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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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Questions about PV. syntax in ks.cfg

Here just for example: part pv.01 -size=100 -grow -ondisk=/dev/sda part pv.02 -size=300 -grow -ondisk=/dev/sdb Is the purpose of the PV. usage merely used to customize the initial size of some disk? How to specify the value of some PV…
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Can't boot on my Linux anymore after changing boot order (dual boot windows/debian)

Some months ago, I changed my boot order to make my windows in first boot position. Since this day I can't boot on my linux anymore because I don't see it when i'm booting. After some research I've found that the problem may come from the fact that…
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Resize partitions Ubuntu 18.04 RAID 1

This is the output of fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 5.5 TiB, 6001175126016 bytes, 11721045168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096…
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Share files via a shared disc across multiple VM's running Ubuntu 18?

I am trying to share a single disk across multiple VM's (Ubuntu 18). The VM's are hosted in Azure and the disk is an Azure Managed Disk. I've attached the disk to both VM's and have mounted them. I can see the partition on each, as well as the test…
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Resize a persistent disk for Linux (MBR partition) on Google Cloud Compute Engine

I want to expand my disk capacity for my Google Cloud machine and have been following the tutorial that's located here. However, I'm fairly certain that the tutorial assumes the user has a GPT partition table but I have MBR. I only need 20GB so this…
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How do I mount a BTRFS filesystem where both devices have the CHANGING_FSID flag and one devices has journal errors?

I have a RAID-1 BTRFS setup with two 8 TB hard drives. Due to unclean reboots, I cannot mount them anymore, even with recovery flags: rockpro64:~:# mount -t btrfs -o rootflags=recovery,nospace_cache /dev/sda…
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Extend the root partition

We need to extend the root (nvme0n1p1) partition that is adjacent to the 2nd SWAP (nvme0n1p2) partition that is adjacent to the third (nvme0n1p3) LVM2 partition that has 2 volume groups in ext4 format inside the LVM2. One of the volume groups is…
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How to reduce /dev/sda1 primary partition size and create new partition with it

Hi I'm facing an issue OS : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS i have my storage set up like this : lsblk : sda 8:0 0 400G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 399.9G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 512B 0 part ├─sda14 8:14 0 4M 0 part └─sda15 8:15 0 …
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Windows 10 safely delete recovery partition

One of our processing PCs uses Windows 10 Pro, and I am the one in the unfortunate position of trying to upgrade the capacity of its C:\ drive (SSD) from 1TB to 2TB. I created an image backup using the "Windows 7" backup tool, removed the old SSD,…
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How to resize Partitions on Proxmox?

Hey im Hosting Proxmox on a Small Hosting Provider and after i added more Space to my "sda" Proxmox refused to start and i wasnt able to go on the WebInterface. I still was able to go into NoVNC to look at the Screen of the VM And when i wanted to…
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Extend partition on virtual server

I have asked to extend the disk size of my virtual server from 20 GB -> 80 GB. After that disk size of /dev/sda was increased to 80 GiB. But size of /dev/sda2 kept unchanged, at 19.5 GiB: root@localhost:/home/worker# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80 GiB,…
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How to increase the size for /dev/mapper/centos-root without data loss

I am running a virtual server, and the provider added extra diskspace. However, I need to somehow increase (merge) the existing disk (has data) and the new disk (empty). how to increase the size for /dev/mapper/centos-root? [root]#df -h Filesystem …
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How to resize partition to maximum size on Debian 8?

My question is how to resize partition on Debian 8 without losing any data? I have 90 GB partition but my disk has 150 GB space on VPS server, so 50 GB is free and I want to add this 50 GB without losing any data, this is how it presents: I've…
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any way to merge disk partitions on same drive (Windows)?

I have two partitions on an SSD drive (8GB and 24GB), since when installing Windows it accidentially sliced off a small partition rather than using the whole drive. Is there anyway to merge these partitions (or remove the 24GB one, and resize the…
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How to expand partition that is in the middle of other partitions (or create new and migrate data over)

So I have a need to expand a partition (/tmp) on a system and not understanding exactly how to proceed with this (I did not initially set the partitions up). The following commands show: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 4798.6 GB, 4798552211456 bytes,…
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