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Questions tagged [disk-volume]

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WDS/MDT server - remoteinstall folder on network share or local volume?

I'd like to get this right now. In setting up WDS, I'm getting errors pointing to a mapped network drive and I'm wondering if I should just provision a local volume for this WDS/MDT virtual machine. Is it best practice to use a local volume and not…
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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 say that they added another 300GB to it. I am…
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What replaced vol_id in Debian 9.x "stretch"?

I was reading this link and tried the vol_id command. From my research, it was part of the udev package, and I see it was removed long ago. What replaced vol_id in Debian 9.x "stretch"? As a bonus for the future, I would like to find out how to…
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Extending a logical volume , stealing from others

So I've been messing about with OpenStack and noticing that the cinder-volume which is created is only 20GB. I need to increase it ( or alteast I'm 99% certain i do :) ) Was looking around on the system Currently this is the state of vgs…
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Enterprise Linux: /scratch is mounted on a LV but the LV doesn't shown when running lvs

Took over a few Oracle Linux VMs from another team and found this weird situation. The /scratch is mounted on a logical volume according to them, but seems that the system is having some error and the corresponding LV is actually missing. # df -h |…
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Server Manager in 2012 R2 - Volumes Missing

I have an network with around 12 servers running Windows Server 2012 R2. On the management server I have added all the others to the server manager console. When I go to "File and Storage Services" then "Volumes", it shows the volumes on each…
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Server Resource Management service (srmsvc) event id 8197 is logged every 10 seconds

I am running a Windows Server 2012 Storage Edition server as a file server and am getting Event ID 8197 logged in my Application event log every 10 seconds. The message from the error is: RtlCreateSystemVolumeInformationFolder on volume…
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what different is there between /dev/xvdb and /dev/xvdb1

I wanna make a new volume available on Linux, then I've read AWS's doc and rackspace's doc. I find that there is a little different. AWS's doc tell the setp this: format the volume mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdb mount the volume at mount point directory…
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Change Gluster Volume Type

I would like to change a striped-replicate volume to striped-distributed volume, is this possible without rebuilding everything/data loss?
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How to expand a NTFS partition that is in the middle?

I am running into an issue expanding my C:\ drive, which is in the middle and I have carved space before/after it for other stuff. This is a virtual environment (VMware) and the OS is Windows 2012 R2. I expanded the VMDK disk by +40GB so that I can…
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Uneven load of 2 disks in 1 volume group

We have an application server with 2 Fusion-IO SSDs put into one volume group forming one single volume. Inside this volume there are 128 files of 40GB each accessed through memory map. When looking into the iostat, we found the workload not evenly…
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NetApp - Copy volume data to LUN on same filer

I'm trying to copy a volume /vol/Archive_chi to a LUN (LUN volume = /vol/ArchiveLUN_chi ; LUN = ArchiveLUN ; LUN PATH = /vol/ArchiveLUN_chi/ArchiveLUN). I tried ndmpcopy /vol/Archive_chi /vol/ArchiveLUN_chi and ndmpcopy /vol/Archive_chi…
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ZFS, mdconfig, GELI and getting my head around

I want to create an encrypted virtual disk but I am struggling with understanding some basic concepts. Please correct me if any of these statements are wrong: I need a block device that geli can encrypt and mount in the system Once the device is…
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AWS Create Image Volume Type

When creating an image (EC2 --> Actions --> Image --> Create) there is a Volume Type input with options for Magnetic, General Purpose or Provisioned IOPS. I'm not sure why it's necessary to ask this here since I'd thought that, when it's time to…
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Why my AWS volume size is different from the actual size?

It's very wried to see my actual disk size is much less than the actual size. From the information, looks this disk is not be partitioned. I have no idea why the actual size is 20G but disk size is 100G, and how could I find other 80G back? The…
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