Questions tagged [partition-alignment]
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Debian installation - how to correctly partition the disk?
My system:
most recent Debian 11 image
vServer running at my hosting provider
virtualized via Xen
normal HDD, no SSD; no lvm or raid used
Somehow I managed to install Debian 11 with misaligned partitions. (this question is a follow-up of this…
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Does advice on aligning SSD block sizes apply to "cloud persistent disks?"
I recently read that differences between disk page size in the partition vs flash storage can hurt write performance.
So, I checked the partition sizes on some database disks with parted and got
Output: Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B…
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Can't use unallocated space on a Win 2k8 R2 VM
I'm hoping someone can help me with this because after 2 days of googling I've come up with nothing.
I have a file server that I have converted from a physical to a virtual on an ESXi 6 host. I have increased the disk size in ESXi by 400GB's, and in…
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Possible to correct the alignment of partition without data loss?
Somehow I managed to install a server with misaligned partitions.
fdisk says:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/xvda1 2 2095151103 2095149056 999G 83 Linux
/dev/xvda2 2095153150 2097149951 …
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Can't resize Ubuntu Partition inside VMware
I had a 30 GB machine and I run out space. Then, via the VMWare Workstation GUI, I have extended that space.
It got to "unallocated space" at first, then I tried to extend it with gparted, but no luck, there is not option to resize…
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