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How to convert my hard disk PartitionStyle from GPT back to RAW in Windows 10
For testing purposes, I need my hard drive on Windows 10 machine to be in a RAW partition style format.
It is currently in the GPT partition style.
The hard drive is a secondary hard drive and does ...
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From mdadm raid to LVM (raid or mirror) decisions and how to monitor
We are migrating some server from linux raids (0 and 1) to LVM with stripe or mirrors.
At the moment our systems are mainly configured something like
| /tmp - /home - /others
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azure attach read only disk
i am running forensic experiment on azure and need to use one machine for the experiment and a different machine for the looking at the content. the experiments rely on registry and other elements and ...
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Increase EXT4 size on Debian whilst preserving Data in a VM?
I've been trying to increase the partition size on one of our servers as it was created years ago and was set too small. I've increased the size in the VM that hosts this but now I'm trying to get ...
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How to verify if a disk was ever written to
How can you verify if a disk is fresh and has had no write from the factory? I have a client that needs to make sure that the disks he revived are cleaned and weren't tampered with from the time it ...
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Debian/Ubuntu, inconsistency between S-ATA ports numbering and /dev/sdX lettering [closed]
The hardware situation is as such :
a motherboard (MSI X99A SLI Plus),
two (2) Samsung 860 Pro SSDs connected on SATA-1 and SATA-2 of the motherboard.
five (5) identical HDDs connected on SATA-3, ...
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“Windows Storage” reports much more disk usage than Folder Properties
My IIS inetpub folder says it's using 2.52 Gb (2.64 Gb on disk) but when I analyse disk usage with Windows Storage it says the folder is 60.0 Gb.
Why is this happening and how can I get my 57.36 Gb ...
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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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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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(LVM) Cannot restore Volume Group with 1 PVs marked as missing. Couldn't find device with uuid, but the pv exists and blkid finds the same uuid
This problem is on a kvm/qemu hypervisor with CentOS 7, where we host multiple virtual machines.
The Disk /dev/sda( 1918.2 GB) is a raid6 LSI MEGARAID.
[root@mia3 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1918....
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Recover deleted LVM signature
I guess I've deleted LVM partition. I expanded the datastore in vmware ( 70 GB to 90 GB ), then I run echo 1> /sys/class/block/sdb/device/rescan.
After that I run fdisk /dev/sdb. it shows my sdb ...
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How Can I increase the PFree without extend the disk
I want to know if deleting from disk space of / will lead to PFree to be increased.
pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 rhel lvm2 a-- 299.51g 55.82g
lsblk
NAME ...
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Oracle Exalytics X4-4 server - RAID 1 volume corrupted while data sync was going on
We replaced a failed drive in Oracle Exalytics X4-4 machine. Failed drive was replaced fine and rebuild started. But when rebuild reached at 70%, the main disk got a bad sector and the rebuild failed....
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How to create backup/snapshot of Unmanaged OS disk in azure?
I have a Virtual Machine which has an associated Unmanaged OS disk with it.
If my OS disk is of managed type it gives me option to take snapshot of the disk. But for unmanaged disk it is not giving ...
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How can I umount /dev/sda1 partition in ubuntu?
I have a Ubuntu VM which has an unmanaged OS disk associated with it.
I want to shrink my OS disk of size 50 GB to 40 GB.
However, when i try to unmount /dev/sda1 partition it tell me
umount: /...
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How to measure DPWD on VMware?
I want to know the amount of data read and especially written per day, per week, per month.
But how to achieve this on VMware?
The disk which are integrated differ. E.g. the disks are in SANs, NASs ...
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Unattend installation not working - “We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one”
I can't seem to get an unattended installation to work it fails with:
"We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files."
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Where are “Debug Dump Files” located in windows?
Windows has a tool called "Disk Cleanup" (German: DatentrƤgerbereinigung).
There it lists "Debug Dump Files" which can be deleted.
