouldn't allow me the simpler non-manual partition install. I then installed using a 20.04 LTS DVD, that gave me this result.
How can I retrieve ...
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Moving / partition to the left
I am running a kubuntu system where the /partition (~37gb) is almost full. Because of some unfortunate partitioning when I was setting up I have a free 99gb partition to the left of my home partition. ...
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Creating a partition on /dev/loop
I have a school task to create/delete a partition in Ubuntu. The example says it would show me /dev/sda, but mine shows me /dev/loop, so I could not proceed with this task any further.
What to do for ...
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nearly full partition seen on df...is this a problem?
Periodically I check my drives to see if any are full. df -h gives:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1.6G 2.1M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 457G 124G 311G 29% /
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having an issue related to dev/sda5 mounting. when booting up the screen goes as recovering journal and dev/sda5 clear blocks.target is busy issue
/dev/loop9 853M 853M 0 100% /snap/intellij-idea-community/483
/dev/loop13 667M 667M 0 100% /snap/onlyoffice-desktopeditors/181
$ sudo parted /dev/sda 'print'
[sudo] password for prithivira
Model: ATA ...
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How can I use a external HDD to install Xubuntu? [duplicate]
I've been researching and learning about xubuntu and now I finally feel like I've learned the basics so I've decided to install xubuntu on my laptop. To do that I've partitioned free space on my SSD (...
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I installed ubuntu recently in my laptop completely wiping windows. I have a 512gb ssd and 512gb hdd in my laptop but only ssd is visible
So i recently installed ubuntu in my laptop earl6it had windows 11
My laptop has 512gb ssd and 512gb hdd
The problem is that when i ran the required command to shows the disk on my laptop in the ...
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swapon returns "not a valid swap partition"
I am getting a confusing not a valid swap partition error message from swapon
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
$ sudo swapon --show
swapon: /dev/dm-1: not a valid swap partition
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
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Help please accompany to instal Ubuntu 20.04
may be third or 5th time I attempt to install Ubuntu on disk name Toshiba
As usual according instruction I insert Uasb with Installation Ubuntu 20.04
go to all procedure - Try Ubuntu > till Head ...
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Problems installing Ubuntu Server on an empty SSD
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 or 23.10, both crashing with the same problem. My hardware is an AMD Ryzen 5 7640U mini-PC with Lexar NVMe SSD. I'm booting from a USB drive with OS image.
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systemd: Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
I was trying to get Proton for Steam working. After a long time search tech forums I found a comment which said that Proton had to be formatted to EXT4, which led me down a rabbit hole to a post on ...
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LV partition resize issue - parted cannot satisfy all constraints while resizing /dev/sda3
In my virtualbox vm, initially there was 25GB of disk space. Via vbox media manager, I have increased the size to 50GB. The next plan was to use parted to carry out the resize.
These are the state of ...
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RAID size problem after 'dd' from old array to new
I've added a new larger RAID 5 array (57TB) to my server and copied the old RAID 5 (20TB) using 'dd'.
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [...
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Partition free space
I am trying to install Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS along with my Windows 10. I have already allocated a 40GB partition from Windows. Now, running the installation via my flash drive, I got stuck at setting ...
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Changing from Dual Boot to Full Ubuntu System
Just wondering, if I already have a machine running on dual boot (Wins + Ubuntu) and now I want to set it up as full Ubuntu, do I have to reformat my disk first?
Since I have a lot of data in my ...
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How do I install Ubuntu to a new disk on a system that already has a disk with Windows installed on it with BitLocker enabled?
I'm creating this question because I wasn't able to find existing questions after searching that described the issue I ran into. Existing questions dealt with the scenario where you want to install ...
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How to determine sizes of partitions on a fresh install?
I want to fresh install Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS any my HD is 500GB.
Are there guidelines for what sizes to use per partition (and what mounts) e.g. best size for swap, best size for EFI partition etc?
E.g....
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Fedora 38 boot ISO sees my computer's (Firebat A16 laptop) 1TB SSD /dev/sda but Ubuntu 22.04 boot ISO does NOT
Ubuntu Mate 22.04 live USB boots/runs fine - everything works except recognizing my SDD, /dev/sda. It doesn't matter what disk or partition utility I use (all the standard ones on the USB plus I ...
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disk space issue
I have Ubuntu server 20.04.2 running on a VM on a Windows Server hypervisor. The only thing this VM is doing is running a Unifi controller. When I try to load the GUI of the controller, I get a 404 ...