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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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Are there any partition size limitations for 32-bit applications?

We have a legacy 32-bit application that is running on Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit. I need to add some additional storage but one of my peers believes that 32-bit software can't access a partition drive larger than 2 TB. Aside from any OS limits,…
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Dell Latitude 3490 - MDT results in "No Boot Device Found"

We recently got in a batch of a new (to us) model laptop, Dell Latitude 3490. Whenever I attempt to deploy Windows 10 (Education, version 1709 x64), I end up at "No boot device found. Press any key to reboot the machine". I found, downloaded, and…
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Should I create a separate partition for full server backups?

Before I start the question I will just state that I am no sysadmin, but a layman seeking help. I'm using Linux 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 and Amazon Web Services external backup service. In order for it to work I need a backup directory on my…
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Data Recovery Software (Formatted Hard Drive)

Well... I'd really appreciate your help on this one. It's like this: someone decided to reinstall Windows on his PC, but did not make any backups, and there are a lot of things (well... photos, mainly) he would like to recover from the previous…
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Can't run drbdadm up with DRBD 8.4 on CentOS 7.3

Nodes: node1 node2 Use this way installed DRBD on both nodes: rpm -ivh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org yum -y install drbd84-utils kmod-drbd84 Added new hard…
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how to put users' private data on separate partition in Windows 7

I am going to install Windows 7 on a machine in some days time. I wanted to know if it is easy to separate the OS data from users' data (/users in Windows 7, I believe) on separate partition during or after installation. I hope it will be as…
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Unable to extend partition with gdisk on XenServer 6.5

I'm having trouble extending my partition on a XenServer 6.5. I originally had a 1.4TiB device (hardware RAID5) that I since upgraded to 10.9TiB. I upgraded the RAID by swapping out one disk at a time until the 4 disks were replaced. I then used…
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How do I resize the partition of my guest Ubuntu OS in a VMware Fusion VM?

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 in a VM in VMware Fusion 3.0. I understand how to resize the hard disk (Fusion makes that easy with a GUI). But how do I resize the partition in Ubuntu? mount -l tells me: "/dev/sda1 on / type ext3…
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no space on ext4 partition left with files not summing up to used space and with sufficient inodes

On a newly created machine, its root ext4 partition has allegedly run out of space. When summing up all files on the partition, the total used space is not close to the used space as noted by df. inodes are sufficiently available and reserved space…
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What is the recommended partition setup for a web server?

I am going to be running a web server using Debian which has 2 x 4 TB (8 TB total) drives in RAID 1. This server will be used for running websites, email and file storage. From doing my research I am still really confused on how to setup my…
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CentOS 7 Kickstart - Software RAID 10 and LVM

So I am not sure why I am having this issue, so I hope someone can see something I am missing. I created a kickstart file for a test Cent OS 7 automated install. Nothing seems to generate a warning except for the storage portion when it comes to…
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linux - how to list partitions of specific type?

I am looking for a way to list all partitions of a specific type on linux. (Specifically: all EFI system partitions). I know blkid can filter on filesystem type: the command blkid -t TYPE=vfat returns the correct results, but is not very robust:…
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LVM: moving physical volumes

In a virtual server (Debian GNU/Linux 8 amd64) I have the following disks and filesystems: # pvscan PV /dev/vda1 VG vg0 lvm2 [100.00 GiB / 0 free] PV /dev/vdb1 VG vg0 lvm2 [46.56 GiB / 0 free] PV /dev/vda2 VG vg0 lvm2…
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OpenBSD disk devices prefixes

Under OpenBSD, /dev/rsd0a means: raw access to the first, or root, slice (a) of the first (0) SCSI (sd) disk r says that the device is accessed in raw, character mode instead of the standard block access. Are there other known special prefixes…
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Ubuntu 16.04 Virtual Machine / XenServer Storage Extend Issue

Firstly, I should say that I am newbie at server management and virtualization area. After checking several tutorials about it, I tried to extend storage of virtual machine which is created in XenServer with taken snapshot from another VM. First, I…
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