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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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How do you generate a new encryption key for a drive that uses SED (Self Encryption Drive)

So I'm currently learning more about NVMe drives that ship with a feature called SED (Self Encrypting Drive). Take the Smasung 970 EVO for instance. It clearly states that it features SED. The 970 EVO provides multiple advanced data encryption…
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Cannot resize XFS partition after volume increase

I have increased the size of my volume from 8GB to 16GB. After resizing the volume, I would like to expand the partition to take on the additional space. However, this operation is failing with data size unchanged, skipping. $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN…
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where is my hdd space

I am new to linux and installed Centos with default configuration without applying any custom settings, while I have 512 GB SSD drive but on gnome it shows only 75 gb, when I tried to run fdisk command it shows some partition but I dont see them on…
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How can I extend or resize lvm from disk space

We use ceph to manage the storage and recently increased /dev/sdb's disk size. I'm not sure how to utilize the newly available space in my ceph's lvm. sdb …
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How to resize LVM partition in my setup?

I have a CentOS 6 VMware VPS with the current partition format : Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_serverdl-lv_root 11G 4.9G 4.7G 52% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0%…
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Unable to delete partition 2 from device /dev/disks/naa.50000398b8497b91

i have a disk on ESXI, i am trying to delete the partitions that are on it, this is what i did : partedUtil delete /dev/disks/naa.50000398b8497b91 1 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/naa.50000398b8497b91 3 partedUtil delete…
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Weird discrepancy in size between fdisk and df

fdisk reports the following info about a partition Device: /dev/sda1 Boot: * Start: 2048 End: 209715166 Sectors: 209713119 Cylinders: 443369 Size: 100G Id: 83 Type: Linux Start-C/H/S: 0/32/33 …
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How do i increase space on my vSphere Ubuntu Client?

So i want to increase the HDD of my Ubuntu 16.04.7 (where Redmine is running) What i did was in my vSphere client under Settings -> HDD -> i pumped up the gb from 20 to 100 Hit ok and vSphere started working, now i says that i have 100gb of HDD…
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Root partition out of space side-effects

What are the side effects of the root (/) mount running out of space? If I remember correctly, users can no longer login. Are the effects flavor dependent?
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Can't resize Ubuntu Partition inside VMware

I had a 30 GB machine and I run out space. Then, via the VMWare Workstation GUI, I have extended that space. It got to "unallocated space" at first, then I tried to extend it with gparted, but no luck, there is not option to resize…
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Clone disk with multiple partitions using dd

I have used dd before to clone hard drive's but I'm now attempting to clone an entire hard drive consisting of 3 partitions to another drive. My partitions are named nvme0n1p1 to 3, I tried leaving the last number of but dd doesn't accept that, it…
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Extend file system on Ubuntu 18.04 to use added disk space

Hi I am using a cloud provider (not AWS) to extend the file system on an Ubuntu VM. The provider has extended it, and notified that the extension is on the same volume, but I cannot seem to figure out how to extend it. I can see the additional…
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Repartition drives with GParted

Apologies for asking this question yesterday on a guest account that I lost access to. I've created and cloned a CentOS computer with a ton of customization. But when I originally set it up I had CentOS automatically configure partitions across my…
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How to add unallocated free space using shell in Centos?

I have some free space unallocated and this problem affects more instances. Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 32.3kB 1049kB 1016kB Free Space 1 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB primary xfs boot 2…
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Disk Partition Managment

my server (Centos with Plesk) is running out of disk space. Width cfdisk I've noticed there's a partition with free space Can I maximize the space in partition sda1 to this free space? if so, how do I do it without any risks? using the option…
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