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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fdisk. What does the “free” partition mean?
I had two primary partitions (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2). Then I created an extended partition to segment it into logical partitions.
After I had typed fdisk /dev/sda and n (add a new partition) the ...
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Question About Bootloader Partition (Mint)
I have a quick question that I ran across while trying to install Linux Mint along with Windows 8 on my computer. I'm pretty new to Linux stuff so I'm sorry if this is pretty obvious. I'm mainly ...
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Flashing rootfs on Embedded Linux with Limited RAM
I'm fairly new to the embedded world, so forgive me if this seems obvious.
I'm working on a board based off of the AT91SAM9260. I have 256MB of flash and 64MB of RAM. The current setup flashes two ...
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How to boot into FreeBSD installed in the second partition of an external drive
I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on the second partition of an external hard disk and I'm not able to get my computer to boot from it. FreeBSD was installed using the FreeBSD memstick image dd'd onto a ...
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How to use DD to clone a partition off a disk image?
I have a disk image, it's a "whole" disk image, e.g., contains multiple partitions, and I want to clone just one of them (not the first one..) onto a partition on an external drive with multiple ...
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Why does this work: “cp image.bin /dev/mapper/loop0p1”?
Why does this work?
cp image.bin /dev/mapper/loop0p1
image.bin is a partition image.
I have tried it and works, but why? Shouldn't a dd be used?
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Readonly in mounted partition's root
/etc/fstab
UUID=<someuuid> /mnt/data ext4 defaults,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
and
/mnt$ ll
drwxr-xr-x 2 manuel users 4096 15. Apr 18:25 data
/mnt$ mount -a
/mnt$ ll
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root ...
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How do I name a partition?
Currently, I have a partition where Crunchbang is installed, which shows up as a folder in Mint named either 0d71227f-66fc-45ac-8bfc-93280b93dc8c or "10.0 GB Volume".
First question is, of ...
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Fully seperate two accounts without installing seperate operating systems?
Our class is finally installing Mint Linux on our machines. The problem is our teacher is scared that we'll play war games against the two classes that use the computers. His solution is to install ...
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Mystery of a small 1K hard disk partition, and is it safe or malware on Ubuntu 12.04.02LTS Amd64 generic
Look at my bizarre sda4 partition. It is just 1K in size! Be mindful that this is not cluster size, this is partition size. I did not knowingly install this sda4 super small partition. This is not ...
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How to add a ms-dos partition table to a loop device?
I recently made a dd from a disk partition. I want to use it as a disk in a virtual machine. I can't because the disk has no partition table.
Can I had a partition table to a loop device? how?
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Accessing hidden partitions [closed]
I have two disks. They're both bootable and run Linux. When I physically mount the disks, I can see scsi devices get added. /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. However the partitions are not detected. I can't see ...
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Cannot create a partition after the 4th
When using cfdisk to partition for Arch Linux, I found that after the 4th partition, I can't make any more.
I'm using VMWare Player as a VM, and I'm using a single fake HD file. Earlier I thought ...
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GPT "Type device filename, or press <Enter> to exit?
I am attempting to install Arch Linux (for the hundredth time) and I recently ran across another problem. I am trying to find a list of my partitions. In order to do this I entergdisk
When I do this ...
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Block Devices & Partitions
I partitioned a microSD card (mmcblk1) into two partitions mmcblk1p1 and mmcblk1p2.
If use a dedicated card reader I am able to see the entire SD card and its partitions using various disk management ...
