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GNU Parted is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions

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Why there is a difference in size reported by lsblk, gdisk and parted

[anaconda root@861767 ~]# lsblk /dev/sda NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part └─sda2 8:2 0 465.3G 0 part ├─sys-root 253:2 0 10G 0 lvm …
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fdisk and parted won't work on a USB stick with Fedora 23 alpha 2 x86_64

So I burned a Fedora 23 alpha 2 on a 16GB USB stick through dd if=path/to/fedora.iso of=/dev/usb_device bs=512 I used bs=512 because the sectors on the stick are 512 bytes. Opening the stick in fdisk gives me the warning: WARNING: GPT (GUID…
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How to restore a saved partition table to another disk with parted

OS: Ubuntu 10.04 I have saved my partition layout from sda and want to restore it to my new disk sdb. I have used the following command to save the layout, but how can i restore it to my new disk using parted? parted -ms /dev/sda print > sda.parted
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Device file in /dev/mapper/ present even after removing partition with parted

These observations are from CentOS 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5. I have a multipath device with a single partition: # ls -l /dev/mapper/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 admin root 10, 57 Dec 22 12:52 control lrwxrwxrwx 1 admin root 7 Dec 24 12:22 mpatha ->…
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Parted automatically adding a filesystem on mkpart

I created an ext4 file system on /dev/sda1 yesterday to test the drive before trying to add it to a RAID. It's a 3 TB drive, so I'm trying to use parted to do all my partition stuff. I've done an rm 1 and then print shows no partitions. If I…
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Error: partition length of 6442450944 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295

I'm trying to create a partition on a RHEL 6.3 machine, but parted is giving me the following error: $ sudo parted /dev/vdb mkpart logical 1 Error: partition length of 6442450944 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of…
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aligning partition boundaries of already installed system

I have qemu raw disk which includes two partitions. The second partition is not aligned according to ssd principles. I will move this into Smartcloud environment and they suggest aligning according to 4k boundaries. How can I change starting…
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How to install CentOs 5.8 on 3TB disk with RAID 1 on Hetzner EX 4S (10 TB) server?

I have installed centos 5.8 with Hetzner server rescue mode but its disk parttion table is in MSDOS formate which does not support more than 2 TB space of disk so i need to change the partition table into GPT formate.but enable to install os in Gpt…
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fdisk -l only displays boot partition

I have a SAN, and it's able to read and write to the 50TB RAID just fine, but when I run fdisk -l it only lists the boot partition of the SAN server, and doesn't display anything about the other partitions on the RAID. I've also tried using parted…
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Restoring a GPT XFS partition?

I recently added some storage to a RAID array with a single large XFS volume. To expand the volume I normally use parted to remove the partition and then recreate it so that it spans the entire volume. However, I accidentally removed a partition…
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Optimal way to format 20TB partition with XFS in linux?

I have a 20TB RAID5 array (LSI 9265-8i / 8 x 3TB 7200rpm drives) configured with a 1MB stripe size. What's the optimal way to partition, and format, this partition in Linux to maximize performance for a single ~20TB share? I'm a linux newbie, so…
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Debian 6 installation - unable to partition/mount with an Intel Raid Controller (readonly)

I'm trying to install a Debian 6 (newest version) on a Server which has 2 RAIDs. First RAID is configured on an Intel controller and is a simple RAID 1 with 3 partitions (swap, /, and a special data partition) Second RAID (not important here) is on…
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Disk Size is not Consistent Between fdisk and parted

I have noticed some difference in size displayed using parted and fdisk. I have a disk attached with a size of 20GB. Executing the fdisk command shows that the size is 20GB which is correct. fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 20 GiB,…
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Different output of parted and fdisk

I have a strange CentOS behaviour, When I type parted -l command on my server I got following results : Model: DELL PERC H730P Adp (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 5758GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags:…
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unable to convert MBR disk to GPT

I've got a MySQL DB running in EC2 that I've had to continually add space to the EBS volume, then grow it (using growpart/xfs_growfs). I finally hit 2TB and couldn't figure out why I could no longer grow the partition, its because of course it's an…
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