Unfortunately it doesn't tell me which files are meant. It can't be ...
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Why Extend Volume is Grayed Out in Server 2012R2?
As seen in the screenshot, I can't expand my Basic Disk2 for Data2 Volume (F:). This is Server 2012R2 Virtual Machine, Unallocated space of 1TB was added to the VM Disk2 from vCenter Datastore. I ...
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Could LVM creation format my disk?
I am new to LVM. I am Ubuntu user.
This is my disk
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
āāsda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
āāsda2 8:2 0 465,3G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 931,5G 0 disk
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LVM Second Logical Extents is Missing
Edit 1: Just to clarify no data was written to the new extents. I know this because the admin grew the file system with fdisk right after doing the lvextend, he then rebooted for the changes to take ...
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Get-Disk returns HealthStatus “Warning” and OperationalStatus “Other” for Compellent iSCSI volume
We utilize Dell Compellent storage and I'm in the process of developing a script to provision new iSCSI volumes to Windows servers using the Dell PowerShell SDK.
I've successfully provisioned a ...
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Msft_Volume: multiple records for 'D:'
Im getting some strange results for Msft_Volume query
Get-WmiObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Msft_Volume" -Namespace Root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage
I see 'D' drive six times! I there any explanation ...
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Linux disk expansion error:You must delete some partition and add an extended partition first
I researched the reasons for this error,
Can't do more than 4 parts There must be a way to increase disk space
disk I want to increase the system virtual linux centos 6
I'm connecting with ssh-putty
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moving/creating new EFI partition to new drive
In a Win 10 workstation I have 4 drives and need some drive/partition guidance.
Disk 1 has the 100MB EFI system partition, a 2nd 1.8TB partition with data, and a 450 MB partition following that with ...
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what is the best practice when rescanning scsi disks reliably in linux?
I'm constantly having to make SAN changes which means that I am also constantly having to rescan the scsi bus so that my various changes are reflected in the machines I've exported disks to.
I've ...
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Windows 10 install power loss, SSD now unrecognised
Recently I was doing a Windows 10 upgrade on a machine when a user turned the machine off (at the plug).
They were running a Sandisk 500GB SSD and when rebooted the machine said that there was no ...
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How to update vSphere inventory remotely after resizing disk with vmkfstools?
after successfully resized a disk with :
vmkfstools --datacenter x --vihost esx42 --server vc1.example.com --username me \
-X 25G -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/FOOBAR/FOOBAR.vmdk
Now, how can I ...
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creating a partition makes the server unbootable
I have a server that comes with a softRaid of 2x450gb nvme disks.
Since all my data is backupped, I don't need the raid and I want to use the full space instead.
From the hosting (OVH) control panel ...
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Which Disk to replace first ? Predictive Failure or Failed Disk [closed]
We have a HPDL380 G6 server ( running 2003 R2) with 1 failed disk and 1 predictive failure.
Total 4 Disks configured with RAID5.
I will be replacing disks, Now question is which disk should I ...
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Cannot set secondary hard drive offline in Disk Management
I need to set a disk as offline in order to connect it to a Hyper V virtual machine.
This disk has Ubuntu installed on it. Windows has absolutely no use for it.
The ubuntu disk is "Disk 1". It has ...
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GCE Disk full, unable to mount on second machine or start server
It turns out that our GCE disk is full, which is odd because when I create a snapshot it's only 16gb while the disk is 50gb.
I've tried resizing the disk, that doesn't work. Same problem.
I've ...
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How do I identify the name of disk in first slot of my server?
I have 16 disks inserted into Lenovo SR650. The disk names /dev/sda , /dev/sdb ... are not in order with its position in the slots. I want to identify what is the name of the disk in first slot in ...
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How to know which DiskId is associated to a given Volume
Using PowerShell I select one Volume querying by name and filesystem with this line:
$volume = Get-Disk | Get-Partition | Get-Volume | Where { $_.FileSystemType -eq 'NTFS' -and $_.FileSystemLabel -eq ...
