Questions tagged [shared-partition]
Using the same file system with more than one operating system.
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Check if unallocated space contains data
I have a HDD with an un-allocated section, likely reserved to later add a partition for backups. I want to know if there is data in said section, or if i can flatten it. A few years ago some windows ...
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How do I get a cloned linux partition to boot?
I have a dual boot system (windows and linux) and I wanted to move the image to a larger hard drive and allocate more space to both partitions. I cloned it without any issues, my windows system boots ...
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change Windows partition from RO to RW at login
I'm have installed Devuan Daedalus in my friend's computer. It is a HP laptop with AMD RYZEN 3 and Radeon Graphics. It has Windows 11 also installed. Windows partition has been shut down fully (not ...
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Create Accessible Partition by Windows and Linux
I plan to dual boot windows and kde neon on my laptop. Since I will be doing cross-platform development I would like my code to be accessible by both linux and windows, therefore, I want to create a ...
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Sharing many folders between two Linuxes
I have dual boot Arch and Ubuntu, and what I want to do is to share folders such as Documents, Downloads, Desktop e.g. so I can use them in both operating system The usual way is just to create new ...
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How to clean ambiguous folder paths created while mounting shared folders in Linux?
I didn't know how to phrase this question better. I hope the following description is clear. I have Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon installed alongside Windows 10, on a dual-boot system. Between the two OS, ...
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How to remove Ubuntu from dual boot in Kali?
My laptop has a 2Gb ram & 500Gb of rom & I've ubuntu installed but a few days back I dual booted & installed Kali linux by creating a 100 Gb partition using Ubuntu Live USB. Now I want to ...
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Can i use the same /home partition for multiple distro's partitons [duplicate]
Hello Unix/Linux Stackexchange. I have a mulri-part question about the /home partition. Thanks for taking the time to read and reply to all the questions below. Is it possible to share the /home ...
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Cant access drives prepared in Windows
Recently I've installed Linux Mint Cinnamon alongside Windows 10 on my SSD. However, the other two drives I have are not properly recognized by Linux Mint. One appears on the File System tree, but I ...
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How to copy partitions from one device to another, including boot partitions?
Basic Explanation How could I copy partitions sdh1 though shd4 from my 600gb HDD (sdh) to my 1 TB SSD (sdg)? Which are my Windows partitions and still keep it bootable? I used GPT. Below is a ...
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How to Automount NTFS partition and make it avaiable without clicking drive in file manager?
I'm running Linux Mint 19, Cinnamon. This particular issue has existed on mint 18 as well as Mate and Cinnamon desktop environments The problem is this: I have a single drive partitioned into ...
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Different Linux distros sharing applications
Multiple Linux distros can be installed on the same machine. The format of executables should be the same for every one of them. So I want to use multiple distros on a single machine and have access ...
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GParted, Linux, TrueOS (FreeBSD desktop), Windows - what partition scheme should I choose?
I have a laptop (Samsung, 8GB Ram, HDD 1TB) and I want to set it up as multi-boot with: Fedora Oracle Linux CentOS TrueOS Windows I want approx. 200GB on each of them - which is plenty for my ...
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Replace an old distribution with a newer one alongside Windows
About 1 year ago, I installed Kali Linux alongside Windows 7. I made 2 primary partition (ntfs) and an extended partition for Linux. The first ntfs partition is used to install Windows 7, the other ...
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Resizing the ESP /boot/efi partition
I have an existing Debian 9 installation on a 2 TB GPT formatted internal SSD/SATA hybrid hard disk on a brand new Acer laptop. The entire Debian install takes up a mere 600 GB of the hard drive. No ...
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