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Moving a large spanned volume across vm's

Current situation: Windows server 2008r2 running under VMWare esxi5.5. 3TB drive consisting of 3x 1TB virtual disks under a spanned volume. (D) The drive contains approx 1,9TB of data. D drive hosts 30+ SQL Server database files. Several other…
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Is it possible to set the backing FS directory of a specific LXC?

So they don't all go to the same folder (e.g. /var/lib/lxc)? This would let the user take advantage of other partitions/disks when the default one becomes full. lxc version: 1.0.6
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Can't extend volume

Can't extend volume under Server 2008 SP2. Please help? Disk 1 has 512 GB taken, but 512 GB unallocated. The extend volume wizard doesn't allow me to click Next with additional space.
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Group policy to auto-enable plug and play disk

Good afternoon, I have an additional disk which is attached to the VM, however every time the server is rebooted the disk shows up in device manager but is disabled "due to group policy" I can then click enable and the disk comes on line. I am told…
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htcacheclean doesn't seem to be cleaning the cache

I'm running mod_cache with apache 2 on a fairly high traffic'd site. I've set the htcacheclean to run in demon mode every 10 minutes to keep the cache at 4GB. It's currently at 15GB and doesn't seem to be shrinking. When I call htcacheclean…
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Checking server specifications

Pretty basic question. I've had someone alert me to a concern that the initial IT firm that setup the server environment where I currently am did not install hardware to the specifications specified in the proposal/quote/invoice. Question is, is…
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How to move System Reserved Flag to another partition?

I have a Dell PE R310 that came with Windows 2008 R2 with a 2 GB FAT32 partition that I want to delete. But I can't because, because it currently has the "System" flag set. How do I move it to the 32mb partition I have, assuming to be the "System…
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Merge Unallocated Space BEFORE partition (W2K8R2)

My Windows Server 2008 R2 Disk Management looks as follows: 100 GB 100GB [Unallocated][(C:\)] X Y I accidentally installed Windows into the second partition (Y) instead of the first (X). Is there a way to safely merge…
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Can't find disk usage in one directory

Similar questions are asked frequently but no suggested answers solved my issue. I have some disk space usage that I can't find as well. In df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 144183992 136857180 2652…
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extend size of partition

I am asking for help on how to properly extend the size of partition Here is my situation. Running fdisk -l, give this result root@ ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders Units =…
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Can I extend this partition?

This server is running Windows Server 2008. The drive is currently part of a Windows Cluster, so I haven't been able to extend it while the cluster is running. I'm going to take a maintenance outage next week to break the cluster and try to extend…
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Is it worth to create one partion filling whole disk on Linux?

Let imagine that we have a disk. The whole disk is going to be use for one mount point or LVM physical volume. Is there a point to create separate partition covering the whole disk? Or maybe put filesystem directly on disk?
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Disk monitor script with long file systems

$ df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_app001-lv_root 34G 12G 21G 35% / tmpfs 8.4G 0 8.4G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 508M 54M 429M 12%…
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Unable to initialize BlackArmor after running iSCSI Manager and Windows 7 iSCSI Initiator

I want to add a 12TB NAS to my current iSCSI, which already controls an Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 1TB NAS. I've connected to the new NAS via Windows 7 iSCSI Initiator. When I open Disk Manager it wants to initialize Disk2 Unknown, but when I tell to…
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Replace a failed disk in EMC CX2-30 san

Where can I find the procedure for replacing a disk in an EMC CX2-30 san. Amber light showing on one disk, NaviSphere shows the disk status as "Requested Bypass" The affected LUN is in a RAID 5 configuration. There are two hot spares in the unowned…
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