Tag: fdisk

How to increase the size of the partition and file system after increasing the physical size of the disk

Posted by Alex On March 23, 2023

Disk partition size and file system size In Linux, a disk can be used entirely by one partition or be divided into several partitions (similar to volumes in Windows). Usually, at the stage of installing the operating system, disk partitioning is done: disk partitions are created, and then these partitions are formatted into one or another file system. In this...

How to check if a computer is using BIOS or UEFI; GRUB or systemd-boot bootloader; MBR or GPT partition table

Posted by Alex On June 17, 2022

How to know if UEFI or GRUB is being used? The system booting process consists of the following 4 steps: System initialization: UEFI or BIOS (POST) Starting the bootloader (GRUB2 or systemd-boot) Kernel initialization Starting systemd, the parent of all processes Related: How to update the systemd-boot loader in /boot How to change the default operating system in Arch Linux...
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