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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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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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`/var` is full and mounted on a separate partition
During the installation of Debian, accidentally I separated /var from root. Here is my df -h command output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3....
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Enlarged partition of remote Debian server, now it does not boot
I have a Debian 10 server (hosted on IONOS).
I increased the size of my SSD from 240 to 400 GB.
Then I wanted to increase the size of the partition to use the space.
I used fdisk to delete and the ...
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Repartition luks encrypted disk to add a partition
I have installed Debian on VMware, I think I chose one of the debian-installer options to manage luks encryption and LVM partitions with separate /home, /var and /tmp partitions.
Here is the output of ...
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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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Mount a single partition on a physical disk as two paths in Linux
My computer has two disks:
256 GB SSD
4 TB SSD
I have Linux installed on the 256 GB SSD. So / is mounted on it.
I want /home and /data to both be on the 4 TB SSD. But I don't want to create two ...
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Windows partition is no longer detectable, how can i fix this?
Long story short: I bought this new flamboyant pc with Windows 11 preinstalled on it, and I wanted to set up a dual boot with Debian.
I'm not a Debian pro (more familiar with Ubuntu), so i tried quite ...
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blk_update_request: I/0 error, dev fd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ)
I have implemented A/B partitions on a Debian system to easily be able to upgrade in case of a failed upgrade. I have both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as bootable with Debian 11 and can switch between ...
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Debian 11 preseed with LUKS and LVM
I've been trying to automate a Debian install on bare metal with preseed, but I'm stumbling on not being able to partition the filesystem correctly.
What I want:
EFI Boot
Swap
Encrypted FDE with a ...
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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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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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How to migrate a Debian DOS partitioned VM to GUID for partitions > 2 TB
we have a outdated Debian 10 VM with DOS partition and 2 * 2 TB Partitions.
How is the elegantest way to migrate to Partition schema GUID so that we have
one 4 TB Partition and optionally make it ...
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How can I set reserved blocks for a NTFS file system
I have an NTFS partition that I need to share with Windows that is on DualBoot on my computer, this partition now has 56GB free, but when I try to save anything on it, Linux says it's full due to ...
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How to move Linux Swap Partition - GParted
I have a dual boot machine with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
I want to allocate my space to my home partition but I have to move my Linux Swap Partition.
How can I do it?
Here are my partitions ...
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