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A partition is a means of logically dividing a computing resource (most frequently disk storage)

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Should i select and use another partition or Extend root ? (CentOS)

I want to switch my current working partition to an existent one on the disk under CentOS. How to achieve this ? PS : i want to switch to the larger partition (/dev/sdc or /dev/sdb/cl-home) (currently ...
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systemd-gpt-auto-generator doesn't mount EFI system partition

according to the documentation, the systemd-gpt-auto-generator should automatically find the EFI system partition and generate a mount unit to mount it on /efi. However this does not appear to work on ...
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Unable to extend C: on Windows Server 2019

I cant extend the C disk on a virtual machine from VMware enviroment. I try diskpart and other partition tools. I read that maybe the cause is the reserved partition betwen C: and the unalocated ...
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Make use of increased storage space on MBR OS disk on Centos 7.3 in Azure

(I'm quite new to disk management and partitions, so some terminology might be mixed and confused) I'm attempting to increase the size of the OS disk on our Centos 7.3 VM on Azure in order to (...
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How to burn multiple partitions on single DVD?

Is there a way to create multiple partitions on DVD and make one of the partitions a bootable volume? I like to create a small bootable partition that is formatted as FAT32 volume and create NTFS ...
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How to extend the Ubuntu VPS storage via command line (Without GParted)

I loaded the VPS sever with 50GB snapshot VM image, so now the remaining size of the actual storage of this server is not allocated correctly which is remaining 110GB. The total size of the VPS is ...
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RHEL + OS with XFS file system while adding additional partition with diff definition

We have the following disk - sda ( in server production - very important server ) sda is the disk of the OS ( rhel 7.2 ) , and file system is xfs sda is physical disk Xfs created with - mkfs.xfs -f -...
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Why do a lot of people do not use seperate partitions anymore?

Knowing Linux and FreeBSD distributions on CD, I grow up giving each directory like /usr, /var, /opt, and so on, its own partition One of the holy rules was, that / must be protected from running full....
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How to set disk1's MBR to boot from disk3 instead?

A few colleagues and I need to work out one setup CD for the product, and it has the requirement to install to the smallest disk whenever possible. We get into a wired case that if there are 3 hard ...
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Do I need a SWAP partition? [duplicate]

I am going to remake a server with Ubuntu 20.04 It will have 6 GB of RAM, a 20 GB SSD for the operating system, and a 100 GB SSD for data. Should we make a SWAP partition ? If so, how many GB are ...
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10TB HDD has a 9999GB partition but only allows me to access 215gb

parted print all result I have a 10tb hdd with 3 partitions and one flag (not sure what that means). The flag is set as 215gb and that's all i'm able to access in the filesystem. I'm running Ubuntu ...
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Are there any issues with a large boot partition?

What is the recommended size for a Linux /boot partition? says the recommended size for a boot partition is about 300-500MB, which is congruent with my experience (running out of space with < ...
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How to reduce size of LVM partition and create another partition?

I have a standard parition and lvm partition on my disk /dev/sda [root@server1 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 10 GiB, 10737418240 bytes, 20971520 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size ...
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Soft quota on GPT partition

I have a GPT partition on Windows Server which is shared over the network and works with RAID controller. I want it to be extended automatically when it reaches it's limit and users are adding files ...
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Move /home to mirrored root partition

I managed to screw up my partitioning when building a new system. I had configured a hardware mirror on an msi motherboard so when installing I assumed that the OS would see a single drive. Instead ...
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Dealing with an ATA error [closed]

my Xubuntu 16.04. produces a non-stop ATA error message. Here is the output of dmesg [ 4547.943159] ata7: hard resetting link [ 4548.657810] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 4548.657824]...
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Unable to extend the volume, the option is greyed out

I'm trying to extend the D partition: with the new unallocated space, but it doesn't give me a choice, I've been looking at the Microsoft documentation and it indicates that it may be for these ...
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Best practice disk partitioning for Ubuntu server cloud image?

I have read in several places that it's good practice to mount /, /home and /var on separate partitions for a server, as a way of mitigating the risk of an unwanted app/action filling-up the disk. In ...
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How to extend hard to an LVM without disrupting current data in CentOS

We have a CentOS server that has 2TB of disk. When we got the server for "god knows why" the partitions were like so: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 1.8T ...
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Windows server 2012 R2 VM doesn't see full space on virtual disk

I have a windows server 2012 R2 VM on vmware esxi 6.7. Have 2 virtual disks for C and D partitions respectively. Partition C - thin provision, part D - thick provision lazy zeroed. I extended second ...
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GCE instance - Unable to grow disk?

I have a GCE VM instance with a 9000GB disk: $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 19.5T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 8.8T 0 part / ├─sda14 8:14 0 3M 0 part ...
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Convert MBR linux disk to GPT to run Windows 10

I'm in a situation where I want to reformat my main SSD hard drive (500GB) to run Windows 10. Currently it is running linux (ubuntu). I have a bootable Windows 10 install USB, however when I try to ...
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Mount a directory on a new partition or disk [closed]

I would like to know how to mount a directory on a new partition or disk. I have a directory, example: /u01/app/mylab/data Inside this I have several files and directories, with specific permissions ...
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unable to convert MBR disk to GPT

I've got a MySQL DB running in EC2 that I've had to continually add space to the EBS volume, then grow it (using growpart/xfs_growfs). I finally hit 2TB and couldn't figure out why I could no longer ...
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Incorrect partition Centos 7, out of space on cl-root

Running Centos 7 on Cisco UCS server with 16TB of Raid hard drives. I'm at 99% of space on cl-root partition. I must have incorrectly partitioned the space initially. How can I increase /dev/mapper/...
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extending a LVM partition > 2TB on Fedora 31 to use all unallocated disk space

We have a Dell R420 with the Perc H710 Mini that was configured with 3 1TB drives in a RAID 5. I added another 1TB drive and thanks to a little help from the Dell discussion board, the RAID 5 ...
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Ubuntu Not Detecting Free Space In Root Partition

My server has a 40GB HDD and runs Ubuntu 18.04. The output for the command: sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL returns: NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL loop0 squashfs 91....
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ZFS log partition got deleted: how to recover the partition table of this ZFS partition to recover the ZFS partition table?

