Should I use fdisk for partitioning or GPT aware tools?
Question: Should I use fdisk when creating partitions?
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Scripteable GPT partitions using parted
I am partitioning eMMC using following commands in the script,
How to extend logical & extended partition with fdisk
I’m trying to extend partition /dev/sda5 which is logical partition under extended partition /dev/sda2.
Short read while trying to open partition
On my personal home computer running Kubuntu Linux 13.04 I’m having trouble mounting a partition that is very dear to me. My backup policy is to perform a backup about monthly, so I do have a backup from August :). Is there any way to recover the personal files that are on this drive?
Backup of LVM2 logical volume
I’d like to make backup on external drive of LVM2 logical volume in dd manner.
Can I get SSD rw performance while keeing data security if I combine SSD & HDD in btrfs RAID1
I have 2 storage devices; classical slow HDD (750GB, /dev/sda) and faster SSD (128GB, /dev/sdb). Currently I have installed Ubuntu & Mint on same btrfs partition on SSD (/dev/sdb5). My btrfs pool consists of /dev/sdb5.
How to get block device name from partition device name?
I’m looking for a portable way to obtain parent block device name (e.g. /dev/sda) given the partition device name (e.g. /dev/sda1). I know I could just drop the last character, but that wouldn’t work in some cases:
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 partitions on it (I’m also not cloning it onto the first partition of the disk…)