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. I ...
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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
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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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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