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Ran fdisk on wrong disk which was part of an LVM
I wanted to add space to an LVM so added a Virtual disk to my Ubuntu 20.04 Virtual Machine.
The VM already had 3 disks
/dev/sda 32.2GB # OS Disk
/dev/sdb 537GB # Data Disk, part of the LVM: ...
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SD card has to be inserted multiple times before partitions are detected
When I insert a SD card on the slot for the SD card, the OS detects that a disk has been inserted, however the partitions are not listed so I cannot mount the card to access the partitions. I have to ...
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How to change the Partition Label on the vfat filesystem located on device /dev/sda1?
Note: this is about changing the Partition Label and not the
filesystem label
lsblk -e7 -o type,name,path,size,pttype,fstype,label,partlabel # see both, filesystem label and Partition Label
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How to restrict root access to other users/partitions
Setup:
Laptop dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10 or 11 (both are fine for me).
I have the issue where I need to install some anti-virus software as root on Ubuntu. However this software is really ...
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Installing Windows over Ubuntu 22.04 - No Partitions shown
I have a Predator (PO3-640) PC.
I had windows 11 installed on it.
Using a bootable USB, I installed Ubuntu 22.04 over that Windows 11 install.
Now, I want to overwrite Ubuntu with Windows 11 again (I ...
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Ubuntu server Full Space used but not
I use Ubuntu Server, I have a problem, when I start my ubuntu server it shows me that I am using the entire partition allocated to ubuntu,
which means that I can no longer install any package or any ...
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Extending encrypted partition (LVM, LUKS)
I'm running a dual boot (Win 10 Pro, Ubuntu 20.04) system on a single NVMe harddisk. Linux contains one encrypted root partition, an encrypted boot partition and a swap partition. As the root ...
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No '/boot' and '/boot/efi' partition after successfully boot
There was two nvme SSDs on my PC: Win10 on nvme0 and Ubuntu20 on nvme1. After removing nvme0, my PC boot failed with grub command waiting. I realized that it boot from the EFI of the nvme0, now the ...
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How to expand logical volume on existing physical volume on Linux
nvme0n1p3 has 8.5G, ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv has 4G. How can I expand ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv to 8G?
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1 259:0 0 ...
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Shared partition to be symlinked by both Dual Boot OSs
TIL learned Windows support symlinks for quite a time now and I do want to upgrade my Ubuntu...
I'm thinking of making a partition for stuff like downloads and documents that I could symlink to my &...
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What’s the difference between EFI system partition and Ext4 journaling file system?
I’m trying to install Ubuntu in a computer and I’m not sure about the partitions, swap area mJFSfile system and Reserve BIOS boot area.
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GRUB is undetected as a boot loader by BIOS
I have two SSDs in my system, I will call them s1 and s2.
I had a Linux system (Linux mint) installed on s1, and the disk manager showed me that s2 is occupied by a partition.
I wanted to use the ...
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Process to Create Bootable IMG Backup of Windows Partition Via LiveUSB
Is it possible to create a bootable img of my Windows10 partition via the gnome-disk utility?
Or rather, what is the best / recommended way for creating a bootable image of Windows partition via an ...
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How do I move all 3 windows 10 partitions into 1 extended partition
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but hopefully it is. My Windows 10 installation is using up 3 partitions on my hard drive which has a limit of 4 partitions. The 4th(and last) partition ...
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How to clone old small SSD into new larger replacement SSD in a laptop
I have a Thinkpad with a 500GB SSD, and it's split into a dual-boot of a 100GB Windows 10 partition and a 400GB Ubuntu partition. (Note: I'm comfortable nuking the 100GB Windows partition because ...
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