Re: Problems with big data transfer and partitions? - suggestion!

2025-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Hans wrote: Fourth: exfat (needed or big files) does not have a journal like ext3 or ext4, so data may be going corrupt on the harddrive and could not be restored. That's not what a journal is for, and if the copy completes and the disk is unmounted th

Problems with big data transfer and partitions? - suggestion!

2025-01-23 Thread Hans
Hi folks, in the last weks there were several issues with data transfer from ext4 to exfat. Most cases wanted to be done, to transfer seceral terrabyte of date to a MS-Windows system. Thinking of it, IMO this is a bad choice. Olease let me explain: Besides to host tzerrabyte of important data

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-26 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/24/24 11:27 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:43:51PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: I do not have root account. Sure you do. You might not have a root *password* set. (I use sudo from my user account.) I think I already tried rescue mode in the past but was not prompt

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
BTW, instead of rescue mode, you can use the initramfs to do such things (I like to do that when I don't have a LiveUSB at hand because it lets you manipulate *all* partitions, including /). I.e. do something like: - Reboot - In Grub, edit your boot script (with `e`) to add `break=mount` t

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:43:51PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > I do not have root account. Sure you do. You might not have a root *password* set. > (I use sudo from my user account.) I think I > already tried rescue mode in the past but was not prompted for root > password. You can set a ro

On the deprecation of separate /usr (Was: Re: Resizing LVM partitions)

2024-01-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 09:20:47AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > Notice that separate /usr is not supported by latest systemd that should be > a part of the next Debian release. I don't think this is the case. What I think is not supported is a separate /usr that is not mounted by initramfs.

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-24 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/24/24 3:20 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 24/01/2024 06:29, Miroslav Skoric wrote:  # df -h /dev/mapper/localhost-root  6.2G  4.7G  1.2G  81% / Taking into account size of kernel packages, I would allocate a few G more for the root partition. dpkg -s linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 | grep -i

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-24 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/24/24 12:42 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: You'll have to unmount it, which generally means you will have to reboot in single-user mode, or from rescue media, whichever is easier. If you aren't opposed to setting a root password (some people have *weird* self-imposed restrictions, seriously), si

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:29:18AM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Dunno ... in any case, for some reason the rescue mode I went to by booting > from an old installation CD (dated back to Debian 6.0.1A Squeeze!) did not > see partitions in form of e.g. /dev/mapper/localhost-home, b

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:45:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:42:43PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > You'll have to unmount it, which generally means you will have to reboot > > in single-user mode, or from rescue media, whichever is easier. > > If you log in as r

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:42:43PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:29:18AM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > Total PE 76249 > > Alloc PE / Size 75146 / <293.54 GiB > > Free PE / Size 1103 / <4.31 GiB > > VG UUID fbCaw1-u3SN-2H

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/01/2024 06:29, Miroslav Skoric wrote: # df -h /dev/mapper/localhost-root  6.2G  4.7G  1.2G  81% / Taking into account size of kernel packages, I would allocate a few G more for the root partition. dpkg -s linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 | grep -i size Installed-Size: 398452 Notice that

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:29:18AM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Total PE 76249 > Alloc PE / Size 75146 / <293.54 GiB > Free PE / Size 1103 / <4.31 GiB > VG UUID fbCaw1-u3SN-2HCy-w6y8-v0nK-QsFE-FETNZM > > ... seems that I still have some 4 GB of un

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
ome of the things in / out into it where possible, to free up some more space on /. Dunno ... in any case, for some reason the rescue mode I went to by booting from an old installation CD (dated back to Debian 6.0.1A Squeeze!) did not see partitions in form of e.g. /dev/mapper/localhost-h

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 11:21 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:41:57PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: As I need to extend & resize more than one LV in the file system (/, /usr, and /var), should they all need to be unmounted before the operation? As I remember, it is ext3 system on that com

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 7:01 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Ah, forgot to say: "pvdisplay -m" will give you a "physical" map of your physical volume. So you get an idea what is where and where you find gaps. "pvdisplay -m" provided some idea that there was some free space but (if I am not wrong) not how mu