I hadn't turned on my NAS system for some time, and something regarding ZFS broke when I turned the system back on. The setup for my ZFS pool is three 8TB drives in RAIDZ, with an NVME drive ...
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How to resize RHEL Atomic logical partition?

We have a VM in AWS that is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.7.3.1. AWS shows this EBS volume attached to it: And the size of the volume is 60 GB: I do not know who set up the VM or ...
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How to move /var back to Root from a different filesystem

I need to move my /var (dev/sdc1) back to the / (dev/sda2) from a different file system. I've resized the / partition and want to move /var back to / partition and resize /dev/sdc1 filesystem to mount ...
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Increase LVM storage after expanded RAID5 by 4TB?

So I've been running 3x 4TB (ST4000VN008-2DR166) in RAID5 for quite a while and wanted expand it, by adding a fourth HDD. The migration was successful and the RAID Controller (LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i)...
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Recovering a btrfs partition

I'm attempting to recover (what I'm told is) a btrfs partition from a RAID5 array and I'm a bit stuck on the next step... The reason I mention it was RAID5 is because the array way deleted in the ...
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Disk with no primary partition mounted on disk-name itself

I have a ec2-machine setup with an EBS attached of size 200 GB. I obtain the following with the commands I perfomed Screnshot for the lsblk and df -hT commands As I could figure out from these, there ...
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Extend Boot and EFI Partitions CentOS 7

I got a new dedicated server which have 500GB SSD holding the operating system and the other HDDs have the data. By default the /boot partition is considered small I wanna extend it same applies to ...
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Unable to Extend Partition on Hyper-V Generation 2 VM

I'm facing a weird problem with Generation 2 Hyper-V VM, where I'm unable to extend partition in Guest OS. Once I edit the VHDX & Expand it using Hyper-V Manager on the Host OS, and boot into ...
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vmkfstools --growfs returns no such file or directory

At a customers site we have 2 (+1 Backup and Test) ESXi server, working independently (without vSphere). The customers request is to replace an SSD RAID with 500GB with a 2TB one. ESXi is installed ...
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Mount a new partition to existing mount point

Similar question has already been asked on SF but I have a slight difference that might create issues if I follow already answered question's solution, therefore I must make sure. I have a 4TB HDD ...
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How to mount the second disk as /dev/md3 in linux server?

At the moment when I type lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT I get the following output: NAME SIZE FSTYPE TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 3.7T disk ├─sda1 1M ...
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Make bootable Linux copy

I have specific Linux installed on SSD drive. What I want to do is to copy all ext4 partition files to other drive (also ext4) and make it bootable. Copy should be as similar as possible ...
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Make Partition for Home inside LVM Volume

I have installed (automatically) a Centos7 VM machine inside a Cloud provider which uses VMWare. I checked the partitions and I realized that the Cloud (VMWare) created two LVM volumes with 2 ...
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Use gparted to copy CentOS boot volume

I can't seem to copy all partitions from my boot device (SDA) to my new ssd (SDB). For some reason the copy function is greyed out for the SDA2 partition. I can only copy the SDA1 partition. I'm ...
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Extend linux partition size without losing any data / techniques

I bought a 200G additional disk for my OVH cloud server because my initial disk was full. Now, my additional disk is almost full (as you can see below). So I added 200 extra more G in it. As you can ...
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How to move physical partition into extended partition?

Given a disk layout like this Disk: /dev/sdc Size: 119.9 GiB, 127865454592 bytes, 249737216 sectors ...
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LINUX : mount windows fractionated volume

I have on Windows VM two vmdk. I created a fractionated volume to see only one HDD. I need to mount this in Linux. I can see all sd** But i can't make a mount, Linux does not know partition type. Can ...
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How to extend linux root partition size in CentOS 6.9 without LVM

I installed CentOS 6.9 instance with 50GB HDD in Openstack. It shows only 8GB for the root partition. But I need to allocate entire HDD size (50GB) for root. fileSystem details How can I fix this??
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Other virtual drive formats for linking to physical disk device or to archive content

It is known that you can link to physical disk device through VMDK virtual drive format. It works on Mac*, Lin*, Win* with VirtualBox or VMware ( here solution with VBoxManage internalcommands ...
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google cloud resize partition

New Cloud Compute VM instance with the Centos 7 image. Even though I picked 100GB disk size the Centos image had 10GB boot disk. I have tried extending the /dev/sda2 to utilize the unused space but so ...
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Recover harddrive after abruptly power cut [closed]

Following is my partition table, mercurial@providence:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: ST9500420AS Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 ...
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With a 500GB SSD and a 250GB SSD is it possible to mirror a 250GB partition on the 500GB with the 250GB SSD using ZFS?

So I have a Samsung 250GB 850 Evo SSD and a 500GB 860 EVO SSD. I'm looking at using Solaris for this server (so looking at whether doing this with ZFS is possible). Is it possible to mirror the 250GB ...
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Browse files on partially formatted drive

So I had a customer come in for data restoration when they had an installation fail which resulted in partial data loss. When booting into a live USB on the machine the drive shows up with lsblk as ...
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