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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Manjaro Linux Installer cannot find a partition to install
I recently started trying to install Manjaro Linux, but the installer could not find a partition to install. I opened GParted and THE ONLY PARTITION it found was my USB drive i was booting from. I ...
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Expanding Disk partition in Fedora Linux
I was experimenting with dual booting and then finished. Now I want to take back the space that was used by the other OS. After deleting the other partition, I tried to expand the root partition to ...
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Unable to boot system after removing disk 2 even if windows is installed on disk 1
I have two hard disk, DISK 0 is SSD where windows is installed and DISK 1 is Mechanical HDD. I want to replace DISK 1 with another SSD, but when I remove Disk 1, I'm unable to boot the system (Message ...
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Portable linux system
So basically I want to have a Linux system on an external hard drive along with the grub on another partition (which would be bootable).
The problem is that I still want to use my hard drive as a ...
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How can I write a bootable iso to a partition instead of a drive, keeping the OS inside intact
I had a USB drive I used for all of my bootable isos (through Ventoy), but the drive seems to have failed,
and now any OS just doesn't see it as a drive. I have two other USBs, but both of them are ...
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Windows 11 and USB sticks with multiple partitions
Has Windows 11 brought back the limitation where it only shows the first partition on USB flash drives? I have been able to use USB sticks with multiple partitions since the Windows 10 Creators Update ...
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Symbolic link to /var/lib directory on another partition
On my Hetzner VPS are two partitions:
/dev/sda1 19gB with 0% Available disk space
/dev/sdb1 50 gB with 95% Available disk space
My /var/lib directory is almost 17gB in size. It 'lives' on the sda1 ...
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Unable to create a bootable partition on NVME drive
Booting Windows off M.2 NVMe doesn’t work even though it is recognized by the BIOS on a dual boot machine
I was delighted when I found the above answer explaining how to create a boot partition, as ...
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Unable to delete SSD
Everything began when my laptop (MSI PS63 Modern) went on being stuck in a BIOS boot loop back a few months ago. From what I remember, it happened after a BSOD where windows got frozen during the ...
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Is my Windows 10 installation reusing the system and recovery partitions of other installation?
In my desktop PC I have an SSD where I installed Windows 10 many years ago. Later I purchased an nvme ssd, where I also installed Windows 10, and I can choose which Windows 10 to launch at boot. Both ...
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USB Stick without partition (maybe) but with Filesystem: how to automount?
I'm developing a small "kiosk" app, running on Debian10 on a BeagleBone Black board, which has one single USB port.
I've wrote a line in the fstab file that auto-mount /dev/sda1 in /media/...
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Can I force Linux to write data at the start of a file system?
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Is there a command to force Linux to write a file (for example a PDF file, MP3, anything really) at the start of a file system ? I don't thing that # dd does the trick, because the inode table ...
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Virtualize a disk partition for dual boot?
I've been a long time Windows user but I've found that it's pretty easy to corrupt the registry and have it clobber your EFI system partition. Naturally I'd want to protect on that in a dual-boot ...
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How do I dual boot two versions of Windows 10 while hiding all other disk partitions from the 2nd win install
GPT partitions, EFI boot.
I want to have 2 windows 10 installs, one "normal" and other as a "test". I don't want the "test" version not to be able to change or even see ...
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Merged partitions show as unformatted NTFS- GPT table recovery
Wanted to merge multiple partitions on my SSD, and added Windows Recovery partition to the mix as it was sitting between other data partitions. (I believe this was my mistake).
Used MiniTool Partition ...
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sd card - cannot mount / format / partition
I have two sd cards of the same type: SanDisk Ultra UHS-I A1 32GB
One is brand new the other is already used.
Both cards show the same symptoms on my ArchLinux laptop (MacBook Pro 2013, system is up ...
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No bootable deive found for Fedora after moving partitions
As a word of caution: I am inexperienced and moved some partitions around when attempting to dual boot windows from Fedora, I didn't take note of what I was doing and so only have my current ...
