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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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Shrink and move Windows 11 partition to back of drive

I am moving from Windows 11 to Linux Mint (LM) -- I am already using LM as my daily driver -- and would like to rearrange my drives so that LM benefits from my fast NVMe drive. The NVMe currently has ...
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LUKS container gone due to Windows partition

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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Grub4dos UEFI error - Cannot mount selected partition

I am using Grub4dos for UEFI (release 2023-10-16) to boot ISO files in partition named "STORING". The type of HDD is GPT as in the below picture The file MENU.LST is Grub4dos for UEFI ...
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~90 GB missing after extending partition

I needed more space for my Windows partition. My solution was to remove the BTRFS partition from the disk that contains the Windows partition so that the partition can be easily extended. **This freed ...
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Unable to boot after cloning SSD drive with NVME drive. Nothing to do in bios - no disk is viable in uefi

I was cloning my SSD Samsung drive with NVMe 980 pro with magician. I can't boot at all now. I tried to do everything in bios, then first unplugged one disk then another, nothing worked so far. Uefi ...
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add capacity using LVM system

my current /home directory is lack of storage so i want to add capacity to LV. want to confirm if my execution plan will not distroy the existing system. Here is the current disk status: df -h /dev/...
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Safely delete Efi System Partition to allow extension of volume

I installed Ubuntu on a fraction of one of my SSD drives. However, I ended up removing Ubuntu and deleting the space on the partition it was allocating. Now there's an EFI System Partition between my ...
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Dual boot machine, not obvious how the boot sequence finds GRUB or how to remove it

I have a dual booting system (Windows and Ubuntu) where I am trying to remove Ubuntu and its partitions. The internal drive (laptop) is divided as follows: 350MB System Reserved (mounted as P:) 150GB ...
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Formatting 500gb HDD NTFS to FAT32 then returns: The volume is too big for FAT32

I got the same error message as this post and it also took me 6 hours to wait for that process to finish. But now, I already understand a little why the problem occurs after reading the answer from ...
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Move Windows Recovery from C: onto its Own Recovery Partition

While setting up this home Windows installation some months back I managed to end up without a recovery partition for complicated reasons I won't get into, but I'd like to have it back. I have ~...
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From disk end, how to count MB (Megabytes) to the first non-zero location?

I am using Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64. While re-purposing a disk using: neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:' Instead of long process of dd zero the whole disk just dd zero some first bytes of disk and then ...
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How can I boot a live system iso on a partition of an USB drive

I am a linux and windows user, and I'm going to build up a USB drive(/dev/sda, got 3 partition already) which contains a windows PE and a linux livecd. I have got two iso files, and I'm trying a new ...
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I need help make sense of TestDisk output

I recently found an 2 TB external drive again which I though I ha lost and when I viewed it with DISKMGMT.MSC it said it had an unallocated section of 638GB. I remembered that I might've deleted a ...
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Does rsync -D protect the root partition uuid in fstab?

I have a few partitions. One is for my main OS installation, and a second is set aside as the destination for a backup of the main OS. I have a secondary OS set aside for maintenance purposes, with ...
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How to mount BTRFS partition multiple times both using the same space allocation?

I’m new to BTRFS and am wondering if it’s possible to share the space of a single partition but mount it under multiple mount points? For example, I have a 1 TiB partition and want to share the same ...
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Windows 10 install media not creating Recovery partition?

