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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The #GPartedLive USB just saved my a** ! 
#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.
Выпущены GParted 1.7 с экспериментальной поддержкой Bcachefs и GParted Live 1.7 с ядром Linux 6.12 LTS и удалением пакетов ядра i386
https://linuxmasterclub.ru/release-gparted-1-7-and-gparted-live-1-7/
#Linux Weekly Roundup for February 2nd, 2025: #Mozilla #Thunderbird 134, #NVIDIA 570 enters public beta testing, #GParted 1.7, #Nitrux 3.9, first Linux kernel 6.14 Release Candidate, ParrotOS 6.3, #System76's Meerkat mini Linux PC is back, #CachyOS's first release in 2025, #KaOS Linux 2025.01, #GCompris 25.0, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-february-2nd-2025
#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
GParted 1.7 enhances partition management with NBD support, Bcachefs (experimental), LVM probe prevention, and updated translations.
https://linuxiac.com/gparted-1-7-free-partition-manager-released/
Well, the issue was that I had a bad disk partitioning. I deleted all the partitions with #Gparted and it was smooth sailing. I decided not to use LVM because the SSD is relatively small (240GB) and I don't plan to move or resize partitions, but maybe I should reconsider because of snapshots.
Anyway, I'll be checking how it works and will post if I decide to reinstall again .
@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.
Ich muss es mal wieder in aller Deutlichkeit sagen:
Ich 
#Linux
Im #Notebook meiner Frau war noch eine relativ kleine #SSD. Seit einem Jahr macht sie mega viele Fotos mit dem #Smartphone und bei der letzten Sicherung auf's Notebook waren nur noch 4 GB frei.
Ich habe das mit #LUKS vollverschlüsselte #Ubuntu kurzerhand mit Linux #Bordmitteln auf eine größere SSD umgezogen:
1. alte SSD mit dd auf neue SSD 1:1 geklont
2. neue SSD ins Notebook eingebaut und Ubuntu gestartet
3. im laufenden System unbenutzten Speicherplatz mit #gparted der verschlüsselten Root-Partition hinzugefügt.
4. im laufenden System das #LVM vergrößert
5. im laufenden System das Dateisystem vergrößert
Fertig.
Effektiver Arbeitsaufwand: 5 min
Man versuche das mal mit #BigTech #Microsoft #Windows. 
#OpenSource #FOSS #digitaleSelbstbestimmung #digitaleSouveränität #Terminal
E alla fine niente c'è voluto un gruppo di ragazzi italiani per riuscire a mettere un pulsante veloce per formattare una chiavetta USB e per scrivere una immagine su chiavetta senza dover passare per #gparted e il comando #dd
Grazie #ufficiozero <3
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?
#DIY gift recipe for #nerds: Hacker Multi-Boot Drive!
1) Get a USB enclosure: USB 4.0 is best, but anything that says 20Gbps is fine; https://amzn.to/3TPz9bG
2) Get an M.2 NVMe: PCIe 4.0 is best, but 3.0 works too;
https://amzn.to/3XOIp10
3) Install #Ventoy https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html
4) Load up with ISOs: #memtest #clonezilla #hiren #systemRescue and #gparted for getting old computers working. #ubuntu #mint or some other #linux. #kali for h4x0ring.
5) Decorate!
$50 total
