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fdisk was a command-line disk partitioning tool in Linux and old versions of Windows/MS-DOS. It is deprecated on Linux by its inability to handle GPT disks. New systems should use diskpart (Windows) or parted (Linux) to partition disks.

fdisk was a command-line disk partitioning tool in Linux and old versions of Windows/MS-DOS. It is deprecated on Linux by its inability to handle GPT disks. New systems should use diskpart (Windows) or parted (Linux) to partition disks.

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How to reduce /dev/sda1 primary partition size and create new partition with it

Hi I'm facing an issue OS : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS i have my storage set up like this : lsblk : sda 8:0 0 400G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 399.9G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 512B 0 part ├─sda14 8:14 0 4M 0 part └─sda15 8:15 0 …
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Can I extend a Centos 7 partition while preserving its contents

I inherited managing a Centos 7 server where I am frequently running out of space in the root directory because its size is only 20Gb as shown bvelow. df -h (excerpt) /dev/sdb2 20G 15G 5.4G 74% / /dev/sdb5 …
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linux + how to extend sdd1 partition based on that sdd disk have enough space

We have rhel server 7.2 version ( VM machine ) with sdd disk sdd disk have parted partition sdd1 , and our goal is to increase the sdd1 partition to 10g from current 1K size From lsblk sdd 8:48 0 20G 0 disk └─sdd1 …
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Weird discrepancy in size between fdisk and df

fdisk reports the following info about a partition Device: /dev/sda1 Boot: * Start: 2048 End: 209715166 Sectors: 209713119 Cylinders: 443369 Size: 100G Id: 83 Type: Linux Start-C/H/S: 0/32/33 …
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How i revert creating partition table inside a partition

I wanted to add a partition to the /dev/sda mistakenly, I started fdisk with /dev/sda2 and treated It like a disk. How do i revert it? ghostrider@dev1:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 800G 0 disk ├─sda1 …
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Extend file system on Ubuntu 18.04 to use added disk space

Hi I am using a cloud provider (not AWS) to extend the file system on an Ubuntu VM. The provider has extended it, and notified that the extension is on the same volume, but I cannot seem to figure out how to extend it. I can see the additional…
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parted + usage help not described the resizepart

we need to use parted command as example on rhel server 7.2 version parted -s /dev/sda resizepart 2 but from parted help we not find the option resizepart example: parted -s /dev/sda resizepart 2 Usage: parted [OPTION]... [DEVICE [COMMAND…
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rhel + parted failed after increasing OS VM disk and rescan

we have VM rhel machine version 7.6 example from lsblk lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT fd0 2:0 1 4K 0 disk sda 8:0 0 300G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part…
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How to increase the free space in a Volume Group in LVM after expend VM disk size

We want to increase the space in a Volume Group in our VM centOS server For example from pvs we see pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VLwol lvm2 a-- <100.00g <5.09g the main target is to have under PFree the value - …
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add additional partition after increasing OS disk size

As part of add additional partition – sda3 we extend the OS disk from 50g to 120g from the vsphere client ( VM Linux server ) And we perform rescan , instead of reboot lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0…
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Hang on FDISK New Partition

I am attempting to reformat a drive. Was originally formatted for Solaris with a ZFS filesystem. I am reformatting for my Linux (debian). I used fdisk to remove all existing partitions. Both fdisk and cfdisk hang when trying to create the new…
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BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy, scale up EBS root volume failed using growpart on AWS

Usually i use growpart to rise up size of my root partition on aws, so that i don't have to reboot For some reason in one of my instances, it doesn't work anymore: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 993M 4.0K …
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Filesystem without partition

It is common to create a partition in order to create a filesystem. Modern Linux fdisk will do block alignment automatically, starting the partition at sector 2048. In this case the filesystem will also start at sector 2048. Below is just an…
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Disk with no primary partition mounted on disk-name itself

I have a ec2-machine setup with an EBS attached of size 200 GB. I obtain the following with the commands I perfomed Screnshot for the lsblk and df -hT commands As I could figure out from these, there seems to be no primary partition surprisingly and…
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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…
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