Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [partition]

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.

1109 questions
-1
votes
1 answer

How can I merge an unused partition with my main partition?

I want to merge an unused partition with my main partition where the OS is installed (Debian 8). df -h output: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 9.9G 2.1G 7.4G 22% / udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs …
belyid
  • 331
  • 1
  • 4
  • 14
-1
votes
1 answer

How to encrypt boot partition in CentOS 7 kickstart?

I have a kickstart file for CentOS 7 Minimal. I would like to add encryption only to my /boot partition. but when I added the following line in the kickstart file, the complete installation fails. The kickstart encrypt line is part /boot…
Vishnu
  • 711
  • 2
  • 8
  • 15
-1
votes
2 answers

VHD with 3 partitions and 3 operating systems. How to split?

Got a guy on the other side of Earth who needs a sole partition off of a vhd so he can do his job. The entire vhd is over 490gb. The 1 partition is about 80. So I want to split the the vhd up into its 3 partitions. A vhd file for every…
GoodPunk6
  • 1
-1
votes
1 answer

Move Unallocated Space Between Disks

I am running Ubuntu's latest LTS. In /dev/sda I have sda1 and sda2, both are using a couple hundreds of MiB with a couple of GiB allocated. So far so good. In /dev/sdb I have just one partition, sdb1 - using over 300 GiB, about 98% of the available…
GalB1t
  • 101
  • 4
-1
votes
2 answers

CentOS cant grow partition

I have the following problem: I have a CentOS 7 VM virtualized by Hyper-V. Initially the Disk was about 200GB since it was only used as a MailServer. Now I'm running low on available diskspace and I thought "Yeah, you get a bigger hdd and problem is…
Soundz
  • 109
  • 1
  • 4
-1
votes
2 answers

Why is the BOOTMGR inside of the MBR?

According to the MBR strcuture definitions I have found, the partition table data should be within the bytes ranging from 446 to 510 of the first block of the disk. However, when I run: sudo xxd -g 1 -u -l 512 /dev/sda1 I see that there is some…
ngonzalvez
  • 101
  • 3
-1
votes
1 answer

ubuntu 12.04 combine hard disk partiions

I´ve a Vm with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. Thus the hard disk is running out of disk space my plan was to increase the disk space and after that expand the existing root logical volume with a newly created partition. After reading lots of tutorials I´m…
Anatol
  • 349
  • 2
  • 6
  • 19
-1
votes
2 answers

Impossible remove Logical Volumes or Volume Group LVM2

After a disk crash part of a LVM group, I can't use LVM2 properly. If like delete a Logical Volume impossible (Error on SATA Volumen) lvscan Couldn't find device with uuid vxHO8W-FPbL-9d5N-GUVb-Lo8d-D9WZ-1RY3Bx. inactive '/dev/sata/isos'…
abkrim
  • 417
  • 7
  • 18
-1
votes
1 answer

increase size of temp drive in centos 6 64bit

df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md2 1016G 19G 947G 2% / /dev/md1 496M 149M 322M 32% /boot /dev/md3 4.0T 238G 3.6T 7% /home /var/tmpMnt 1008M 858M 100M 95% /tmp I want to increase…
Mohammad Alipour Fathkoohi
  • 19
  • 1
  • 7
-1
votes
2 answers

When should an EFI partition be used?

If I only deal with Linux servers and Linux laptops, when should I create an EFI partition? From my understanding an EFI partition on a Linux server ensures a standard for the disk layout, where EFI on a laptop is an requirement for…
Sandra
  • 10,303
  • 38
  • 112
  • 165
-1
votes
2 answers

Recommended solution to join partitions (disks) into single partition

I have 4 hard disks (1 Tb each) on server. It's debian wheezy, amd64. Disks 2,3 and 4 are not partitioned yet. I have to join them into single partition, it must be single filesystem/mountpoint for web application. What is there best way to do this:…
Andrii Kupchanko
  • 150
  • 6
-1
votes
1 answer

Create partition on Debian and affect /var

I need to affect /var to a new partition. Do I just need to add a line to fstab file and reboot?? My fstab: /dev/md1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,relatime,discard 0 1 /dev/md2 /data ext4 defaults,relatime 0 2 /dev/sda3 none …
user189288
  • 1
  • 4
-1
votes
1 answer

centos install / partitioning

I'm using NOC-PS to remotely install Centos 6.2 via KVM / IPMI. I'm going to install cPanel as well and they recommend this layout /boot (99MB) swap (2x server RAM) / (remainder) In the o/s install profile within NOC-PS software, it shows as…
user148117
-1
votes
2 answers

Create new partition on live production CentOS server

I have a production server that is running on CentOS. I'd like to create a partition on the server without having to reinstall everything. I have CLI and VNC access to the remote server. Is there anyway that I can create a partition safely? Here's…
Kimmel
  • 1
  • 1
-1
votes
1 answer

Resize Ubuntu boot partition with swap partition adjacent to it

I'm trying to resize a /boot partition use gparted from an Ubuntu LiveCD. The problem is that I have a linux swap and extended partition right adjacent to the /boot partition. The unallocated space is after these partitions. The screenshot attached…
Krt_Malta
  • 173
  • 1
  • 7
1 2 3
…
73 74