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a table describing partitions on a disk

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I have an embedded Linux device (not a Raspberry Pi) which has two partitions on an eMMC drive. I have used a vendor-provided tool to copy these two partitions onto a USB drive whose size roughly ...
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I wanted to create new partition on SSD (i need it to create disk image using clonezilla). I started from creating while I'm on ssd boot (means the system is running on ssd. Then i got message: ssd ...
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I have a virtual disk that is 86T in size with only 41% used. Th I have an 86T second drive connected to my virtual machine(VM) as /dev/vdb1. The volume is fine, but when I attempt to mount the ext4 ...
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The rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso to install from which is 14GB in size. For a usb device (i.e. disk) that would show up in Linux as /dev/sdb for example, doing a cp rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso /dev/sdb ...
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I have a 5 tb usb disk I use to copy a rhel-8.10.iso file to in order to install Linux. In doing so the copy of that iso to /dev/sde creates an msdos partition table. And it creates 2 partitions. I ...
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I created a encrypted partition on my Kingston USB drive (/dev/sda) using VeraCrypt. I was trying to format the partition using GNOME Disk Utility after mounted the partition using VeraCrypt (/dev/...
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I want to create a disk image file to include into my unittests. This disk file should contain a few files afterwards I want to read. When I create a copy of a SD card or a USB stick with dd the disk ...
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I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in a windows dual boot setup. This is the state of the partitions at the moment. (Windows Screenshot) On my Ubuntu, I have the following df -H ...
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Problem Overview I recently upgraded my remote server contract with IONOS, increasing my hard drive space from 8GB to 80GB. I have an Ubuntu OS running bash. I then went about extending my working ...
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I have to update some outdated embedded systems. But the RAUC Update contains four partitions, while the old systems have only three partitions. The additional Partition is at the start of the disk ...
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I have a (GPT-partitioned) disk, for example /dev/sda. /dev/sda8 is a partition on that disk. I used the cfdisk utility to create a GPT table with few partitions in /dev/sda8. I expected these ...
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You might think this question is trivial because an msdos partition table MBR ends with 55 AA (hex). But it's not because disks formatted as FAT32 (with no partition table) end with 55 AA too. I ...
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TL;DR partition table (?) potentially messed up by windows disk management on drive containing both NTFS data partition and EXT4 filesystem. Fairly certain zero or almost zero data was lost. testdisk ...
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I copy a 300 GB partition using GParted, and paste it onto an existing 500 GB partition. After two hours of transfer it says it's attempting to resize the newly pasted partition, and immediately fails ...
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I have a number of hard disks that use a proprietary partitioning system. The disks don't contain partition tables themselves, but each have a known number of partitions at fixed positions with fixed ...
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