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...

Ubuntu installation is weird

A few weeks ago, I wanted to try Ubuntu for my laptop that is also my main computer. Two days ago, I installed it on an external HDD I had bought for the occasion. My SSD (not external) was still on

Automatically mount shared partitions

I'm a beginner using a dual-boot system: Windows 11 and Ubuntu 2604LTS. I want the shared partition to be automatically mounted every time I boot into Ubuntu. I've tried several times with Nano but...

Is there a way to install Ubuntu on a manually created luks-encrypted LVM?

I have a test system with two physical disks. I'm trying to recreate a setup I used to use years ago where I could span volumes across said physical disks. I never considered it a complicated set...

Automatic installer vs. Manual partitioning with separate /home

I am planning a dual-boot installation of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS alongside Windows 11 on an ASUS ZenBook 14 UM425UA (AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics, 16GB LPDDR4X, 512GB NVMe SSD). I currently hav...

Boot-Repair problem

Ubuntu 22.04 won't boot. Get a "Line endings are different ... set to pager=1" or something to that effect. Anyway I finally got Boot-Repair to fire up, but there was no "it was repa...

Boot-Repair problem

Ubuntu 22.04 won't boot. Get a "Line endings are different ... set to pager=1" or something to that effect. Anyway I finally got Boot-Repair to fire up, but there was no "it was repa...

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repartition and expand a disk in Ubuntu that runs in a vm

I'm running Ubuntu in a VmWare VM. I have eliminated all snapshots and increased the size of the disk in the VM. What do I need to do to use the additional space?

Problem dual booting Ubuntu 24.04 with Windows 11

I have been trying to install 24.04 as a Windows 11 dual boot using a bootable thumb drive. First I needed to disable Boot security. Now the problem is that the installer does not provide the scr...