Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.
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Problems moving home partition
I was running low in disk space on my Linux box, Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop, (specifically on my /home partition) so I added another disk to it and I am trying to move the home partition into it.
I am ...
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How to add a ms-dos partition table to a loop device?
I recently made a dd from a disk partition. I want to use it as a disk in a virtual machine. I can't because the disk has no partition table.
Can I had a partition table to a loop device? how?
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Trying to install Windows on a system that has Ubuntu 12.04 installed
I'm a novice in installing & debugging OS errors. I had Windows 7 installed & it crashed today (the great blue screen). No matter what I did (tried to install Windows 7 again & again from ...
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Format disk through rootfs terminal
I've got into a strange situation (because of my own stupidity of course:-)). I kept failing to install Chakra Linux from Live USB, so I was thinking that the reason could be that I created the Live ...
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Is it better to partition one drive or use separate drives?
I am a system admin with limited Linux experience, and have been tasked with setting up Cent OS 5.8 64bit install, and creating a template once complete.
My main client base will be developers, and I ...
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recovering ext4 partition after dd'ing over start of HD
I accidentally used dd and wrote over the first 208MB of my external disk. What I wrote over is a partition on its own (Debian nestinstaller) so what I see now is not my old (now damaged) ext4 ...
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Mount NTFS image file created using partimage
From an old disk which I don't have at hand, I have created a file named winxp.img using partimage. As the filename suggests, the partition contained Windows XP and was formatted with NTFS.
(The ...
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How to mount an encrypted TrueCrypt partition always in the same point?
I just formatted my external HD and divided it in two partitions: an ext4 where important information will be, and a ntfs for "compatibility" things (i.e. movies, music, etc).
I encrypted the ext4 ...
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How do I make use of unused space on my boot drive on FreeBSD
I have an old FreeBSD Server (running 7.3-RELEASE) that desperately needs additional storage. In fact, it has some-- the original 20G SCSI drives have been replaced by 300G SCSI drives, so in theory ...
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What is the concept of Drives in Unix Systems?
In windows, we have C drives where all the softwares are installed and other partitions e.g; D, E etc to store our data. Now once we reinstall the windows for some reason, we install everything again ...
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How to Expand LVM2 Partition in Fedora Linux
I've been using Fedora 15 on a VMWare virtual machine. Over time, the disk space I initially allocated for the file system began to run out, only 12GB left. I've expanded the disk space an extra 25GB.
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mounting on boot - how to edit
How does linux know which partition should be mounted at which directory? Where is this info stored?
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Moving a root directory to a separate partition
I'd like to create a new partition and move the contents of the /var directory to it for the security reason of having /var/www and other subdirectories "mounted" with nosuid, noexec, and nodev ...
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What's the limit on the no. of partitions I can have?
I would like to know how many Primary and Extended Partitions can i create in a x86_64 PC with Linux running on it?
Update :
If there is limit to the number of partitions, then why is it so?
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Partitioning. Arch vs Ubuntu manuals
I got a little confused after I had read advices on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning and on https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/powerpc/directory-tree.html. Why is there ...
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Is there an excellent tutorial on how to resize a rootfs partition (and shrink another) on a drive that is 100% allocated?
I'm experiencing the all-too-common "root partition full" situation. 100% of my hard drive is allocated. My home (ext4) partition has plenty of space to give up for my full root partition (rootfs).
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Move / to a new partition
I have Windows 7 and Debian dual-booted on my laptop. I'm getting cramped for space on the Debian side, so I want to remove the Windows partition and use the whole computer for Debian. I'm currently ...
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How do I backup everything?
What can I use to create a backup image of my entire system that will be saved on a LAN computer via SSH? If I break anything later, I want to be able to restore my entire system as it was before the ...
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Best Disk Partitioning Scheme for a Linux-based Developer Machine
Is there some kind of "best disk partitioning scheme" for a Linux-based web and application developer machine, in terms of performance, organization or others?
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Why is my /home separate from /?
I was confused why I was getting out of space errors so I ran df and saw this:
[me@fedlap /]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 43G ...
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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 ...
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Finding all partitions with filesystems
I'm writing a script that will copy all of the files on a device to a directory. The problem is that some of the devices have multiple partitions and some of the partitions don't have filesystems to ...
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Mystery of a small 1K hard disk partition, and is it safe or malware on Ubuntu 12.04.02LTS Amd64 generic
Look at my bizarre sda4 partition. It is just 1K in size! Be mindful that this is not cluster size, this is partition size. I did not knowingly install this sda4 super small partition. This is not ...
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How should I prevent data corruption on an NTFS partition shared by Windows and Linux?
I use Linux for most of the things but I still need Windows sometimes. So, I have Linux Mint 14 and Windows 8 installed (dual-booting) on my computer with the following disk setup:
sda1: The 350 MB ...
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LVM with SSD and SATA hard disks
Is it possible to create LVM partitions for both SSD and SATA hard disks? I mean if there isn't any conflicts.
