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changing grub boot drive
[You May try booting from a usb stick or running live ubuntu somehow]
Try using boot repair >>Advanced Options >> Grub Location this will allow you to write grub on a seperate partition ...
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Windows partition not seen
there is 2 ways to dual boot
at the bios/efi level, if the motherboard supports it, use its boot manager, and select between disks to boot. This obviously only works if you are using multiple disks, ...
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Do MBR partition numbers need to be contiguous?
Partition numbers cannot conflict. Physically cannot.
The partitions are recorded in a Partition Table, special place in the 0-block of the disk. These records are not a named records, they are placed ...
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Write a bootable image of system into an internal disk, without removing a data partition
Use fdisk to delete volumes sdb1 to sdb3
Still in fdisk, create a new volume sdb1, covering the whole free 100 GB
Now you only want to copy sda1 of your image to sdb1, so do fdisk ubuntu.img and print ...
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Grub install with encrypted Boot partition
grub-install is expecting to find /boot, but cannot, because according to your lsblk, it's at /mnt/boot... so you aren't chrooted into the new installation at this time.
But I agree with Sheldon: ...
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Grub install with encrypted Boot partition
I'm pretty sure that the ESP must be a simple (FAT-formatted) partition, not wrapped by LVM. While you can encrypt your boot partition, an encrypted ESP inside LVM is not gonna fly.
i am trying to do ...
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Implication of deleting an /etc/crypttab entry
Entries in /etc/crypttab works similarly to /etc/fstab: if the device listed there is not present, the boot process will try to wait for it and after some time the boot process will fail. It shouldn't ...
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LVExtend can't find space on physical volume
You increased the size of /dev/sda3 but you haven't yet told LVM that the size has increased. Use pvresize /dev/sda3 to resize the Physical Volume. This will automatically grow space availabe in the ...
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Scripting the partition shrinking
I understood what was wrong:
First, sfdisk accept the size of the partition, not the increment, so the + sign is wrong. One difference from fdisk is that the end is the sector number from the ...
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Boot partition full: Move to encrypted partition
Credit largely belongs to Guilhem Moulin, I merely simplify. Superuser will be required repeatedly and you may prefer to run command su for a root shell (alternatively, proceed commands with sudo ...
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pvcreate: Can't use /dev/sda: device is partitioned
Upon my first attempt, pvcreate -ff /dev/vdh did not work for me, whether or not the disk contains a partition.
pvcreate -ff /dev/vdh
Cannot use /dev/vdh: device is partitioned
I had to use wipefs ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 installation created a swapfile instead of swap partition. Is it normal?
This is NOT normal as it's unpredicted and uncontrolled behavior. I've made a clean install (ubuntu-20.04.1-live-server-amd64) on Virtualbox without LVM, root partition only with no swap partition ...
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How to to resize an ext4 partition from the command line?
The solution of noalo is obviously the best of all;
so much simpler than the others:
echo "- +" | sfdisk -N <partnum> /dev/sdX
Short explanation on how it works: -N means sfdisk will work on a ...
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Resizing partitions for EC2 FreeBSD instance without reboot
The problem we are having here is that while the low-level nvme driver recognizes the increased volume size:
# nvmecontrol devlist
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nvme2: Amazon Elastic Block Store
nvme2ns1 (655360MB)
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