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How to use part of a disk for Storage Spaces?

I want to use Storage Spaces to create mirrored volumes. However, my disks are large and I do not wish to fill the entire disks with the Storage Spaces volumes. Unfortunately, the GUI only appears to accept entire disks for inclusion into Storage…
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LVM resize process

From here, how I can resize the space in /usr, /var and /home partitions without lossing data, if is posible, and in normal mode (no recovery mode), since is a remote server. I seen other posts (How to resize RAID1 array with mdadm?, Linux: create…
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ZFS corrupted directory, but zpool doesn't detect anything wrong

A directory on my FreeBSD 10.2 server somehow got hopelessly corrupted (wasn't ZFS supposed to prevent that?) ls or any other command against it leads to current session getting frozen on the kernel level (even SIGKILL does nothing). ZFS scrub…
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Running out of disk space because of wrong partition set up

Server on Debian Jessie that was set up wrongly without doing the default partitions on install.. Now the server is running out of memory as it is not using the available disk space. Disk Usage: /dev/md1 ext4 37G 29G 6.0G 83%…
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How can i split a partition on Ubuntu?

I just purchased a brand new server on OVH with disk specification: 2 x480GB of SSD SOFT. When i do df -h, the output is: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 20G 13G 5.7G 69% / devtmpfs 16G 12K 16G 1%…
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Where can I find dskprobe.exe for Server 2012 R2?

As the question suggests, where can I find dskprobe.exe for Windows Server 2012 R2? I need dskprobe to recover a deleted partition and I can not find the application anywhere on my server and looking for it on the web seems to be a very hard task. …
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Cannot shrink partition on Windows Server 2012

I have the following issue. I am trying to take space off of VMs and add it to the OS partition. However, whenever I try any of the VMs it will not let me shrink the space so I have free to expand the OS partition. Ideas to make this work?
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Accessing multiple disks under single virtual partition?

I have disks as below on my Debian server: /dev/sda1 276M 29M 233M 11% /boot /dev/sdb1 917G 793G 79G 92% /home /dev/sdc1 1.8T 1.7T 79G 96% /home2 /dev/sdd1 1.8T 1.7T 79G 96% /home3 Is it possible to access /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1…
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How to reacreate the EFI partiton and mirror and existing system partition of an GPT disk?

I have the following setup (very well possible that this is no good practice but it is the given situation): There were 2 x 3TB dynamic GPT disks in a Windows server, Disk0 with EFI (~200 MB), System reserved (~100MB) and C (200GB) and the rest…
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Upgrade SATA drive on Dell Poweredge 1950, RAID 1, Ubuntu server

My current set up is a Dell PowerEdge 1950, two 250GB SATA drives, RAID 1, OS is Ubuntu server. Using it for running OTRS (open source help desk). I'd like to upgrade the drives to the maximum capacity possible, and it's my understanding that 2TB is…
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How to Resolve Hyper-V Disk Location to Drive Letter

When viewing cluster disk properties in Failover Manager or the physical path to VHD's in the settings of a VM in Hyper-V Manager the location is displayed by GUID. Is there a quick way find out which GUID is mapped to which drive letter with…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Rescaning Disks Locks System

I'm having an issue when re-scanning disks inside of the Windows Server Manager tool. When I go to: File and Storage Services > Disks > Tasks > Rescan Stroage the entire system locks up and blue screens. The bug check I get is a generic…
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Disk Monitoring with cronjobs -- report disk issues

Is there a way to monitor disk health and send cronjob reports for errors? I know you can use smartctl -s on -a /dev/hda to pull information but just wondering if there is a way that could be used to filter and only send if something needs…
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Extend disk with diskpart or Disk Management

I have a Win 2008 Server that won't let me extend a disk. I have used both the computer management and the diskpart tool and both tell me that I have less than 1MB free and can't extend. I show that I have 100GB of Unallocated space and 81.5gb…
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Should a SQL Server tempDB partition be shared by the cluster?

We have a 2-node SQL Server 2008 RS cluster. The data and log partitions are shared among the cluster nodes. Does the tempDB partition need to be shared as well, or will local server node storage suffice?
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