Questions tagged [linux]
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How to increase the size of the boot partition size on a preinstalled system without data loss?
I want to dual-boot Windows 11 and Arch Linux, but the official Arch Linux wiki does not have instructions for doing so on a pre-installed system, in my case an MSI Codex R2 A. Windows 11 Home came ...
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What are the meanings of the columns in the output of lsinitrd?
I am attempting to diagnose some Linux issues. I am using lsinitrd to view the contents of an initramfs image generated by dracut. This tool outputs a table of information with lines like this:
drwxr-...
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2 different process monitors app report different results for the same process?
In the screenshot above I have a flatpak app called Resources on the left and on the right the default system monitor on my Fedora Gnome System Monitor and output from the top command.
Why, in the ...
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How to remove a “Trash-1000” folder from USB flash drive?
I recently got a digital photo frame and when removing photos I did the move to trash instead of Shift+Del and deleting proper and now I have a hidden folder with read only files that I can not remove....
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Why did Debian 13 fail to make a kernel release?
So an update occurred, resulting in me having to reinstall the Nvidia drivers, however the packages could no longer be signed. Looking around for answers, I found that there was now an official ...
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How to recover multiple NTFS partitions from disk with MBR completely lost?
My hard-disk's MBR(Master Boot Record) got overwritten by the dd command. Instead of dd if=myfile of=disk1, due to a mistake, dd if=myfile of=disk2 was supplied. Luckily, it failed after overwriting ...
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Why doesn’t my sed command work properly? It replaces old values with errors
The sed command that I use is:
sed -i 's,oldvalue,newvalue,g' *.txt
When I use the above sed command with each of the below examples (1, 2, and 3), the results contain errors.
Example 1
Old value:
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How to mount android phone internal storage as disk under Linux?
I'm trying to see my phone's internal contents on a Linux system (or a Mac would be fine also). The problem is that the popularly recommended solutions don't actually mount the files as a file system. ...
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Translate testdisk CHS notations to bytes?
Here is an example partition shown on my disk.
Partition
Start
End
Size in sector
P Linux
60801 47 47
60801 80 15
2048
How do I calculate size in bytes from Start and End?
How do I calculate size in ...
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Is there a way to draw shapes other than rectangles and ellipses in GIMP?
Is there a way to draw shapes other than rectangles and ellipses in GIMP (e.g. stars) like there is in MS Paint, Paint.NET, etc? I tried Gfig per @1NN's comment, however I cannot zoom in which ...
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Why is my reverse SSH tunnel very slow?
I created this systemd rule that sets up an automatic reverse tunnel for SSH on a remote server. I then connect to the server and then to the internal port, over SSH, to reach my device. I didn't want ...
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Are bluetooth A2DP codecs hardware dependent?
I talking about the codecs for the A2DP profile like AAC and aptX. My question is: are these hardware dependent, thus the device either supports them or it doesn't? Or is it possible to install a ...
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Why is my T460 Thinkpad laptop stuck on sleep/suspend?
I have an older T460 Thinkpad running on Zorin OS that doesn't wake up from sleep/suspend, doesn't matter if I close the lid or enable automatic suspend.
On Windows, the problem seems to disappear, ...
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How to prevent a UEFI entry for bootable USB drive from disappearing from BIOS when UEFI entries updated by Linux on fixed drive?
SOLVED: My USB is apparently over Thunderbolt, so the thunderbolt needs to be enabled in BIOS for it to boot from USB. Even though USB works perfectly fine in the system without that enabled (except ...
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Netfilter hiccup during cron.daily procedure
I use a netfilter-based daemon, ibd-judge (part of ipqbdb). It runs undisturbed from system boot to the next. Its job is to block certain network packets, based on values in a database and to ...
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