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Using the /home of a broken Linux installation as the /home of a fresh install on a different partition
I have been using Manjaro in dual boot with Windows for a while but I completely messed up my Manjaro installation, likely when trying to install printer drivers. Manjaro does not boot anymore as the ...
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Ubuntu hard disk mounted with no partitions
I have an Ubuntu system with 2 hard disks. When I type the lsblk the output is the following:
sdb 8:16 1 1.8T 0 disk /storage
sdc 8:32 1 1.8T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 1 1.8T 0 ...
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Programs crashing on WIN11 after creating Ubuntu dual boot
I installed Ubuntu on my PC in a dual boot setup with Win 11 (which I have used solo in the past).
I am having issues with programs (steam, chrome, steam games and discord) crashing or not starting ...
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Explain _ Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab
with
neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:'
OS: Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64
To re-purpose a drive ...
this drive was made raw by:
deleting all files
deleting all partitions by
using badblocks command
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Ubuntu / Unable to use partition / wont show up on lvdisplay, vgdisplay, nor pvdisplay
I am at a total loss. I have 100G set for my LVM, and have been trying to either expand it or just open up access to the rest of the partition on /dev/sda3. It shows up in lsblk but doing anything in ...
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Cannot mount sda3 "mount: /media/drive: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'."
Yesterday I installed ubuntu server on an old laptop to use as home server for Jellyfin and other applications. Everything is going great, until I run the 'df -h' command to check available space on ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu after format, it seems I have both Ubuntu versions now
Title can be confusing, I wanted to summarize my problem. I am open to suggestions, so sorry for that.
I had Windows 11 and Ubuntu 18.04 both installed as dual boot. I wanted to delete Ubuntu 18.04 ...
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How to confirm dd does Not erase the bad blocks list made by e2fsck? [closed]
How to confirm dd does Not erase the bad blocks list made by e2fsck ?
An old 1500 GB HDD (hard disk drive), without data,
took about 33 hours (1932 minutes) to run this command:
time sudo e2fsck -c -c ...
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Booting Windows from GNU Grub 2.06
UPDATE
I have managed to get into the startup menu with the F1, F2, F9, F10, F11 menu.
I am confused as when I hit F10 for the BIOS setup and then I go to boot options and select the USB and save and ...
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How to install GRUB into VDI booted using Ventoy?
I have an Ubuntu Server 22.04 install running from a VDI image booted using Ventoy which I'm trying to apt-get upgrade.
When it comes to reinstalling GRUB, I get the following message:
The GRUB boot ...
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Remove formatting and partitions on a storage device
Under some circumstances, normal partitioning tools refuse do the requested work;
i.e. removing partitions, and deleting the partition table is troublesome...
How to get past this state? Please ...
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I cannot find disk partition on ubuntu installation page ( screenshot attached in description)
Please I am carrying out a dual boot of ubuntu on my windows 11 home. I have gotten to the part where I have to cjoose a partition for the installation. I do not see my partitions. Attached is a ...
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Increasing available disk size in Ubuntu
I have a 250 GB SATA SSD. I was in a hurry while I was setting up the OS in this disk, so I selected Next in "Disk Partition" part without changing anything. I thought all of the disk will ...
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How to automatically format an SD card or a USB flash drive with one FAT32 partition that uses the entire storage space?
I have some SD cards with some existing partitions that I want to format to one FAT32 partition and I want to do it as automatically as possible. Best just using one command.
When I connect them their ...
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Not able to resize the filesystem within an img file
I have an img file with below partition table
$ sudo parted /tmp/disk.img
GNU Parted 3.4
Using /tmp/disk.img
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print ...
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