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A partition is a means of logically dividing a computing resource (most frequently disk storage)

Partitions are a way to logically divide a computing resource. Most frequently this is applied to MBR Disk storage. For instance a hard drive or other storage media so that each partition is logically independent of one another. This can be done for a variety of reasons including security, separating multiple operating systems, utilizing multiple file systems, or other benefits realized by the logical separation.

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How do I move the physical location of $MFTMirr, to allow resizing the partition?

When an NTFS volume is created, the first four entries of the MFT are copied and placed halfway the volume in the $MFTMirr file. According to Microsoft, since XP these files (metadata files) can be moved, but in practice I don't seem to be able to…
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Resizing volume with DiskPart unsuccessful, while there's enough free space

I have a physical disk with two partitions, an old OS partition (with MBR) of 296GB and a RECOVERY partition of 2048MB (a default DELL recovery partition), both are not in use. I have successfully resized the OS partition from 296GB to 174GB with…
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repair partition table

I've just overwritten my partition table of my system's hard disk. i made a cfdisk on the wrong device (/dev/sda instead of /dev/sdd), deleted all partitions, made one new primary spanning over the whole device, set its type to 07 (NTFS) and hit…
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Windows Server 2003 System Partition too Small

I have a server from dell that came pre-configured with windows server 2003 on a 12gb system partition. After 2 years of running the system partition is almost out of space (I assume from all the windows updates) is there any commands/procedures to…
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Why is disk label type dos but the partition system is GPT?

And how can it be larger than 2TB if it's dos? Disk /dev/sdi: 6000.6 GB, 6000606183424 bytes, 11719933952 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 262144 bytes…
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Dell PowerVault MD3000 2TB partition size limit

I've a MD3000 and the max partition size that I can allocate is 2TB. Is there any way, through firmware updates or other trickery, to allocate a useful amount of space to a partition, 4TB say? Is it possible to use a different PERC card with the…
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systemd-gpt-auto-generator doesn't mount EFI system partition

according to the documentation, the systemd-gpt-auto-generator should automatically find the EFI system partition and generate a mount unit to mount it on /efi. However this does not appear to work on my system, despite all the requirements being…
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KVM + LVM: Where to put LVM?

Hy, I'm currently setting up a new Server using libvirt+kvm. Afterwards there should be about 5 virtual-machines on this server running (+some testing machines). The storage is put on a raid-5 device which is set up using LVM. KVM now runs on some…
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Kickstart CentOS 7 with software RAID 1, but no LVM needed

I am going to Kickstart a CentOS 7.x installation with software RAID 1 remotely for the first time. So I am kinda inexperienced at this and wondering what I need to make this work correctly. A CentOS 7.x kickstart with hardware raid, I use the…
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How to clone Linux hard drive to smaller flash drive

Currently, I'm trying to clone a hard drive that has Linux installed to a 16GB flash drive. The hard drive is 233GB, but df -h shows that only 3.5G is in use. Can I use Clonezilla to create an image using just the allocated amount of space and copy…
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Partitioning - Is 5% reserved blocks required/recommended?

I'm performing a new Ubuntu Server installation, on hardware RAID 10, 6 x 1.72TB SSD, total space to partition is 5.8TB. The server is going to be used for KVM virtualisation. I've allocated 500MB for /boot ext4 2GB for swap Leaving 5.8T for /…
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I have a NTFS partition now the size of the partition seems to be wrong. Is there an easy way to fix this?

So I I resized a partition and now the partition table seems like it is screwed up. I am running Windows 7. When I open the "Disk Management" The table at the top of the screen show the disk as 139GB. Down below, in the graphical partition…
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How to set up system-drive RAID1 on Server 2016 with two HDD larger than 2TB?

Foreword: As much as I tried to search the internet, most of the tutorials are for regular smaller than 2TB drives. And there are tons of forum posts that say "use hwraid". And I found a method that worked for me, see the 'dd method', but I am sure…
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shrinking EBS volume that used as root

I have an EBS volume that is 800GB and I am using only 5GB of this. I want to shrink it but AWS doesn't support this, after a bit of a research, I have found that I can mount both volumes and rsync the content of the bigger one to the new one. This…
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What is Grub-install actually doing?

I have a client who accidentally converted the partition table of one of their Linux system from DOS to GPT. Unfortunately, the GRUB version is 2, and the system didn't have a BIOS boot partition for the additional boot loader code to reside…
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