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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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Preseed Ubuntu / Debian - Partitioning: prevent "Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary."

Preseeding of Ubuntu / Debian works correct - system is bootable. But fdisk -l is resulting following: Disk /dev/sda: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096…
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How to extend LVM PV to the beginning of disk?

I have server with 2TB disk, that someone initially partitioned like this: 300GB standard primary partition for operating system files(CentOS 7). 1.7TB LVM with some pretty big logical volumes - for other needs. Since actual size of of operating…
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Cloning LVM partitions

I need to clone a CentOS installation from a 1TB disk partitioned with LVM, to several identical machines. The disk is mostly empty since only the operating system and some software are installed and configured. Without LVM I would copy the entire…
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No space left on device in spite partition is not 100%

I am trying to do the following on my Linux machine CentOS release 5.8 cd /var/APPstoreldap/Home touch test touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device so I verified the partition disk space capacity in order to understand if …
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Repair corrupt GPT partition on graid mini disk

I'm trying to repair a GPT corrupt partition table on a graid mini 1TB external hard drive. Here is the report from gdisk: root@philippe-desktop:/home/philippe/thomasdisk# gdisk /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8 Caution: invalid main GPT…
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Mirroring partition table?

I would like to mirror one drive's partition table, that is, have exactly the same partition on both sda and sdb. I have heard that one of the fdisk utilities can export a partition table into a file, and that file can be read back into another…
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Is it safe to place write-intensive partitions on an SSD (in an SSD+HDD system)?

I'm setting up a (sort of) powerful workstation for SW development work on Linux. It's a Xeon system with multiple cores, 32GB memory, a large HDD and a 120 GB SSD (Samsung MZ7WD120HAFV a.k.a. SM843T). I have to decide which partitions to put on…
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How to fix Hadoop HDFS cluster with missing blocks after one node was reinstalled?

I have a 5 slave Hadoop cluster (using CDH4)---slaves are where DataNode and TaskNode run. Each slave has 4 partitions dedicated to HDFS storage. One of the slaves needed a reinstall and this caused one of the HDFS partitions to be lost. At this…
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Extending partition on linux gparted but not more space in the vm

I have a vm test installation of a linux running a build server. Unfortunately I just pressed ok when adding the disk and ended up with an 8gb drive to play with. Well into the test the builds are consuming more and more space, of course. The vm…
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Cannot initialize disk in PowerShell : Initialize-Disk throws "The disk has already been initialized"

I'm trying to change the flash drive's partition style to GPT using PowerShell, but the cmdlet throws "The disk has already been initialized" (even though I've cleaned the drive): PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Clear-Disk 5 -RemoveData -RemoveOEM PS…
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How can I convert a logical partition to a primary partition?

I had my primary partitions maxed out but I deleted some and now I want to make one of my logical partitions a primary. Can I do this with gparted or other free tools? Thanks
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Linux software RAID - partition first?

I have two identical drives that I intend to mirror in in the interest of data safety. These are data-only drives, not a primary OS drive. In such a system, is it better to create single partition (Linux raid auto: type 0xfd) on each drive and raid…
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Unable to resize ec2 ebs root volume

I have followed many of the tutorials that pretty much all say the same thing which is basically: Stop the instance Detach the volume Create a snapshot of the volume Create a bigger volume from the snapshot Attach the new volume to the…
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Hard drive partitioning software for Windows

I'm looking for a good disk partitioning/management software suite. I've been using Acronis Disk Director but I've had a few data corruption issues which I think might be related to it (especially after reading comments on the Internet about it…
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Software Raid 10 on VirtualBox?

I want to learn how to use Software Raid 10, is it possible to use VirtualBox by adding four storage images? This is my plan: 4x 100mb partitions (1 on each drive) configured as a raid 1 for /boot in ext3. Then with the remaining space on each…
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