Questions tagged [parted]
A disk partitioning and partition resizing program.
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parted not recognizing loop device
I created a loop device with
$ truncate -s 20G test.img
$ losetup -fP ./test.img
$ losetup -a
/dev/loop0: [0032]:4051 (/tmp/test/test.img)
lsblk is able to see it just fine
$ test]# lsblk
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Move partition to end of disk
I have a VM on Promox running Debian 11. I need to increase disk space, so I've resized disk in Proxmox GUI. But now, I need to enlarge root partition.
This wouldn't be a problem, if root partition ...
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How to resize partition in-between other partitions (CLI)?
How can I resize some partitions on a disk where there are other partitions before and after it?
I've found plenty of guides on the Internet about how to resize a partition (eg with parted), but they ...
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cannot mount vfat partition after running efibootmgr
I have created partition on my USB disk with parted
parted /dev/sdb
mklabel gpt
mkpart boot fat32 0% 1024MB
set 1 esp on
set 1 boot on
then I formatted the partition
mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb1
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HowTo Enlarge volumeGroup
I run an ubuntu server and used cloneZilla to uprade my SSD from 256G to 1TByte.
My /dev/sda3 has now a 1TB partition, but I can use only 256G as volumeGroup.
How can I enlarge my volumeGroup?
Thanks
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Cancelled ext4 shrink and now I can't seem to format the drive? parted, fdisk etc won't run with the drive
I was shrinking an ext4 partition, however it was taking too long so I thought I'd just start from scratch (making a new partition and wiping the data). However after I cancelled the resize (which was ...
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How can I resize partition in my case?
(parted) print free
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 322GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File ...
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Wrong dependencies while upgrading to debian 12
I'm upgrading my debian 11 to 12 version and I'm blocked with apt. Error:
parted: depends libparted2 (=3.4-1) but 3.5-3 will be installed (or "is installed" according to commands done)
do ...
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Regain full disk space after copying a small image file to a large USB device
I'm copying an image file (size: 2GB) to an USB disk on /dev/sda (size: 2TB) using dd:
sudo dd if=2023-05-03-raspios-bullseye-arm64-lite.img of=/dev/sda bs=4M status=progress conv=fdatasync
After dd, ...
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Recover from parted -s /dev/sda1 mklabel gpt
Ok. Please don't judge me. I had no coffee yet when I did this...
I tried to format a new USB drive and the drive didn't mount and I didn't think straight... long story short, I did
parted -s /dev/...
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resize partition overlapping parted
parted -s -a opt /dev/sda "print free"
Modèle: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disque /dev/sda : 268GB
Taille des secteurs (logiques/physiques): 512B/512B
Table de partitions : gpt
Disk Flags:
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How to retrieve the deleted Partition table on linux?
I'm using the Ubuntu server. RAID 0 based logical volume was working fine on our server, but suddenly on restart of that server, the partition table is got deleted. Having some important data in that ...
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Error: Partition(s) have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change - Ubuntu 18.04.6
I'm running an Ubuntu VM in Azure and am unable to notify the OS of partition table changes.
az@prep-vm:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb --script mklabel gpt mkpart xfspart xfs 0% 100%
az@prep-vm:~$ sudo ...
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Change the size of the partition using parted
What am I doing wrong?
I have an image, I added it as a loop device:
losetup -P /dev/loop13 ./my_image.img
gparted screenshot:
Then I try to change the FS size for the partition first:
e2fsck -f /...
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How to set a label and UUID for the entire drive?
I notice that some drives have label and UUID assiged on a drive level
$ lsblk -dno PATH,LABEL,UUID
/dev/sda SYSTEM 2019-02-12-05-40-19-00
/dev/sdb # No label & UUID
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Why does `parted` accept "xfspart" argument as valid `part-type`?
The Azure tutorial Use the portal to attach a data disk to a Linux VM shows the following command to prepare a disk:
sudo parted /dev/sdc --script mklabel gpt mkpart xfspart xfs 0% 100%
Looked at the ...
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parted + is it correct to create disk partitions in Linux only by percentage
we want to create 2 partitions from each new disk by parted command
as the following example:
sdg 8:96 0 50G 0 disk
├─sdg1 8:97 0 25G 0 part
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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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How to use parted in script mode?
I'm trying to troubleshoot a script that used to work in some scenarios before. If I substitute script variables, what I'm trying to run is:
parted -s /dev/sdb unit MiB resizepart 1 307199
This ...
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Fix GPT after using dd to clone a smaller disk onto a larger disk
I used dd to clone a smaller disk onto a larger disk, however now when booting I'm getting dmesg errors of:
[Fri Sep 30 11:48:43 2022] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the ...
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How do I find out what is the hard disk for OS in Linux
in our bash scripts , we have many places in the code that need to capture only the disk that related to OS ( operation linux/RHEL system )
we are using Linux versions as 7.2/7.5/7.6/7.9 , and on most ...
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bash + how to automate creation of disk partitions in Linux
here is example from our rhel server machine
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 0 20G 0 disk /data/sdb
sdc 8:32 0 20G 0 ...
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Restore from Full Disk Image to Single Partition
For major version upgrades, Tails recommends this convoluted upgrade path where you write an image on a fresh USB drive, then clone the OS partition onto your original USB drive. I'm trying to figure ...
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Extend the OS disk on Ubuntu 20.04
I have a VM on Azure with Ubuntu 20.04, the partitions looks like :
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs ...
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What are the detriments of not setting MSFTDATA flag when making a exFAT partition?
I have several external HDDs that I backup data to and occasionally plugin internally when I need access to the data.
I erased all partitions by making a new GPT partition table on the disk.
