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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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ZFS on Linux: Deleting the "Solaris reserved 1" partition. Did I break anything?

I have a Debian 8 VM with: 1x virtual root disk 1x virtual data disk with a ZFS file system on it. When I initially created the ZFS file system, I did not manually create partitions, but simply ran this command: zpool create -f my-pool…
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Resize a Google Cloud Platform Persistent Disk in a Single-Node File Server (ZFS server)

I've set up a file server several months ago using the click-to-deploy method on Google Cloud Launcher (https://cloud.google.com/launcher/docs/single-node-fileserver). This created a ZFS server in a VM and a 500 GB persistent disk. I have updated…
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KVM guest doesn't recognize new size of raw disk after lvresize

I extended the /home LVM volume for my KVM guest by 500G via lvresize -v -L +500G /dev/engi/v-sbuild-home and rebooted my guest system to update the available disk space. After the reboot I wanted to use resize2fs to enlarge the home partition on…
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/home /opt /tmp /usr /var on a single partition of another hard drive Debian 8

I have a production server for which I would like to move the /home, /opt, /tmp, /user, /var to the ~300GB partition specially created for this purpose. No straightforward explanation found on how to do this, except that I can put every folder…
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Can't remove LVM thinpool - unable to deactivate tdata, tmeta

I somehow messed up some thinly provisioned lvm volumes on ubuntu 14.04 and now I want to start fresh by deleting the thinpool with all its volumes and data inside. Unfortunatelly this failes and I can't find a solution. The logical volumes look…
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df shows bad information on partition usage

I've tried to deal with this for days now with no luck. In this forum and also in other ones I can see a lot of discussion about this but none of the solutions have worked for me. My current situation is that I've got some GBs "missing" that I can't…
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Recover from power outage during ntfsresize?

After upgrading disks on our local server, I was using the "Parted Magic" boot disk along with gparted to move & resize an NTFS partition. I believe it uses the 'ntfsresize' tool internally. However, somewhere around half way through, the power had…
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How to prevent gnome from auto-mounting a partition?

I have a partition on my Hard Drive that I want users to be able to mount, but it shouldn't be automatic, so I've put this in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sda5 /media/data vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 It works great for command line.…
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Ubuntu 14.04 Installation with Preseeded RAID 1 Partitioning

I have been having a painful time trying to automate an Ubuntu 14.04 Server Installation with RAID 1 partitioning. I'm testing this on top of VirtualBox with two Virtual Disk Images (dynamically allocated to increase in size up to 1TB) and a custom…
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Windows Diskpart: How to select disk based on LUN ID

I have multiple LUNs attached to my Windows 2008 server from a SAN storage controller. Each LUN has a unique ID. However, it has no correlation to the disk number in the Windows. For example in the DiskPart utility I can see disk 1 has this property…
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Directories inside /var are on root partition not /var partition

Few weeks ago I installed Opensuse 13.2. I partitioned the disk so that root '/', /var, /tmp and /home are on different partitions. Today I noticed that although /var is on partition sda8, all directories in /var, such as /var/tmp and…
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Recommended partition scheme for a production server with two 147G hard drives?

I have a dedicated box whose specs are: CPU: 4-core Xeon 3450 *1 (HT enabled) RAM: 8GB DDR3 HDD: 15k SAS 147G *2 (currently in RAID 1) The current OS is Windows Server 2003. I am running a web server (with a couple of websites), a mail server, a…
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centos 6.3 increase disk size on /

I have a VM running CentOS 6.3. LVM is not installed. From the VM side, I have increased the underlying disk from 15GB to 40GB, so I now need to expand the partition and file system. I've managed to boot into "Rescue Mode" so no file systems are…
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Mdadm won't create an array larger than 10TB

I have a server with six 4TB drives running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. One of the drives is used for the system/OS I wanted to use the other 5 drives to get as close to 20TB of storage as possible It's a short term data analysis project, so RAID 0 is fine I…
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mkfs on raw software raid device or partition

I am making a huge RAID10 device (8 TB) for storage on CentOS. I have created the 4 partitions on my 4 physical hard disks and have created the raid device /dev/md2 out of those 4 partitions. Now it's time to put a filesystem on it. I am wondering…
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