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How to force partition to value out of range

I have an ubuntu desktop system (VM guest), whose partitions were created by the install media. I wanted to expand the disk, so I shutdown the guest, and increased the disk size of the guest in the host. Now I need to expand the partitions in the…
Edward Ned Harvey
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Why does GNU parted write data to the first 440 bytes of the MBR?

My understanding is that an MBR is 512 bytes. The first 440 bytes (give or take a few bytes, depending on the implementation) contain the boot loader/bootstrap code area. The remaining bytes contain information about the partition table. If I zero…
Will Haley
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How to learn what `gparted`, `partitionmanager`... libcalls or `fdisk`, `parted`... commands are wrapping?

Querying partitionmananger --help does not document any verbose mode. Even gparted --help is not implemented. I wish I could use any --verbose mode without more esoteric thingy like using ltrace, because unless checking their sources one can not…
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How do I shrink the partition of an img file made from dd?

I've copied the USB drive to an .img file using dd: dd if=/dev/sdc of=myimage.img I want to reduce the size of the partition in the image. I've tried several methods and always end up with a loopback-mounted image whose partition is still the full…
MrMas
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Bash scripting parted for GPT

Using Bash & Python scripts in Ubuntu 12.04, we are delivering a disk image to customers as a file (generated by dd). Once dd’d to the new disk, we resize the partition to fit the disk. Now that we are using GPT disks, I need to provide a new…
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Can not mount copy of image file (ddrescue): "can't have a partition outside the disk"

I'm struggling for days now moving my old Windows XP installation to a new hard disk, because the old disk is failing. Long story short: I successfully created an image of the entire (failing) disk and was able to mount it in Linux. I now want to…
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Resize LUKS Partition

I have a 68 GB logical LUKS partition at the very end of a drive, and to the left of that I have 60 GB of free unallocated space. Both of these partitions together make up an extended partition. I spent a lot of time freeing this unallocated space,…
Braden
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Can't create a partition table on micro SD card

I'm trying to reformat a micro SD card that was previously in a raspberry pi (and had stopped working). However, when I plug it into my main computer (arch) and try to partition it, I can't because gparted says it has no partition table. When I try…
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Ext4 fs corrupted after shrunken by parted

I was trying to make room for an Arch Linux installation and I ran parted and shrunk my main Ubuntu partition. I made a new one in the new space but after I rebooted it put me in a grub prompt. I found out how to manually boot but it dropped me to…
Dessa Simpson
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What flash drive geometry depends on? Can I change it on my preference?

I have an USB flash drive. Here is its initial info generated by fdisk (Linux): # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 8053 MB, 8053063680 bytes 16 heads, 60 sectors/track, 16384 cylinders, total 15728640 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512…
Carter
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Expanding disk partition on root drive with LVM

It's been a long time since I've done this and I've probably done it in the most complex way. I upgraded my OS drive to a larger drive (old one 60GB, new one 250GB) running Ubuntu 14.04 and used ddrescue to create an image of the old disk and then…
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Remove GPT filesystem on USB

I have an old 8GB USB stick with a GPT filesystem hanging around. I'd like to move it to a more familiar fs, as NTFS or FAT32, but the usual mkfs doesn't seem to work since there is no /dev/sdb1 (as there are no partitions). I've found on Google…
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How to modify the starting boundary of an ext4 partition?

There are 4 partitions on the disk. parted /dev/sda --script -- print ... 1 1049KB 50.0GB ... ext4 2 50GB 82GB ... linux-swap 3 82GB 100GB ... ext4 4 100GB 1000GB ... ext4 My goal is to modify the starting position of 4, then expand 3, at…
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How to partition a Free Space using parted

During the installation of my ubuntu server, I had to leave a big space of my hard drive for specific service. Well, I forgot to to partition it up and leave it mounted during installation. Right Now, I realized I won't be able to use it without…
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USB stick damaged during a blackout

I was copying some files to a USB stick, the process would have taken 1 hour or so but a few minutes later after the process started I had a blackout, and when the power got restored I could not mount the main partition of the USB stick The…
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