Questions tagged [gparted]
GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing disk partitions on Unix/Linux.
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Not able to yum/dnf gparted on centos 10
All, I find that gparted is not downloaded on centos 10 even after installing sudo dnf install epel-release -y . Other packages also are not downloadable like gvim. Any idea what should I do? Here are ...
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Resizing encrypted system partition on Linux Ubuntu
How can I resize an LUKS encrypted system partition? Is it as simple as resizing (shrinking more specifically) using a tool such as Gparted? I found some guides, but they all assumed a LVM layer, ...
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cryptsetup block size preventing from using it
I used cryptsetup to encrypt a disk. I followed this tutorial, which uses the default values. Afterwards I used the disk with no issues and backed up my data. Now I connect it again and returns error ...
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Cannot shrink *unmounted* External drive ntfs partition
I'm relatively new to linux mint(4-5 months in [loving it!]) and I have a 2TB USB 3.0 HDD connected (WD Drive in the photo) I'm trying to shrink the main NTFS Partition on said drive, and it says max ...
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How to avoid "cannot find in /etc/fstab" problem
I have just opened my GParted application and did a format for /dev/sdc1 to exfat type. But while trying to mount the drive after formatting is completed I am getting the following error. It is ...
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how to copy a HD to another if the CPU is freezing after a few GB?
how to copy a HD to another if the CPU is freezing after a few GB ? I had to copy w11 of a friend notebook from a 128GB nvme to a 1TB nvme. I put nvne128gb in a usb adapter and the nvme1TB inside the ...
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Why is it necessary when expanding an ext4 filesystem over space before it to copy the data?
I had a dual-boot setup on my laptop, with the Windows partition first, then Linux. I decided to delete Windows, so I removed its partition and expanded the Linux partition into its space using ...
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Cannot resize a partition with Gparted below "Minimum size"
I used gparted to resize a partition successfully, but it does not allow me to shrink it as much as I would actually like. I think it's because of the Minimum size. Is there a possibility to reduce ...
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I tried mounting a hard disk partition, and now it prompts me every time
So, once again, I performed an innocent-looking action in Linux, and not I can't put it back the way it was before. The other day, I was trying to find something in the file system. (Usually, I use ...
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Probably lost 500Gb of data - how to recover the data?
Yeah I know I messed up. Just asking if there is a slight chance of recovering data. I have an external SSD for backup, 1TB. Because some time ago I had some windows stuff, it had half ntfs and half ...
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Merging disk partitions in Ubuntu
I have created disk partition as in the image below. How can I merge the partitions ext_29 and ext_30 to make it a singe partition. I cannot find a merge option in the gparted window Is there any way ...
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Get a log of everything GParted does when re-sizing a btrfs filesystem
When I use GParted to do some complicated partition and file system manipulation it gives the option to see the details of what steps it took. But this does not give all the details of what underlying ...
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resize2fs: New size results in too many block group descriptors
I want to replace the NVMe drive in an embedded computer that runs Linux. The original drive is a 256 GB gen 3 with 5 partitions. After cloning to a larger drive, partition 5, the data partition, ...
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No Bootable Devices Found after deleting and recreating fat32 and linux-swap partitions to increase size of /home partition
I have a Dell G15 laptop with one factory OS already installed Windows 11 and I installed Pop OS more or less 1 hear and 6 months ago in dual boot with the default Windows. I was with only 10GB of ...
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Cannot restore a USB stick to its normal state (gpated shows less memory than it is)
In gparted, my 16 Gb USB stick is seen as a 512 bytes disk at /dev/sdh. How to revert it to the normal state? All suggestions I found refer to running fdisk on /dev/sdh and deleting the partition, ...
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