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Limit Hard Drive Write Speed by User in Linux
Background:
I use a cluster with my coworkers and if anyone writes too many big files at the same time I can't even move the cursor in vim (the horror!). I'm not sure if it is more related to the ...
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Can not see drive in Remote Desktop Connection
I did an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. Since I did that I can not see my drive. Of course I set the local ressources settings and the remote settings. The operating system on my server is ...
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Why am I getting drive critical warnings and how can I fix this? [closed]
I receive these emails (on my cPanel Linux Cent OS 5 Server) every day and haven't a clue what they mean or what to do;
Drive Warning: /dev/root (/) is 81% full
Drive Critical: /dev/vg00/var (/var) ...
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How to connect an HP StorageWorks 8000 EVA via Fibre to a Windows Server machine for direct storage?
I have two used HP EVA 8000 AD524B drive enclosures with 14 146gb drives in each. They have 2 Fibre controllers in each. I would like to connect these two units to an HP Proliant DL380 G4 server ...
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Accessing Network Drive from behind Sub-network Router
I am connecting the router to a corporate network. Then I have 3 computers connecting to this router (local IP 192.168.1.2-4).
Assuming I want to access a network drive named "ADrive" (on the same ...
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Use NET USE to mount a network drive as read only
I'm using the following code to mount a network drive in a script that configures desktop icons and favorites by copying them when the user logs into windows.
NET USE W: \\Server\Files\IT\auto ...
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Faulty ATAPI drive ? Keep getting errors “Illegal request”
On a fresh clean install (that I did from CDROM) i keep getting the following errors (dmesg):
ATAPI device hdb:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Parameter not supported -- (asc=0x26, ...
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Is there any longer such a thing as a nonvolatile RAM based storage device (not flash)?
There used to be such things, rare though they were. For instance I recall there was a CompactFlash static RAM card. But surely somebody still makes a battery-backed SRAM or DRAM based PCI card based ...
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popup when accessing to a mapped drive
My company is concerned about information being leaked. We are implementing some securities now. As one of them they asked me to write a script to display a popup message when a user is trying to ...
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Determining Raid Disk Set
Update
Unfortunately looks like the engineer in question had rebuilt the drive we were looking for, and the two sets he thought he had were actually from two completely different machines. I am now ...
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Mounting hosts physical drive in vmware virtual machine
I'll be as specific as possible to avoid confusion, so bear with me.
I have vmware player installed on my windows 7 machine, on partition A (100gb). The virtual machine itself is stored on partition ...
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Restoring a backup SQL Server 2005 where is the data stored?
I have two Sql Server database instances on two different machines across the network. Lets call these servers A and B. Due to some infrastructural issues, I had to make a complete backup of the ...
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Mirroring primary hard drive
I need to mirrior my life drive so that the hard drive we mirror it to is bootable. Does the server need to be off to do this? What's the best way to do this? It's a 160GB drive with anywhere from ...
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how to check the Disk drive problems in windows?
In a windows server the alloted space for a drive is 450 GB( for example drive G:). But the drive show full all the time. shows 449 GB is used and 1 GB free space. I tried chkdsk with no help. When I ...
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Trouble mounting network drive
I'm using the following command to mount a network drive:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.15.10/web -o username=user,password=pass /mnt/fileserver
I've verified that the location, username, and ...
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Why does my Win Server 2003 R2 have a bunch of empty folders in the root of the D: drive, each with a different random string of numbers and letters?
On this server, I have a D: drive for data. What app could be creating empty folders such as:
9308c1f8cd5c852ef53a425e
75a2dde71d4ff73400cdb384fbbc
c8ad258c663ff0632c
They're created every few ...
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Windows Server 2003 not automatically assigning drive letter to external drives
My newly rebuilt Windows Server 2003 doesn't automatically assign drive letters to external usb devices.
I have to manually open the Disk Management Console and assign it a drive letter every time.
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Recommended Win2k8 Server software to fix my RAID-0 issue
I'm running an Asus P6T V2 Deluxe. It has six SATA ports and supports onboard RAID.
I am using two of those ports for a RAID0 array of 1.5TB Seagate drives using the onboard RAID controller. One of ...
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Sharing a drive between Windows and Linux
The situation:
I have these virtual machines that are used for building software, and I'm trying to keep all the builds on the same "disk", if you will. The virtual machines:
2 x Windows
4 x Linux ...
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The difference between desktop-series HDD drives and server-series
What are the main differences between desktop-series hard disks and server-series?
The obvious things I can see are: durability (server hardware mostly more qualitative and have more warranty) and ...
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VMWare guest OS is not using full hard drive space
I'm wondering if you can give me some insight on how to figure this out. I've recently virtualized a w2k3 server that had 10GB C:\ drive size. Once I finished virtualizing it, I expanded the disk to ...
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Problem with gmailfs
I've got a little with gmailfs.
I'm trying to mount gmail accout as a local file system on my Debian Lenny using the following command.
mount -t gmailfs none /mnt/gmail -o ...
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RAID5 2-disk failure - what steps to take?
I've got a 6-disk RAID5 array on a gentoo server. mdadm is reporting that two of the disks have failed. In the event that the disks are actually gone, I'm prepared to send the drives to professionals ...
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resume file copy linux
How do I resume a copy of a large file in linux? I have a huge file (serveral gigabyes) partially copied to a network drive, and it took a long time, and it was mostly done before the copy operation ...
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Setting up a virtual ftp directory that points to another computer
I have II5 sitting on an old Windows 2000 Professional box. It has an FTP site there that allows me to access files. It works great, no problem at all.
However, now I need to setup a virtual ...
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How do I mount sub-directory to a hard drive in Linux?
Let us assume that I have two hard drives (A,B) and have the following directories:
/var/www
/var/www/upload
Currently if I upload a file to /var/www OR /var/www/upload ; it will be saved in drive ...
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Windows 7 corrupting XP drive?
I have a user who recently installed Windows 7 rc (7100) on a seperate drive to his main XP drive - he did the installation with the XP drive unplugged and then once everything was set up re-connected ...
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Command to enable/disable USB portable drive on the fly without rebooting Win2003 Server
Is there any command or 3rd-party tool to enable/disable USB portable drive on the fly without rebooting the Win2003 Server that it is plugged into?
This is for enabling the drive before a backup job ...
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Smart Array P400 Drive Failure
I have a HP Proliant server with a Smart Array P400 RAID controller with 2 146 gb 10k SAS hard drives configured in a mirrored RAID configuration. Where could I find information regarding how a drive ...
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moving to a larger drive in linux
I've got a linux box that's running out of space, on a non-root volume drive.
What's the best way to move to a larger drive?
I figure I boot to single user mode, format, mount the new drive, do some ...
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USB drive changes name from /dev/sdb to /dev/sdc (and back again) when copying?
I have a usb drive mounted to a folder in an Ubuntu 9.04 server installation. The mount options are stored in /etc/fstab for easy mounting/dismounting:
# <file system> <mount point> ...
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Dual hard disks on Vista - what goes where?
I'm setting up some Vista boxes with dual hard drives (a 250GB and a 1TB). What should I install on both disks for best performance? They are for general use by developers.
Windows and programs on ...
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primary partition limit on Linux
I'm going to buy a server to host an Oracle database. The server will be running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The server will have 6 hard drives. I know there is a limit of 4 primary partitions in ...
