My experience with #FlashDrives recently has been mixed. I have no problem in encrypting them with #LUKS, using #cryptsetup or with formatting a partition with #Btrfs, for instance, using #gparted and doing other tinkering with #Gnome #disks. But the problem has been with the actual drives themselves. The cheaper ones seem to have quite a few bad sectors, etc. and so they’re not really reliable for medium term storage.
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#RescueZilla is a beginner-friendly tool to backup, image, clone, restore and resize all sorts of disks from e.g. a bootable usb-thumbdrive. 
It is under active development and based on #CloneZilla (among others) and #GPartEd.
Especially useful together with #Ventoy.
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Windows users mind that it does not support bitlocker encrypted #partitions).
Giving credit to the programmers of GPARTED(8)
gparted works its magic, by entering correct parameters to a suite of partition control & editing commands, which are sh envoked, so you can easily manipulate your partitions on all your SSDs HDDs from the comfort of your UI
When you want to batch manipulate partitions, you can study the log output and make sh scripts yourself, controlling partitions anywhere.
You also have the convenience of running gparted from sh so it still works its magic for you, without the UI!
I usually run cfdisk gdisk fdisk when I partition a fresh mechanical or SSD, later on I invoke gparted when I want to resize or move them
it also runs important commands at the end so that the kernel gets to know your new partition layout, which makes rebooting your machine to use them unneeded
I shrunk and resized a partition where I installed a program, which needed 75GB (*1024!) as installation space but only uses 56GB in the end. I left 12GB of breathing room on the partition after the shrink and of course grew the partition before with the same size, minus the alignment snip of 1MB
log:
myserver kernel: JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
myserver kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, scrub, repair, quota, debug enabled
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
^Z
Resizing a live, mounted root partition because I can.
Apparently.
Since when is that allowed LOL
So today I tired #mkfs.btrfs and this works. I was using #gparted, which can’t create #encrypted file systems and so I created a blank (cleared) one, used #cryptsetup to create the #encryption on the device, and then created the brtrfs file system.
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#GParted 1.7 and GParted Live 1.7 Launch with Experimental Bcachefs Support and #Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS https://9to5linux.com/gparted-live-1-7-launches-with-experimental-bcachefs-support-linux-6-12-lts
@phpmacher Andere verschrotten in so einer Situation den PC und kaufen neu (Behörden *räusper*).
Für alle anderen, die gerne rumprobieren, gäbe es da noch Netboot.xyz (https://netboot.xyz/). Einfach alle möglichen Linux Distros, nahezu blitzschnell, aus dem Netzwerk booten (PXE). Mit Anleitung sogar Windows. Benutze ich recht häufig auch für RAM Analysen oder Secure Erase Zeug. Da gibts eigentlich alles, was man sich so vorstellen kann: DBan, Arch Linux, CentOS, clonezilla, FreeBSD, GParted, Kali, Proxmox, Rescuezilla, ShredOS, ... uvm.
Is it true that writing a bootable image to a flash drive is a "write once" operation and you can forget about reusing the drive for another bootable image?
A friend said try #gparted : which shows me this... and seems to show that it is MSDOS formatted (I think I fell into the Gnome click on a plausibe menu option trap, too much time spent on Apple devices -- woah I have an idea ! ) but on a windows machine I was not able to format it... but then perhaps it was not allowed on that work machine which may have locked the function ...
Where the hell do I find another Windows machine ? Perhaps I can go to the local #wertstoffhof (municipal dump?)
@SweetAIBelle @OS1337 nodds in agreement
Whilst I do want to focus on #CLI & #TUI tools first, since those offer the most "bang per storage" I can totally see why you want to go beyond that with something close to #TinyCore which packs a full #Xorg desktop onto 16MB, I'd guess this will be something to aim for post 1.0 if not 2.x.
That being said I do think that a lightweight #GUI #Desktop like #OpenBox or #i3-gaps or #Sway is something nice and would propably fit well as an "extra" or "fancy desktop" package.
Not to mention that there are few and far in between options outside of #ix86 for most systems:
@FlashMobOfOne why not boot live distro with e.g. #gparted and do what you need from there?
#SystemRescue 11.01 is now available with #Linux kernel 6.6.30, a helper script to add #ZFS support when creating a custom SystemRescue ISO, firmware for Qlogic cards, and the latest #GParted 1.6 partition editor. Download at https://www.system-rescue.org/Download/
Looking for some solid recos for how to use #gparted on #linuxmint on a dual boot machine (Win and LM). I want to expand the linux space but really don't want to screw up the drive(s). Can anyone steer me towards some clear instructions -- video or whatever. I've googled but don't want to just try anything. TIA.
Can I move my Boot Partition to the beginning of the drive? #gparted #screenshot
Using Gparted on live Ubuntu to change the size of HoloISO partitions results in FEATURE_C12 errors #partitioning #liveusb #gparted
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I finally upgraded the OS SSD in my gaming PC. Went from a 250GB to a 1TB. #Clonezilla and #gParted made it so simple. It took all of 20 minutes or so!
