Questions tagged [gpt]
Use this tag for GPT partition tables.
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How can I use existing EFI partition when installing Arch
I'm trying to install Arch Linux for the first time - I used the following video to learn how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTTp7gDRn4
In the video, the person explains how to do it in ...
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Using dd to restore a partition backup from MBR disk to GPT one
I have an ext4 partition backed up with dd on a MBR hard drive that I would like to restore to a new GPT hard drive. Can I just create an empty partition of the exact same size on that new GPT drive ...
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Recover Data from Formatted USB (HFS -> GPT)
I was applying this command on Wrong External HD
diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS GPT /dev/disk3
Now, I want to know, how to recover my files with structure...
Before Format
/dev/disk3 (internal, ...
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Backing up a device and restoring it including its partitions
Currently I'm going through each partition doing:
mount -o rw /dev/mmcblk1pX /mnt/pX
cd /mnt/pX
# backing up:
tar -czvf /tmp/partitionX.tar.gz .
...
# something went wrong, restoring:
tar -xzvf /...
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add additional msdos based partition using maximal amount of space
Stumbled about a problem with gpt:
[root@someserver ~]# parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 2.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: VMware ...
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Using gparted before installing Windows 10
I will be installing Windows 10 and Linux (dual-boot) on a new computer in a couple of days. I would like to use GPT instead of MBR for the partition table.
As I understand it (and have done in the ...
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Partition table not recognized by any of the partition management tools
I have an Android 8.0.0 device (https://www.tvbox-manufacturer.com/product_category/fire-tv-stick/) with eMMC as a storage medium.
The eMMC is removable (BGA socket on the Board).
The device boots ...
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Resize Raw Image with GPT Partition Table
I'm attempting to resize a raw image (created with dd) containing a GPT partition table and several NTFS partitions. I mounted the image using losetup, ran partprobe to update the partitions the ...
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repair gpt after cloning to smaller drive
I had a gpt-partitioned drive, with unpartitioned space at the end, I used dd to clone it to another smaller drive. Unfortunately Linux won't see the partitions on the cloned drive.
My understanding ...
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Any known install iso images using MBR partition and BIOS only installer?
I have a legacy BIOS motherboard which has broken USB-HDD boot capability. The manufacturer has stopped supporting it a long time ago although I subsequently obtained a slightly newer BIOS image and ...
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Can't disable swap on a GPT-based system
I want to disable swap on several running ubuntu 16.04 servers. I'd like, if possible, not to reboot them. From my research, it seemed that
running swapoff -a to disable swap until the next reboot
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How to determine sizes using sgdisk partitioning in bash script
I'm using sgdisk in a bash script similar to this:
sgdisk --clear /dev/vda --set-alignment=1 --new 1:34:2047 --typecode 1:EF02 -c 1:"grub" -g /dev/vda
sgdisk --new 2:2048:16779263 --typecode 2:8300 -...
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UEFI booting using live USB media used for MBR legacy booting
To create a UEFI live USB (running Ubuntu if that matters), my understanding is that the simplest method is to create a FAT32 partition and copy the files from the last ISO there. I would also have to ...
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default boot device missing or boot failed after destroying GPT data
I was trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 parallel to Windows 10. I was unable to find any of the partions while installing ubuntu and I came across this answer. I tried the steps mentioned by Walid Ammou. ...
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disk partitioning gui RHEL CentOS 7
question: should it be /dev/sdb that is mounted or /dev/sdb1 that is mounted when dealing with disks other than your operating system disk?
My issue is that with the Utilities - Disks from the ...
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How to avoid naming of partitions with parted?
If I run these commands:
parted -s /dev/sda \
mklabel gpt \
mkpart primary 1MiB 261MiB \
set 1 esp on \
mkpart primary 261MiB 50GiB \
mkpart primary 50GiB 550GiB \
mkpart ...
