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Questions tagged [disk-volume]

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Limits on extending LVM volume?

I have a CentOS 7 server. I have extended a LV a few times like so: fdisk /dev/sdd pvcreate /dev/sdd1 vgextend pg_data /dev/sdd1 lvextend /dev/pg_data/lvol0 /dev/sdd1 xfs_growfs /dev/pg_data/lvol0 My question is, how many times can one extend a…
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Volume migration with OpenShift

I'm a bit confused with persistent volumes in OpenShift and I'm wondering what happens if a pod with a persistent volume fails, is that volume lost forever? Is it possible to migrate a volume to another pod when that pod fails? If so, which kind of…
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Recover lost volume group in hp ux 11 v2

The disk containing operating system (vg00) has failed. I tried to install the operating system on a new disk and I want to restore other volume group (vg01 and vg02) on two disks that contain data.
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Why can't I extend my dynamic volume over a second drive?

We have a server that is running on hardware RAID1. We've needed to add additional disks, but unfortunately the raid controller doesn't support RAID10. So we've added another RAID1 array, and want to merge it together using Windows dynamic…
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How to change Volumegroup PE size

I am trying to increase the PE size of one of my Volume groups. I mistakenly set it as 4M to start when it should have been 32M . When I try to change the size I get vgchange -s 32M the_vol New extent size is not a perfect fit vgdisplay…
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what's the difference between a Volume and a Partition in Windows 7 diskpart

I was trying to follow the Intel guide for setting up iRST (Intel Rapid Start Technology) on my new laptop. The Intel manual says you need to create a *Volume that is as big or bigger than your available memory, set it to a specific id (id=84),…
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How can you re-allocate space from one Volume Group to another Volume Group in Linux?

How can you re-allocate space from one Volume Group to another Volume Group in Linux? Both volume groups exist on the same physical drive and are split evenly, let say 50G each. I'd like to shrink one down to 20G and re-assign the 30G to the other…
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How do I shrink an EBS volume on Windows Server 2008?

I have a Windows Server 2008 instance on EC2. I need to shrink one of the drives (non-root) to a certain amount. Is there are well defined way of doing it? Thanks
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NAS: Multiple small volumes vs. one large volume

We have a volume on the NAS (NetApp filer) that we use for department shares. We just received requests to create several other shares which we do not have space for in the current volume (300GB). We would normally just extend the volume but the…
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Change Docker Volume storage location

Since nearly the beginning, I have used mount binds for persistent data with docker, as the official way of backing up a docker volume is to give it to another container to save it in a tar... Just using rsync on the directory mount seemed much…
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Elasticsearch pods cant get volume

I used the official elasticsearch helm chart onto my GKE cluster. However, the pods cannot start with the error: pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims. I can see that the persistent volume claim has been created in the GCP console, but…
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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 tried to reboot the server but getting the same…
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Docker Compose WP permissions

I've a docker compose creating a WP container. The container has a more recent version of WP than the one I'm trying to import, so WP ask me to update the database and some folders. The update process fail, complaining about some permissions on…
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Proxmox: how to access a ZFS volume directly through guest?

That may sound like a strange use case, but is there a way to access a ZFS volume directly through an LXC container or a Qemu VM with Proxmox? I'd like to have incremental backups pushed to my guest on my server from my computer. For this, I'd be…
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Expand existing data partition of raid volume to max volume size w/o data loss

I'm using an Areca ARC-1220 raid controller with 8x4TB HDDs (RAID-6). Initially, I had 2 volumes (à 12 TB, all data). My plan was to merge both volumes into one single volume. I deleted volume 2 (backup done) and expanded volume 1 to 24 TB (8x4-8…
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