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Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'

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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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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 ...
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Resize/Reduce ubuntu server partition size

The following is the output of lsblk. sda3 size is 1.6TB and only 100GB is assigned to ubuntu-vg. sda 8:0 0 1.6T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 ...
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SDcard not showing full size in gparted

So I was trying to put an embedded linux image inside an SDcard (32gb) and used the famous 'dd' command... Apparently it failed because now I cant format the disk anymore, in my Disks utility i get ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 Installer Does Not Recognize anything at "Installation Type" Menu and crashes when pressing +, -, or change

I have downloaded the official 22.04.3 installer from Ubuntu, and followed their tutorial to making an installation media with Rufus. Everything works very smoothly within Ubuntu when I try it, but ...
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Unknown disk label when trying to install ubuntu

trying to install ubuntu I get error message that the disk is locked and cannot be formated. Gparted also is thwarted in trying to remove this partition showing a lock on it. Other programs report ...
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How to unmount read-only file system and resize it. Ubuntu 22.04

I need to resize /dev/nvme0n1p1 partition because it takes almost all memory from my SSD. And also I couldn't make dual boot for Windows as second OS, so I need help. I've tried this commands to ...
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Did i lose my ubuntu? I have no idea what actually happend to all its data

So, I decided to try out ubuntu on a dual boot with windows. The way I did everything was: I shrunk my OS drive in windows disk manager, then using live boot Ubuntu and gparted I made 3 partitions for ...
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first time trying to learn "mount"

is it just best practices to mount in media, or is it ok or irrelevant if i wanted to mount in my home or user file instead of a root file like media? Also, the "unmount" isnt all that clear ...
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Installing Ubuntu on SSD And using HDD as home

Hey guys I have both SSD and HDD in my device and I have a question concerning partitioning. Whenever I create home partition on my HDD most of the deb packages and flatpaks are being installed there ...
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Unable to access ubuntu partition - GRUB issue

I have huge problems in accessing Ubuntu. I have dual-boot and recently reinstalled windows. This caused a problem to grub boot-loader, in the sense that Ubuntu is completeley inaccessible. The first ...
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Partition usage

I am using dual boot of Windows 11 and Ubuntu. I see a lot of partitions in Ubuntu. I want to find out the partitions that contain Windows or Ubuntu operating system files. Then I want to merge ...
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How to consolidate all my partitions without data loss?

I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop. I have formatted my 1TB SSD into 3 partitions: 16GB swap 150GB mounted at '/' 150GB mounted at '/home' 666GB mounted at '/scratch' Now I want to have the ...
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rsyslog and dbus (and others) failing to start after custom-partition install

After installing Ubuntu 22.04.3 with the option to manually choose the partitions (for dual boot reasons; I chose /boot on an 2 GB ext2 partition and / on an encrypted ext4 partition), systemd-...
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gnome-disks Partition Type mismatch on IDE drive - not allowing mount

I have an old IDE hard drive whose contents I'm trying to backup. I connected the hard drive to my PC, running Ubuntu 23.10, via a USB/IDE adapter, the hard drive's capacity (80 GB) is correctly ...
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Why do Files and Disks applications show different values for free space?

I encountered an issue with my Ubuntu partition's storage. Almost every disk checking app seem to show that its free space is around 29 GB, while Files and any other app shows that its free space is ...
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Ubuntu dual boot: Windows boots in recovery mode

I have a HP Elitebook Bang&Olufsen laptop installed with a corporate Windows OS distribution. I recently decided to make it into a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.xx LTS. Steps: Go into the only Windows ...
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How to restore a timeshift snapshot made from an Unreachable Operating System

I successfully created a full user data and system snapshot with timeshift in rsync mode. A while back I thought this method of data backup will be recoverable on a new and same system installation (...
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Disk space showing more usage than what is actually used

On one Hetzner server I can't figure out why my disk drive is taking more space than what is actually running on it. df -h results: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev ...
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fresh dual boot used mrchromebox and chrx. attempting linux boot and presented with "/syslinux/vmlinuz" not found

using mrchromebox and chrx, i successfully partitioned and used chrx -d xubuntu modifier to install linux rather than USB. booting into grub, it shows error:file /syslinux/cmlinuz.A not found, press ...
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Dual booting problems with ubuntu and windows 10

So basicly i dual booted ubuntu and windows on my laptop but the problem is windows is gone after I dual booted it This is basicly what I did: 1 downloaded unetbootin on my windows 2 downloaded the ...
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merge unallocated/free space sections

My system currently has Win11 + Ubuntu 22.04LTS installed, and they dual boot with no problem. They are both installed to the same SSD. I do have a 2nd SSD, but it is only for data storage. I am ...
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Stuck on GNU GRUB Version 2.04

I downloaded and dual booted Ubuntu with IOS (Catalina) for a project and to learn Linux. I put it on a separate partition from my Catalina container and only used about 10% of my drive. I didn’t need ...
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Does Clonezilla only copy a partition or can it also copy an entire disk?

