Questions tagged [diskmanagement]
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How can I umount /dev/sda1 partition in ubuntu?
I have a Ubuntu VM which has an unmanaged OS disk associated with it.
I want to shrink my OS disk of size 50 GB to 40 GB.
However, when i try to unmount /dev/sda1 partition it tell me
umount: /mnt: device is busy.
(In some cases useful…
Sameer Keluskar
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CentOS 7 server rebooted itself into rescue mode - how can I find out why?
I've switched it back to regular boot and it seems to boot up fine.
So why did it reboot?
Running "last" doesn't even show a log OF a reboot. What does that suggest?
When I try "smartctl -a /dev/sda1" I get "SMART support is: Unavailable - device…
Codemonkey
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DPM Disk Allocation
Very new to DPM and have a query regarding 'disk allocation'. When on the 'Management' screen the 'Disk' portion shows that the 'Unallocated space' is 2.5Tb and is showing a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark.
When I do a report on 'Disk…
Scott
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Monitoring Windows Hard Drives
When you run several 100 windows servers and even business systems, what is a good option for monitoring hard disks and checking for bad sectors?
Are there applications out there that can send e-mail reports with enough information to know what…
Tiffany Walker
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Dell 6850 disk configuration
Just bought a server to load SP2010 onto, for intranet and external website.
5 new disks installed, and not sure how to configure
I created one array of all 5, and then made into a logical drive
However when I try to load windows, there is no drive…
Gavin
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Directory mounted on a newly created logical volume does not show a correct size
I have two physical hard drives on a Linux system (server / hosting), and I created a logical volume from sda3 (partition on disk A) and sdb (the whole disk B). I then mounted it on /home directory, and when I enter:
du -sh /home
...this is…
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CentOS remount a used disk
I have a used disk full of video files which is 1TB in size and is mounted on /usr/local/nginx/html. I want to remount it on /disk1 for naming purposes. If I remount it would the files still be intact? Eg: /usr/local/nginx/html/folder/file.txt be…
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Which Disk to replace first ? Predictive Failure or Failed Disk
We have a HPDL380 G6 server ( running 2003 R2) with 1 failed disk and 1 predictive failure.
Total 4 Disks configured with RAID5.
I will be replacing disks, Now question is which disk should I replace first and why ?
Thank You
JP
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How to find who is using disk space
I have 2 disk on my vps one is 40 GB and other is 80 GB, today I see my 40GB disk is 100% full, I cant understand what is using that space.
here is full info
[root@topsites]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 …
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