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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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ddrescue a non-solaris disk gets I/O error

I am trying to get a disk image of a SCSI disk using ddrescue on Solaris10 (Sparc). The disk is non-solaris, and ddrescue gets an immediate I/O error (as does dd). I used format to label the disk as Solaris, and now ddrescue reads it fine. Is…
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Disk disappeared after umount and reboot

I had a disk which disappeared: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on . . /dev/mapper/vg1-osblv02 5.0T 61G 4.7T 2% /data/osb-pool-1 /dev/mapper/vg01-osblv01 1.8T 45G 1.7T 3% /data/osb-pool-0 . …
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Virt Block device resizing

I am attempting to expand the size of a virtual disk on an existing image. I was successful to expand the virtual hard disk and partition thanks to this guide, but noticed my virtual disk was still essentially full. Taking a second look, the "20GB…
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How do I recover a broken logical volume group?

I created a logical volume group for my xen VMs on a separate drive. I had them working perfectly. Then I accidentally unplugged the USB cable hosting my vg0. Now my VMs drives cannot be detected. I can see them. root@bradNewInspiron15:/etc/xen#…
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losetup mounts disk image as one device. How to loopback the partitions seperately?

I have a disk image with 2 partitions. When I do #losetup -f only /dev/loop0 appears. How do I make /dev/loop0p0 and /dev/loop0p1 appear? Using #parted /dev/loop0 it does show the 2 partitions are present. I need the 2 partitions present as…
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RHEL specific version images not available in Google Cloud Platform

When trying to create VM instances in GCP compute Engine, only RHEL latest versions images are available for each release. RHEL 7.9 and RHEL 8.3 are available. But unable to find RHEL 7.6/7.7/7.8/8.1/8.2 images in the Marketplace and Public images.…
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ESXi management fails, refusing connections, after copying in the boot drive from a backup

I’m writing this after having found the solution myself, because it was such a strange “gotcha” it deserves to be documented. Although I hit this issue while doing a restore, it’s possible this could come up in other cases of booting into another…
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Problems cloning a hard drive

I have a Dell laptop with a 250 GB 5400 RPM system drive and a 200 GB 7200 RPM drive from Dell I would like to replace it with. I thought I could put this drive in the laptop, clone the disk, and then replace the 250 w/ the 200 and be good to go,…
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Cannot create VM with uploaded image on Openstack (Devstack)

I am working on a very simple project with Openstack, using Devstack. Currently, I've been able to make networks, routers, Vm's without many issues. But here is where I am having trouble. I've created an Ubuntu cloud server image in my Openstack,…
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How to Lift and Shift from OpenStack to GCP?

I have previously had an OpenStack based cloud environmnent in which I had virtual servers. I have migrated to GCP and while I've refactored everything to be cloud native (and especially k8s), I'd like to move the disk images to GCP for archival…
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How to create GCE machine image without including unmounted disks?

I created a machine image on GCE from a running ubuntu VM which has an "additional" disk available to be mounted. That disk is mounted for backups, then dismounted, and was not mounted at the time the machine image was made. Some time later (cron…
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gcloud compute engine - multiple full backups / snapshots / machine images?

On a gcloud debian vm instance, I would like to create full backups and rotate them, e.g. one per day of week one per week one per month one per year That is, each daily would get over-written every seven days, weekly each month, monthly…
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Make an image from entire ESXi host

For some reasons, I need to make an image from entire ESXi host. It is a physical server, I don't know the root password. It's ESXi 6.0 standalone host. I want to make a copy from entire server, then make changes on the copy as a VM loaded in the…
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ClearLinux on Openstack

I'm having trouble getting ClearLinux to work on OpenStack. From their download source, based on their sites download page & documentation, I've tried clear-29690-cloud.img, clear-29690-cloud-native.img, clear-29690-live-server.img, and…
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VM image vs Phyical server image?

I often hear its easy to create the image of one VM and setup it another VM(even instance types are of different types) than creating the image on physical server. In fact one of the devops guy in the past told me image from physical server can not…
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