Unanswered Questions
15,549 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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External HDD (1 EXT4 Partition) Won't Show Up On Other Linux Computer
I have recently formatted a Seagate 2TB portable HDD with 1 EXT4 partition (from my laptop running arch). When attempting to access this on my PopOS desktop, the drive will not show up in the file ...
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Conver EFI qcow2 image with multiple disks to MBR/BIOS booting image
I'm trying to convert a custom rhel9.3 cloud install image that has been made to run in UEFI so I can run it on a BIOS system. Where I'm failing is to make my new image bootable. and the reason is ...
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how to alignment the different TYPEs that could be output from lsblk?
On some machines we get
lsblk -l
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 180G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 raid1 /boot
sda2 8:2 0 179G 0 ...
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An installed program has been deleted by someone - how to find their identity?
13 days ago I asked about how to uncompress files downloaded from the arXiv math site, and I got the following response:
Downloading from the arXiv site and uncompressing
I downloaded files from the 7-...
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How can I stop Acrobat Reader from giving an error trying to mysteriously access an unloaded removable D: drive?
For a long time now, whenever I cause Acrobat Reader to launch, before it does anything else, it gives me this error message:
Each of the buttons (including the close button) result in simply ...
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Windows 10 - how to force monitor to be recognised as NON PNP
This might be a strange question, but I'm looking for a way to force Windows 10 to recognise a plug-n-play display as a non PNP display...?
It's a long tale, but the TL;DR is I'm working on upgrading ...
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Downloading from the arXiv site and uncompressing
When I want to download a math-paper I put out on the arXiv server, I get a file with filename "arXiv-xxxx.xxxx.tar.gz" and I'm having trouble "uncompressing" this file to get the ...
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What drive pool/RAID option is best for a home media server with uneven drive sizes?
I am building a DIY home server NAS with a DAS and Proxmox and don't need enterprise-grade redundancy. I am happy to use something other than Proxmox, I just like how easy it is to use containers and ...
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Installing Ubuntu over Windows - not detecting SSD
I had Windows 11 on my laptop until it decided to have BSOD every 5 minutes. I tried to check if the OS was a problem and then I booted into a live USB and everything went smoothly.
However, when I ...
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Issues Configuring Swap and Moving /home to a New Encrypted Disk on Ubuntu 24.04
I have Ubuntu 24.04 installed with the default disk partitioning settings chosen by the installer, including LVM encryption. I have two SSDs:
First disk with the following partitions:
/boot/efi
/boot
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How can I recover my Windows partition after GParted move process failed
How can I recover my Windows partition after GParted move operation fails due to power cut?
When I use disk management in the Windows, the deleted partition mark as RAW.
GParted
fdisk -l
Disk ...
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A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage
I am getting "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage during Gparted (resize/move) process of C partition.
I was trying to resize and move my C ...
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How to solve blue screen issue coming even after using a USB media?
I have an HP-i3-7th bought in 2018. I had dual booted it 4 years ago with Win default and Ubuntu secondary. A year ago it started malfunctioning because the boot would not work properly. If Ubuntu is ...
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Can a bad block from one partition affect other partitions?
I have an external SSD 1 TB plugged in to Linux-Laptop. I have created a small new partition - 10 GB size on it, so now I have 2 partitions on that SSD.
Both partitions are formatted with ext4 file ...
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Failed to boot Windows 10 after resizing volume
I have a late 2013 iMac dual booting windows bootcamp and iOS 11 with the rEFInd boot manager. I ran out of space in the boot camp partition, so I got gparted live on an USB to resize the volume. ...
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