Questions tagged [partition-table]
a table describing partitions on a disk
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Where does the "Physical size" information come from?
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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How to recover an EXT4 partition from a failed journal
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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can msdos partition be located past the 2TB point on a disk?
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.
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Creating disk image with msdos partition table and fat32
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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Reboot into `initramfs` after altering partition table
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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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How to make Linux read partition table in a partition?
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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"Bad Jump in FAT partition" and "Bad number of sectors per cluster" right before ext4 offset
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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How do I write a kernel driver for a custom partition table format?
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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Does `wipefs` require --force to erase the partition table on a disk?
The wipefs man page says that:
-f, --force
Force erasure, even if the filesystem is mounted. This is required in order to erase a partition-table signature on a block device.
So this means that ...
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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
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Is it important to delete GPT/MBR labels before reformatting/repartitioning?
I've seen some disk formatting/partitioning discussions that mention destroying existing GPT/MBR data structures as a first step:
sgdisk --zap-all /dev/nvme0n1
I wasn't previously aware of this, and ...
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Why are three large partitions created when installing Fedora with the encrypted disk option?
I've just installed Fedora 37 on a 2TB SSD, and see this partition table:
I understand the role of the EFI partition, but why is it so large? 0.6 gigs seems excessive.
What is the role of the second ...
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Dangerous to create partitions in unallocated space on the same disk as the running Linux system?
For context, I have a Fedora KDE installation whose partitions take up half my SSD. The other half I left unallocated when I installed Linux.
Although I'm aware that it's dangerous to attempt to ...
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PostgreSQL: indexes and partitions
I have a PostgreSQL database and I noticed a weird behaviour while working with indexes and partitions. The engine version is 10.21.
Now, I have a table with this structure:
guid varchar(50) PK
guid_a ...
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How to replace linux distro ISO on bootable USB keeping extra data partition intact and accessible?
USB sticks are getting larger. I'd like to store data in addition to having USB bootable. And I know how: 1. write ISO to USB stick 2. Add partition via Gnome-disks (both GUI).
Now I want to be able ...
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Does Debian 11.5 really need 500MB+ partition for EFI?
I have installed Debian 11.5 on thin client. It has relatively small 16GB eMMC memory for storage.
During installation partitioner in "standard" mode created 3 partitions: EFI (508MB), root (...
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What are all these /etc/mtab filesystem types? How did they get mounted?
I'm learning about partitioning disks for different server applications, and was exploring mtab to see what sort of partitioning scheme is set up. I'm seeing filesystems that aren't described in /etc/...
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How to find deleted partition
I have some partition table with three partitions. I deleted the third partition with fdisk and next I created new partition on the same place with the same "first and last sectors". How can ...
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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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Is it possible for data to be persisted when redeploying a parition table to a previously used disk?
I am currently working on a project which uses a custom Android operating system, the project requires going back and forth between different versions of this OS (android 5 and android 9 respectively)....
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Define partitions to install Linux but considering Security and Administration aspects/concerns
Scenario: for simplicity - consider that exists a hard disk of 500GB to only install Linux (for example Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora) - and if exists a hard disk of 750GB or 1TB then 500GB are dedicated ...
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How to update/refresh changed partlabels as reported by lsblk?
On Linux, the command lsblk -o partlabel will display the partlabel for block devices.
I have used gdisk to change a partlabel.
After the change, lsblk is still reporting the old value of the ...
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Recovering data from a drive on which a partition table has been created
I have 2 drives on my computer, and was running out of space in one due to 2 OS on the one with smaller capacity. I was trying to partition the larger one(which has data on it), and looking up ...
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manipulating the protective MBR on a GPT disk
I would like to add an empty partition of type 0x00 to the beginning of the protective MBR of a GPT-formatted disk. I've found a way to do this, but the method relies on fdisk enhancements not ...
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Partitions not visible while dual booting Kali with Windows 11 with GPT disk
While trying to install Kali Linux as a secondary OS with Windows 11(primary OS), the partition created for Kali is not visible during the Graphical Install.
The hard drive I'm trying to install kali ...
