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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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parted + usage help not described the resizepart

we need to use parted command as example on rhel server 7.2 version parted -s /dev/sda resizepart 2 but from parted help we not find the option resizepart example: parted -s /dev/sda resizepart 2 Usage: parted [OPTION]... [DEVICE [COMMAND…
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Ubuntu 18.04, 1.5G Swap 100% used (32G RAM), soft RAID1. How to increase SWAP size?

I have a production server, recently, I have seen server becomes slow sometimes, and SSH is slow, and once get into the terminal, even press ENTER is slow. When the server is OK, I checked the memory usage and CPU, CPU looks fine, RAM looks fine…
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What is the purpose of having a "/" and a "/home" partition in linux?

I'm doing a clean install of CentOS 8 minimal, and by default it suggests these paritions: swap swap 4G /boot ext3 512M / ext4 2014G /home ext4 all (this is with a pair of 4TB NVMe drives in software RAID 1) I understand the need/benefit of…
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SQL Server Partial Backups

We currently distribute snapshots of our database to our stores by using rdiff on compressed backups of the entire database. In order to optimize how long it takes to both create these backups, and each store download them, we're looking to leave…
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Should i select and use another partition or Extend root ? (CentOS)

I want to switch my current working partition to an existent one on the disk under CentOS. How to achieve this ? PS : i want to switch to the larger partition (/dev/sdc or /dev/sdb/cl-home) (currently i am using KVM and others on /dev/sdb3/cl-root)…
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Unable to extend C: on Windows Server 2019

I cant extend the C disk on a virtual machine from VMware enviroment. I try diskpart and other partition tools. I read that maybe the cause is the reserved partition betwen C: and the unalocated space. Thanks
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How to burn multiple partitions on single DVD?

Is there a way to create multiple partitions on DVD and make one of the partitions a bootable volume? I like to create a small bootable partition that is formatted as FAT32 volume and create NTFS partition that can host larger files. Is there a…
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RHEL + OS with XFS file system while adding additional partition with diff definition

We have the following disk - sda ( in server production - very important server ) sda is the disk of the OS ( rhel 7.2 ) , and file system is xfs sda is physical disk Xfs created with - mkfs.xfs -f -n ftype=0 /dev/sda lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN…
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How to set disk1's MBR to boot from disk3 instead?

A few colleagues and I need to work out one setup CD for the product, and it has the requirement to install to the smallest disk whenever possible. We get into a wired case that if there are 3 hard drives: 70GB, 70GB and 50GB for example, and /boot…
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10TB HDD has a 9999GB partition but only allows me to access 215gb

parted print all result I have a 10tb hdd with 3 partitions and one flag (not sure what that means). The flag is set as 215gb and that's all i'm able to access in the filesystem. I'm running Ubuntu Server 20.04 and i would really like to access the…
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Are there any issues with a large boot partition?

What is the recommended size for a Linux /boot partition? says the recommended size for a boot partition is about 300-500MB, which is congruent with my experience (running out of space with < 300MBs). Aside from potentially wasting disk space, is…
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How to reduce size of LVM partition and create another partition?

I have a standard parition and lvm partition on my disk /dev/sda [root@server1 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 10 GiB, 10737418240 bytes, 20971520 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O…
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Soft quota on GPT partition

I have a GPT partition on Windows Server which is shared over the network and works with RAID controller. I want it to be extended automatically when it reaches it's limit and users are adding files to this drive. What is the way to achieve this?…
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Merging partitions in Ubuntu 9.10

The current partition setup on my laptop install looks something like this - Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xed1f86f7 …
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Best practice disk partitioning for Ubuntu server cloud image?

I have read in several places that it's good practice to mount /, /home and /var on separate partitions for a server, as a way of mitigating the risk of an unwanted app/action filling-up the disk. In all the cloud providers in which I have created…
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