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“No valid partition table was found on this device.” + “Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!” + fdisk reads “7.3T” Size; How do I fix this?
Distro: Netrunner Blackbird (Debian)
I/O: Sata to USB cable
KDE Parition Editor: "No valid partition table was found on this device."
me@computer:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA LITEONIT LCT-128 (scsi)...
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Grub2 Not Recognizing EXT4 File System
I am trying to make a bootable kali linux usb and have it working for legacy bios computers. However, uefi is causing some trouble. The usb is split up into 3 partitions. The first is the efi/boot ...
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installing OpenMediaVault 4 from usb stick fails with "failed to create file system"
I've been trying to install OpenMediaVault 4.1.3 from an usb stick on my HP Microserver Gen8. I created the boot stick in various ways (dd, etcher, UNetbootin) but during installation (in the ...
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Best flash filesystem for backup /home in linux
I'm searching for a good solution to backup /home of my Debian linux system to a USB memory stick of size 128 GB. The directory /home weights about 65 GB and is formatted as ext4. Naturally, with the ...
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Ext4 superblock overwritten
System:
Embedded board with Atmel SAM9x25
Debian Wheezy Kernel 3.11.6
32GB Samsung SDHC card with ext4 root- partition (journal activated)
After system running two weeks or so superblock from ...
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Ext4 USB stick gets corrupted again and again
I installed Debian Wheezy (No GUI/Desktop) on a 4GB USB stick (because the harddrive of the machine was defective, currently the slot is empty), but shortly after, I got an “Input/Output error” when ...
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Creating ext4 partition from console
I have a volume /dev/sda1 (1.2 TB) containing an NTFS partition using 0.6 TB space.
I want to make an ext4 partition in the remaining 0.6 TB space.
I have not tried anything yet because I don't want ...
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mkfs.ext4 errors
I've just installed Kali Linux and am working with an img file I created from dd (/dev/zero). When I go to do mkfs.ext4 on it, I get
mkfs.ext4: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition ...
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from XEN to VMWare
I have migrated many xm virtual machine to vmware
Using http://www.zoobey.com/index.php/resources/all-articles-list/268-xen-to-vmware
, migrations were very smooth. But now I am struck in a xm ...
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