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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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Does a resize of a partition typically stretch the existing size of the used space on your file system?

On a dual boot system (Vista/Jaunty) I wanted to take some unallocated space and enlarge my ext3 partition. Upon doing so I noticed that the disk check that runs from parted kept failing at the end of the resize, and also that my actual space used…
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Getting Windows Server 2008 R2 to Recognize Large Volume

I've got a server with 16 1TB SATA drives in it. It was set as a single RAID5 volume. Unfortunately, Windows was showing two unallocated volumes during the windows setup, one as 2TB, and then the rest. I've been unable to figure out how I can…
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Filesystem encryption settings during install?

I'm installing CentOS 6.1 on a server and exploring the encryption settings in combination with software RAID. Should I encrypt the drive partition, the software RAID device, or both? Should I encrypt swap? Wondering the pros/cons of each approach…
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installing package kernel-2.6.36-2.x86_64 needs 52MB on the / filesystem

I am receiving the error: installing package kernel-2.6.36-2.x86_64 needs 52MB on the / filesystem how can I safely expand the "/" partition? Thanks
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HP-Proliant DL380 G6

Was able to get a Windows 10 based Operating System functioning on the server, sadly the other motherboard broke from other unrelated issues, replaced the motherboard, and cannot remember which setting partitions the drive sections to actually work…
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Extending a partition in ubuntu 14

I've been trying to follow several of the guides and articles on this forum and others on how to extend my current Linux LVM partition. Here are the current partitions I have. I don't understand how both sda2 and sda5 are the same blocks is my first…
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How to expand partition with block in the middle on windows?

I have a server with partition as below. I have added free space to it but not able to extend the C: drive as expand option is greyed out. When I get that in personal laptop, I used to do with acronis disk diretory suite(cracked version), but this…
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How to extend the size of a xfs?

I have 119Gb in sda2, but centos_template--centos7-root is only 27.8Gb, how can I increase it? [root@runner~]# lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT NAME FSTYPE LABEL SIZE MOUNTPOINT sda …
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Dealing with an ATA error

my Xubuntu 16.04. produces a non-stop ATA error message. Here is the output of dmesg [ 4547.943159] ata7: hard resetting link [ 4548.657810] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 4548.657824] ata7: EH complete [ 4548.757449] ata7:…
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How to use to 2 created partitions on a server

I created a hosting server and 2 partitions where created /dev/sda4 2 857 629.99 MB /dev/sdb1 2 816 541.60 MB when one partitions gets filled does the server automatically use the next partition? or what will happened get it gets filled…
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What's the different of moving /var into a new partition between standard way and links?

I want to move /var into /mnt/var since /mnt is mount as a new big partition /dev/xvdb1. [root@stepping-stone ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 20G 7.1G 12G 38% / tmpfs 7.8G 16K 7.8G 1%…
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Linux file formats

On my RHEL system, I gave the following command: # file -sL /dev/sd* Here is the output that I received: /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, boot drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x849fc, GRUB version 0.94;…
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CentOS 6.7 Completely remove RAID. Clode disks and boot from /dev/sda

I am completely new to Linux. I have inherited a dedicated server hosted somewhere in Germany. The OS is CentOS release 6.7 (Final) 64bit. The server has two 3TB disks in software RAID-1 configuration. The situation I am dealing with is that,…
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>11GB free space, but it says 100% disk usage?

$ df -i /mnt/large_linux/ Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda1 29376512 1035086 28341426 4% /mnt/large_linux $ df /mnt/large_linux/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 …
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In Linux what is the difference between a data partition and a folder?

I believe that examples of data partitions are /usr/ and /bin/. But these are just folders in the root directory, right? So is a data partition a folder in the root directory.
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