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My boot partition is showing /boot is 83% on Ubuntu Server, How can free this?
My boot partition is showing /boot is 83% on Ubuntu Server, How can I free this? Is it safe to execute sudo apt-get clean
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Full Disk Encryption With Custom Storage Layout During Ubuntu 24.04 Installation?
During installation of fresh Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, when i select custom storage layout i can not see any option to encrypt the full disk and we are told full disk encryption is available during fresh ...
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Stuck in GRUB 2.06 command line after copying disk with CloneZilla
I have two identical HDD disks both have the same size. Because my main disk had some bad sectors, I decided to move my Ubuntu 22.04 system to another newer disk. Following the advice of people on ...
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Questions about install Ubuntu 22.04 lts in dual boot with windows 11 on dell precision 3571
everything good?
I want to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in dual boot on a Dell Precision 3571 notebook with Windows 11 Pro.
The notebook already has an SSD of almost 1TB and another just for data, the ...
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Ubuntu Dual Boot Installation : Not Detecting Hard Drive or Partitions
I have a PC with an SSD having windows and an Hard Drive for data. The Hard Drive had three partitions, F, G and one partition with ubuntu on it.
Okay so I was using ubuntu Jammy Jelly Fish (22.04) ...
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Installation issues with ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 on HP Zbook 14 G2
I am trying to install Ubuntu 24.04 on HP Zbook 14 G2.
I tried it on all 3 boot options, 1. Legacy = where my boot drive doesn't get detected for some reason (MBR, Secure boot off, USB hard drive->...
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create new EFI partition on Ubuntu
I have dual-booted Windows and Ubuntu 22.04. My Windows has a 100MB EFI partition. I don't want to install the Ubuntu boot files on it. So, I created a separate EFI partition via the Ubuntu installer. ...
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Ubuntu Installation Resulted in "No Bootfile Found" Error on ProBook 4530s
I recently attempted to install Ubuntu 24.XX LTS alongside Windows on my ProBook 4530s laptop. Initially, Ubuntu installation seemed successful, but upon rebooting, I encountered a "no bootfile ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 installation error
My Laptop has two hard disks, SSD and HDD, the SSD with 256GB has Windows installation, and the HDD with 1TB is divided into two partitions D and F, each of which has nearly half.
I noticed that the ...
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Deleted grub partition, is my Windows partition still bootable?
(Ubuntu 23.10, Windows 10 dual boot) While switching Linux distros for the first time I was having a lot of issues and accidentally deleted the grub partition that allowed me to dual boot.
Is it still ...
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New install will no longer boot "boot file not found"
I installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a 1TB hard drive I had sitting around and had no problems at first, it worked fine installed games and programs all seemed good. After about three boots with it working ...
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While installing Kubuntu, boot/EFI is been allocated windows EFI partition rather than the partition I created on different disk
I installed Kubuntu on my other harddrive. It was working fine but as soon as I check me file system using 'df', it showed all the files are in their respective partion in other harddrive but boot/EFI ...
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Grub rescue mode after formatting Linux Mint partition
I wanted to remove Linux Mint and replace the space left after by extending Ubuntu into it, and so I did through Windows 10. I believe that lead me to mess up big time as I can't edit Linux partitions ...
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Ubuntu: cannot boot with USB
I had Ubuntu installed on a separate disk from my Windows. The disk had both the Ubuntu and the grub. I deleted it directly from the Windows disk manager because I wanted to re-install Ubuntu. But ...
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Boot iso from android Data partition
I want to install Ubuntu, but my device does not have any ports. It is a x86 Android tablet (Lenovo Yoga tablet 2), It has 16GB of SSD and an Intel Atom (baytrail?) Z3745 processor.
Usually to install ...
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How to increase the size of /boot partition?
Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
Upgrade to 24.04 LTS fails due to lacking around 45M of space in /boot
# uname -r
6.7.6-060706-generic
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Windows and Ubuntu are recognized as installed in the same drive
I have 2 SSDs. Let's call the first one C and the second one D.
When I installed Windows first on C and then installed Ubuntu on D, everything went fine.
But I had to reinstall Windows for some reason,...
