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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 to migrate /var back into the main partition

I have two harddisks, mounted on / and /var I need to migrate the /var partition back into the / partition. What are the steps required to do this?
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Which directories in Linux must be part of the root filesystem?

I'm building a few virtual machines under KVM where the base system will be an image (haven't decided specifically which format yet), and all of the remaining system files will be other partitions mounted from a distributed file system. For…
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GPT Partition corrupt

I have a little bit of a story. I spilt hot chocolate on my lovely Lenovo Ultrabook and killed it. I fixed it and put a new keyboard in. Windows was running quite slowly so I went to do the Windows 8 reinstall because it was UEFI and it worked.…
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How to effectively partition a new server?

I'm a developer but I've been assigned to a new project were it seems I'll have to wear the IT hat too. Company bought a new server were we'll be running an application which basically "translates" binary data into a human readable file. All of this…
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How does the process of disk partitioning actually work on most HDD's?

From what I know of most laptops, you are able to "partition" your disk into as many other drives as you please. The more you cut it up, the smaller your partitions are, but from an organizational point of view, this may be desirable... I was…
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Creating or exporting an image of an LVM filesystem that is portable.

There is an important machine in my department which must be backed up. It uses lvm2 to span its various partitions over two 80G PATA hard drives (lvm tools output: http://pastebin.com/Wh3h9PVz). I have tried using clonezilla to image the drives,…
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I accidently deleted the partition tables of my RAID6 drives

I accidentally deleted the partition table of 2 drives in my 4 drive RAID6 by reversing the order of sudo sgdisk -R=/dev/sdb /dev/sdz parted /dev/sdb print currently reports: Model: ATA ST2000DM008-2FR1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB Sector size…
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How Do I resize a partition?

I have the following FIle system setup currently. I need as much room as i can get in ./home. root@Jm2:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 20G 7.6G 11G 42% / udev 32G 4.0K 32G 1%…
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disk partition centos

I am setting up server for hosting two WordPress which has size of around 70GB. I have already installed CentOS as OS and I would like to partition the Disk. Is there any tool which can help me or can someone guide me though the process as I am not…
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Dell 2950 Disk Partition Format System Install

Have three 2950 Servers. Got them here and there. Fixed all the little problems. All are posting. Have new SAS drives. I need to format and partition them. How do you get raw SAS drives formatted and partitioned. Let me add, they are 3TB so need…
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Linux recover faile

I really did a big mistake. I have a partition sda6 for backup, when writing the iso to a pendrive, instead of typing sdb6, i've typed sda6, is there any way to get back the files
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Dell PowerEdge t710 raid configuration for newbie

My company bought a Dell PowerEdge t710 server with: 48 GB ram 4x4 GB ethernet ports. RAID 5 for PERC H700 4 x 1TB, SATA, 3.5-in, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive (Hot Plug) My job is to configure Hyper-V system infrastructure on this server. The requirements…
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Am I having too much swap?

Am I having too much swap space if my server is a 8GB physical ram and I would like to set my swap to 16GB. I am planning to use this server for shared hosting would like know.
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Why default Centos installation has partitions?

I installed Centos 6.3 and looking at the disk I get the output: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_cp77-lv_root 50G 7.3G 40G 16% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0%…
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