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 5:02 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:17:36PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: The shrinking of /home is the hard part. You MUST first unmount /home, then resize the file system, then resize the logical volume. Before doing any of that, one should check the volume

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:59:55PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 1/22/24 6:59 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:40:06PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > lvreduce --size -50G --resizefs /

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:59:55PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: [...] > That last resize2fs (without params) would not work here, or at least it > would not work for my three file systems that need to be extended: / , /usr > , and /var . Maybe to extend each of them separately like this: > > lv

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:41:57PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > As I need to extend & resize more than one LV in the file system (/, /usr, > and /var), should they all need to be unmounted before the operation? As I > remember, it is ext3 system on that comp. What?? I don't think these wor

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 6:59 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:40:06PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. Those

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 4:40 PM, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it r

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
98% /var /dev/mapper/localhost-home 257G 73G 172G 30% /home tmpfs 297M 40K 297M 1% /run/user/1000 As my system has encrypted LVM, I suppose that I shall reduce some space used for /home, and then use it to extend /, /usr, and /var logical partitions. I think I did (or tr

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 07:01:13PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:02:06AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:17:36PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > > The shrinking of /home is the hard part. You MUST first unmount /home, > > > then > > > r

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 01:06:16PM -0500, Gremlin wrote: > I use to use LVM and RAID but I quit using that after finding out that > partition the drive and using gparted was way more easier If you allocate all the space during installation and don't leave any to make adjustments, or to make snapsh

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Gremlin
dev/mapper/localhost-home 257G 73G 172G 30% /home tmpfs 297M 40K 297M 1% /run/user/1000 As my system has encrypted LVM, I suppose that I shall reduce some space used for /home, and then use it to extend /, /usr, and /var logical partitions. I think I did (or tr

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:02:06AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:17:36PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > The shrinking of /home is the hard part. You MUST first unmount /home, then > > resize the file system, then resize the logical volume. > > Before doing any of t

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:40:06PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home > > > > > > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. > > > > > > Those who are cleverer

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:17:36PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > The shrinking of /home is the hard part. You MUST first unmount /home, then > resize the file system, then resize the logical volume. Before doing any of that, one should check the volume group and see if there are unallocated h

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home > > > > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. > > > > Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it right > > first time! > > lvred

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home > > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. > > Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it right > first time! lvreduce --size -50G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home ? Stefan

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
ost-var 2.7G 2.5G 55M 98% /var > /dev/mapper/localhost-home 257G 73G 172G 30% /home > tmpfs 297M 40K 297M 1% /run/user/1000 > > As my system has encrypted LVM, I suppose that I shall reduce some space > used for /home, and then use it to extend /,

Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread skoric
r/1000 As my system has encrypted LVM, I suppose that I shall reduce some space used for /home, and then use it to extend /, /usr, and /var logical partitions. I think I did (or tried to do) something similar several years ago, but forgot the proper procedure. Any link for a good tutorial is welcomed. Thanks. Misko

Re: dmraid not creation devices for partitions

2023-11-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:11:16AM +, Drone Ah wrote: > I found > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/709184/fakeraid-partition-missing-not-mapped-as-a-device-on-boot-after-upgrade-to-ubu/760998#760998 > > Using kpartx as suggested in the above post does solve the problem. Ge

dmraid not creation devices for partitions

2023-11-15 Thread Drone Ah
Hi, I installed debian on an SSD, but the motherboard has a softraid controller, which I used to create a couple of RAID5 volumes - for when I use(d) windows. In linux, I have dmraid installed and it correctly detects the disks. I can also (c)fdisk the disks to see the partitions. It, however

With bookworm's kernel, QEMU-KVM EFI cannot see virtio partitions

2022-11-18 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Windows-10-Jorge.xml Description: XML document Hi! After I upgraded to bookworm, my QEMU-KVM VM fails to boot the guest OS; instead it drops to the EFI shell. If I boot the physical host into bullseye's kernel (Linux 5.10) then the VM boots normally. This VM has two virtual disks, each backed

block devices vs. partitions (Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 10:59 +0100, DdB wrote: > Am 10.11.2022 um 04:46 schrieb hw: > > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 18:26 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > > Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: > > > [...] > [...] > > > > > Why would part

Re: SID: update-grub ---Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.

