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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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Resize ntfs system partitions with GParted?

Trying to resize 2 ntfs system and boot partitions (windows 2003 server) using GParted. Goal: Resize D: (/dev/sda1) to ~850G - this is the boot drive with D:\ntldr, boot.ini, etc. Resize C: (/dev/sda5) to 100G - this is the system drive with…
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What's the way to access Linux partition from Windows?

On a standard, dual boot Vista Home and Ubuntu, I'd like to be able to access the Ubuntu partition from Windows. I imagine that there must be software to let you do this. Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free-as-in-speech) package to do…
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Best way to partition 1TB drive for windows7?

Linux admins usually split their hard-drives into partitions for /usr space, os space and whole other kinds of swapness. I know windows7 requires 20GB at least for the OS to be installed. What is the best way to partition a single 1TB hard-drive (if…
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howto install dual boot: Windows server 2003, 2008?

Have dedicated partition for each OS. But W2K8 creates a "system partition" which gets overwritten during subsequent windows 2003 install. how to plan the install, so that both can co-exist?
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Partitions on Linux and their CHS dependance

Recently I came into a problem with partitioning WD20EARS disk (with 4k sectors). I needed partitions to be aligned correctly so I just used parted in "unit s" mode and started all partitions at mod8 sector (drive itself reports, that sector is…
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Write to unallocated space on LVM2

I was wondering if there is a way to write to the unallocated space of an lvm2 (linux)... I prefer to have all my partitions encrypted but I'm not quite sure if there were any non-encrypted partitions earlier so now I want to overwrite/swipe all the…
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MediaShield RAID 5 is showing up as 760GB when the actual size is 2.7TB

I just finished setting up Windows 2003 Server on my new server, and I started setting up a RAID 5 for it. I have 4x1TB Hard Drives. From MediaSheild RAID Utility (at boot time) the RAID size is displayed as 2.7TB. Linux also shows it as 2.7TB.…
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Possible to use LVM partitions inside a vmbuilder created KVM virtual machine?

I have an Ubuntu 9.10 host system with LVM partitions running KVM. I've been creating VMs using vmbuilder using LVM partitions for each VM instead of files for the VMs. When I configure a VM using vmbuilder --part, the partitions in the file I'm…
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vmkfstools --growfs returns no such file or directory

At a customers site we have 2 (+1 Backup and Test) ESXi server, working independently (without vSphere). The customers request is to replace an SSD RAID with 500GB with a 2TB one. ESXi is installed on that SSD RAID. We used the 3rd server (test one)…
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Rescue Partition setup HOWTO

Could someone point me to a HOWTO on setting up a rescue partition the way it is described here: fsck root filesystem on a remote machine I'm about to place a server in a data center and would love to have something like that setup…
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increase container size OS (ubuntu 16.04)

i just download ubuntu with docker pull ubuntu:16.04 and then i want to install mysql and nginx inside them but has limited size docker run -d -t --name temporary ubuntu:16.04 winpty docker exec -it temporary bash df -h and i got…
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Should I partitionning a disk LVM?

I have some few servers (Ubuntu 16) and it's a mess who LVM was configured and used by my predecesor (for me, maybe is not). I have to install new server (Ubuntu 18) but I won't do a mess like is it right now. So I start looking for the best pratice…
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Preserve existing volume during Kickstart install

So, I've got a server running Scientific Linux 6.9 that I want to install 7 on. Upgrades are apparently not supported, so I need to do a clean install, which is fine. I installed the SL6 server using Kickstart, with these…
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SUSE "There is no device mounted at '/' during resize operation

I've got a problem with resizing of space in /dev/sda2 for my SUSE system. I've increased space on my virtual machine and booted under SUSE live CD, after I choose /dev/sda2 and selected resize (maximum size). But when I trying proceed I get…
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Centos 7 Extend partition with unallocated space part 2

If I delete a partition with step 1 from Andreas solution (https://serverfault.com/questions/861517/centos-7-extend-partition-with-unallocated-space), and then I create new one, bigger partition, do I keep my data from this partition or they…
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