Questions tagged [boot-partition]
Questions about boot-partitions (/boot) in Ubuntu system. Ubuntu may have /boot directory under the system root partition/directory or it could have a different partition of its own.
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What is the safest way to clean up /boot partition?
I have 200 MB assigned for the /boot partition. Whenever I try to update the kernel, I receive an error message that basically states /boot is full.
What can I do to cleanup /boot and remove/backup ...
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Bash one-liner to delete only old kernels
I've seen lots of threads on how to free space on the /boot partition and that is my objective as well. However, I'm only interested in deleting old kernels and not each one of them but the current ...
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inotify_add_watch -- failed: "No space left on device"
I am facing a problem about "no space left on device" as shown in the Figure below.
I am relatively a newbie and don't know much about linux. I am using Ubuntu 18.04. Checking out various blogs ...
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Error: partition table requires a separate partition for boot loader code (EFI issue)
The Issue
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, Mac alternate) on my 13" MacBook Pro (model 7,1. Mid-2010). The MacBook Pro is running OSX 10.8.3 and I'm trying to make it dual-bootable (i.e., ...
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Why can't I Resize/Move in GParted?
I have a 12.04 LTS system running on my PC with a 320 GB hard drive.
Unfortunately, I need to use Windows 7 in my lab. I tried doing this using a virtual machine (VirtualBox and VMware) but it was ...
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How to boot Ubuntu from SSD drive which cannot be selected as boot device?
I have freshly installed Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bits) on an Asus S405CM-WX117H laptop (similar to this one) which features a 24GB SSD drive and a regular 500GB hard drive.
I placed the / (ext4) root file ...
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How do I move /boot to a separate partition on UEFI system with current boot on btrfs?
I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on a UEFI system with /boot on a btrfs partition (subvol=@).
Because of recent changes in Ubuntu I always get grub timeout 30 sec. This is by design if /boot is on a ...
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How to repair partition table?
I have a dual boot computer with Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it. Recently, i was working in Windows7 and my flash had crashed, the computer rebooted to
Error: Partition not found. Grub Rescue>
I had ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 dual boot problem where Windows 8 doesn't boot [duplicate]
I will brief about the problem, that how it started.
I purchased a Sony VAIO (SVE15133CNW) laptop on May-2013, with pre-installed Windows 8
After couple of days I installed Ubuntu 13.04 using USB ...
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Accidentally deleted efi partition
So, I really screwed things up... Long story short, I deleted my windows 8.1 efi partition and now cannot boot into windows. Furthermore, I don't even have an efi partition left to create a linux ...
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why is dpkg configuration running out of space on ubuntu 10.04 when there is space available?
I have 7Gb available but...
~ # dpkg --configure -a
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-31-generic-pae (2.6.32-31.61) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-31-generic-pae
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How do I install Windows 7 from an iso file on a separate partition from Ubuntu?
I have already installed Ubuntu on my computer's hard drive. But I want to create a second partition that runs Windows 7. My computer cannot read DVD's (it's that old) so I have the Windows 7 iso file ...
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Why is /boot so small?
I recently had the warning that /boot was running out of space and I found this solution. Having rebooted and confirmed that I didn't fubar my system, I'm looking at why it happened in the first place?...
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Can I recreate a destroyed /boot without reinstalling?
I was experimenting with an idea and /boot was put on the first 256MB of a 1GB flash drive.
Windows destroyed the whole scheme when trying to add an NTFS partition after it in the unallocated space.
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Boot partition missing? Can't boot into Ubuntu anymore. Does it have to do with GRUB or Boot partition or similar?
So I had a Dual-Boot system. Then I deleted Windows and also decided to use a software called DBAN which erases everything that it can on your hard drive. So I did that (picked the option "Quick ...
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How to free space on a full /boot partition? [duplicate]
Stuck running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Lenova desktop with a small boot partition now with 0(zero) bytes after many upgrades. Currently at 4.4.0-71-generic but new upgrades fail. Have tried suggestions ...
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Getting an error while mounting machine_config
I am trying to boot my system but, it is giving me an error as
"An error occurred while mounting home/jack/jack-app/machine_config "
Press S skip to mounting or M for manual recovery
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Moving /boot to a separate partition
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a partition with BTRFS as its file system, but it appears that grub2 seems to have some issues with that file system. For some reason it takes it very long time to boot ...
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How do I make space in /boot/?
I have /boot/ on a separate partition from /, and /boot/ is 98% full. How do I make more space on it?
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How do I take a backup of my Master Boot Record (MBR) and Partition Table (PT)?
I'd like to know how to:
take a backup
do a restore
of all the MBRs and all the PTs of all my disks to a file so I can easily back them up using rsync or a comparable program.
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How much space I should use for Ubuntu? Which partitions?
I have a few questions regarding installation. I have a 500g HD on my laptop. I dont intend on dual-booting on this thing. I intend you use it for development. I decided to get back into programming ...
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Ubuntu 19.10: EFI boot options gone after deleting Windows
I had a working dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.10, both on separate SSDs and decided to remove Windows altogether. I use gparted from a live usb to wipe the Windows 10 SSD altogether ...
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Deleting A non working version of Ubuntu from Kubuntu
I had Ubuntu 12.10 to replace Easy-Peasy, however some packages broke and the screen would come up blank after booting/BIOS, I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu 12.10 which works and switched to the KDE ...
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Reinstalling Ubuntu without formatting /home
I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 for the last 3 years and now i think it's time to upgrade it to 18.04. I have a huge amount of data in home folder.
I created a separate /home partition during ...
