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Combine partition with free space [duplicate]
I want to use the remaining free space on my hard drive, however there's a problem:
Running cfdisk outputs:
Label: gpt, identifier: CEE38D42-DBB8-4F74-ADA6-1BC2A5E46AE1
Device ...
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Unable to mount disk image after creating in Arch
I have quite the problem right now. I have created a disk image of my Arch install by using this command sudo dd if=/dev/sdX bs=8M | pv -cN source | zstd | pv -cN zstd > out.img.zst, then ...
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Can I mount rootfs from file localed in other filesystem
I want to boot Linux on my PC, but I am not allowed to create additional partitions on the disks, and booting from USB is slow. I have two disks, on the first one I installed Windows 10, and on the ...
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Dual boot separate shared partition vs shared home partition
I want to make a comfy dual boot of windows and linux (arch I guess) so their downloads, documents etc. are the same. I think that would be quite convenient.
And I'd like to use a separate home ...
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BIOS doesn't recognize Linux drive/partition
Today I bought a new SSD (Kingston SNV500G) specifically so I can install Archcraft on it without messing with Windows 11 partition.
I installed the distro and went to bios to switch the boot order ...
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Having trouble using HDD alongside SSD on arch linux
Cant use both my hard drives on my new setup
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I recently switched from a windows setup to arch linux as the title suggests, I have backed up most of my important things on an external ...
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Attempting Format for ArchLinux, get the “is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!” error
I've been searching and trying for a few hours on this one.
The most common answer/ explanation I saw was that the drive in question was part of a raid array. However, I have no raid array setup on ...
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How to solve mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3 error /dev/sda3 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here?
I am trying to install Arch Linux on a VM in my Windows pc
The Installation guide on the arch website doesn't say how to make the partitions. So I used this tutorial to do so,
But when I tried to ...
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Partition an existing partition for installing an OS?
I am trying to install multiple OS's as an experiment: my disk is already partitioned into 5 partitions as seen below:
Partition 2 contains a Linux mint installation, while partition 3 contains a ...
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"Cannot initialize conversion" when formatting boot partition while installing arch linux
I'm trying to install arch linux but when I run mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/vda1 to format my boot partition, it returns:
mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
Cannot initialize conversion from codepage 850 to UTF-8: ...
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grub unknown filesystem. dual booting windows and arch linux
Device: Dell xps-15 9510 running latest arch
I dual boot windows and arch using grub bootloader
I restarted my computer yesterday and was put into grub rescue due to unknown filesystem.
'ls' lists all ...
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Grub: no such partition
I have dual boot (windows,arch linux) I've changed something in Windows disk manager and after rebooting and booting up in arch I get the following error: Grub: no such partition
I've found a fix for ...
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Can I resize a partition that I am currently booted into?
I would like to increase the size of my root partition. I was thinking that I could run fdisk /dev/sdb delete the sdb2 partition and create a new one that is bigger. However, I have read that I need ...
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How to properly expand /boot FAT partition (for Arch Linux)
This post is actually a continuation of this GParted answer.
I was trying to update/upgrade my Arch dual-boot with Windows, but my /boot partition was too small (100MB). So I expanded it with 1GB via ...
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GParted Maximum /boot Partition Size?
I have an Arch dual boot system with Windows on my desktop PC (not a laptop). It's been while since I've last messed around with it and now I would like to "revive" it. One of the first ...
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