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HFS+ Hard Drive not booting anymore recovery using TestDisk on macOS
I've had a broken external drive: Western Digital - WD Element 4To, for a long while and I finally took the courage to do some research to fix the problem using TestDisk.
But, I think I hit a wall.
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Can't format nvme
I'm trying to install linux over a broken Windows 10 install.
I've booted on a live USB and tried to remove old partitions and format the disk, but everything I've tried until now failed.
If I try to ...
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Can I boot a live Linux image from my D partition?
I am running Windows 10, I created a partition D of 8GB size on the same hard drive.
I have downloaded an .iso image of a live linux distribution, can I make my D partition bootable in order to boot ...
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Running a Live USB with multiple partitions
I have a USB stick that I use for general computer repair. I've got Clonezilla, GParted, the Debian installer and the WIndows installer.
These are the zip versions, and each live on 4 different ...
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Clone a separate drive's OS partition to SSD
I have a laptop and a main pc.
The laptop has an old 1TB HDD installed. The HDD is split into 2 partitions. The first partition is the OS partition and the second has a lot of work on it and is mostly ...
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Why is Resize-Partition not working in WinPE?
I'm currently playing around with making my 'own' MDT / Deployment Software using PowerShell and encountered an issue that I can't find any information to. Basically I already created the EFI, MSR and ...
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2012 Mac Pro hard disks disabled after system spontaneously locked with a PIN code
(This was initially posted on reddit.com and shortly after on MacRumors)
Equipment:
Mac Pro (mid-2012) running macOS 10.14.6 Mojave all patches current
Processor 2x3.46 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon
Memory 48 ...
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Ran fdisk on wrong disk which was part of an LVM
I wanted to add space to an LVM so added a Virtual disk to my Ubuntu 20.04 Virtual Machine.
The VM already had 3 disks
/dev/sda 32.2GB # OS Disk
/dev/sdb 537GB # Data Disk, part of the LVM: ...
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How to hide a partition on an MBR-formatted SD card?
I have an SD card with MBR, and want one of the partitions to be hidden. I have tried setting partition types to 0x1B and 0x1C, but Windows 10 seems to ignore the "hidden" flag.
Is there ...
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Mark partition as readonly on flash drive
I have a flash drive that I've encrypted using VeraCrypt. I'd like it to be portable and useable on any computer (pretty much), so I've partitioned it like so:
Flash Drive
- Traveller (Fat32), ...
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Install Fedora Xfce 37 to existing (empty) partition
I have Fedora Xfce 37 installation .iso on a ventoy thumb drive. I want to install it on my M.2 drive in partition 6, which is currently formatted ext4. I get just so far: after I've selected custom ...
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Recover partition after moving to LVM2
I had two ext4 partitions. The first containing an old linux Mint OS and the 2nd containing backups. I started a fresh installation of Linux Mint from a live CD. At partition options I've choosen LVM ...
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Removing Linux Partitions
Hello all Had a complete disaster trying to install Linux Mint which caused a corruption in my start boot and sent my windows startup into a loop. I did a start menu fix from recovery and managed to ...
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Create a new hard drive for wdmycloud on larger disk
I am trying to follow the instruction wich can be found here I have followed all the instruction in the file "Replace HDD - English.txt" I have a new hard drive with 6therabyte my old hard ...
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Recover corrupted external hard drive on Mac OS
I have a Western Digital My Passport 4TB hard drive which has recently become corrupted. The hard drive is neither able to mount, nor does it show up on Disk Utility (of Mac OS) or third-party data ...
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I'm trying to install kali linux on a new laptop that currently has windows on it, but my C:\ won't appear when picking a partition to install on
I tried a new version of Kali on a new flash drive, I tried checking the bios, I tried to look at the drive, but realized I can't format my C:\ for obvious reasons, and I tried searching youtube for ...
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SD card has to be inserted multiple times before partitions are detected
When I insert a SD card on the slot for the SD card, the OS detects that a disk has been inserted, however the partitions are not listed so I cannot mount the card to access the partitions. I have to ...
