Questions tagged [diskmanagement]
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How to get partition information from non-booting server?
Need to manually rebuild a mirrored array on a server and am in the process of reinstalling SBS 2003 on it. However, it's a Dell server, and know that there's the Dell FAT32 diagnostics partition, a system partition, and a data partition, but do…
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How to re-organize partition sizes on a Software RAID on Ubuntu?
I have an existing Software RAID consisting of 4 partitions on a Server running Ubuntu 22. I want to decrease the size of the md2 partition and increase the size of the md3 partition.
How do achieve that without data loss? The partition to be…
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Disk Size is not Consistent Between fdisk and parted
I have noticed some difference in size displayed using parted and fdisk. I have a disk attached with a size of 20GB. Executing the fdisk command shows that the size is 20GB which is correct.
fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 20 GiB,…
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iotop PRIO column is showing ?sys
How can i fix iotop to show PRIO correct value?
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Ubuntu - unable to extend partition with growpart - partition 1 could only be grown by 2046
I want to extend /dev/sdb1 partition
I extended disk for 2 GB in Hypervisor and new disk size is shown for /dev/sdb disk (from 20 to 22 GB)
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 40894463 40892416 19.5G 83…
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Unable to grow Windows 2019 C: system partition
I have a software vendor supplied 2019 Server virtual, with a very simple one partition setup. Unlike many of similar questions I've come across while searching, this one does not have recovery partition at the end. I grew the disk in VMWare by…
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CouchDB deleted database shards
Currently running clustered CouchDB v3.1.1 on an AWS EC2 Instance
q=2
n=3
Number of Nodes: 1
I have moved the database directory to another drive on my VM. But can't find any on the documents regarding the files under /var/lib/couchdb/shards or…
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Atop shows MDD stuck at 100%
After investigating a load spike on my CentOS 7 server, I ran atop and noticed something odd.
It is reporting MDD for my logical volume (md127) maxed out at 100% all the time.
The other disk tests I ran seemed fine. It is a RAID1 config with two…
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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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| LVM group
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| mdadm…
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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 Linux to know we've allowed more space.
The details…
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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 reasons:
The unallocated space must be next to each…
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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 virtual disk by 100 GB.
Then increased partition…
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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 or locally attached. And the vendors also differ of…
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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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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
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda2 8:2 0 465,3G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 931,5G 0 disk
sdc 8:32 0 111,8G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0…
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