Questions tagged [partition-table]
a table describing partitions on a disk
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SSD partitioning on Linux (data loss)
I wanted to create new partition on SSD (i need it to create disk image using clonezilla).
I started from creating while I'm on ssd boot (means the system is running on ssd.
Then i got message: ssd ...
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How to recover an EXT4 partition from a failed journal
I have a virtual disk that is 86T in size with only 41% used. Th
I have an 86T second drive connected to my virtual machine(VM) as /dev/vdb1. The volume is fine, but when I attempt to mount the ext4 ...
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creating a bootable usb with GPT partition scheme to make use of linux .iso
The rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso to install from which is 14GB in size.
For a usb device (i.e. disk) that would show up in Linux as /dev/sdb for example, doing a cp rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso /dev/sdb ...
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can msdos partition be located past the 2TB point on a disk?
I have a 5 tb usb disk I use to copy a rhel-8.10.iso file to in order to install Linux.
In doing so the copy of that iso to /dev/sde creates an msdos partition table. And it creates 2 partitions.
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USB drive is not recognized due to a failed partition formatting
(sorry for my poor English)
I created a encrypted partition on my Kingston USB drive (/dev/sda) using VeraCrypt.
I was trying to format the partition using GNOME Disk Utility after mounted the ...
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No partitions visible on external hard drive
I'm trying to rescue data from Linux installation on old laptop. It was dual-booted with windows. I know there is at least 1 ntfs partition and 1 ext4. I can boot Windows on the old laptop, but linux ...
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Creating disk image with msdos partition table and fat32
I want to create a disk image file to include into my unittests. This disk file should contain a few files afterwards I want to read. When I create a copy of a SD card or a USB stick with dd the disk ...
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Ubuntu resize partition in in backward direction
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in a windows dual boot setup. This is the state of the partitions at the moment. (Windows Screenshot)
On my Ubuntu, I have the following
df -H ...
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Reboot into `initramfs` after altering partition table
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I recently upgraded my remote server contract with IONOS, increasing my hard drive space from 8GB to 80GB. I have an Ubuntu OS running bash.
I then went about extending my working ...
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Handle Partition Changes Embedded System
I have to update some outdated embedded systems. But the RAUC Update contains four partitions, while the old systems have only three partitions.
The additional Partition is at the start 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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How does Linux know there is a MBR partition table?
You might think this question is trivial because an msdos partition table MBR ends with 55 AA (hex). But it's not because disks formatted as FAT32 (with no partition table) end with 55 AA too.
I ...
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"Bad Jump in FAT partition" and "Bad number of sectors per cluster" right before ext4 offset
TL;DR partition table (?) potentially messed up by windows disk management on drive containing both NTFS data partition and EXT4 filesystem. Fairly certain zero or almost zero data was lost. testdisk ...
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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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How do I write a kernel driver for a custom partition table format?
I have a number of hard disks that use a proprietary partitioning system. The disks don't contain partition tables themselves, but each have a known number of partitions at fixed positions with fixed ...
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