Questions tagged [partitioning]
When you create two or more logical volumes (drives) from one physical hard disk (or other storage device), you're working with partitions.
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KB5034441 and 0x80070643 [duplicate]
So, Windows update is giving me a problem when I try to install kb5034441. I get error 0x80070643.
Supposedly, the windows recovery environment partition is too small.
I downloaded aeomi partition ...
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Step-by-step instructions to move unallocated space from left to right using GParted? [closed]
Please refer to the setup in the image linked in the last line of my post.
I just reduced my Windows Downloads partition space on /dev/nvme0n1p4 to the unallocated 420.63GB space on its right, ...
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External HDD (1 EXT4 Partition) Won't Show Up On Other Linux Computer
I have recently formatted a Seagate 2TB portable HDD with 1 EXT4 partition (from my laptop running arch). When attempting to access this on my PopOS desktop, the drive will not show up in the file ...
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Conver EFI qcow2 image with multiple disks to MBR/BIOS booting image
I'm trying to convert a custom rhel9.3 cloud install image that has been made to run in UEFI so I can run it on a BIOS system. Where I'm failing is to make my new image bootable. and the reason is ...
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how to alignment the different TYPEs that could be output from lsblk?
On some machines we get
lsblk -l
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 180G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 raid1 /boot
sda2 8:2 0 179G 0 ...
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Gparted doesn't allow adding free space to partition at end of table
I've dual booted my Ubuntu 22.04 system with a Windows 10. I alloted 100GB initially, but that turned out to be just slightly less than I thought I needed. Now I'm trying to increase the size of my ...
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New volume error message: The media is write protected
My customer has several volumes on his Windows computer. In order to test something, I'm trying to get the same situation, so I have shrunken my main disk (C:-drive) and created a new volume (on the D:...
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Can't enable reagentc whatever I do [closed]
While trying to enable secure boot in order to upgrade my PC to Windows 11, I used the mbr2gpt tool to convert my disk to gpt, since without doing this, upon enabling secure boot my PC would boot ...
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Diagnostic details: - The last unmovable file appears to be: \$Mft::$DATA [duplicate]
I tried to shrink my c drive but i noticed that there's a point i tried to fix it but during the shrink phase i got this defrag Diagnostic details:
The last unmovable file appears to be: $Mft::$DATA
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How to Merge 2 Unallocated Spaces that are on either side of Primary Partition? (New Linux/Ubuntu User) [duplicate]
Current Disk Setup
Please see image link: I have unallocated spaces to left and right of my primary partition (that has the Linux File System and EFI). Have installed GParted but need help on how can ...
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What drive pool/RAID option is best for a home media server with uneven drive sizes?
I am building a DIY home server NAS with a DAS and Proxmox and don't need enterprise-grade redundancy. I am happy to use something other than Proxmox, I just like how easy it is to use containers and ...
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Installing Ubuntu over Windows - not detecting SSD
I had Windows 11 on my laptop until it decided to have BSOD every 5 minutes. I tried to check if the OS was a problem and then I booted into a live USB and everything went smoothly.
However, when I ...
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Issues Configuring Swap and Moving /home to a New Encrypted Disk on Ubuntu 24.04
I have Ubuntu 24.04 installed with the default disk partitioning settings chosen by the installer, including LVM encryption. I have two SSDs:
First disk with the following partitions:
/boot/efi
/boot
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Can't resize partition after cloning the disk to the bigger disk
I cloned my entire disk to the new disk with dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/nvme0n1 . It was a long process so I don't want to repeat it again. I booted from the new disk but there is a problem: the new disk ...
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How can I recover my Windows partition after GParted move process failed
How can I recover my Windows partition after GParted move operation fails due to power cut?
When I use disk management in the Windows, the deleted partition mark as RAW.
GParted
fdisk -l
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