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

https://gparted.org

I have a question for the experienced linux people on here. How important is the swap partition in 2025 if my machine has over 30G of RAM and I have plans to upgrade the RAM in the future.

I've already deleted it to expand my home partition, and haven't noticed any performance issues, yet. But is there something I'm missing?

Ubuntu to Explore Rust-Based “uutils” as Potential GNU Core Utilities Replacement https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/ubuntu-to-explore-rust-based-uutils-as-potential-gnu-core-utilities-replacement/

If you always wanted to run a tiling window manager on your smartphone, give Sxmo a try.

They just added a nice getting started guide to nicely illustrate how gestures are used to open the menu, bring up and close the keyboard, switch between workspaces and more:

https://sxmo.org/docs/gettingstarted/

Great work @pocketvj and Sxmo team!

Did you know that @purism is working towards a new release for the #Librem5 #FOSS phone?

The name of this new version is #Crimson. Crimson will be the next version of the PureOS #Linux distribution for the Librem 5.

#Purism only earns once money on their sell of a #phone, because Purism is not selling your data.

Since July 2024 you can take an optional subscription to advance the #PureOS development.

Since then there has been a monthly report on the progress.

https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/

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Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5!

The games console has a slow update cycle to guarantee stability for users, but #Valve announced yesterday that both the #Arch base system and the #Plasma desktop environment are being updated to new preview releases.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/529841158837240756

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #Steam #gaming #linux

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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We all love some mayhem when it comes to playing games. And nothing makes car games more satisfying than damage models. RockStar Games understood it early on, and all GTA games have breakable cars. Today some of the most popular car games like BeamNG.drive holding on a reali...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/making_breakable_cars_in_video_games

#Linux #Bash
Toot_music_is_playing sendet Info zur augenblicklich gespielter Musik an #Mastodon 1 Mausklick auf Schritt reicht.
https://github.com/dewomser/Toot_music_is_playing

Arch Linux final boss be like.

Original video: YT/EricMurphyxyz

#DanisRace version 2025-01-19 was released! The petition is over. Thank you very much for signing it.

https://blenderdumbass.org/petitions/release:_dani_s_race_v2025-01-19

Ludicrous speed GOOOOOOOO!

Portal 2 Dual Stream with LogalDeveloper - Gaming On Linux! \o/

#owncast #streaming #videogames #linux #videogames #games #gaming #tst #linuxgaming #gamingonlinux #tech #chatting

https://stream.ozoned.net

No billboards. No Super Bowl ads. No CEO on stage promising "one more thing." Yet Linux quietly became the backbone of modern technology. It runs on 96% of the world’s top servers, powers Android smartphones, controls smart TVs, and even guides rovers on Mars. From financial systems to gaming consoles, Linux is everywhere, just not where the average consumer sees it.

The secret? Open source collaboration. While corporations fought to lock users into walled gardens, Linux grew through innovation, adaptability, and a global community of developers who believed software should be free and unrestricted. Even tech giants that once dismissed it, Microsoft, Apple, and Google, now rely on Linux based systems to keep their services running.

Linux didn’t win with marketing hype. It won because it works.

#Ubuntu is moving away from GNU coreutils to Rust-based uutils coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10. There are two big differences with this move:

1. uutils coreutils is MIT licensed, not GPL.
2. Obviously, it's written in Rust, a memory-safe compiled language, unlike C.

IMO, this is a good move.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995

Is there any push within the EU to work on Linux and other free software alternatives to US software, to stop having the whole administration of every single European country, and the EU itself, be totally dependent on software that can spy on us all for a hostile, nazi regime?

@senficon?

Has The Linux Desktop Become Too Popular #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/3dQ099APMwo

#Debian 12.10 “Bookworm” Is Now Available for Download with 66 Bug Fixes and 43 Security Updates https://9to5linux.com/debian-12-10-bookworm-released-with-66-bug-fixes-and-43-security-updates