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How to extend btrfs subvolumes space using separate SSD?
$ lsblk -f -o +SIZE
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS SIZE
sda ...
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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 can I resize my Fedora Btrfs root partition to take up Windows space with my boot partition in the way?
I have a UEFI system on a laptop that's currently dual-booting Windows and Fedora 39 (KDE Plasma). I don't use Windows much, and need extra space on my Fedora partition. So, I need to shrink nvme0n1p3 ...
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Debian GRUB installer partitioning step - Intel MacBook Pro
I am trying to install Debian to a partition on my SSD. Currently I have three partitions on my SSD:
Container disk1 - AFPS container
macOS AFPS Volume Group
Linux - PCI-Express Internal Physical ...
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How to reclaim SSD space during formating
I've got a "1000GB SSD"
after creating partition (aligned to 2048) I'm down to
sdd 8:48 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 0 931.5G 0 part
which is fine, because 1GB means 1000bytes ...
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Recovering accidentally deleted partition on a solid-state drive using "fdisk"
As far as I know, a solid-state drive (SSD) stores data in different locations that the operating system cannot control. If I accidentally delete a partition, and then enter the exact start and end ...
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How to determine what is occupying hard disk space? [duplicate]
I have a primary SSD with all my stuff and a 2nd hard drive where I install my games. The SSD has a 120 GB capacity. Until recently, only ~20GB has been used, but something has happened and now 87GB ...
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fdisk reports partitions are misaligned even when they don't appear to be
I have a new 4 TB Western Digital SN850X NVMe SSD drive that I am trying to partition as a boot drive for Ubuntu 20.04. No matter what I do, fdisk reports that the partitions are misaligned, even ...
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mkfs.ext4: Invalid argument on raspberry pi
Trying to partition my SSD with this
sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda
I get the following error:
Creating journal (262144 blocks): mkfs.ext4: Invalid argument
while trying to create journal
Any clue why ...
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SSD with Arch Linux not booting after adding another SSD
I added a new SSD to the desktop machine that had an SSD with Arch Linux (wuth a rolling distro, no specific version). After I tried to boot, I had an error:
Initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic ...
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Mixed SSD+HDD setup with encrypted LVM
Before anyone dishes out the facile answer, my SSD is not large enough to hold everything. My /home is full of data, documents, and VMs, approx. 720 GB. I do not want to buy a larger SSD.
The SSD is ...
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How to split a partition into two without formatting?
There is only one partition in my SSD currently. That is where the Linux code lies. I am using ubuntu distro.
$ lsblk -l /dev/sda
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 ...
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Disk corruption after updating arch and restarting
I had Arch installed on a 128GB SATA SSD in BIOS/MBR mode. I did an update, (which also updated the kernel) and rebooted. Instead of rebooting properly, I got a GRUB rescue shell. I took the SSD out ...
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Adding second HDD (SSD)
Having a laptop with 240GB SSD, and I removed my dvd drive to put a second SSD (240GB) in DVD slot.
I see my second SSD in the BIOS, also in my file manager in Debian, but when I click on it, it does ...
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Is it possible to assign/limit a BTRFS subvolume to a particular device, and if so how?
My root (BTRFS) filesystem is on a small SSD, and /var is on a larger, slower, separately formatted (also with BTRFS) HDD. This works well, but I can't use CoW when copying files between the two ...
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