Questions tagged [diskmanagement]
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How to convert mdadm raid1 to single driver and keep the data?
I have a raid1 created by mdadm in the root partition on /dev/nvme1n1p2 and /dev/nvme0n1p2, efi boot partition is on /dev/nvme1n1p1. Then I followed some commands to remove one of the disks and formatted it to mount in /media.
mdadm /dev/md0 --fail…
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LVM temporary renaming root volume group
I have a somewhat disfunctional disk (call it disk B) with lvm which I wanted to inspect on another machine (both machines are virtual machines on Azure). I attached disk B to another machine which also has a similar disk (disk A). Both disks have a…
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Browsable Disk Not Shown in Win10 Explorer
Out of ideas myself so hoping someone has seen this or can throw ideas at it.
I have a Win10PRO x64 21H1 with latest monthly updates installed
C, D, E, F Drives - all Internal
F Drive not shown in "This PC" or down the side bar - it was until 1…
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EBS Won't Size Correctly Windows Instance
My root volume won't expand to the size the EC2 console shows we've set the drive to.
The C:\ should be 1.5 TB but only shows as 50 GB. The option to expand the volume isn't present in the disk management.
seems that drive C cannot be able to…
Santosh Baruah
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Windows 10: How do I set a hard disk offline by default?
I have a disk that I want to keep in an offline state, even across reboots. It's a backup disk that should remain offline until I'm doing a backup. Short of opening the case and pulling the power/data cables, is there a way to force the disk to be…
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Virt Block device resizing
I am attempting to expand the size of a virtual disk on an existing image. I was successful to expand the virtual hard disk and partition thanks to this guide, but noticed my virtual disk was still essentially full.
Taking a second look, the "20GB…
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How can I extend xfs /boot partition with free disk space (centos 7)
I have just over 4GB of space free (/dev/loop0) and have added a second disk /dev/sdb how can I use either of these to extend /boot partition using all of it?
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 24G 0 24G …
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How can I reduce the size of / and increase /boot (CentOS7)
The /boot partition keeps getting filled up during updates how am I able to reduce the size of / and then increase /boot by 5GB?
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 24G 0 24G 0% /dev
tmpfs 24G …
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Does Cassandra rebalance the data after inserting additional disks?
I'm running a Cassandra cluster with 5 nodes, each having 10 1Tb disks (JBOD). Currently, one of the nodes is in the problematic situation where a large compaction can no longer succesfully complete due to running out of disk space on a single…
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How to convert my hard disk PartitionStyle from GPT back to RAW in Windows 10
For testing purposes, I need my hard drive on Windows 10 machine to be in a RAW partition style format.
It is currently in the GPT partition style.
The hard drive is a secondary hard drive and does not contain any system files or boot files, it is…
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azure attach read only disk
i am running forensic experiment on azure and need to use one machine for the experiment and a different machine for the looking at the content. the experiments rely on registry and other elements and i am worried as soon as i attached the new host…
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How to verify if a disk was ever written to
How can you verify if a disk is fresh and has had no write from the factory? I have a client that needs to make sure that the disks he revived are cleaned and weren't tampered with from the time it left to the factory till it was in his possession.…
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Debian/Ubuntu, inconsistency between S-ATA ports numbering and /dev/sdX lettering
The hardware situation is as such :
a motherboard (MSI X99A SLI Plus),
two (2) Samsung 860 Pro SSDs connected on SATA-1 and SATA-2 of the motherboard.
five (5) identical HDDs connected on SATA-3, SATA-4, SATA-5, SATA-6, SATA-7
The BIOS correctly…
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"Windows Storage" reports much more disk usage than Folder Properties
My IIS inetpub folder says it's using 2.52 Gb (2.64 Gb on disk) but when I analyse disk usage with Windows Storage it says the folder is 60.0 Gb.
Why is this happening and how can I get my 57.36 Gb back?
I'm running Windows Server 2016 on Amazon EC2…
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How to create backup/snapshot of Unmanaged OS disk in azure?
I have a Virtual Machine which has an associated Unmanaged OS disk with it.
If my OS disk is of managed type it gives me option to take snapshot of the disk. But for unmanaged disk it is not giving me any option to take a snapshot.
Could anyone…
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