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parted: resizefs -1s did not work but resizefs -100% works
I'm trying to resize the GPT partition to the end of disk (SD card) using following:
$ sudo parted -s /dev/sdg -- resizepart 8 -1s
But I got the following error
Error: Unable to satisfy all ...
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Install Debian 10 on a system which have both GPT and MBR
I have a notebook which has two drives: one is an SSD and the other is an HDD. It also currently has both Windows 10 (SSD) and Windows 7 (HDD): I want to remove Windows 7 and install Debian 10. As I'd ...
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Grub not starting after moving drives
So I've got a Debian 9 machine with 5 hard drives in it. I tried moving these drives to a new machine and hoping they would boot. When I did this, I got "normal.mod not found" and it kicked me to grub ...
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On UEFI laptop, Linux Mint has crashed twice
In the last 2 months, I have installed Linux Mint 19.1 on two laptops. On the older of the two, a Samsung Rv511 (ca. 2011) using MBR partitioning, there have been no problems at all. Linux Mint has ...
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How to determine if a PC has a combination of GPT disk and legacy BIOS boot, where the boot code is read from the MBR?
In a comment, Johan wrote:
In the rare combination GPT disk + legacy BIOS boot, the boot code is
read in the old-fasioned way from the MBR
What is the proper way to determine if a PC has the ...
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Mounting windows server 2016 Azure VM GPT basic NTFS partition on linux
I have an azure blob (a .vhd disk) which is a copy of a windows data disk created by taking a snapshot of the live disk, then copying that snapshot to a temporary blob, which is the blob I have ...
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How to recover lost data after disk MBR to GPT conversion?
When I curiously selected to "create a new partition table" and the new type of it is GPT, GParted poped a warning message that "I may loss all...", but I still clicked yes, as I thought all the ...
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GPT header Backup
The first 512 bytes of MBR disk contains boot code and partition table, backing up (dd command) this area is useful.
I have switched to GPT right now, and want make a backup, is it in the same way to ...
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Kali Linux installation on USB drive
I want to install Kali Linux on a 64 GB USB drive and want to take it just anywhere and plug it in any PC and have my setup up and running. IOW I just want a HDD like complete Kali Linux portable ...
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unable to create a bootable USB Debian Stretch disk using LVM with GPT partitions
I'm stuck for several days whith a issue when I try to create a bootable USB disk GPT partitonned.
I would like this disk to be like a bootable "backup" disk for my live system.
(In fact the system ...
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How to mount a device of gpt type?
In Linux Mint 18.3 which boots from an HDD, I want to mount an external SSD.
When I run the command sudo fdisk -l, I get all the drives and partitions as well as the SSD and when I run sudo blkid, I ...
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What do the partition table types and flags mean in the output of parted?
In the output of sudo parted -l:
Model: WD My Passport 0748 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size ...
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In GPT, can a partition be partitioned further into partitions?
I heard that GPT makes MBR's distinction between primary partition, logical partition, and extended partition disappear.
In GPT, can a partition be partitioned further into partitions, in the same ...
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Installation and booting scenarios for combinations of boot sector (GPT or MBR), firmware (BIOS or UEFI)?
I think all the confusions in this post come from coexistence of old and new technologies and abuse of terminology such as mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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What is a generic name for the sector which stores the partition table of a disk?
If a disk uses GPT partitioning method, is its first sector still called MBR? What is a generic name for the sector which stores the partition table of a disk? Thanks.
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How install legacy grub to gpt uefi disk?
I have new computer with UEFI. I formated the disc as GPT (not MBR), made few small partions on start (as placeholders for UEFI, for boot, for swap etc ...) then larger partition for system / (and ...
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Am I able to install Arch Linux with the 100MB EFI partition that Windows 10 had already created on installation?
I want to dual-boot Arch Linux alongside Windows 10, which is already installed.
I am using UEFI-GPT.
On Windows 10 installation, it creates an EFI system partition as required by UEFI. This ...