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testdisk "unset' all the partitions on my device
I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, and I was trying to recover data from my Ubuntu Partition, which was lost. So, I followed a tutorial on the internet and used testdisk for the task. I selected only the ...
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What is the best tool to make an identical, possibly bit by bit copy of a Linux system SSD with all the partitions and boot menu etc.?
Kubuntu 22.04. I in the process of learning that not having a backup is a super bad idea.
The SSD I use to run the Linux system is this.
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 ...
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Editing the size of partitions of the disk where the OS is mounted
I'm using a Linux OS that is a built using Ubuntu. I want to decrease the size of partition 4 and increase the size of my home partition i.e partition 2, however my OS is installed in this disk, so is ...
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How to fix boot issues after sudo apt upgrade
I have been working on a laptop and after the hard drive stopped working, I made an installation of Ubuntu 22.04 on an external 3TB HDD drive. The drive had about 500GB of data and I couldn't move it. ...
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Migrate an Ubuntu installation to a new Dual Boot?
I want to upgrade the hard drive of my laptop a Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3, it has a 500Gb with a Ubuntu installation that I use to work but I needed more memory, so I bought a 1Tb 2.5 SSD since the ...
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issue in autoinstall Ubuntu server 22.04 using raid1 on m2
I tried to install Ubuntu server 22.04 (even with the latest daily version 24.04) using the autoinstall process, to get a bootable raid 1 configuration, using two 2TB m2 disks.
The process keeps ...
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Ubuntu server not showing free space tab
I tried to install Ubuntu Server on my laptop to dual boot with Windows 11. Everything went great until the part of storage configuration. I can see the local drive with the Windows partitions, but I ...
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Dual Boot Linux/OSX with Shared Partition
How do I create a shared partition on a dual-boot OSX/Linux such that both have read/write access to that partition?
It's a MacBook 2015 running OSX 12.7.3. [edit] I would use the most recent version ...
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ntfs partition got stuck in hibernation (I believe) and I need to recover it or fix it somehow
TL;DR: The drive is hibernated? I cannot delete the hiberfil-file on the drive, as it is read only.
Ok, I'm not the most tech-savvy guy. So I'm trying my best to explain what I believe happened:
I had ...
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Ubuntu grub os-prober not finding Bazzite install
I've been dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows for quite awhile now and everything has worked perfectly fine. I have Ubuntu and Windows installed on two separate drives.
Recently, I added in another drive ...
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How can I clone a complex, dual boot disk? 22.04
My new SSD is defective. Surprising, but I've been all over it and that's my conclusion. Sometimes dd'ing to /dev/null errs out, sometimes it passes. I've arranged for a factory replacement.
Meanwhile ...
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/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv is full
I'm new to Ubuntu so I apologize in advance. I got my server up and running this week and set up jellyfin, which has been working fine up until now. I dont know if this is the cause but my boot drive ...
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Error during dual boot installation
I am trying to dual boot windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04LTS on my ASU’s tuf f15 laptop. I want windows on my internal hardrive and Ubuntu on my external Toshiba hardrive.
I am faced with this error ...
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Prevent GRUB from adding EFI entries to other disks [duplicate]
Some context to understand my situation:
I had this idea of a portable drive (in my case a SSD) containing a couple of operating systems that I could carry around and simply plug into any computer and ...
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eMMC replaced with SD, showing incorrect storage size
I'm attempting to get an SD card to mount on boot for permanent storage and I'm pretty sure I screwed it up. This is my first time with Linux and I'm not a programmer. I've never even partitioned ...
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How to fix fstab entry to mount a partition?
On ubuntu 22.04.4 I am trying to mount a partition as read/write. The following command seems to work:
sudo mount -o rw,user,uid=1000,umask=007,exec /dev/nvme0n1p4 /media/Work/
but I want to add it ...
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How to recover a deleted LUKS partition
I have created a LUKS encrypted pen drive with the gnome-disks tool, but a time ago I have accidentally formatted the disk, losing the partition.
I tried to recuperate the partition stored on sda1 ...
