Questions tagged [fdisk]

fdisk was a command-line disk partitioning tool in Linux and old versions of Windows/MS-DOS. It is deprecated on Linux by its inability to handle GPT disks. New systems should use diskpart (Windows) or parted (Linux) to partition disks.

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Reread partition table without rebooting?

Sometimes, when resizing or otherwise mucking about with partitions on a disk, cfdisk will say: Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot to update table. (This also happens with ...
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How can I set the disk partition alignment using linux tools?

After reading Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server, I just want to give those advices a try, but on my linux test server. What are the required parameters in order to set the ...
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Cant find my harddrives in ubuntu installation?

I was trying to setup a Microserver with two 1TB harddrives as a software RAID. Somehow it didnt work and now ubuntu 14.04 is not starting. My problem is that I dont see the drives anymore when I go ...
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Deleting All Partitions From the Command Line

How do you delete all partitions on a device from the command line on Linux (specifically Ubuntu)? I tried looking at fdisk, but it presents an interactive prompt. I'm looking for a single command, ...
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Is the fdisk partition type important when using lvm

I have inherited a few LVM volumes and I noticed that fdisk reports the disks that make up the volume group as partition type 83 (Linux) and not 8e (Linux LVM). Is this a problem and how important ...
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Repurposed disk - Linux blkid command returns incorrect information

I'm working with an SSD drive removed from a VMware ESXi installation. I'm trying to reuse the disk in an existing Linux installation (CentOS 6.2). The drive sits behind an HP Smart Array P410 RAID ...
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Cannot mount /dev/sdc1 on Debian 5.0, special device /dev/sdc1 doesn't exist

I'm trying to fix an odd problem I'm having that I've never seen or heard of before. I have a disk, /dev/sdc and I'm trying to mount it, but cannot. sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt mount: you must ...
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swapping out a faulty drive in a raid array with a new one... but WD changed the block size?

I got a brand new (same model) WD Caviar Green drive to replace the faulty one in my 5x2TB Raid 5 array. However, the new disk appears to be slightly different. According to the internet, Western ...
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Can't run drbdadm up with DRBD 8.4 on CentOS 7.3

Nodes: node1 node2 Use this way installed DRBD on both nodes: rpm -ivh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org yum -y ...
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Cannot allocate additional space after growing RAID array

I added three new drives to a Dell 2950 (running RHEL 5) with a PERC 6/i storage controller. The machine was previously running RAID 1 on two drives + hotswap. Rather than create an identical RAID 1 ...
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how to sync/flush after fdisk in linux (busybox)

when I change the partition table in Linux (busybox) and exit fdisk I'm still able to mount the old partitions, until I perform a reboot for example a) system is setup and has a /dev/sda1 and /...
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Extending a partition on a VMware disk in Linux

I'm having some problems trying to extend a Disk. I'm using a VMware Debian 9 virtual machine on an ESXi host. After extending the virtual disk-size by 32 GB and rebooting the VM I see: bob@apollo:...
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How to increase the free space in a Volume Group in LVM after expend VM disk size

We want to increase the space in a Volume Group in our VM centOS server For example from pvs we see pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VLwol lvm2 a-- <100.00g <5.09g ...
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