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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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Protecting Windows Machines From Users

What are some good methods to protect staff machines from the staff who use them? I am looking for something that is totally seamless, that the user would not notice...something that would not hinder performance of the machine and would allow the…
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Howto migrate the system partion to another disk on Windows 2008 enterprise

I'm trying to move a windows 2008 system partition, on an older 1/2T drive to a new partition on a new drive. What would be the best way of doing it. I've had a look at the bcd registry using bcdedit to see if anything needds changed, and also…
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Is it possible to repartition a running Debian system without losing data

We need to resize the partition that is mounted to /var on a running machine. The only way to access it is via SSH, so live CD is not an option for us. Can we repartition the file system without losing any data? (The system is freshly installed so…
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How can I un-mark a partition as active?

Overview: I use a backup storage enclosure with 6 backup drives incrementally backup up and taken off-site. One day I noticed that the backup process was failing. I logged onto the server that is connected to the drives. I then noticed that none of…
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Windows Server 2003 - move C: partition to a new SAS disk

A server I am working on has two 73GB SAS disks (configured as RAID 1). There are two partitions on the 73GB drive and the C: partition is only 15GB or so. This drive is near 100% capacity and I've freed up as much space as I can. I've purchased two…
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Set device offset in Linux due to failed hardware RAID?

I have a failed hardware RAID card. This card had two drives in a RAID-1 mirror. Plugging one of the drives into the motherboard shows no partition table. Using a program like testdisk, I can see the partition table starts 32 blocks into the…
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How can I put mysql databases in different disk partitions (linux - Ubuntu)?

Possible Duplicate: multiple file systems for mysql hi, How can I put mysql databases in different partition (linux - Ubuntu)? Thanks, yosef
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Conversion from Basic failed

Hi I am in an emergency situation right now. I DO have full backups of everything, but I am trying to avoid a complete reinstall of the OS and AD. I have a simple server with one drive that was set to Basic. I searched and searched for problems…
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Hard Drive upgrade advice for a Dell PowerEdge 1950

My setup is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with 2x 140Gb Hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The OS is Windows 2003 Web Edition and disk is partitioned into to two, a 12Gb C: partition and the remainder is the D: drive. Both are very close to full…
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Increase Server 2003 Primary NTFS Partition (C:\) size?

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 machine with OS Server 2003 (x64) that is part of central domain. All the partitions on this machine are of type NTFS. I am currently running out of free space on C:\ and because of this I keep getting caching and other…
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Linux - Best file system for /var/log partition?

I am under Debian Squeeze 6.0. What is the best file system for the /var/log partition, and why ?
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How to recover this Linux partition?

I have this netbook, where the partition table looks like this ~$ fdisk netbook.dd Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): p Disk netbook.dd: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63…
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Properly copy partition data to another disk?

I have a disk with separate partitions for each folder (/usr, /var, /home etc.) and wish to transfer the whole thing to another disk that is slightly larger, now I do not wish to keep the partition scheme, so should I mount all partitions (so they…
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Booting FreeBSD from whole-disk ZFS pool?

I have a FreeBSD fileserver configured with one ZFS pool created from whole disk devices. That is, the pool was created like this: zpool create pool0 raidz ada0 ada1 ada2 This means the disks have ZFS disklabels, rather than FreeBSD disk labels. …
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No device file for partition on logical volume (Linux LVM)

I created a logical volume (scandata) containing a single ext3 partition. It is the only logical volume in its volume group (case4t). Said volume group is comprised by 3 physical volumes, which are three primary partitions on a single block device…
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