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Backup of LVM2 logical volume
I'd like to make backup on external drive of LVM2 logical volume in dd manner.
Approach I consider is to
make lv on extranl drive with identical size
copy with dd
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Why does the /boot partition get updated when I install software
Based on some recommendations I read online, on install of a new (Ubuntu) system, I made my /boot partition separate from / and small in size (only around 50 MB). It makes sense to me that you would ...
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How do I create a separate partition for my /home directory?
I was reading http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Installation_Guide/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html, but it's not clear to me what this means. What's an LVM Volume Group versus a Hard ...
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How do I resize a partition in Ubuntu linux without losing data?
I ran out of space in my on the drive only to find that there was another unformatted partition in the system that is available. I now want to resize the current partition to take in the empty ...
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Change main partition size to install another distribution
I have CentOS 5.5 installed, I have no un-partitioned space and the only ext3 partition I have is huge with lots of free space.
Can I change that partition size in order to allocate another one? I ...
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Linux partition table
What kind of partition table does Linux create by default? Is it msdos?
Is it different depending on the Linux distribution used(I'm using Ubuntu)?
Is there any command line utility I could use to ...
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fdisk. What does the “free” partition mean?
I had two primary partitions (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2). Then I created an extended partition to segment it into logical partitions.
After I had typed fdisk /dev/sda and n (add a new partition) the ...
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Cannot create a partition after the 4th
When using cfdisk to partition for Arch Linux, I found that after the 4th partition, I can't make any more.
I'm using VMWare Player as a VM, and I'm using a single fake HD file. Earlier I thought ...
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Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7
I've reinstall windows 7 on it's asignated partition and, as usually, it override the MBR with it's own stuff and, thus, it was not possible to boot to my ubuntu 12.04 partition.
I followed the step ...
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How to change the volume name of a FAT32 filesystem?
I know I can set the volume name when I format the partition with the -n option of mkfs.vfat. But how to just change the name without formatting?
I especially want to be able to use lower and ...
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How do I determine the new size for resize2fs?
I want to shrink an ext4 filesystem to make room for a new partition and came across the resize2fs program. The command looks like this:
resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/ExistingExt4 $size
How should I ...
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Is it possible to overwrite your mounted OS partition with dd?
I was just wondering if I could run the following command on my mounted OS partition i.e. the one I booted from:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
I can't really experiment with this because ...
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Root filesystem nearly full - should I be worried?
me@netbook:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 323M 292M 15M 96% /
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs ...
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How to change mount points
I'm not very deep into this mounting/unmouting think on Linux, so here goes my question:
With df -h I get the following overview:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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Installing a second hard drive
My system currently runs an XBMC live install. I am installing a second hard drive in my system, but I am somewhat of a linux newb and only know the basics. Since it is XBMC I believe I need to do ...
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extending a partition by resize2fs
I have a 4 GB SD card. Before the image load
root@ubuntu# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes
49 heads, 48 sectors/track, 3292 cylinders, total 7744512 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * ...
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Graphical Btrfs tool
Is there a graphical tool for creating Btrfs sub-partitions and in particular, subpartitions like "GParted" or "system-config-lvm"? I'm running Debian squeeze.
In response to the first comment, Btrfs ...
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Can I safely resize my partition from its beginning?
Currently dual booting Windows 8 and Linux Mint 14, sooner or later I will give more space to my Linux system.
Is resizing my Linux partition from the beginning a safe operation ?
If yes, could you ...
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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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Help with unzipping a .dd.gz, possibly corrupted
I recieved this file that I was told was a copy of a hard drive (or disk). The file is "sheeva-mem.dd.gz". I tried to unzip the file in a linux Fedora machine. This yielded "unexpected end of file". ...
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Changing partition sizes on FreeBSD using bsdlabel
I have recently installed FreeBSD but I don't like the partition sizes that I accepted during installation and would like to change them. I have followed the instructions to do so in the man pages, so ...
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Why my partitions don't show the right capacity on a 4096 byte physical block hard drive?
After reading a lot about why newer 4096 byte physical block hard drives should be partitioned taking care of alignment (Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice, What is partition alignment and ...
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Writing Linux Kernel module for non-MSDOS disk labels/partition tables
Linux supports a set of different disk label or partition table formats. For example, Sun Disk Labels and MS-DOS partition tables are both disk labels that contain (largely) the same information ...
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How to extend an ext3 partition over LVM inside a file (virtual machine)?
I need to extend the root partition of a virtual machine (VM) using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) . I can afford a few minutes of downtime so a VM shutdown/reboot is fine.
The virtual hard disk is in ...
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Linux Mint: drives' map changing at reboot brings fstab error
I've set up fstab to auto mount media drives on a Linux Mint machine.
The OS is installed on a IDE/ATA Disk while 3 SATA disks hold data to share.
The BIOS has the ATA disk as first boot device.
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