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Questions tagged [disk-image]

a disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

A disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

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How to read binary contents of free disk space in CentOS

Is there a way I can use dd or another tool to view the binary contents of free disk space in CentOS? In case it matters, it's a Linux logical volume with XFS format, holding data only (not a common system volume such as / or /var). Some process…
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unattended recovery from image

I've got quite a few machines which sometimes need to be restored from an image. There's a slight problem that those machines are at different locations, don't have keyboards and sometimes don't even have displays next to them, so it's required that…
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Is there a good way to shrink disk usage of sparse file containing luks-encrypted btrfs file system image?

I've created a sparse file filesystem.img, formatted in with cryptsetup luksFormat, created a btrfs filesystem on it. The image file disk usage expanding fine while adding files to the btrfs filesystem. However deleting a file on it of course do not…
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No-brainer cloning software?

I was unable to figure out how to use CloneZilla to clone Linux/XP/Vista (XP enters an endless loop with "Autochk - Program not found", and Vista can't boot with "Error 17 - File not found", even after fixing it with the "Windows Vista Recovery…
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Compute Engine - 1000 GB disk cant decrease size

i have a huuuuge problem. Created a snapshot and image from my instance...instance has 1000GB of disk. Now i need to reduce it but everytime i try to create an image or a snapshot from that, i get the same error "Disk need to be at least…
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How can I automate the installation of an Ubuntu image using a USB device?

I have to automate the installation of a Linux image. The perfect behavior would be that I plug the USB, turn on the device and it runs the dd command in order to flash the image stored in the USB into the device. Also the ethernet port could be…
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live server disk image backup data integrity

I've been looking for a way to do a disk image backup of a running linux server. There are several questions which answer this, like How to make a disk image, Mirror Live Linux (Debian) Server, Linux live hot backup snapshot and debian live server…
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Clonezilla from single USB stick / pen

I am trying to create a custom clonezilla installer, as a tool to refresh our standard machines from memory stick. I can customise the start menu fine from syslinux/syslinux.cfg just fine, but I want the large memory stick to also contain the image…
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Do all disks advertised as xyz-GB have exactly the same byte size?

I must setup a system where i can do a "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" to a backup and the reverse. This means i need disks to have exactly the same number of byte or i will run in trouble. It's not only a backup disk it also might be an easy new…
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How to re-enable test mode when deploying Windows 10 wim image with Dism?

I am upgrading about 200 machines in my lab from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and as part of the upgrade, I am also converting the file system on the machines to GPT. I am doing this as an automated process with WinPE images that are loaded from my PXE…
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Azure: How to attach data-disks on VM startup, formatting if necessary

I want to provision an Azure VM with Terraform and configure it by using a custom AMI created by Packer. I want an attached, snapshotted, managed data-disk. I want to use Oracle Linux 7.4 What is the best way of Ensuring the data-disk is mounted on…
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KVM: Cloning RHEL server on 2 disk images onto 1 disk image

We currently have a RHEL VM that is running from 2 disk image files (excuse my terminology if it is incorrect). Is there a way of cloning these 2 disks to create a 1 disk image?
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Automatic Image Deploy from Network to Multiple Different Machines

We have multiple different "computers" that uses SD card like drives to store Windows. Those Windows are written to those cards with HDD Raw Copy. Every couple of weeks we manually Write those .img, .imgc files to cards from a PC Insert it to…
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Is it appropriate to use Docker for both long-running and short-running processes together?

Suppose I'm building a microservice that resizes and optimizes image files. It's a long-running daemon which provides an HTTP API responding to standard GET/POST responses. Based on my knowledge of Docker, this is a perfect use case for…
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Using pxe boot for usb installer

I have a disk image (A) with a custom installation of CentOS 7. This disk image is included in another disk image (B) which also contains an installation of CentOS (minimal) as well as an installer which is using dd to write disk image A to the…
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