Questions tagged [partition-table]

I replaced a 1 TB HDD (which holds a single EXT4 partition with lots of hardlinks to backup files/directories also inside this partition. It has also a bunch of regular files/directories) with a 2 TB HDD and now I'm trying to copy the former's data…

As I recall I accidentally removed partition with fdisk and left changes which I did on LVM, then I did restart and Centos was not able to boot normally, it booted to Dracut.. It is my fault that I did experiments without making VM backup. Currently…

I am searching for a way to write a kickstart partition section where I can control precisely which partitions are primary, and which partitions are secondary partitions in a extended partition. I don't want to use LVM, and I want to create this…

I’m writing this after having found the solution myself, because it was such a strange “gotcha” it deserves to be documented. Although I hit this issue while doing a restore, it’s possible this could come up in other cases of booting into another…