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tl;dr Does resizing a root partition ruin it, or is resizing a normal proceedure, given sufficient space?
Mason Gomez
why do you invest literally thousands of hours to be familiar with a meme OS instead of doing literally anything else with your time?
Connor Allen
Does the bootflaged 1MiB empty type partition without filesystem or mountpoint require a specific location? (It can't be first, since since I have 2 where it's not, but maybe it can't be last..?)
I have never heard about needing such a thing. Whether you need a bootable flag at all depends on your bootloader (syslinux needs it, grub doesn't IIRC). Pic related, my PC using MBR and syslinux.
My guess: Resizing (editing right boundary) is probably fine since all you'd have to do is change the value regarding how big the partition is without touching any of the data. Resizing and moving (editing left boundary) may potentially be problematic since you'd have to actually move the data. I would assume that software like GParted would warn you about this though.
Christian Myers
You don't really need the grub partition if you left enough free space before the first partition. fdisk does that automatically. Unless you have a separate /boot partition, you should flag your / as bootable. It's not strictly necessary, but some boards refuse to properly boot in BIOS mode without it. Check if there's a megabyte or two free before the first partition with fdisk -l /dev/sdb Extending a filesystem is normal. Shrinking is very rare. You have to tell the filesystem separately that the partition/volume under it has been extended. For btrfs to command is btrfs filesystem resize max /mountpoint and for ext4 it's resize2fs /dev/sdXY
Jaxon Williams
Which GTK DE comes the closest to KDE Plasma in terms of features.
Noah Morris
MBR partition table on Void Linux supposedly requires it. I certainly cannot toggle the boot flag on a non-running disk's partitions. Yours being 83 is curious, and just shows how little I understand about partitions and filesystems. I've had /boot partitions, but the documentation suggested they weren't necessary with modern hardware. cfdisk, at least, doesn't toggle the bootflag, and I'd bet my ass cheeks the c is for curses and that it's built on top of or using fdisk. I'm scared I soon won't at all be able to boot. And I've never resized a disk before. I deleted the unused swap partitions just now, and created another bootflaged 1MiB empty partition at the start.
Luke Clark
Honestly, what isn't tied to tencent? God I hate that puppet company.
Samuel Lee
What bootleader are you using. That is what decides if you need the bootable flag. If you don't have a /boot partition, the second stage of the bootloader gets installed to the VBR of the / partition, so if your bootloader requires it, mark that one as bootable. 83 is the partition type, not strictly necessary, kinda like file extensions. Gives a hint to the os as to what the partition is, but linux ignores it and instead checks the header.
Ethan Sullivan
GRUB 2.06 Smashing b on cfdisk whilst booting from a usb install (that I keep in case I fuck up the software on the primary drive) didn't do squat.
What distros keep proprietary software in separate repos (like Debian does)?
Ryan Cruz
Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu all do that. Fedora has rpm-fusion, openSUSE has packman and Ubuntu has it's universe/multiverse etc. repos that most variants of it just activate by default.
Jayden Long
YuruYuri's are meant for headpats not sniffs
Camden Perez
I had a look at the Grub stage one code amd I can't see any part that would check for the bootable flag. Is grub even installed on the SSD?
Ryan Butler
To the user who helped me with my RTL8188EUS Realteak problem: Thx! I manage to get intenet using usb tethering (didnt even know that was possible). The other user said the drivers were supposed to be in the kernel already but they dont seem to work. Pic related.
