Questions tagged [partition]
Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.
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How to manage swap memory inside an encrypted LUKS LVM?
I am using Kubuntu which is Ubuntu with KDE. My swap partition is too small causing me some lag. I have 16GB Ram but it is set to 1.9GB. Attached is screen shots of my current partition. vgkubuntu is ...
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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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How should I partition my main and backup/scratch disks? [closed]
I'm new to Linux, carefully reading many Linux sources. I intend to become 100% competent in Linux, yet getting beyond fundamental choices sooner than later will help better study Linux operations; ...
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Replacing a 500GB SSD LUKS/LVM drive in place with 1TB SSD
I have a ThinkPad T520 running Fedora with a single 500GB SSD drive. The drive has two partitions, a small boot partition and the rest devoted to a a single LUKS one. The LUKS partition is managed ...
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Problem with GRUB in a Quad Boot system
I have a quad boot system, with Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, and RedHat/Fedora, and I'm having trouble with GRUB. More specifically, I am having "thought" problems with GRUB, i.e. I have not yet ...
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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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How to install a second GNU/Linux in dual boot, with the first distribution already installed and full-disk encrypted with LUKS?
This is not a duplicate of How to install two GNU/Linux in dual boot with one under LUKS and the other not?, since it assumes newly installing both distributions. I have a Linux distribution installed ...
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How to optimally partition new second NVME for both Linux and Windows?
(pre-dual boot on single drive) Bought new SSD, how to partition it to allocate space to both Linux and Windows? Current Specs: 512GB SSD pre-installed in laptop. Running Dual Boot with Win11 and ...
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