Tootfinder

Made the most stupidest possible mistake today.
I tried shrinking NTFS partition on Linux. It’s been more than 6 hours and the damn thing hasn’t finished yet.
I lost patience and cancelled it around 5 hour mark but apparently I gotta wait for “geometry for partition” thing to finish before it can be cancelled.
*insert rage meme here*
Oh btw I need the new partition so I can clone FreeBSD kernel and compile my own.🤓

So, a friend is having some major issues with his NAS which reminded me that TrueNAS does weird stuff with partitions and ZFS pool construction...which led me to the question: how in the hell would I identify a bad drive in the array given a partition UUID? #homelab #truenas
After some t…

yo dawg i herd you like allocators so we put an allocator in yo allocator so you can allocate while u allocate

Hello les fedigens ! C'était attendu, le disque dur SATA de mon ordi a fini par rendre l'âme. Il n'apparaît plus du tout. Il y avait ma partition de données dessus. J'avais heureusement fait une sauvegarde. Il me reste la partition système sur disque SSD où est installé Ubuntu 22.04 lts.
Je vais remplacer mon HDD 1To par un hdd 2To. Pour récupérer mon home, est-ce que je suis obligé de TOUT réinstaller ou je peux bidouiller pour juste assigner le nv HDD en partition don…

On Windows, you need this if you are short on time and flash drives to use Clonezilla, and you are ready to nuke every single internet search engine because they are leading you only to sponsored or SEOed crap:
Hasleo Disk Clone / Disk Clone Free
Clones system drives, too. After that, you might need to use diskpart to delete and recreate your Recovery partition if you are migrating to a bigger SSD, but that's about it ->

hmmmm... 1949 green line, or 1947 UN partition plan...
well considering the 1948 Nakba.... maybe not the 1949 line... the 1947 one looks better...

Approximating Partition in Near-Linear Time
Lin Chen, Jiayi Lian, Yuchen Mao, Guochuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11426 https://

Approximating Partition in Near-Linear Time
We propose an $\widetilde{O}(n + 1/\varepsilon)$-time FPTAS (Fully Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme) for the classical Partition problem. This is the best possible (up to a logarithmic factor) assuming SETH (Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis) [Abboud, Bringmann, Hermelin, and Shabtay'22]. Prior to our work, the best known FPTAS for Partition runs in $\widetilde{O}(n + 1/\varepsilon^{5/4})$ time [Deng, Jin and Mao'23, Wu and Chen'22]. Our result is obtained by solving a more general problem…

Tho the BIOS doesn’t let me select a specific partition, only “hard drive”.
I’ve messed with a BIOS like this once, but it was an UEFI I think. I then used efibootmgr to change the boot order.
Is there anything like that for a Legacy BIOS?
I think the problem might be just the bios trying to boot to a bootloader that doesn’t exist anymore, but that bios doesn’t even let us select the partition we want to boot from so idk..

Current mood
Currently at:
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=-1, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x24 (DDS-2).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (5010000):
WR_PROT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

I’m installing #Linux for someone.
When I (try to) boot it, the computer (old dell laptop) says “Operation System Not Found”.
However, GRUB is installed: if I add in a #openSUSE USB and select “boot from hard disk” the installed grub opens and I can boot the system normally!! I need the pendrive only to select “boot from hard drive” - then it opens the installed grub and I can just remove the pendrive and boot.
It only isn’t opening Grub automatically apparently? Tho the BIOS doesn’t let me select a specific partition, only “hard drive”.
Legacy BIOS, MBR.
It’s a Dell XPS L511Z
Any ideas?
Relevant: Fedora installer wasn’t detecting any disks. So we installed openSUSE dual boot with windows (it worked, the only problem was grub didn’t detect windows). They wanted to try deleting the disk to see if fedora would detect it. Opening Gparted, apparently it was a RAID (even tho only 1 disk). Someone else deleted the disk (new partition table).
From then on, any distro we installed had the problem I mentioned.