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Rebalance pooled disks

Using mhddfs multiple drives were pooled to form a big virtual mountpoint. Now using the mlimit option unbalancing is prevented, but the drives are already in an unbalanced state. Is there a script ...
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Re-sizing disk partition linux/vm

I VM Player running a linux guest and I was wanting to know how do I expand the disk? In the VM player I gave more disk space but I am not sure how to mount/expand/connect the new disk space to the ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 reports full disk, but files do not add up

I have a web server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. It's C:\ drive is 100 GB in size. We started getting errors from IIS and discovered that the C:\ drive, surprisingly so, was reported to ...
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Merge Unallocated Space BEFORE partition (W2K8R2)

My Windows Server 2008 R2 Disk Management looks as follows: 100 GB 100GB [Unallocated][(C:\)] X Y I accidentally installed Windows into the second partition (Y) ...
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What's the relation between “HP Diagnostics” the “Array Config Utility” and “Windows Disk Manager”

I have a failed drive that is reported in HP Diagnostics https://localhost:2381/hpdiags/frontend2/frontend.php? It tells me that Logical Drive 5 has a drive that is about to fail. The name of ...
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How to claim unallocated space on disk

On windows 2008 R1 server, I have a 1Tb disk that has about 400Gb at the end that's not used. I have the boot partition, then a logic volume, then the free space. I want to create a new simple volume ...
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Server 2008 Disk Management Hangs

So I have looked everywhere for the solution to this and have tried many things. There is one post on SE related to this and I tried the suggested answer but I am still having problems. We have a ...
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forced disk check on (re-)boot

I just now rebooted my debian server for maintainance reasons (changed the kernel). However, it seemed to not complete the reboot. So I logged in using Remote KVM and found it hanging at a forced disk ...
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Does shrinking making space available to partitions everywhere?

In Disk Management for Windows 2008, I have an extended partition that looks like this: |----X:\ Drive----||----Y:\ Drive----||-------Z:\ Drive-------| I am running out of space for the Y: drive. I ...
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Identifying a physical disk from its Windows device description

I have intermittent bad block errors in my Windows SBS 2003 system event log. The error description is The device, \Device\Harddisk4, has a bad block, and I would like to be able to authoritatively ...