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How to defrag volume using mountpoint?

I am trying to defrag the volume by optimize-volume cmdlet . I have passed mount point path. But it fails as below. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Optimize-Volume -Path C:\Testvol1\disk Optimize-Volume : No MSFT_Volume objects found with property 'Path'…
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KVM Pass through disk Partition - By Label or UUID

Normally, when I passthrough a disk to a VM I use the entire disk. I am looking at attempting to passthrough a partition in KVM. First question is that possible/ok? Looking at this doc it seems to be the way to go which supprised…
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ZFS restarts resilvering over and over again. Also very slow

Here's one of my Solaris 10 servers after a couple of disk replacements in a zpool pool: volume state: ONLINE status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded…
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How can i create a low disk space alert on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter virtual machine running in Azure. Recently, one of my disks ran out of space. How can i setup a notification system to alert me when one of the disk drives runs low on disk space? The only thing that comes…
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ZPOOL replace defective disk in exported pool

Yesterday, I put a new disk into my server. Sadly, I didn't check the disk before of failures. I added it to my pool with the command zpool add nas /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31500341AS_9VS27Z4M-part1 Short after, the CPU-load of the server went…
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How do I identify a volume in WMI from a volume name reported in the event log?

I have a Windows 2008R2 server that's reporting the following error: The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume2. Using Powershell and WMI how do I identify…
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Mounting a disk from SAN (RHEL 5.9)

Storage admin told me he put a 3TB drive on my server from the SAN and I was asked to mount it. The only information I know is that it's on LUN 1 and that the disk is 3TB. Multipath is setup and I have QLogic drives installed. I'm not sure what to…
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Unable to connect to the Logical Disk Manager service

I have a Windows 2003 R2 x64 Enterprise Edition server that is backed by a SAN that has a disk that I need to expand. The SAN management interface notes that this drive is sized at 110 GB. Windows is reporting that it’s only at 70 GB. I thought that…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 reports full disk, but files do not add up

I have a web server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. It's C:\ drive is 100 GB in size. We started getting errors from IIS and discovered that the C:\ drive, surprisingly so, was reported to be full. This is where it gets strange: I changed…
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Is it safe to mark a disk ok, in a degraded RAID 5 array?

Intel Matrix Storage Console 8.9 showed a degraded array with one disk failure. Yet it offers the option to mark the disk as ok and rebuild the array? When would it be appropriate to do this? Does it assess disk failure incorrectly? Why offer this…
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Safely remove a disk from a spanned volume

I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 and converted physical disks to dynamic disks and combined them to a spanned volume. Yesterday, one disk started throwing S.M.A.R.T Errors, so I decided to get a new disk to replace it. Now, I installed it to my…
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Get exact size in bytes of a disk & partitions in windows

I'm using dd (under cygwin) to copy a shadow image of a disk in windows. Shadow copy will only give me a partion, so what I am doing is: 1) using dd to grab the disk header (32k on Win2003) 2) using dd to copy the shadow partition 3) using dd to…
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LVM is reporting I/O errors, but the disk reports no problems. Argh

I've started seeing errors reported by LVM on certain Logical Volumes (and by Xen when attempting to create virtual machines on these LVs). But I've run tests on the disk, and can't see any hardware problems. We're running a XEN/Linux (Debian Lenny)…
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(LVM) Cannot restore Volume Group with 1 PVs marked as missing. Couldn't find device with uuid, but the pv exists and blkid finds the same uuid

This problem is on a kvm/qemu hypervisor with CentOS 7, where we host multiple virtual machines. The Disk /dev/sda( 1918.2 GB) is a raid6 LSI MEGARAID. [root@mia3 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1918.2 GB, 1918239768576 bytes, 3746562048…
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Using a VHD as a data storage location?

I asked previously if there are good reasons to partition disks on Windows, and one of the big ones was for splitting data and OS. So that should you reinstall, you do not need to worry about the data (i.e. the partition with the OS gets wiped,…
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