2021-12-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Dec 2021 at 08:28:37 (-0800), Peter Ehlert wrote: > the full error message at the end of update-grub: > > Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions. > Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration. > Check GRUB_DI

SID: update-grub ---Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.

2021-12-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
the full error message at the end of update-grub: Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration. Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry. Question: why would this desirable? it's totall

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-10-01 Thread David Christensen
On 10/1/21 05:40, fran...@libero.it wrote: About the questions sent: Thank you for the information. Fujitsu Esprimo P2560 MI4W-D2041 https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/IndexDownload.asp?lng=en&OpenTab= FTS_ESPRIMOP15xxP2440P2540P2550P2560P2760__1079164.PDF FTS_MainboardD3041ShortDescription_

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-10-01 Thread Hans
Hi, for me the easiest way to clone a drive is using clonezilla-live-cd. The only thing, one has to pay attention to, that the target is not smaller than the source, so if you need to clone a 300GB drive, the target must be 300GB or greater. If it is greater, and you want bigger partitions

Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-10-01 Thread frantal
About the questions sent: Fujitsu Esprimo P2560 MI4W-D2041 Intel® Pentium® processor E5700 (2 Cores / 2 Threads, 3.0 GHz, 2 MB, 800 MHz) RAM 2+4 GB. Video card included in the motherboard internal HD 300 GB I think there would be added a second HD of 80 GB or maybe another of 300 GB because

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-10-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 07:40:42AM +0200, fran...@libero.it wrote: > Taking a cue from the Thread "About user and password on Debian 10" I would > like to transfer the partitions related to Debian 10 to a larger HD, but with > the possibility of having the / partition larger t

Re: Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 9/30/21 22:40, fran...@libero.it wrote: Taking a cue from the Thread "About user and password on Debian 10" I would like to transfer the partitions related to Debian 10 to a larger HD, but with the possibility of having the / partition larger than the current one. It's p

Clone Debian 10 partitions to another HD

2021-09-30 Thread frantal
Taking a cue from the Thread "About user and password on Debian 10" I would like to transfer the partitions related to Debian 10 to a larger HD, but with the possibility of having the / partition larger than the current one. It's possible? I was thinking of using Filezilla, but

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 nov 20, 01:29:13, Kanito 73 wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de Wrote: > > > This is a pattern which I like to call "emergent evil". Most likely > > nobody does it on purpose, yet it happens often enough to annoy > > competing ecosystems. Magic! > > HAHAHAHAHA (with capital letters)... As far as

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 nov 20, 21:56:06, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > In situations like this, I think not of Occam's, but of Hanlon's Razor: > > Never attribute to malice that which can > be adequately explained by stupidity. +1 > At this point, though, a little voice in the back of my mind says, > "Bu

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-26 Thread tomas
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:06:49AM +, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 01:29:13 + > Kanito 73 wrote: > > > > > I hate Windoze as an operating system but some programs and games are > > cool... [...] > > environments (when computers had simple text terminals) and further > > graphical op

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-26 Thread Joe
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 01:29:13 + Kanito 73 wrote: > > I hate Windoze as an operating system but some programs and games are > cool... And there is a fact: THE ONE WHO HITS FIRST, HITS TWICE > (translated from spanish). Bill Gates was pioneer of the graphical > environments (when computers had

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:56:06PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:30:02 +0100 Joe wrote: [...] > >> This is a pattern which I like to call "emergent evil". Most likely > >> nobody does it on purpose, yet it happens often enough to annoy > >> competing ecosystems. Magic! > >

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:30:02 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:11:47 +0100 wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 03:47:12PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Microsoft changes the system required to kill the fast-boot every so often, almost surely to make it difficult for users of