Four years later an I'm installing Windows 10 on a computer and having trouble with partitions, again. (and successfully forgetting what I did the last time) Last time I was bugging that Windows ...
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The best approach to creating EXT4 partitions copy (without need of restoring them later)

Currently, I have 2 * 2TB SSDs in my PC: First one has only one NTFS partition with Windows. Second one has several partitions: 1 TB NTFS used by Windows and 4 partitions with Linux: two big EXT4 ...
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Get the default cluster size for NTFS

I try to determine the default cluster size for NTFS. I check this table. The problem is when the size in the boundary, for example: 2 TB–16 TB: 4kb 16TB–32 TB: 8kb Then what will be the cluster size ...
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How to merge unallocated hard drive space with remaining drive

I have a 3TB hard drive that has ~700gb of unallocated space not being used. How can I merge this space with the rest of the drive? Do I need to reformat the drive? I cannot delete the unallocated ...
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Dual boot OS recovery using Testdisk

I have a Dell Latitude with an internal storage drive of 500GB. I dual boot Windows and Kali OS. A few days ago, I messed up and wiped the drive using diskpart clean command and now I'm trying to ...
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Why does Windows 10 not reflect partition resize I did in gparted?

I am trying to give Windows 10 more space on my 256GB SSD by expanding into unused space which I previously use for linux. You can see the partition map as windows sees it in the screenshot. The weird ...
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ext4 cannot delete files after resizing partitions using gparted offline

Recently I tried to install a package and got a message saying I didn't have enough space. I guess 25 Gb isn't enough. I downloaded a GParted iso, tossed onto a thumb drive, etc, etc. Everything went ...
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Windows 11 disk will only boot when Windows 10 disk is also present

I have a laptop which came with a small NVME SSD with windows 10. I later added a second, larger, NVME SSD and installed Windows 11, which works fine as a dual boot machine. However, when I remove the ...
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If I deleted a partition, will that delete the data on this partition?

I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 11, but I forgot to turn off BitLocker. Ubuntu was installed "successfully", but I wasn't able to dual boot, so I deleted the partitions assigned to ...
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resize ext4 container file [closed]

I created an ext4 file container with 16GB of space. dd if=/dev/zero of=./container_16GB.img bs=1M count=16384 mkfs.ext4 container.img It is nor problem to mount this container file but is it also ...
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Freshly Provisioned Cent-OS occupies a lot of space for "/dev/mapper/centos-root"

I created a fresh VM, however I started facing space issues as soon as it got created. From the du and lsblk command I see /dev/mapper/centos-root is occupying a lot of space. I tried running tree ...
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System Reserve/Windows 11 Update

Hopefully this won't be too convoluted. I started by trying to convert an MBR disk to GPT. I was doing this so I can enable secure boot in the BIOS and then I would have the requirements to upgrade to ...
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Strange folders name with GNU Grub Shell

Accidentally, I delete EFI partition or some partition that I don't really know (just bcz I didnt read docs carefully and delete a random one :<). However, when I reboot my laptop, it shows GNU ...
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USB drive detected as a char device (not block device) on Linux?

I have a Kingston's DataTraveler SE9 (8G, SerialNumber: 0014785448B4BCA13728002A), and I myself am running Pop!_OS, and I can't seem to figure out why it's not being detected. Not in a Windows system ...
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Can't extend volume in Windows after deleting Ubuntu dual boot, and Ubuntu still shows up in boot options?

I installed Ubuntu to my second SSD (500 GB not main) as dual boot. I have now deleted it as I don't need it but whenever I try to extend the volume to the unallocated space it says there isn't enough ...
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Partitions on a TF card are not working as expected; third partition is not seen

I want to create three partition in a new brand TF card (not micro SD), but I can't sort it out! What I did up to now: create a disk partition table fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disco /dev/sdd: 250 GiB, ...
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How to test for ext4 Partition? Not ext4 Filesystem

using: neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:' OS: Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64 Start Update Question due to someone deleted information: No interest in testing for ext4 Filesystem. lsblk -n -o FSTYPE /dev/sdb1 ...
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How to convert ext4 partition on raid 1 to btrfs?

I'm trying to convert two ext4 partitions that are on raid 1 with mdadm to btrfs. When i try to run fsck.ext4 /dev/md0p2 fsck.ext4 /dev/md0p3 They return with e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021) /dev/md0p3 ...
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How can I create a single partition from three different disks to install Windows on it?

