Mastodawn

Unable to fully restore Toshiba TransMemory USB after Ventoy usage — partitioning and formatting inconsistencies #partitioning #usb #fdisk #exfat #parted

https://askubuntu.com/q/1566673/612

Unable to fully restore Toshiba TransMemory USB after Ventoy usage — partitioning and formatting inconsistencies

I am trying to fully restore a Toshiba TransMemory 32GB USB flash drive after previously using Ventoy on Linux Mint, but the device is behaving inconsistently and I am no longer sure whether this i...

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Tommi Nieminen Feb 14

Saatiin #Parted'inkin käännös tulille. Ihan valmista ei vielä ole, kun pitää etsiä ja keksiä käännöksiä käsitteille (”head”? ”extent”? ”signature”?) ja pähkäillä mitä tehdä pitkien prepositiolausekejonojen kanssa (”%s of %s in %s through %s”, voi p***eensuti). #kotoistaminen #kääntäminen #L10N #floss #GNU #Linux

SP⟁CED GO⟁T Dec 26

#Linux #Partitions #Partitioning #Parted

I keep reading over the arch wiki page for parted and one thing that doesn't seem clear to me where it says you can only move the end of a partition... If I have 3 partitions;

1. EFI
2. SWAP
3. Root

I already shrunk the root parition down to make room to expand the swap paritition, but if I can only move the end of a partition, don't I need to move the root partition to make room, or does parted automatically take care of shifting that?

mittorn Sep 19, 2025

No Implementation: GNU Parted cannot resize this partition to this size.
We're working on it!

Dozens of Gnome developers working on it full time over 15 years and cannot solve it:
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-September/003200.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649324
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gparted/-/issues/245
#gnome #parted #fat #vfat
@linuxmemes

[parted-devel] resizing FAT partitions does not work at all

Amedee Aug 27, 2025

📦 Auto-growing disks in Vagrant: because 10 GB is never enough

Have you ever fired up a Vagrant VM, provisioned a project, pulled some Docker images, ran a build… and ran out of disk space halfway through? Welcome to my world. Apparently, the default disk size in Vagrant is tiny—and while you can specify a bigger virtual disk, Ubuntu won’t magically use the extra space. You need to resize the partition, the physical volume, the logical volume, and the filesystem. Every. Single. Time.

Enough of that nonsense.

🛠 The setup

Here’s the relevant […]

https://amedee.be/%f0%9f%93%a6-auto-growing-disks-in-vagrant-because-10-gb-is-never-enough/

Delta Sierra Aug 5, 2025

Should have known better to mess around with parted after a long convention weekend. Did a fucky-wucky, uwu.

Good news is I back up this machine regularly and it's mostly just used for monitoring zoneminder and proxmox, so nothing of value was lost.

Anyways always make sure your first command in parted is 'select <correct/device>' or you will be unhappy like me. And no, testdisk could not save me here.

#linux #parted #mistake #cli ##testdisk #oops

steve Jul 6, 2025

The adventures continue!

I run a number of computers at home, almost entirely GNU/Linux-based. As the hardware continues to age, data integrity had become more and more of a concern. I am particularly worried about sudden disk failures, and with a combination of ddrescue and timeshift I have been setting up whole-partition/whole-disk and incremental backups on critical systems.

I have also […]

https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2025/07/06/adventures-in-microsd-and-raspberry-pi-disk-cloning/