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Microsoft has a bad habit of changing things under the hood without > bumping the version number. They could very well have changed NTFS > enough to bollix Linux NTFS libraries and not bothered to tell anyone. Except that `ntfs-3g` can read and write NTFS and hasn't seen the need for updates to

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Kanito 73
o annoy Linux users since long time ago... Installing Windoze disables Linux to boot... NTFS was cryptic for years with no tech specifications of the filesystem, a mystery so for many years Linux developers were unable to create a driver to access such partitions, in fact I remember that in th

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:22:30 + Joe wrote: > NTFS has been NTFS since the 90s, while Linux has had ext2, ext3, > ext4, Reiser among other filesystems. Is it not likely that 'NTFS' > has really been a similar parade of different filesystems with each > version of Windows retaining the code to r

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Joe
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:11:47 +0100 wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 03:47:12PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Microsoft changes the system required to kill the fast-boot every > > > so often, almost surely to make it difficult for users of Linux > > > to access Windows from the Linux system.

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 03:47:12PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Microsoft changes the system required to kill the fast-boot every so often, > > almost surely to make it difficult for users of Linux to access Windows from > > the Linux system. > > That seems highly unlikely: it's a tiny number

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Microsoft changes the system required to kill the fast-boot every so often, > almost surely to make it difficult for users of Linux to access Windows from > the Linux system. That seems highly unlikely: it's a tiny number of users, and not only they're not a threat but annoying them won't bring

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Doug McGarrett
disk (HDD) and the whole secondary disk (SDD) also as a unique NTFS partition. Well, I installed Windows, then Installed Linux and tested the NTFS partitions from Linux (Debian) mounting and copying some files successfully. [...] So I think that Windows 10 locks the partitions or something weird

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread The Wanderer
t a >> large NTFS partition for data on the primary disk (HDD) and the >> whole secondary disk (SDD) also as a unique NTFS partition. >> Well, I installed Windows, then Installed Linux and tested the NTFS >> partitions from Linux (Debian) mounting and copying some

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted [SOLVED]

2020-11-25 Thread Linux-Fan
vailable when I need them). Thanks all of you (and the other people who helped me along the installation and configuration) for your help and comments. My Windows 10 / Debian 10 box is up and running. Once everything was working and tuned up I made a Clonezilla backup of all partitions, so

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted [SOLVED]

2020-11-25 Thread Kanito 73
mmonly used but they are available when I need them). Thanks all of you (and the other people who helped me along the installation and configuration) for your help and comments. My Windows 10 / Debian 10 box is up and running. Once everything was working and tuned up I made a Clonezilla back

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Linux-Fan
partition. Which parts went onto the SSD and which onto the HDD in the end? Which of the two systems do you intend to use more often? Which of the two systems will run computation-intensive (CPU, RAM, GPU) applications? Well, I installed Windows, then Installed Linux and tested the NTFS partitions

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread John Boxall
P.S. Debian is working 100% perfectly, it is up and running, the unique problem is the access to the NTFS partitions You are running into Windows "hibernation" that leaves the disks in an "unclean" state when shut down in that manner (sadly, a default..."fastboot&

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread The Wanderer
d the whole secondary > disk (SDD) also as a unique NTFS partition. > > Well, I installed Windows, then Installed Linux and tested the NTFS > partitions from Linux (Debian) mounting and copying some files > successfully. After rebooting with Windows those partitions were not > ac

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-25 Thread Joe
isk (HDD) and the whole secondary > disk (SDD) also as a unique NTFS partition. > > Well, I installed Windows, then Installed Linux and tested the NTFS > partitions from Linux (Debian) mounting and copying some files > successfully. After rebooting with Windows those partitions were

Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-24 Thread john doe
NTFS partition. Well, I installed Windows, then Installed Linux and tested the NTFS partitions from Linux (Debian) mounting and copying some files successfully. After rebooting with Windows those partitions were not accessible from Linux anymore. If they are mounted at boot time via /etc/fstab it