I have 3 disks: 1TB, 512GB and 512GB. Is there any way to create a single 2TB partition and install Windows 10 on it? Data safety is not important.
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Is there a way to make a multi core/cpu system combine its threads and emulate a smaller thread but faster processor? [duplicate]

I have a program that is dependent on the single core efficiency of a CPU. I know a server can emulate multuple different systems at once, dividing its threads to each system. I am wondering if a ...
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How can i move those red tiles at the end of the disk in order to make a partition? Windows-11

See the tiles here. Thanks for the help!
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Copying one partition at a time doesn’t result in a bootable drive. Why? How to fix?

Instead of using clone software, I wanted to copy, one at a time, each partition on my C: boot drive to a larger drive. I did this with no errors (used mini wizard to copy one at a time) I thought it ...
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How do I reduce the space allocated for Persistent Storage on my Ubuntu Live USB?

I used Rufus to create a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Live USB with persistence. However, I allocated all of the remaining drive space for the Persistent Storage, thinking that it could be accessed and used as ...
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Accidentally ran `mkfs.ext4` on my `/boot` partition (fedora 36)

I pulled a total amateur-hour move and ran mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2 on accident the other day while trying to troubleshoot a hosed retropi sdcard. /dev/nvme0n1p2 was my /boot partition on my work ...
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How can I have a "main" bootloader, on the first partition? (UEFI)

I tried dual booting Windows and Xubuntu using a different approach. (It worked, but it wasn't the best) Instead of doing what I belive most people do, which is replacing the Windows bootloader with ...
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Resize an OpenBSD *fdisk* partition

I have cloned an OpenBSD qemu image into a physical hard drive and everything works but the fdisk partition dedicated to OpenBSD has the same size it had in the virtual machine and most of the excess ...
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I'm getting the "mmc0: card never left busy state" for an SD card that Windows happily recognises and formats. What can I do to make it work on Linux?

I went and bought a steam deck, and decided to get an SD card for it - a Hunyeiz thing from a Kodak shop. After a messy time accidentally formatting it poorly, hastily typing console commands given to ...
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Consequences of a screwed up recovery environment?

So I recently upgraded a machine to Windows 11 and for some reason, the partitions got messed up. I managed to follow a tutorial and used diskpart to convert a normal partition into a recovery ...
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SSD cannot be recognised on Windows and LInux

I recently bought a new SSD to replace the one in my laptop. I took the old SSD out and stuck it in an external enclosure, planning to use it as an external drive. When I first plugged it in to ...
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How to fix corrupted USB flash drive?

My USB flash drive was working perfectly fine until I plugged it in the back of my school computer to show my project. The USB flash drive did not show up there. When I brought it home and plugged it ...
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No space left in device error despite being empty

Why am I getting No space left on device when I try to create more than 32767 files in my vFat USB Flash Drive? Info Flash drive is empty (freshly formatted) $ df -H > Filesystem Size Used ...
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How to best repair a lost or broken partition on a valued external hard drive without losing data

Can an unallocated external hard drive be repartitioned directly and made usable without losing data and without need to reformat? (Windows 10, 64 bit) My external hard drive's partition has for ...
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Trouble booting in any OS / USB disk

Recently, I have installed Linux MINT into a separate partition next to Windows. But then I realized that I installed the wrong version, so I deleted the partition MINT was installed on. Ever since, ...
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How to prevent small ISO from marking incorrect size on large target drive?

I am trying to write a 20GB iso to a 200GB hard disk. However, when I do this, the partition table from the ISO seems to carry the 20GB drive size marking with it, so that KDE Partition Manager thinks ...
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Can't install windows 10 - "Couldn't find info for boot disk [1]"

Sorry for posting the logs as a photo, I couldn't copy it from the PC. I used to have Ubuntu Server installed on that computer and I decided erase everything and install win 10. In the window where I ...
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