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Is it possible to extend a partition with another partition blocking it?

I have an Ubuntu VM that I am trying to extend. It is currently 20 GB total, with 19.12 being the main partition, with an 895 MB partition at the end. I am trying to extend the large partition to be approximately 40 GB. I have gotten VMWare to…
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Mounting an existing partition of an unmounted disk

I ran the fdisk -l command to show me all the disks and partitions. Here's the output: Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size…
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Disk Manager for Windows Server

I'm working with a Windows 2008 Server, and I'm currently trying to allocate unused space to the C Drive. I've run into a bit of an issue however as my disk partitions are in the following order: C Drive | D Drive | Unused Space From what I…
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Windows 2008 R2: can't extend C drive, mystery partitions

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running under VMware ESX 4.0.0. I have reallocated disk space to it in order to extend the C drive, but Disk Management has "Extend Volume" greyed out. DISKPART shows more partitions than Disk Management shows,…
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Does shrinking making space available to partitions everywhere?

In Disk Management for Windows 2008, I have an extended partition that looks like this: |----X:\ Drive----||----Y:\ Drive----||-------Z:\ Drive-------| I am running out of space for the Y: drive. I have a lot of space I can spare in the Z: drive. If…
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Virtual Disk Service Loader has stopped working

We have several relatively recent (less than 1 week) installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise that are getting this error whenever we open Disk Management. The application name is vdsldr.exe and the Problem Event Name is BEX64. The…
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How do I get the `/dev/sd*` path from `ata*` in dmesg?

I have this output in dmesg: [149939.146576] ata18.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [149939.146592] ata18.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 [149939.146600] ata18.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:04:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 2 pio 16388 in …
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I have a local Amazon Linux 2 (EC2) AMI Instance; How do I repartition the disk and expand the file system?

I have expanded the disk of my VM. How do I now repartition the disk and expand the file system on the guest? Which is Amazon Linux 2 Kernel 4.14.252-195.483.amzn2.x86_64 on an x86_64 $> sudo lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda …
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How to extend root volume / with an extra storage disk

I am trying to add a 2nd disk to a CentOS 8 instance and I want to extend the entire storage utilizing all the available extra space; 1st storage: 40 GB 2nd storage: 100 GB (added later) The problem is I can't seem to find the expected…
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Why are "wmic diskdrive get size" and "(Get-Disk).Size" returning slightly different values?

As you can see, the following commands provide slightly different output. Why? I was expecting them to be the same. There is a 2.66MB difference between the two. How can I get the values from "wmic diskdrive get size" in powershell? This is the…
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Spanned disk created from a single LUN?

Does this appear to you as a single 2 TB LUN (Disk 4), separated into two separate 1 TB partitions, then spanned together into a logical volume ('G')? If so, how was this accomplished? I am unable to replicate this setup. OS: Windows Server 2019…
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df -h --total command showing wrong total disk size

I have 512GB attached to my linux centos 7.9 server I'm trying to know how much total disk size used from overall disk size from inside the server I tried to use df -h --total command to show the total disk and used percentage but it shows 224GB…
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I increased VM storage from Virtual Media Manager in VBox but it is not applied in VM

Here is how I increased the storage of the VM in the VBox interface: I used Virtual Media Manager. I increased the VM storage and apply. When I click Information: Format: VDI Storage details: Dynamically allocated As you see, it should be…
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Creating and mounting a disk using cloud-init after a server is installed

Is it actually possible to run cloud-init to create a disk after the VM itself has been created? I have a VM created on a VMware platform. Currently cloud-init is not enabled on the GUI for creating VMs. I am trying to attach a newly-created disk.…
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Recommended partitioning strategy Windows Server 2022

I’m setting up a Windows Server 2022 machine and was wondering about partitioning strategies. I will be using the server for Terminal Services (2 or 3 users) and Hyper-V. Running maybe 12 or so VM’s. The VM’s will be database servers mostly for…
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