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How to move Linux Swap Partition - GParted

Gparted only showed grow the swap to the right and moving the beginning to be possible, even when deactivating the swap (swapoff). What allowed the move was to also close the currently active LUKS ...
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How to Mount a Bootable Debian SD Card on macOS and Windows?

I wouldn't do this on a Windows or Mac. If that's all you have, you can set up a VM on your windows or mac with VMware workstation, create a linux VM, run it, then mount it to the VM. Do this or find ...
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Can I increase the sound volume above 100% in Linux?

Gnome tweak let us do it general -> over-amplification
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How to increase number of workspaces in Debian 12?

Since not stated otherwise, I assume a gnome desktop installation. In the "Settings" tool is a section called "Multitasking". There, you either can let the desktop environment ...
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How to Mount a Bootable Debian SD Card on macOS and Windows?

If you want to customize a Linux distribution for your Raspberry Pi, modifying it directly may not be your only choice. Debian for Raspberry Pi can be pre-configured using sysconf.txt. This is also ...
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How to Mount a Bootable Debian SD Card on macOS and Windows?

For an OS to be able to 'mount' a file system, it must 'understand' the file system to be able work with: To present a folder / file list. to open files and create files. IOW, an operating system like ...
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How to troubleshoot CIFS error -13 (Permission Denied)?

I had the same problem and fixed it. Try below command: smbclient -L server_name -U user_name -d=10 > output 2>&1 then grep -i ntlm output I then changed my fstab entry: //hostname/share /...
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ssh: RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted

Finally found to reason for the rtnetlink error: I had an 'ip link ...' command in my .bashrc. This command requires root rights. Adding 'sudo' to the 'ip' command in my .bashrc solved the problem. If ...
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What's the equivalent of python3 -m pip install on modern debian-alikes?

I believe that Python 3.12 explicitly tries to protect system packages at all costs. Even if that cost is breaking previously accepted — and expected — pip3 behavior. Note: This answer is based in my ...
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Error updating Kali

While the root cause of the IP address 403'ing appears to be an issue with the apt gpg keys missing or they have changed. From the output: E: The repository 'http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling ...
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Wine not being given proper permissions?

Well... Would anyone believe that the .fonts folder was the culprit? Was trying to see what conf files it was trying to access and I saw it was poking at all the fonts. Comparing with the new user I ...
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I can't get fail2ban working on Debian 12

I solved this by installing python3-systemd which is in the recommends of fail2ban but I had installed fail2ban with apts --no-install-recommends switch. I'm pretty sure the standard way of having ...
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System no longer bootable: promise_fasttrack_raid_member

What does promise_fasttrack_raid_member mean? How could a raid issue appear in a non-raid system? The promise_fasttrack_raid_member means that the device has a "Promise Technology, Inc." ...
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Modem Manager can't find Mobile Broadband

Most likely, ModemManager cannot find it because of the same reason that allows you to access it via 192.168.0.1 (and which lets the modem provide Wi-Fi). In this mode, the modem does not look like a ...
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Calibre viewer doesn't fill window

I rolled back to version 7.10 of Calbire and that resolved the issue, must be a bug in one of the more recent versions.
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Calibre viewer doesn't fill window

Though Calibre is a superb tool, some of its E-book Viewers are poorly implemented -- they are slow to start, and often have flaws. However, Calibre allows you to set other viewers quite simply, so if ...
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Wine not being given proper permissions?

My personal preference is to get wine directly from the source, rather than wait for Ubuntu or Debian to update their version. Caveat: This does require trusting wine as PPA, which I do on a home PC......
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nftables does not catch a packet it has already seen

It is a feature specifically in the Netfilter nat hook1, of both iptables and nftables. Linux NAT is stateful, as it has the requirements that e.g. every packet belonging to the same flow would be ...
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WireGuard Throughput Issues

I have had issues with wireguard performance over WAN with 1 Gbps at one endpoint and 200 Mbps on the other endpoint and RTT ~ 128 msec. Both ends were runnin Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop with Intel WiFi ...
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Unable to set permissions for power operations under Debian Bookworm

There are three different concepts mixed here. First of all, you added the wrong commands: systemctl reboot is not /sbin/reboot! Despite the similarity, it is a separate /bin/systemctl program that ...
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`nvidia-driver` install failing due to kernel module build error

If you add bookworm-updates to your apt repository it'll fix the issue. Something like this: deb http://mirror.aminidc.com/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb http://mirror....
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