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Tried installing Ubuntu for dual boot. Now Windows won't boot
I am trying to dual boot my older HP ProBook with Windows 10 installed. I made a bootable USB with Ubuntu 23.10 on it. It would not let me install it on the hard drive when I booted Ubuntu. It said ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 on Raspberry Pi: /var/cache/fontconfig Gets Created Before /var Is Mounted
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish, ARM64) on a Raspberry Pi. After imaging the Pi's SSD, I re-partitioned the drive and mirrored the contents of /var onto the new partition (verified), renamed ...
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How to set up hibernation with Secure Boot enabled
Working on a new Ubuntu install. On my ASUS laptop, Secure Boot is enabled (and likely may need to stay that way due to the pestilence of Windows 11). Reading from journalctl -b has some mention of ...
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Surface Pro 5 cannot find bootable drive, trying to install Ubuntu in place of windows 10 os
I had successfully downloaded ubuntu in place of microsoft then was blocked from downloading a software packet through the terminal by secure boot. I went to the bios screen and disabled secure boot ...
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Remove Windows, install ubuntu while keeping backup partition (D:) + confusing partitioning [duplicate]
I have a 480GB SSD split into two partitions, denoted as (C:) and (D:).
My objective is to eliminate Windows from the (C:) partition.
Subsequently, I aim to install Ubuntu in its place, ensuring all ...
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Fresh installation of 20.04 makes three partitions - right?
Now to get to the bottom of my problems mentioned in another thread, I decided to install 20.04 anew. In order to not produce problems from the start on, I let the installation program do as it wished ...
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How to clone a specific partition of a qemu raw disk file to a physical partition
I have a raw disk file as bellow
$fdisk -l Monterey.img
Disk Monterey.img: 14 GiB, 15032385536 bytes, 29360128 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /...
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extending partition to root in ubuntu [duplicate]
I'm working on a Ubuntu 22.04 VM of 300GB , I got a warning " / is using 95.0% of 97.87GB" , I tried to increase my hard-disk space by adding additional 300GB of harddisk.
This is the result ...
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having an issue related to dev/sda5 mounting. when booting up the screen goes as recovering journal and dev/sda5 clear blocks.target is busy issue
/dev/loop9 853M 853M 0 100% /snap/intellij-idea-community/483
/dev/loop13 667M 667M 0 100% /snap/onlyoffice-desktopeditors/181
$ sudo parted /dev/sda 'print'
[sudo] password for prithivira
Model: ATA ...
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systemd: Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
I was trying to get Proton for Steam working. After a long time search tech forums I found a comment which said that Proton had to be formatted to EXT4, which led me down a rabbit hole to a post on ...
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Fedora 38 boot ISO sees my computer's (Firebat A16 laptop) 1TB SSD /dev/sda but Ubuntu 22.04 boot ISO does NOT
Ubuntu Mate 22.04 live USB boots/runs fine - everything works except recognizing my SDD, /dev/sda. It doesn't matter what disk or partition utility I use (all the standard ones on the USB plus I ...
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Ubuntu dual boot: Windows boots in recovery mode
I have a HP Elitebook Bang&Olufsen laptop installed with a corporate Windows OS distribution.
I recently decided to make it into a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.xx LTS. Steps:
Go into the only Windows ...
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How to restore a timeshift snapshot made from an Unreachable Operating System
I successfully created a full user data and system snapshot with timeshift in rsync mode. A while back I thought this method of data backup will be recoverable on a new and same system installation (...
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merge unallocated/free space sections
My system currently has Win11 + Ubuntu 22.04LTS installed, and they dual boot with no problem. They are both installed to the same SSD. I do have a 2nd SSD, but it is only for data storage.
I am ...
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Cloning ubuntu boot into software RAID 1 array
I have a Ubuntu server whose boot drive exists on an old HDD. I am wanting to clone this boot drive over to a RAID 1 SSD array. I don't know how to go about this correctly, since it will be a software ...
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Mount Ubuntu, creating Raid 1 with the installment configuration
install Ubuntu using Raid 1 configuration with two disk.
In doing so, two partitions were created in each disk, that of the RAID and the EFI starter.
If I lose an disk, the other is operational.
How ...