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Regenerate BIOS boot partition
I deleted BIOS boot partition, and GRUB won't boot.
I can boot via supergrubdisk , but it's not solve.
Can I regenerate it?
(Without system reinstalling)
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Will I able to access ecryptfs -ed folders in another installed Ubuntu?
I have a HDD with Linux Ubuntu partition but with no Linux only Win7. I found a solution how to access and save my ext2 Linux files in Windows. I downloaded DiskInternals Linux reader. It accesses my ...
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Kernel Panic While installing Ubuntu 12.04 from burnt CD
I'm having problems installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit on my laptop.
I once had it installed on my laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, but LightDM got weird so I was forced to erase the ...
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Can I relabel /, /home, and /boot/efi partitions without problems?
I am running Ubuntu Studio 21.04 & plasma, with separate partitions for root(system), home, and another for encryption with veracrypt.
I'd like to label(relabel) the root, home, and boot/efi ...
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Can I safely resize the boot partition?
After installing Ubuntu 16.04, the install procedure laid out my hard drive with the following partitions:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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/dev/sda2 237M ...
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dual boot-ubuntu and windows partition problem
i just bought a laptop with ubuntu pre-installed.Because my linux skills are not good at all i prefer to have both OS on my computer.My trouble is:when i try to boot the windows installer, i always ...
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Question regarding partitions
Hey guys, I want to install Ubuntu alongside my Windows 7 OS. I'm
trying to add an extended partition for the ext4 partition and the
linux-swap partition, but I already have four primary ...
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Stuck in "Installation type" section
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 on an Asus ROG Strix G512LI. After disabling secure boot and setting to AHCI, I started the install process on a Crucial SSD NVMe M.2. It is now stuck in the ...
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Keep /home on HDD and move other files into an SSD
I installed Ubuntu on my HDD, there are two partitions on HDD: ~2TB with ext4 (sda1) format and 8GB for swap (sda2).
There are a lot of files in the /home directory but it is not separated. I did add ...
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upgrade lubuntu without erasing disk
(see solution at the end of this post)
I have my hard drive partitioned in 2: one for OS (lubuntu 18.10) and the other for my data. I want to do a 'fresh upgrade' to version 19.04. So I created a ...
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How do I put two Ubuntu OSes on the same hard drive?
I don't want windows at all. I want two Ubuntu OSes on the same hard drive on my laptop. I use one OS for security and the other as a regular laptop since linux is so much faster than windows on old ...
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what is minimum required size of /boot partition for Ubuntu 18.04.2?
Because I don't want "why?" as response, I will start with the background.
I wanted to make a software RAID-0 of 2 disks since they are quite slow and small in size because they are very old. So I ...
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"Insmod normal" command returns "attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
I've got the issue shown below:
error: attempt to reader write outside of disk 'hd0'
Entering rescue mode...
It happened in the past, so I tried
grub rescue> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)
grub rescue>...
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Increasing /boot partition by shrinking ubuntu-vg logical volume
I am getting tired of cleaning /boot in order to free up enough space every time a new kernel is released. I have been following the instructions below to shrink /dev/ubuntu-vg to free up space to ...
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Difference between "bootable flag" and /boot mount point
In partition table, we can give /boot as mount point. But we can, too, toggle bootable flag. What's difference between those two?
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edit grub2 to boot other partition
I was running out of space on my primary partition that I had originally set to 30gb (I know, rookie mistake), but it was at the end of the disk so a resize operation would be more data loss prone ...
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Windows 7 won't boot after Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot installation failed
I basically used a LIVEusb I had made of Ubuntu 12.04 to try and dual boot both OS'. but it crashed at the partitioning stage and now Windows 7 won't boot. g Parted shows the same partitions that ...
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fdisk shows overlapping partitions
At every boot to start Ubuntu, a partition gets re-mounted more than 1 times, sometimes causing very long boots. Example below:
> dmesg
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[ 21.472020] EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: errors=...
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Install Ubuntu & Win7 side by side
Currently I do have Win-XP (C: partition) which is the system & primary partition. Win7 is the boot partition and the logical drive.
I want to replace Win-XP with Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. After I ...
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Boot partition on separate drive?
Have tried searching but drawing a blank, end up with pages of how to dual boot with windows.
I have a 250gb spinning disk alongside a 1.9TB PCIE Card SSD. Due to BIOS limitations I cannot boot from ...
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Resize root Partition that is lvm'ed
I know this question has been asked many times, but I'm having a hard time figuring this out. I have a partition that is lvm'ed and I'm trying to increase it's size. This is on a VM machine, I first ...
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Maintaining multiple Linux distros - boot and grub partitions
Here is my GParted view of /dev/sda
The unallocated blocks were once another Ubuntu distribution - I will resize my other partitions to consume them soon. /dev/sda2 holds my Debian installation's ...
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Need to expand /boot partition but not sure if I can
So I've been having some trouble installing updates lately because my boot partition has run out of space. I did some research to try and find the best way to expand the partition, but after looking ...
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Is there a tool to make partition bootable?
I tried Windows 8 Consumer Preview a couple months ago and it wiped out my partition table... or the boot information.
So now the machine cannot boot to anything at all. Is there Ubuntu tools or ...
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ubuntu doesn't boot without flash drive
I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my Netbook. I had to use a flash key and during the installation i tried putting Ubuntu on a separate partition, but it kept showing a no root file system is defined ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS installation doesn't recognise exisiting Centos OS
I already have CentOS 9 installed on my ThinkCentre m93. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 22.04 alongside this OS and came across a warning during the installation process. It warns me that there isn't an ...
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