I made a ...
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Is there any benefit to partition the disk if only one partition is required? [duplicate]
I believe we could use the block device directly to do mkfs or create one partition through parted on linux and mkfs on top of the primary partition. However, I'm not sure if there is any ...
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Parted on /dev/mapper/, What are the differences between Ignore and Cancel?
I am using parted to partition a /dev/mapper/luks_device. I know that I have to use kpartx to load the partition mappings afterwards (with reference to this thread). However while creating partition ...
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Which "file system type" to choose in "parted" for an LVM volume?
Running RHEL 8, the parted utility asks for a "File system type" for the partition being created.
If I plan to use LVM which should I choose? does it matter or I can choose any type of file ...
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Why does Parted mkpart ask for file system type, if I can later format with another file system? [duplicate]
What I Did
I attach an HDD, lsblk -S shows this drive as sdc
I use sudo parted /dev/sdc/ to start parted against sdc
I create a partition table as: mklabel gpt
I make a partition: mkpart my-cool-...
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Can't write SD card partition table
I can't write the partition table on an SD card. IOCTL error. I can't delete it, either, neither in Linux using parted, cfdisk, or fdisk, nor in Windows, which just says format didn't work. The ...
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Partitions for loop device not found from script, visible elsewhere
I'm currently trying to partition and then format a disk image using parted, by first mounting a blank disk image onto a loop, creating the appropriate partitions, and then formatting these partitions ...
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How to replicate bios_grub partition?
I have a 60GB AWS volume which I want to shrink to 30GB. The plan is to manually recreate the same partition table (with the only difference being the main partition size), and then use partclone to ...
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Is there a way to protect a disk from being formatted by parted?
It happens that here in my company we have our mail servers and everytime we need to upgrade disk space, we add a new disk in our VM and add it to the LVM, format it with parted and add the partition ...
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extend logical volume using parted via script
I would to extend my logical volume via script.
Before i had vm with 10 GB hdd, i incerease hdd 5 GB more, then its toatal 15 GB.
What manually i run command to extend hard disk as follows:
sudo ...
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how to backup an SD card (containig OS) that is *not* properly seen by other computers, except it works fine to boot the OS(!)
I have this RaspberryPi booting from a 32 Gb sdcard. I took it off the RPi to make a back up but the card shows as a 32 Mb single partition everywhere I plug it.
On my other Raspberry it is listed as ...
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parted: create swap partition on gpt disk (one liner) not working
I am trying to create a swap partition in my script using parted based on the Arch Linux guidance.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Parted#Partition_schemes
Somehow it is always sort of skipping the ...
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Move and shrink a partition at the same time
It is possible to shrink a partition with, for example, parted.
It is also possible to move (copy) a partition from one hard drive to another, by creating a partition of the same size on the target ...
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Disk partitioning and resizing
I installed Kali along side windows 10 but I just realized that I allocated too much space for Kali while I am running out of space in windows is there any way I can reallocate some of Kali space for ...
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How can I fix LVM PV size after a botched encrypted partition shrinking
I apparently messed up today.
I have to resize an encrypted root partition to make room for a windows dual boot.
I followed instructions from the arch wiki since it seemed to match my needs even ...
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Why does drive image show different start partition free size?
I made an image of /dev/sdc. The free space before the first partition isn't reporting the same byte sizes, but why?
The start position is reported as 1024B on the drive and 16384B on the image?
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rhel + how to increase sdb1 after increasing sdb disk
on our rhel 7.2 VM server we increased the sdb disk ( not LVM ) from 200 to 220G , as the following ( sdb is with xfs fs )
sdb 8:16 0 200G 0 disk
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how do I shrink a partition, right after shrinking its filesystem with resize2fs?
This is what've done to shrink /home partition filesystem:
e2fsck /dev/sda1
resize2fs /dev/sda1 150G
As of now, if I run df it is going to show me that the partition has shrunk from 210G to 150G (...
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Can you delete a partition and the filesystem on it with parted?
I created a partition with parted and then removed it using parted /dev/<partition> rm partition number. After that I executed partprobe,udevadm settle and systmelctl daemon-reload. Then I used ...
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External drive partition mounting but not found in parted
Here is my situation :
I have an external hard drive of 320Gb.
The drive is plugged using a disk docking, and mounts automatically when started.
I can explore the directory tree, read and write in the ...
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setting partition type in non-interactive parted command
I have a new disk in Linux (Centos):
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 536 MB, 536870912 bytes, 1048576 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 ...
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GPT disk looks different in external docking bay and internal swap bay
I have a hard disk that I use for backups via a USB 2.0 docking station. The disk has a GPT and one single ext4 partition. Everything is fine via the docking station, but if I attach the disk to an ...
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broken pendrive. gui software is crashing. any ideas for commands ? it only seems for not lagging
yes. problem is :
when i connect his pendrive PC automatically slow down
after trying to change something in gparted, program immediately lags and i need to force close
systems I'm using - ubuntu ...
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How to run parted mklabel in a script without user prompt?
I am trying to write a bashscript that will re-partition a drive using the parted utility. Since it is running in a script, I would like parted to not prompt the user for input (or alternatively, have ...
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dd cloning process keeps the partition table but not the logical volumes and their names, why?
So I Am trying to clone a drive using dd via the following command
#dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64k status=progress
the command does what it is supposed to for the most part but the usb which was ...
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Linux partition end is greater than the physical disk and partition size
I have two partitions on my hard drive. /dev/sdb1 for my entire system and /dev/sdb2 as a swap drive. I had a couple of system crashes and thought that I might need to increase the size of my swap ...
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