NTFS partitions can't be mounted

2020-11-24 Thread Kanito 73
, then Installed Linux and tested the NTFS partitions from Linux (Debian) mounting and copying some files successfully. After rebooting with Windows those partitions were not accessible from Linux anymore. If they are mounted at boot time via /etc/fstab it silently mounts them as "ro"

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 16:47:43 (-0500), Charles Zeitler wrote: > so, is displaying partitions of all drives normal behavior for > parted --list /dev/sdb ? > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:02 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install m

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread Charles Zeitler
hanks, all. On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:02 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install media. > su -c 'parted --list /dev/sdb' (/dev/sdb is thumb drive} > lists partitions from /dev/sda 9system drive) > even when /dev/sdb doesn&

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-09-27 at 17:47, Charles Zeitler wrote: > so, is displaying partitions of all drives normal behavior for > parted --list /dev/sdb ? It's normal behavior for 'parted --list'. The '--list' option to parted doesn't take an argument. The '/dev/sdb&#

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread Charles Zeitler
so, is displaying partitions of all drives normal behavior for parted --list /dev/sdb ? On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:02 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install media. > su -c 'parted --list /dev/sdb' (/dev/sdb is thumb drive} > lis

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 sep 20, 00:02:57, Charles Zeitler wrote: > i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install media. > su -c 'parted --list /dev/sdb' (/dev/sdb is thumb drive} How did you determine that /dev/sdb is the thumb drive? > lists partitions from /dev/sda 9system dri

parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-25 Thread Charles Zeitler
i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install media. su -c 'parted --list /dev/sdb' (/dev/sdb is thumb drive} lists partitions from /dev/sda 9system drive) even when /dev/sdb doesn't exist! fdisk -l /dev/sdb properly reports it as missing, and gparted seems to be unconf

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/5/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : > > [FAT, hard links] > >> >a feature that is crucial for dpkg. >> >> I vaguely remember this, but not when and why dpkg needs to create >> additio

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2020 à 11:00, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : [FAT, hard links] a feature that is crucial for dpkg. I vaguely remember this, but not when and why dpkg needs to create addition

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : [FAT, hard links] > >a feature that is crucial for dpkg. > > I vaguely remember this, but not when and why dpkg needs to create > additional hard links. Can you refresh my memories ?

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/> now <https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/> Also mentionned in the Discoverable Partitions Specification. <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/> <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-01-04 13:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/01/2020 à 11:25, Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > >> If I had not created that /boot partition would those files be in >> /boot folder on the / (root) partition or would /boot then be on the >> EFI partition? > > On the root partition. Some new bo

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Hi, > > > > I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the > beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after > disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be > able to boot from a file anywhere on the disk. > >

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2020 à 11:25, Bonno Bloksma a écrit : I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be able to boot from a file anywhere on the

uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be able to boot from a file anywhere on the disk. So far so good, that still works but

Re: Windows install on 4 partitions?

2019-12-29 Thread Doug McGarrett
McGarrett wrote: > > I bought a new computer last summer, and it came with Windows 10 on > > FOUR partitions! I shrank the Windows partition 4 to 100 GiB to > > allow a minimum Windows system for anything that won't run on > > OpenSUSE TW, and made

Re: Windows install on 4 partitions? (was: Re: INQUIRY)

2019-12-29 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 10:30 AM Joe wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:55:22 -0500 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, December 28, 2019 03:46:53 PM Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > I bought a new computer last summer, and it came with Windows 10 on > > &

Re: Windows install on 4 partitions? (was: Re: INQUIRY)

2019-12-29 Thread Joe
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:55:22 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, December 28, 2019 03:46:53 PM Doug McGarrett wrote: > > I bought a new computer last summer, and it came with Windows 10 on > > FOUR partitions! I shrank the Windows partition 4 to 100 GiB to > > al

Re: Windows install on 4 partitions?