I'm planning to upgrade my disk to SSD, but my Linux is installed in a 1 TB hard disk, so I have to migrate/clone it. I've seen YouTube videos of how to use Clonezilla, but in most of them they only ...
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LUKS Container lost due to partitioning by Windows?

I plugged a HDD with a LUKS container on it into Windows and opened the Disk Manager. A dialog appeared where I clicked "Format as GPT", not knowing what I was doing. Apparently Windows wasn'...
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Cloning ubuntu boot into software RAID 1 array

I have a Ubuntu server whose boot drive exists on an old HDD. I am wanting to clone this boot drive over to a RAID 1 SSD array. I don't know how to go about this correctly, since it will be a software ...
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I did mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 without knowing it wipes the whole data

So guys I got panicked since my data gone, I tried the solution to use backup Superblock from this askubuntu page but still no luck. but when I tried sudo fsck.ext4 -vy /dev/md0 I got this message /...
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Allocate unallocated space to ubuntu partition (windows dualboot)

I dual-booted Windows with Ubuntu (Ubuntu became the second partition). Now I want to transition to a single-boot system with Ubuntu. I have removed the Windows partition and turned it into ...
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Cannot select destination for bootloader during installation

I have a windows 10 system that I would like to install Ubuntu onto. I have created two partitions, one for /boot and the other for /. During installation with Mantic Manticor I see the option to ...
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Mount Ubuntu, creating Raid 1 with the installment configuration

install Ubuntu using Raid 1 configuration with two disk. In doing so, two partitions were created in each disk, that of the RAID and the EFI starter. If I lose an disk, the other is operational. How ...
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Tinkering with "writable" in "Try ubuntu"-mode on 20.04 Desktop install media

After booting the install media, going into "Try mode" In a naive move I reformatted the "rewritable" partition to FAT, from ext4(?), expecting it to still work in the same manner (...
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Can't auto mount partition through fstab during boot

help me understand. I have this line in my /etc/fstab UUID=13958fbc-ce35-4a2a-a144-9b1543270cf4 /DAS1TB ext4 defaults 0 0 this UUID corresponds to /dev/sdb1 that should be ...
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exFAT Mounted HDD partition not mounting as specified user and instead as root

Forgive me if this question has been asked before but I have tried to find an answer to no avail leading me to write this. Please link me the solution if this or something similar has been asked. I ...
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If I full backup with root directories and lose owner of ext4 USB what can I recover?

If I use an ext4 USB and back up like my home which has root owned stuff, can I read all of it if I lose what user was used to own that USB and write to it? What about regular files under like my ...
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Installing Ubuntu 22 LTS on an empty second drive, no boot managers, leave first drive INTACT

HARDWARE: 12600KF Intel PC with a Z690 ASUS board. (Firmware updated) /dev/nvme0n1: Windows 11 Pro /dev/sda: Ubuntu 22 LTS (what I'm installing) /dev/sda currently has OpenBSD 6.8 OBJECTIVE: NOT ...
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lvextend root partition causing (initramfs) ALERT! /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

I'm building an Ubuntu 22.04.02 image using packer qemu builder. I then dd the raw image to a baremetal mini pc. On the first boot of the Ubuntu image I have a procedure that extends the root ...
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Full Storage issue with second Hard Disk on Ubuntu 22.04

I am trying to mount a second hard disk on my Ubuntu 22.04 Virtual machine to get rid of the full storage warning, but I can't seem to mount it correctly to extend the volume of the original hard disk ...
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/dev/sdb1 partition full but /dev/sda empty

I am new to Ubuntu and I tried to download recently a large file, but it stopped because it said the disk was full, even though I'm supposed to have almost 1Tb of disk space. I tried to look at ...
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Recovering data from HDD

I used to have a problem with WD Mycloud Gen 2, but I replaced an HDD with a new one and now it's working. But I need to read my old data from an old HDD (WD RED 3 TB) In Disk Utility I see the ...
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I want to incrementally backup my os to a copy: is this even practical? [closed]

I want to use redundancy to avoid problems in the case I accidentally brick my system. I have one main drive and what I want to do is something like the following: Have a small partition set aside ...
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Mounted drive appearing empty in Kubuntu and Windows

Just a quick overview of system: Dual boot Kubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10 (Kubuntu is primary) 1 nvme SSD with 3 partitions (Ubuntu boot; Windows boot; and a shared partition). My issue: I only actually ...
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