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Roaming hardrives on a HPE Proliant DL380 Gen 9 24FF exact copy?
HPE Proliant DL380 Gen 9 24FF is faulting due to a flashin read light. The ILM files below indicate that the network port is faulty (attached to the system port). The trouble shooting guides recommend ...
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Trying to identify and expand CentOS root partition
I help out a company halfway across the country with maintaining their website and web server running on CentOS 7. The root partition keeps running out of disk space and crashing the server, so they ...
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How to defrag volume using mountpoint?
I am trying to defrag the volume by optimize-volume cmdlet . I have passed mount point path. But it fails as below.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Optimize-Volume -Path C:\Testvol1\disk
Optimize-...
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How to “Offline” a Disk using Windows PE/Recovery Enviroment?
The Disk Management MMC snapin has a "Offline" function:
Once used, a disk shows as Offline, with hover text "This disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator".
However, if the OS does ...
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KVM Pass through disk Partition - By Label or UUID
Normally, when I passthrough a disk to a VM I use the entire disk. I am looking at attempting to passthrough a partition in KVM. First question is that possible/ok? Looking at this doc it seems to be ...
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ledctl: identify empty slots
Is there a way to get ledctl to identify empty drive sleds?
I can flash the light on an occupied slot by using ledctl locate=/dev/sdb (for example), but cannot figure out how to locate an/all empty ...
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Debian 9 disk filled overnight, and emptied next morning? How to track down the issue?
Here is a munin screenshot about it:
It filled at around: 07/Nov/2017:19:41:03
and emptied at: 08/Nov/2017:04:05:05.
The closest cronjob was at 04:05:50, a postfix & dovecot restart.
I know ...
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Failed to extend partition
I have a virtualised instance of Windows Server 2012 R2.
I changed the size of one of the underlying virtual disks from 800Gb to 2Tb.
I scanned the drives in Compmgmt and found that it was correctly ...
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Force initialization of dynamically expanding VHDX
Let's say we have 64GB of Dynamically Expanding VHDX. After installing the OS, the "dynamically initialized" space is something around 10GB. Now, I know that I'm gonna need about 25GB more space - e.g....
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Issue while using tune2fs
I have a server with a 3TB disk attached. I want to reduce the reserved blocks using tune2fs.
Reducing the default 5% to 1% allows me to get a lot of extra space.
Before applying in real server, I ...
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Beeping server and no output from hpacucli commands
I have a beeping supermicro server and my suspicion is that it's a RAID/disk issue. The supermicro storage is a separate unit to the manager (a HP Proliant Gen 9).
As a result I've started attempting ...
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Server 2008 R2 OMSA Hot Spare
Using the OMSA tool in Windows Server 2008 R2 I have created a new RAID 5 array and virtual disk called Vault.
I have created this RAID from 6 x 1TB physical HDDs. This is how it appears in OMSA;
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Server 2008 R2 Virtual Disk Unallocated Space
Using the OMSA tool in Windows Server 2008 R2 I have created a new RAID 5 array and virtual disk called Vault. This is how it appears in OMSA;
I am using 6 physical disks in the RAID.
After creating ...
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Proper way to increase Windows 8.1 client volume size after iSCSI target increase
We increased the size of our iSCSI target from 500GB to 1TB. The only computer that connects to this target is a Windows 8.1 workstation. We would like the workstation's volume to increase and take ...
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How to use part of a disk for Storage Spaces? [closed]
I want to use Storage Spaces to create mirrored volumes. However, my disks are large and I do not wish to fill the entire disks with the Storage Spaces volumes.
Unfortunately, the GUI only appears to ...
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Automatically distribute lvm (stripes) for specific LVM2 VG on Linux
With Linux lvm2 I can create logical volumes inside a VG. When I specify with the lvcreate command striping/stripesize I can manually distribute the logical volumes over all physical volumes (as shown ...
