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Just compared it to my 3950x system and they not the same.
I am presuming that I am looking at a backup and clear the HDD.
Tom M
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Hover over or select the #2 partition. Would like to see how it is identifed. And if there is anything in it. Mount the partition by clicking the right arrow to mount it and see what is in it if anything.
It might be a previous OS installation if you ever answered the install question to install the new OS alongside the existing installation. If this is exactly what this partition is, you need to verify that it is bootable, accessible from the grub menu and if it still can be used as rescue or recovery partition. Normally if have partitioned a drive into two bootable partitions, they both should be seen on the entire drive. I have my normal daily driver partitioned into the active partition I use for daily use but also have half the drive partitioned and and have a duplicate Ubuntu 22.04.1 installation that is also set up for development with all the other dev libraries installed so that I can compile there. It also can be used as a rescue partition for the main partition if I need to do offline maintenance or recovery of my main installation.
With a 1TB drive you can only have a single 1TB partition ignoring the small little UEFI boot partition.
So I assume the #2 partition is one that was previously created and never used and the partition tables were never cleaned up.
If there is nothing in the #2 partition to save or move whatever data is in it, you should then delete the partition using gparted so the partition tables are squared away.
This condition might be a cause or THE cause of your flakiness.
This is what my daily driver main disk looks like.
Just compared it to my 3950x system and they not the same.
I am presuming that I am looking at a backup and clear the HDD.
Just backed up the BOINC etc. Reinstalled the operating system after using Gpart to delete "everything" and got the same results.
:(
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
Just for giggles I am going to download the latest ISO for Ubuntu 20, install it on my flash drive and install this OS again.
I suppose the OTHER thing I could do would be download the upgrade and install the Repository version of BoincMgr. Since AIO would require tinkering.
Will try the last release of Ubuntu 20 first.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
No, I can't select the empty partition. I suspect that it is a physical partition and the next partition is a Logical Partition. Shades of MS-DOS?
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
No, I can't select the empty partition. I suspect that it is a physical partition and the next partition is a Logical Partition. Shades of MS-DOS?
Tom M
Thanks for the gparted screenshot. The issue is simply you are creating a logical partition instead of a primary partition. What you are seeing is normal for that configuration. All is good.
If you don't want that then don't create a logical partition. Go back to gparted and choose a primary instead of logical when creating the partition. Just change your selection in the menu.
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Just compared it to my 3950x
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Just compared it to my 3950x system and they not the same.
I am presuming that I am looking at a backup and clear the HDD.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
Hover over or select the #2
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Hover over or select the #2 partition. Would like to see how it is identifed. And if there is anything in it. Mount the partition by clicking the right arrow to mount it and see what is in it if anything.
It might be a previous OS installation if you ever answered the install question to install the new OS alongside the existing installation. If this is exactly what this partition is, you need to verify that it is bootable, accessible from the grub menu and if it still can be used as rescue or recovery partition. Normally if have partitioned a drive into two bootable partitions, they both should be seen on the entire drive. I have my normal daily driver partitioned into the active partition I use for daily use but also have half the drive partitioned and and have a duplicate Ubuntu 22.04.1 installation that is also set up for development with all the other dev libraries installed so that I can compile there. It also can be used as a rescue partition for the main partition if I need to do offline maintenance or recovery of my main installation.
With a 1TB drive you can only have a single 1TB partition ignoring the small little UEFI boot partition.
So I assume the #2 partition is one that was previously created and never used and the partition tables were never cleaned up.
If there is nothing in the #2 partition to save or move whatever data is in it, you should then delete the partition using gparted so the partition tables are squared away.
This condition might be a cause or THE cause of your flakiness.
This is what my daily driver main disk looks like.
Tom M wrote: Just compared
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Just backed up the BOINC etc. Reinstalled the operating system after using Gpart to delete "everything" and got the same results.
:(
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
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Just for giggles I am going
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Just for giggles I am going to download the latest ISO for Ubuntu 20, install it on my flash drive and install this OS again.
I suppose the OTHER thing I could do would be download the upgrade and install the Repository version of BoincMgr. Since AIO would require tinkering.
Will try the last release of Ubuntu 20 first.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
No, I can't select the empty
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No, I can't select the empty partition. I suspect that it is a physical partition and the next partition is a Logical Partition. Shades of MS-DOS?
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
Tom M wrote:No, I can't
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Thanks for the gparted screenshot. The issue is simply you are creating a logical partition instead of a primary partition. What you are seeing is normal for that configuration. All is good.
If you don't want that then don't create a logical partition. Go back to gparted and choose a primary instead of logical when creating the partition. Just change your selection in the menu.
What does the term "Extended
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What does the term "Extended Partition" mean?
it might have to do with this being an HDD vs SSD. or maybe you deleted the existing partitions but didnt reformat the drive during the OS install.
more importantly, why are you fixated on this? why do you think it's a problem?
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Also you are using the old
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Also you are using the old MBR method of partitioning. Everything nowadays is done with GPT because of the larger drive sizes.
The only reason to stick with MBR is for Windows compatibility. But even Windows prefers GPT now.