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Does UEFI increase battery life?
I've heard about a better power management when using UEFI instead of BIOS. Is that true? It was about energy consumption being more efficient or something like that.
If it is true, has the ...
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Automatically run kpartx during boot
I'm running Debian Wheezy on an SSD, and in addition I have two 500GB hard disks in Intel software RAID 0 (fakeraid). Both the SSD and the RAID array have GPT partition layouts. I have set up my fstab ...
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GPT Partition - Used Space immediately after creating partition [duplicate]
I wanted to try out the new GPT system, and used it to partition my new HDD, with the partitions themselves using ext4. For some reason, about 1-2% of the space in each partition is already shown as ...
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Explanations of an Android image build script
I was getting one program for partitioning SD card.I have given that script below:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "example usage: $0 /dev/sdc \$ANDROID_ROOT"
exit 1
fi
DRIVE=$1
...
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Booting with UEFI in KVM [closed]
I would like to install Windows on my hard drive (which is GPT formatted) but I would like to be also able to run it virtually using KVM.
To clarify, the same Windows installation should be able to ...
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dual booting ubuntu and windows 8. w8 boots through grub shell, but not from menu
I have a laptop, with installations of Ubuntu 12.10, and Windows 8.
Windows 8 was first installed on the system, and Ubuntu was installed afterwards.
During the Ubuntu installation, the installer ...
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Remove GPT - Default back to MBR
I keep receiving this error:
Warning!! Unsupported GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected. Use GNU Parted
I want to go back to the normal MBR. I found some advice here and did:
parted /dev/sda
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Unable to create logical partition with Parted
I was fiddling around with parted command on a loopback disk and tried to create some partitions using gpt part table but I keep getting Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. when ...
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Using UUID's with mdadm
I'm using GPT as my partitioning scheme. I check the UUID's of my partitions:
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-partuuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 18 22:39 0793009a-d460-4f3d-83f6-8103f8ba24e2 -> ...
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Can GRUB2 share the EFI system partition with Windows?
I have an existing Windows 7 GPT installation, which already has a EFI System partition.
I am now trying to install a Linux on a separate harddisk, which is also GPT formatted. I did not find any ...
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Fedora 16 fails to boot after Win7 installed a GPT Drive
So, I have Windows 7 and Fedora 16 installed on my old HDD. Everything worked well and fine before I've had my new 3TB drive built in, which I initialized as GPT in Windows. Actually I initialized ...
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Gnu Parted Error in HardDisk of Linux?
Anyone help me, why the error getting when excuting the fdisk -l command in linux.
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support ...
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Where is the GUID Partition Table stored on a device?
A friend of mine used my USB stick to install a new version of OS X on his mac. Now that I got it back, I wanted to wipe it (I use Linux myself). However, I'm having a bit of trouble doing so. The ...
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Can't increase partition size with GParted?
I've got an external disk with 6 partitions: 4 for linux, one storage in HFS+, and one storage in ext4. I'd like to delete the ext4 storage one and move it's resulting unallocated space into my HFS+ ...
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Mounting a multi-partition (GPT/HFS+) USB 2.0 harddrive on Debian
I have a 3TB USB 2.0 hard-drive which has two HFS+ (Mac) partitions using GUID partition table for the partition records. It was partitioned with Mac OS Disk Utility. How can I mount these partitions ...
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Create partition aligned using parted
I'm partitioning a non-SSD hard disk with parted because I want a GPT partition table.
parted /dev/sda mklabel gpt
Now, I'm trying to create partitions correctly aligned so I use the next command ...
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Partitioning a 2tb drive
Im new to linux
Im planning to install Squeeze on a 2tb hard drive a follows:
/ - 10gb
swap
remaining space will contain /home, around 1.9tb i hope, i will try
to use as lvm to add my old 1tb drive ...
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Installing Arch Linux with UEFI Boot and GPT Layout
I'm trying to set up a dual UEFI boot Windows/Arch Linux, and have already installed Windows on a GPT layout through UEFI boot. I now want to fresh install Arch Linux using GPT layout as well, and was ...
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FreeBSD zfs create gpt
How can i create gpt marks on working system.
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
ad4p3 ONLINE ...
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What happens to partition labels after removing a partition?
What will happen to all the remaining partition labels if I remove a single partition? For example if I have a layout that looks like this:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4
/dev/sda5
and if ...
