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BTRFS and disk usage mystery
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 119G 113G 5.5G 96% /
and BTRFS agrees:
# btrfs fi df /
Data, single: total=111.00GiB, used=110.53GiB
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Is it possible to install Debian within a Windows filesystem in the same manner as Ubuntu can be installed with Wubi?
I have a Windows 7 laptop whose hard drive has four primary partitions out of the box.
The first partition is labeled "SYSTEM" (209 MB NTFS) and seems to contain the Windows boot loader.
The second ...
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The attempt to mount a file system with type vfat in /dev/nvme0n1p1 at /boot/efi failed
Trying to install Debian dual boot with windows 10 on SSD but I have this error message : The attempt to mount a file system with type vfat in /dev/nvme0n1p1 at /boot/efi failed I forced EFI ...
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Debian root partition greater than 2TB
I have two internal hard drives: a 4TB drive and a 750GB drive. After selecting RAID0 and installing Debian (wheezy) to a single partition, I ran fdisk -l which reported that the size of my root ...
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debian installer doesnt allow for specific LUKS combination of multiple drives
so i have these 3 drives in my PC:
/dev/sda 240GB SSD Sandisk SSDSDA240G
/dev/sdb 1TB HDD WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0
/dev/sdc 2TB SSD TS2TSSD230S
i want to install Debian Bookworm (12) on /dev/sda. my plan ...
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Linux Root volume partition without losing the data
We have this scenario : we want to increase the disk space of one of our vm
root@Test-01:~# blkid
/dev/vda2: UUID="0eae0eb4-92ed-45ec-aa99-6d606f17e70a" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="...
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Choose install location on Debian installation
Noob here
I'd just like to know if I can choose where to install Debian during the installation.
Because I'll use a valid PC to boot up the installer to install on a HDD of an old PC that cannot ...
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Debian installer can't access eMMC Card
so for some backstory: a couple days ago, i bought a cheap laptop (a Lenovo Ideapad 1 with an AMD Athlon silver) and planned to install gnu/linux on it, replacing windows 10. previously i set up a ...
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Combine Debian netinst with a regular partition - USB
I wonder if it is possible to have a bootable Debian netinst USB drive while also retaining the ability to store regular files on that same drive. What I would like to have in the end is USB drive ...
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How to risize VirtualBox dynamic disk for Debian guest (windows 10 host)
I created a debian virtual machine with current version (5.2.2 r119230) of virtual box. I set up a dynamic disk with 20GB maximum. Current size as stated by VirtualBox is 8.31GB.
The problem is that ...
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ext4 SD card formatted on Linux, and will not show on OSX
I formatted an SD Card as ext4 on my Debian machine. Before I formatted I deleted all partions, created a single partion, and write the changes.
I was able to mount the SD card on my Debian box and ...
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Debian don't login as user after partition resize
I have a workstation with a Debian 8 with a XFCE and 8GB hdd. I want to resize a partition. I do:
e2fsck -f /dev/sda1
resize2fs -M /dev/sda1 #resize fs to minimal size;
fdisk /dev/sda1 #remove ...
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MBR and GPT confusion: installing Debian on macbook air
I'm following this question and trying to install Debian on my MacBook. I've lost that account so I couldn't accept that guy's answer (I'm sorry, I'll not loose this one).
So, I followed with his ...
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Installing Debian on my macbook air
I want to install Debian on my macbook air 13" from 2011. I'm following this tutorial: https://wiki.debian.org/MacBookAir4%2C2Testimonial
It starts by telling me to use bootcamp on OS X. I don't have ...
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Debian is installing to USB instead of HD?
I am trying to install Debian onto an old PC to practice some Linux sysadmin stuff but it continually install onto the USB instead of my hard drive. I have tried the guided and manual partitioning ...
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Deleting dynamic partition to fix windows - urgent
I created new volume in order to install Debian in it.
Once I succeeded.. Windows was unable to start. Freezes on Windows logo screen.
After a painful attempt of installing Debian, I just ruined my ...
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Installing Debian 7.6.0 on Lenovo Y50
I was trying to install Debian on my new laptop: a Lenovo Y50 64bit running Windows 8. I got together with a friend and installed Debian in his computer first and had no problems. However I've tried ...
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What Linux partitions must be bootable?
Specifically regarding / and /boot partitions. What dictates a Linux partition be bootable (requiring a bootable flag)?
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GRUB unknown filesystem error after managing Windows 7 partitions
I'm using Debian and Windows 7 located on one HDD, in dual boot. Windows 7 had two partitions (system partition C: and general-use partition G:). Recently I've cut the G partition in size and created ...
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Using same home partition with same username while reinstalling
I use Debian Lenny and would like to change over to Squeeze. My system consists of two partitions: lenny installation & home directory partition. I have all my personal files in the home directory....
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Moving from 1 Linux Partition to Many over USB Mount
We have devices which use Compact Flash for storage. They work OK, but we recently got industrial-grade CF cards to start using.
One of the major problems we get is corruption on the flash card. As ...
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Mac Partitioning Error (-69624)
I'm trying to create a partition on my Mac so I can run Debian, but whenever I try to partition my disk I get this error:
I've factory reset my Mac, and tried partitioning in recovery mode. I'm not ...
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Cannot resize partition on SD Card for beaglebone
I've been through a few different tutorials and I've been unable to resize my BeagleBone Black's filesystem.
After running /opt/scripts/tools/grow_partition.sh, I get this output:
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Dual bootin windows and linux
Hey firstly I don't know where to ask this question and I have not seen this type of question asked before. Although I have seen this question been asked here Linking Ubuntu Documents to Windows ...
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Debian 10 disk clone to lower sized disk
I am trying to clone my Debian 10 disk image that is currently installed on a 1TB HDD. I have resized the Linux filesystem Partition to 16GB and the rest is unallocated. The allocated space is at the ...
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Bootable USB with Windows Server 2016 not installing, loading after many attempts
Windows Server(2016) put on bootable USB not loading. Have tried to load from both mbr and gpt partitions. I am trying to load it on my Debian machine to turn it into a Windows Home Server 2016. I ...
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Linux (debian 9) - root partition full: move directories from / to external drive
I have a Debian 9 system which is installed on a single storage device.
The size of the device is a bit less than 4 GB, and there is a single partition, onto which the debian image has been written.
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Partman doesn't allow set mount point to a LVM on Debian installation
While installing Debian the partman doesn't allow set an LVM as root file system, cant set / as mountpoint to a LVM filesystem, but when choose "use entire disk and setup LVM" partman comes with a ...
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Resize extended partition on Linux
The setup (Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac - Debian Stretch 9.5 x86_64)
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector ...
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Linux Partition full but it is really not
I experienced a weird phenomenon right after the installation of Debian 9. It seems like my 2To /home partition (sdc1) is already full though I don't have much things in it yet
root@ripper:/home/...
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