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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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Accessing the partitions on an LVM volume

Suppose you have an LVM volume /dev/vg0/mylv. You have presented this as a virtual disk to a virtualised or emulated guest system. During installation the guest system sees it as /dev/sda and partitions it into /dev/sda{1,2,5,6} and completes the…
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How would I add a second physical hard drive to proxmox

I installed proxmox on a single 250GB hard drive and I would like to add a second identical hard drive to put more VM's on. I already tried once, and didn't get very far. I added it and formatted it as an ext4, but when I went to use the disk, it…
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Freshly formatted ext4 drive appears to have several gigabytes already used

I have setup several drives in an Ubuntu 12.04 x64 machine by deleting all the partitions and formatting them as ext4 with fdisk, but when I ran df -h, it showed me that a substantial amount of the drive space had already been used up. For example,…
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Primary vs. Extended partitions

while studying for my MCDST cert I learned about Primary partions and extended partitions. From the textbook: ****Primary A primary partition can be set as the bootable partition. A computer running a Windows operating system can have up to…
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How can I set the disk partition alignment using linux tools?

After reading Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server, I just want to give those advices a try, but on my linux test server. What are the required parameters in order to set the partition offset (for fdisk if possible, or any other…
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Forgot to create partition before running pvmove

I ran pvmove to migrate extents from an old LVM disk to a new one but I forgot to create the partition structure on the new disk first: pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc Everything seems to be fine, but I'm wondering if I should move it off the new disk…
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Best way to copy large amount of data between partitions

I'm looking to transfer data across 2 lv of an HP-UX server. I have a couple of those transfers to do, some of which are mostly binary (Oracle tablespace...) and some others are more text files (logs...). Used data size of the volumes is between…
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Which part of of a hard drive has the highest throughput, beginning or end of drive?

If I create a partition at the end of the drive does that create the partition on the outside of the platter where the data is passing under the drive heads fastest?
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Expand disk space on Ubuntu 10.04 (VMWare Guest)

I need to resize the disk space of an ubuntu guest in VMWare Workstation. After using the expand disk utility in vmware workstation, I need to do some linux magic to resize the parition. I have searched and found a lot of posts about resizing it.…
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How bad is it to use a virtual file system with VMWare?

IT is running a series of VMs that we'd like to see optimized further: if the VMs' are Windows XP, storing their NTFS images out to the virtual disk (ext3) provided by Linux/VMWare, how much of a hit are we taking - as opposed to having a partition…
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Is it possible and how to mount an AIX disk into Linux?

I have a disk from a AIX server that I need to explore in order to recover some data (the server is down). Is it possible to mount AIX partitions on Linux? How?
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Extend linux partition size without losing any data / techniques

I bought a 200G additional disk for my OVH cloud server because my initial disk was full. Now, my additional disk is almost full (as you can see below). So I added 200 extra more G in it. As you can see, sdb's size is now 400G. So, how can I add the…
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Preseed automatic partitioning

I'm using the following partman settings for automated installs of VMs for some years now: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda d-i partman-auto/method string regular d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true d-i partman-md/device_remove_md…
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Resize LVM without data loss

I have Cloud Linux Serwer with LVM with two disk (40 + 50). For today, I do not need a second drive and I would like to unplug it by keeping LVM for the future. # vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name system System ID Format …
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How to map which volume resides on which partition in Windows?

Problem: I need to figure out which volume corresponds to what partition(s) which corresponds to what disk in an extremely efficient script able manor. I know how to correspond which partition corresponds to what disk because the disk id is directly…
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