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You can download a live image of gparted and work with the latest version with ease. My debian based distro has GParted 1.3.1 which is quite behind v1.7.0-1

Im downloading the latest right now!

log
$ wget -c cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/pr
--2025-03-16 11:54:11-- cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/pr
Resolving cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net (cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net)... 146.71.73.5
Connecting to cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net (cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net)|146.71.73.5|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 589299712 (562M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘gparted-live-1.7.0-1-amd64.iso?viasf=1’

gparted-live-1.7.0-1 9%[==> ] 55.49M 286KB/s eta 28m 15s
^Z

gparted.org/livecd.php

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

@altbot

gparted.org

Die Upgrade-Falle von Windows 11: Wie man alle Sicherheitsupdates bekommt

Microsoft hängt einige PCs mit Windows 11 schon jetzt von Updates ab, sogar mit Windows 11 gekaufte. Im Podcast klären wir Hintergründe und zeigen Auswege auf.

heise.de/news/Die-Upgrade-Fall

heise online · Die Upgrade-Falle von Windows 11: Wie man alle Sicherheitsupdates bekommt
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#ct#ctuplink#UEFI
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Now you will ask why I put up a screen cap of Naked.Gun.33.1.3.The.Final.Insult in this thread.

The logic is simple. Because I now have tsc=unstable in my permanent boot options in GRUB, I have achieved playing this 1080p stream on my machine without any hickups of mPlayer!

mPlayer has the gorgeous option of bailing out by itself if you have CPU/GPU/FPU or RAM issues, protecting an unstable machine as my Gigabyte miniPC. Since the switch mPlayer did not have to bail out!

@altbot

#GRUB#bash#csh
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This is the massive list of GRUB sub commands that I have to wade through

I have taken a Higher Grade Android to make this photograph and luckily this camera system knows how to capture the Light of the IPS LED panel in Total Darkness.

Compliments of Open Camera Android version

#bash#csh#ksh
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I'm going to include another photograph to give you an indication of how complex GRUB is in comparison to Legacy Lilo

When I press tab twice in Rapid Succession, the whole screen is filled with commands that I can execute within the GRUB sh {command environment}

I literally have to read all the man pages of those GRUB sub commands which give me an indication that they can do what I want, just so I can pass the parameters to the kernel

GRUB has made the distance between the command prompt and the kernel much bigger!

#bash#csh#ksh