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Extend hard disk partition by adding another hard disk

I am running Windows Server 2012 R2. I have C: and D: partitions at the moment. There are two hard disks, C: is on one disk and D: is expanded on remaining space of first disk and the other disk. Can I add another hard disk and expand D: further,…
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How to control the volume format options on Windows Server 2012 R2

I'm working on developing a standard build for our environment and our security controls require all volumes to be NTFS. Is there a way to control the available choices when formatting a volume? Registry would be ideal so I could implement it in…
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Overlapping sectors on linux volumes

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 VM that's running on Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster. I needed to extend the space on the VM. The first thing I did was to expand the VHDX file. After doing this, I see a really weird overlapping sectors on the disk. What is happening…
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Disk volume not extending

C: volume on a virtual disk within a Server 2008 R2 virtual machine won't extend correctly. Under Disk Management, Disk 0 is showing 119.9 GB NTFS for the C: volume, however C: under Windows Explorer only shows it as 100 GB. I have tried extending…
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Server disk space stats VS space on disk array

I'm just a lowly developer so don't really have much exposure to our virtual server infrastructure, so thought I would ask a question here. Our IT manager just told me to ignore the 'disk space free' figure of one of the drives on our Windows Server…
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md raid10: how to make sure that replicated data is stored in right place?

When creating classic mirrored raids, it's usual to locate copies of data on disks of different kinds. In this case you would use a mix of disks of different series and manufacturers. That reduces the risk of loosing data if a whole series is…
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Two Azure disks have the same LUN

I am trying to set up SQL Server on an Azure VM (that has an SSD) per the following articles: Performance Best Practices for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines Using SSDs in Azure VMs to store SQL Server TempDB and Buffer Pool…
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Shrinking and extending disks on Server while running?

So I have a server with Hyper-V and a Drive C: (OS) and D. Drive D stores all of the VHDs that I run. Drive C shows up as Disk 0, and D as Disk 1 under Disk Management respectively. Now Drive D gets low on space because the VHDs got bigger, and I…
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converting physical windows 2003 server through disk to vhd tool to hyper-v server

i am trying to do P2V conversion through disk to vhd tool. conversion is successful but after conversion when i attach the disk c: drive or d: drive its shows additional drives in disk management same as c: and d: drive why additional disks are…
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Combining partition types lvm

I have an older disk setup that was made with msdos parition types and it appears that they kept growing the same disk in order to grow the lvm however it ran into an issue where it got to 2TB and couldn't grow anymore. The client wanted to attach…
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get physical disk name for a file

When I opened disk management in Windows Server 2008 I see Disk 8 G: H: Disk 9 H: Disk 10 H: I Now, I have few files in H: drive and I want to know which disk it belongs to. I have to do it because few files in H: have low IO and I want to move…
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"Access is denied" trying to bring VM-attached USB hard disk back online in Disk Manager

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V with CentOS 6.5 and CentOS 7 VMs. In Disk Manager, I right-click my USB hard drive and pick Offline. In Hyper-V Manager, I right-click either CentOS VM, and I connect the physical disk to either of the VMs as a SCSI…
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Why is /tmp not written to /var

My CentOS 6.5 server has the following setup; $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/dv1 8.0G 713M 6.7G 10% / /dev/mapper/vg00-usr 9.9G 2.5G 6.9G 27% /usr /dev/mapper/vg00-var 248G …
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What happens when I "offline" a disk and is there a difference between diskpart.exe and the disk management snap-in?

What actions does Windows take when I "Offline" a disk in the Disk Management GUI? What actions does Windows take when I "Offline" a disk in Diskpart? Are there any differences between the two scenarios?
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Preeseding a debian stable install with a complex partitioning scheme - missing physical volume

My personal systems run on: An open /boot partition separately random key encrypted /tmp and swap partitions and a password encrypted btrfs lvm volume holding everything else. My latest project is to use preseeding of the debian installer and try…
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