Is it good to make a separate partition for /boot?
I’ve seen some people make a separate partition for /boot. What is the benefit of doing this? What problems might I encounter in the future by doing this?
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How do I determine the new size for resize2fs?
I want to shrink an ext4 filesystem to make room for a new partition and came across the resize2fs program. The command looks like this:
File systems vs partitions vs directories
I am new to Linux so pardon me for the possible confusion you may encounter in this question.
How to (safely) move /tmp to a different volume?
Today the /tmp directory filled up on a machine at work. The problem was, it was on the root partition which wasn’t very big. In order to fix this, a co-worker created a /new/tmp directory elsewhere, copied all the contents to the new directory, removed the original /tmp and made a symlink /tmp -> /new/tmp.
can ‘dd’ be used to clone to a smaller HDD, knowing that partitions will need editing?
I’ve used dd to clone disks like this:
What is the difference between a name and a label in gparted?
When I create a new partition on my disk using GParted, I have the option to set both a name and a label. Some partitions I have already have both, some only a label. If I right-click on an existing partition, I can see separate options to set the partition’s name and label.
How to change the volume name of a FAT32 filesystem?
I know I can set the volume name when I format the partition with the -n option of mkfs.vfat. But how to just change the name without formatting?
What’s the difference between creating mdadm array using partitions or the whole disks directly
Can someone please explain to me, what the difference is between creating mdadm array using partitions or the whole disks directly? Supposing I intend to use the whole drives.
Why are partition size and df output different?
I have a partition /dev/sda1.
Disk utility shows it has the capacity of 154 GB.
df -h shows
How to format a partition inside of an img file?
I created an img file via the following command: