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How to boot copied partition
I have just ghosted an Ubuntu (12.04) instance from a 200GB HD to a 1TB HD. The ghosted instance has two mounted storage partitions both of about 100GB each and I have the following partition table:
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How to recover data from a corrupted ext3 partition?
A server of mine had a drive failure of some sort which caused the OS (CentOS 5) to crash and stop working (it refuses to boot).
So we put another drive with a working OS and from there we try to ...
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How to properly change mount point of the folder? [closed]
I have a folder(mostly with postfix user mailboxes-homedirs) mounted on a disk A(raid1) and I want to move it from disk A to disk B(also raid1).
Currently it is like:
/h1(folder) /md120(diskA)
and ...
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how to mount additional space to existing partition?
This is the original output of fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 21.4 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot ...
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Mount a partition to two mount points
I have a partition called sda4.
And I want to store the mysql data and xml files on that partition because the partition which mysql and domain are installed has little space.
So I'm planning to ...
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fdisk -l only displays boot partition
I have a SAN, and it's able to read and write to the 50TB RAID just fine, but when I run
fdisk -l
it only lists the boot partition of the SAN server, and doesn't display anything about the other ...
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Remounting MySQL under a new mount point
/var/lib/mysql is mounted on partition / which is now full. Is there a way to mount this under /home/mysql for more disk space?
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Mount Remote Partition Locally?
I have a Webserver, and I would like to move some of the static files for the web application off to a remote server, yet still have them accessible.
Is there a way to have (Server A) mount a folder ...
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Mounting a partition from a raw DD image file of a physical disk
I have a DD image taken from the raw HDD image (/dev/sdb). This image file contains an XFS filesystem that I need to mount. It is much too large to restore to disks (2.6TB img file) so I would like to ...
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Mounting a partition from a raw DD image file of a physical disk
I have a DD image taken from the raw HDD image (/dev/sdb). This image file contains an XFS filesystem that I need to mount. It is much too large to restore to disks (2.6TB img file) so I would like to ...
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1answer
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Mount XFS partition with < 4k block size
I have an XFS partition with a 64k blocksize. But I can only mount it in Ubuntu 10.10 when the blocksize is the default of 4k. How can I mount a partition with the larger blocksize?
This works:
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No device file for partition on logical volume (Linux LVM)
I created a logical volume (scandata) containing a single ext3 partition. It is the only logical volume in its volume group (case4t). Said volume group is comprised by 3 physical volumes, which are ...
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Partition and mount my secondary hard drive on CentOS 5.5 64bit?
I am trying to prepare my second hard drive for user image uploads. Here is the current layout:
# sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size ...
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creating and mounting a logical volume
I don't know if my question makes any sense. I have never tried this sort of thing before. What I would like to do is create one logical volume spanning multiple physical partitions like /dev/sdb1, ...
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Mount secondary partition on Hyper-V Server guest
My Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 box has 2 partitions, one for the OS and a second for data. Can I configure my guest virtual machines to have access to that data partition? Preferably so that the guest OS ...
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Can we mount multiple disks as one directory?
Are there way to mount the different disks as one directory?
Assuming I have some disks with ext4 partitions:
/dev/sda1 1Tb mounted as /store1
/dev/sda2 2Tb mounted as /store2
/dev/sdb1 2Tb mounted ...
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Solaris mounting partitions
I'm trying to mount a partition in solaris 10...
bash-3.00# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 /data
mount: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 is already mounted or /data is busy
As far as I know c0t0d0s3 isn't already ...
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Partition is gone after power failure
Just had a power failure and am just going through my 4 USB disks to remount them and found that 1 (the most important one) is coming back as 'doesn't contain a valid partition table'.
What can I do ...
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Is it possible and how to mount an AIX disk into Linux?
I have a disk from a AIX server that I need to explore in order to recover some data (the server is down).
Is it possible to mount AIX partitions on Linux? How?
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ln -s vs mount --bind
Is there any practical difference between using ln -s or mount --bind?
I want to move some folders to another partition, without changing their daemon setting, and wonder what approach I should take.
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Why have multiple partitions on a windows server?
With my IT outfit, we have templates to deploy servers with a dinky C drive/partition (10GB) and a larger D drive/partition. Why do this? Windows (at least until recently and at that minimally) has no ...
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How do I resize mounts on my CentOS VM?
I'm running VMWare Fusion on my Mac, and just created a new VM for CentOS 5.3. I have pre-allocated 20GB of space for this VM.
Here are the / and /home mounts on my machine. There are others but ...
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How to mount a LVM partition on Ubuntu?
#fdisk -l
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9702 77931283+ 8e Linux LVM
I tried the following command:
#mkdir /media/backup
#mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backup
mount: unknown file system ...
