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How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux

Tecmint - 3 hours 52 min ago
The post How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

resize2fs is the tool that lets an ext4 filesystem use the extra space you’ve added to a partition. Without it,

The post How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement

Phoronix - 8 hours 35 min ago
Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next "GCN" GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team...

zlib-rs 0.6.4 Released With Fix For Intel Raptor Lake Crash, SIMD Optimizations

Phoronix - 13 hours 39 min ago
As a follow-up to last week's article around Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements...

Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop

Phoronix - Sun, 06/21/2026 - 22:38
Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...

Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland

Phoronix - Sun, 06/21/2026 - 20:49
Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for present timing support "VK_EXT_present_timing" with X11 and XWayland...

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