2019-12-29 Thread Felix Miata
? Probably: HP Dell Toshiba Lenovo and others > What is on /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4? ESP MSR WinOS Recovery <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reserved_Partition> <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/images/dep-win10-partitions-u

Windows install on 4 partitions? (was: Re: INQUIRY)

2019-12-29 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 28, 2019 03:46:53 PM Doug McGarrett wrote: > I bought a new computer last summer, and it came with Windows 10 on FOUR > partitions! I shrank the Windows partition 4 to 100 GiB to allow a > minimum Windows system for anything that won't run on OpenSUSE TW, an

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-05-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 mai 19, 09:31:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 02:20:19PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > for $dir in /media/removable/* > > do > > mount /dev/disk/by-label/$dir /media/removable/$dir > > done > > for dir in /media/removable/* > do > mount /dev/

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-05-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 02:20:19PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > for $dir in /media/removable/* > do > mount /dev/disk/by-label/$dir /media/removable/$dir > done for dir in /media/removable/* do mount /dev/disk/by-label/"$dir" /media/removable/"$dir" done Note the lack of

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-05-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
t; > > Assuming there are entries in fstab for each partition, [...] > > > > > > for i in /dev/sd*; do mount $i; done > > > > > > > > Rchard Owlett wrote: > > > > > There are not. > > > > > > > > In the most

Re: GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 14:34 Felix Miata wrote: > Tom Browder composed on 2019-04-11 08:42 (UTC-0500): > ... > > Does GPT partitioning on Windows 10 allow a user-friendly label along > with > > its UUID for a partition? > > > If so, is that label visible with Debian system administration progra

Re: GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-11 Thread Felix Miata
Tom Browder composed on 2019-04-11 08:42 (UTC-0500): > I run dual boot Deb/Win 10 on several systems, only one of which has UEFI > capability (the latest, new as of last fall). Unfortunately, I failed to > use the GPT on the new one, and the Win 10 disk management program doesn't > show much info

Re: GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:44 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 11/04/2019 à 15:42, Tom Browder a écrit : > > > > Does GPT partitioning on Windows 10 allow a user-friendly label along with > > its UUID for a partition? > > Why do you care ? You can manage it in Debian. I care because my main Win b

Re: GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/04/2019 à 15:42, Tom Browder a écrit : Does GPT partitioning on Windows 10 allow a user-friendly label along with its UUID for a partition? Why do you care ? You can manage it in Debian.

GPT partions: capability for user friendly labels on partitions for all OSs?

2019-04-11 Thread Tom Browder
I run dual boot Deb/Win 10 on several systems, only one of which has UEFI capability (the latest, new as of last fall). Unfortunately, I failed to use the GPT on the new one, and the Win 10 disk management program doesn't show much info on the non-NTFS disks. Does GPT partitioning on Windows 10 al

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-01-18 Thread David Wright
r i in /dev/sd*; do mount $i; done > > > > > > > > > > > > Rchard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > There are not. > > > > > > > > > > > > In the most general case i would have a where-to-mount directory >

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-01-18 Thread Richard Owlett
: Assuming there are entries in fstab for each partition, [...] for i in /dev/sd*; do mount $i; done Rchard Owlett wrote: There are not. In the most general case i would have a where-to-mount directory with lots of directories for the various partitions (here 10 drives with 20 partitions each). But

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-01-16 Thread David Wright
; > > > > Assuming there are entries in fstab for each partition, [...] > > > > > > for i in /dev/sd*; do mount $i; done > > > > > > > > Rchard Owlett wrote: > > > > > There are not. > > > > > > > > I

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-01-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Owlett wrote: There are not. In the most general case i would have a where-to-mount directory with lots of directories for the various partitions (here 10 drives with 20 partitions each). But thankfully I don't have to deal with the most general case as I am as compulsive about givin

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-01-14 Thread Brian
mount $i; done > > > > Rchard Owlett wrote: > > > There are not. > > > > In the most general case i would have a where-to-mount directory with > > lots of directories for the various partitions (here 10 drives with > > 20 partitions each). > &

Re: Command line mounting all partitions of pluggable device

2019-01-14 Thread David Wright
done > > > > Rchard Owlett wrote: > > > There are not. > > > > In the most general case i would have a where-to-mount directory with > > lots of directories for the various partitions (here 10 drives with > > 20 partitions each). > > But thankfully I do

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