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Can't mount external USB drive. mount: /dev/sdd1 is already mounted or /mnt/sdd busy
I'm trying to mount my external hard drive with this command on my Citrix hypervisor;
mount -o rw /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd
But I'm getting this error:
mount: /dev/sdd1 is already mounted or /mnt/sdd busy
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How to change the Partition Label on the vfat filesystem located on device /dev/sda1?
Note: this is about changing the Partition Label and not the
filesystem label
lsblk -e7 -o type,name,path,size,pttype,fstype,label,partlabel # see both, filesystem label and Partition Label
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Mapping of Disks and underneath "Primary/Logical" Partition(s) by Unix Terminal Prompt Commands and GRUB Prompt Commands (With GRUB Naming Convention)
In Unix ("Ubuntu/lUbuntu") how do I find mapping for Disk + Logical and/or Primary Partition Information between the "ls" output at "GNU GRUB Bootloader Prompt (GRUB Prompt) ...
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GNU/Guix USB .iso boot failure
I created a - what I believed to be - bootable GNU-Guix USB.
Selected USB as priority startup device.
I get a Grub Rescue screen.
On that screen I can ls two partitions - hd0, and hd1. I'm certain the ...
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How to hide a VeraCrypt partition from Windows Explorer?
My question is kind of opposite of What GPT partition type GUID should I use for a VeraCrypt partition? and I don't like a solution like https://superuser.com/a/1438051/:
I have an USB stick ...
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Kingston SSD Secure Erase not working
I have a hard drive that I cannot Secure Erase because there is still partitioning in the drive, but there are not any partitions left shown in disk 2 in the disk management tool, yet its not letting ...
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Windows Disk Manager merging HD Volumes
Problem:
Disk 2 of my Desktop, has 3 Volumes: D, E and I. What is happening is that in the middle of volume D, Volume E is appearing and then Volume D continues again. See in the image.
Objective:
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LVM, EXT4, mount points etc. I'm not even sure how to determine what the issue might be
I have a media server that used to work: 4 disks, EXT4, as a single LVM with 5 shares.
Working through other tutorials, when I execute the "lsblk" command this is what I see:
NAME ...
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Windows 7: Merge network drive and local partition
(When I speak of "distributed data storage" in this question I mean literally distributing the data so half is on one disk/folder and half is on the other)
Both computers in my situation are ...
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Reinstalling windows from scratch
I've just purchased a new PC. As expected, it came with a somewhat preinstalled windows (I wonder how that works, since it seems to go through the normal installation process, but ends up with ...
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Increase space in C drive without deleting any other drive
My c drive on windows 10 has completely run out of space. It has <200 mb of space remaining. I want to add more space. I tried the disk Management. It doesn't work. Nor does any other external ...
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How to make best use of only good sectors/partitions on a semi-faulty HDD?
Some time ago, I've been given a Toshiba 1TB external USB drive for free.
The reason for this giveaway was that the drive allegedly stops copying/reading at random and is therefore too faulty to use. ...
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Will macOS internet recovery remove my Linux Install?
I own a MacBook Pro from 2009 and I recently installed Linux on it (with a swap and / partition).
I recently made the stupid mistake of messing with partitions, which caused macOS 10.13 to stop ...
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Installing Windows over Ubuntu 22.04 - No Partitions shown
I have a Predator (PO3-640) PC.
I had windows 11 installed on it.
Using a bootable USB, I installed Ubuntu 22.04 over that Windows 11 install.
Now, I want to overwrite Ubuntu with Windows 11 again (I ...
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OSMC doesn't update due to no free space on boot partition
I have OSMC on Raspberry Pi 3b
and a 16 GB SD card
the most space on this card is free
... except of boot partition
apt-get dist-upgrade fails due to lack of free space on boot partition
apt-get ...
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Will my merged partitions disappear when I reset my laptop?
So I have this app called EaseUS Partition Master, which I used to merge my partitions/disks, so that my (C:) disk has more space, since I use the (C:) disk to save my games, so I don't lag in game. I ...