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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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Centos Kickstart - partitioning fails because of arbitrary disk order

I've prepared a kickstart file for a Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 VM with 3 virtio-scsi disks with different disk sizes: # System bootloader configuration bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda # Partition clearing…
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Allocating space from boot drive to another drive without rebooting?

I am running an Ubuntu 20 machine with two physically separate drives. The first one is my boot drive (/dev/nvme0nlp3) and the second one (/dev/nvme0nlp1) is where I run my application. My application needs more space and I want to allocate more…
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What does the error message "sda access beyond end of device virtualsda access beyond end of device" in a virtualboxbox system?

Today I tried to turn off one of my VirtualBox system and I got that error over and over again for a few minutes. Then I just forced a shutdown. I remember that I resized that partition from 50G to 100G. It looks like the resize2fs did run properly.…
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Resizing Boot Disk isn't taking effect

I have a VM Ubuntu 20.10 instance on GCP. It initially had 40 GB Boot disk space which got full and to increase it I had followed google official tutorials and it's showing on console that it has resized to 100 GB but when I SSH into instance it…
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Move partition to another disk

Looking to move a partition on Disk 0 (E:) to Disk 3. Reason for doing so is that I want to extend the Disk 0 (C:) partition and I want both drives/partitions on separate VMDK's. Disk 0 and Disk 3 are 2 separate VMDK's on an ESXi hypervisor. Our DFS…
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Enlarge /home partition from /centos-root

I downloaded a pre-installed version of centos 7 for VMWare from a website and it has a weird layout. Most disk space is allocated to /root but /home is running out of disk space. Most tutorials I found online only focus on the other way around: How…
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Trying to partition aws linux server using shell script

When I created Amazon linux server(similar to Centos 7). I had these partitions I am trying to create partitions using shell script lsblk gives me following information NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme0n1 259:0 0 80G …
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Create a /tmp partition that uses filesystem type of tmpfs in kickstart?

I'm writing a kickstart script to use when PXE booting to automatically configure new systems with basic settings. I've got everything working except for the partitioning of the boot drive: my /tmp directory is under my / (root) partition instead of…
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Reload partition table on FreeBSD

I'm searching for a way to reload a partition table in FreeBSD 12 (FreeNAS). I don't have hdparm nor gfdisk nor partprobe. What's the standard way of doing ? PS: my pkg doesn't work behind a firewall so i probably can't install packages other than …
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Create lvm volume in the last cylinders of the disk

In all magnetic disks, the speed difference between the first and last sectors is noticeable, up to a factor two or three. This is still true with the new multi-terabyte disks. So it still makes sense to reserve the last cylinders of the disk for…
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Windows 2003 + SQL 2005 for WSS 3 disk topology

For financial reasons we are limited to Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005 to host Windows SharePoint Services v3, I am looking at the disk topology at the moment and a little unsure if I have got it right. I would appreciate any thoughts. Disk…
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Linux special device does not exist when I mount

I am using Centos8 with standard specs like 8GB ram and 4CPU and 250 GB Space. When I finished the installation I get automatically 2 folders, 1 70GB and 1 with 160GB. I want to merge them both to one. I have changed my partition system from…
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RAID 5 Data Recovery (Missing Partition)

I really need help. I am running an XCP-NG server, with an LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i card installed. I have a RAID 5 virtual disk with one partition on said disk that takes up all the space. That partition is now mysteriously gone. Here is what I had…
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How to reduce a partition size on Centos 6.10

I'm trying to reduce the size of a partition in a Centos 10 system. I created a bootable thumb drive with Gparted, but it showed no space available to reduce the partition. So I tried resizing the largest filesystem from 1.8 to 1.7 GB using the…
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Windows Server - how to shrink partition on GPT disk from the front?

I'm looking for a way to shrink a partition on a GPT disk from the front on production servers. With diskpart it's only possible to shrink the space from the end. Ideally while running
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