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Dual Boot Linux Partition shows as Partition Table: loop in parted (Why?)
Recently I was checking into my partition scheme on my dual boot laptop (Peppermint OS, Windows 10). I was surprised by the output from parted /dev/sda12 (my Linux root partition)
Model: Unknown (...
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Realigning GPT partitions to 4k sector boundaries?
If I have an HDD with GPT, and the partitions are not aligned to 4k sector boundaries, is there a tool to realign the partitions to 4k sector boundaries?
Suppose I have UEFI stuff on the HDD in ...
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How to force GPT partitions in kickstart for Oracle Linux 6
I want to configure OL6 kickstart to install a system that boots from BIOS but uses GPT partitioning instead of MBR, even for disks <2TB.
The relevant part of my kickstart file looks like this ($...
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Are timestamps created with new GPT partition tables?
Are timestamps created with new GPT partition tables?
If so, where are they (i.e, headers, entries, GUIDs, labels)? How are they accessed?
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Will dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda wipe out a pre-existing partition table?
Will # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda wipe out a pre-existing partition table?
Or is it the other way around, i.e, does
# fdisk /dev/sda g (for GPT)
wipe out the zeros written by /dev/zero?
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Can't install Fedora 29 on Thinkpad W550s due to GPT
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W550s that already has Windows 7 on it. I would like to install Fedora 29 Workstation alongside Windows 7, but I have run into some problems.
The hard drive was formatted ...
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How to create a bios_grub partition during installing openSUSE?
When installing openSUSE Tumbleweed, I get a red warning before the last confirmation:
Boot from MBR does not work together with btrfs filesystem and GPT disk label without bios_grub partition. To ...
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GPT has incorrect entries
Through some series of commands, I managed to end up with a disk that is supposed to contain one ext4 partition, but fdisk, parted, and blkid all insist it contains an Apple RAID slice, which it used ...
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Problem with instaling GRUB/LILO in dual boot with windows 10 UEFI/GPT
I am having some issues when trying to install Debian 9 alongside Windows 10.
Everything goes smoothly until the GRUB installation comes up. After I pick the partition it starts to install and after ...
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Mounting GPT partition table in linux
I have a drive that I'm trying to mount in linux. The device is /dev/xvdf. lsblk shows two subdrives, /dev/xvdf1 and /dev/xvdf9
sudo file -s /dev/xvdf tells me that /dev/xvdf is a "GPT partition ...
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How to extend size of mounted ext4 /home gpt partition without loss of data?
I have GPT partitioning for my drive:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): ...
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Can I change an existing partition from MBR to GPT?
I needed to add extra 2.5TB to the existing 400GB disk (sda) on my system. I added new virtual disks with 2.5TB (sdb), proceeded to create the partition table with fdisk.
Used pvcreate /dev/sdb1, to ...
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Problem mounting and reading hard disk
I am trying to read the content of a 1Tb external disk. The device was part of an external nas (dlink 320) using raid 1.
when I plug the hard disk using the usb port no partition is mounted. The ...
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Partion table mmcblk0boot0 device
I created two GPT partitions in /dev/mmcblk0boot0 device. Now I want to format one of them. But I don't have any idea how to access to a single partition. When I created partitions on "normal" device ...
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Fsck on partition inside RAID broke file system AND RAID
What was: RAID 1 with mdadm on whole disks say /dev/md0 from /dev/sda and sdb, GPT with one partition on md0 and ext4 on this partition (md0p1).
What I think happens: after changing motherboard linux ...
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booting gentoo using uefi and gpt
I just used the amd64 minimal installation iso (installed on usb drive) to install and configure gentoo linux with the following make.conf:
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
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What is PARTUUID from blkid when using msdos partition table?
I use msdos partition table, so there is no PARTUUID supported (it's only on GPT partition tables)
root@xenial:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 200 GiB, 214748364800 bytes, 419430400 sectors
Units: sectors ...
