Questions tagged [gpt]
Use this tag for GPT partition tables.
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Resize Disk Image with Protective MBR and GPT table
I've got a disk image that I need shortened slightly (long story - but it deals with variances in flash drive sizes). The partitions are already short enough, but the drive size is not.
Basically, I ...
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Unable to load into installed linuxmint os
I currently have Windows and Arch Linux installed on a drive with a GPT partition and grub. I am now trying to install Linux Mint alongside these two.
I am installing Mint on a second HDD (same PC) ...
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rEFInd won't boot /dev/sdb without manual edit of .../boot/refind_linux.conf
I have two disks running and I attempted to get them both bootable using 'rEFInd' with no luck. All the partitions on both disks are set up for UEFI/GPT the same way. I did:
% refind-install --root /...
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What is the significance of GPT's "Partition Type GUIDs"?
When I use cfdisk to create a new partition, I usually change its type to Linux filesystem. There's multiple types for most operating systems, but a very large number for Linux (architecture-specific ...
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How can I manually install a Yocto image?
I'm having difficulties installing an image I've built with Yocto. In the past I've always used u-boot, MBR, and legacy boot. Installing Yocto meant creating boot and rootfs partitions, installing the ...
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Convert MBR/BIOS to GPT/UEFI (infodump)
I wanted to upgrade my 1.5TB HDD to a 4TB SSD, none of the internet resources I found correctly matched my situation from beginning to end, and I ended up spending about 20 hours getting it to work, ...
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Cannot mount partitions from image
I have a dd image of an old SSD. It's been sitting on an external HDD for a while, but I have previously been able to mount the image and its partitions. Now, for some reason, I can only mount the EFI ...
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new USB stick: backup GPT table corrupt, primary appears OK
Kubuntu - I can't mount/partition a new USB-stick
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The
sudo fdisk -l
output is:
The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
Disk /dev/sdb: 61 TiB, ...
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install & configure grub within debootstrap chroot
i have a big knowledge gap in bootloading, thats why i'm actually practicing learning by doing. I have a dedicated test server and try to install linux over hetzner rescue with debootstrap. (Writing ...
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How to resize the GPT partition table itself on Linux?
I have cloned a 1GB pen drive to an 8GB one using dd.
But the size of the GPT is still 1GB. For example the secondary (backup) GPT is still located at 1GB (it has to be moved to the end of the disk).
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How to make Linux read partition table in a partition?
I have a (GPT-partitioned) disk, for example /dev/sda.
/dev/sda8 is a partition on that disk. I used the cfdisk utility to create a GPT table with few partitions in /dev/sda8. I expected these ...
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Boot problem after cloning
Guess this is the first time I post a question here. Have been playing with Linux and VMware servers for more than 10 years now. Lately I decided to move my focus on Debian desktops and ProxMox (again)...
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How can same GUID partition table be used in two different internal storage size?
I am looking at this mediatek soc that has two configurations 128gb and 64gb. The same GPT binary is being flashed at 0x0 so I don't understand how the same GPT can be used for two varying different ...
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Fix Linux grub with boot-repair with an old BIOS PC and a GPT drive?
I have a GPT formatted SSD Drive that I have moved from a rather new laptop to an older one that has an old BIOS. The Linux systems installed on it work fine (Kubuntu 22.04 and Mint 21), although I ...
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Copying a partition in GParted results in larger partition?
I copy a 300 GB partition using GParted, and paste it onto an existing 500 GB partition. After two hours of transfer it says it's attempting to resize the newly pasted partition, and immediately fails ...
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