related to disk partitions and their attributes, creation and maintenance.
disk partitioning covers questions relating to disk partitions and their attributes, creation and maintenance.
Questions tagged [disk-partitioning]
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How to resize partition size while the middle partition is the BIOS Boot?
I used Clonezilla to restore an old system to a larger hard disk. However, when I do all my job, I found my first partition doesn't use all the disk space.
I know the method to resize the partition size by using fdisk, however, I noticed that there…
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How to create a datastore for installing a VM
I have just installed VMware ESXi 7 as a virtual machine just for learning. I have seen it is feasible to create nested vms using VMware Player Workstation plus Intel chipset: my testing purpose is to create a virtual machine inside a virtualized…
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What to do if we have multiple disk types attached in a CentOS7 VM?
I would like to ask for your expertise on how to create one single partition disk from two disks
Currently, my main disk is 'sda' where my machine is running
the second disk is mounted and used for backups only
The Third Disk (NEW) is attached on…
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Programmatically prepare drive for BitLocker
How can I programmatically prepare a drive for BitLocker.
I get VMs with OS and System volumes in the same volume and would like to enable BitLocker. Like this:
The BitLocker Wizard will prepare the drive like so:
The outcome will look like…
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Resizing disk a Virtual Box Ubuntu VM
I have resized the disk in Virtual Box, but this doesn’t show up in the ubuntu VM. As i see here doubts about resize a virtual disk
I need to use gparted to use the unallocated space but I do not have enough space on the VM to install gparted. Is…
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Remove all drive letters via diskpart.exe
Since i am looking for a programmatic answer, ill post this question on SO, though its borderline as one can see on this related and migrated question.
I am trying to automate the removal of all assigned disk letters in a system booted to Windows…
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How the disk geometry (C/H/S) was determined on the partition table of flash memory storage?
I'm going to write a disk partition creator program for flash memory removable devices, mostly controlled by SCSI based I/O and accessed with LBA address.
For reference, I'm researching the partition table on the SD cards that were partitioned and…
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list of system drives
I have a system with multiple boot partitions(C and D). On this system, I have some other volumes that are for data. Is there anyway I can retrieve all system partitions using power shell? I have googled for solution but couldn't find much help. Any…
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VS Community 2013 can't debug project in solution, even though solution builds and runs without issue?
A point to note:
I recently switched to a computer that has a hybrid SSD and HDD setup, since the SSD is small enough that it is best kept for the OS alone.
The Windows partition has 60 GB of space, and access to a 500 GB partition on the HDD.
The…
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How to clone VHD of Hyper V 2012 through Vbscript ?
I am trying to clone a VHD file of Hyper V 2012 using wim image and diskpart commands.
I am facing an issue in this as VHD of Hyper V 2012 contains 2 partitions. One for system reserved and second for data.I am creating wim image of data partition…
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Combining partition files to create a .dmg file
In order to use a USB device I bought, I need to install some drivers from a CD, but strangely, the files on the CD look like a disk image that was split into files for each partition.
Does anyone have an idea of how to put these together so I can…
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CentOs Partition Resize
I'm struggling with resizing a CentOs Partition on a Server. I found some steps, but I'm not sure which circumstances I face and whats the correct approach and i definitely cannot mess that up.
The space should already be available, but the…
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Delete partition table from HDD with c++
I was trying to write a program as a proof of concept in order to delete the GPT partition table from my HDD. To cut it short after opening the disk, I do something like the following:
//Removes the first partition table in the beginning of the…
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do_rootfs error when bitbake sdcard image
I have created sdcard images for imx6 with Yocto project. I try to create an image with "bitbake core-image-x11" command but I keep having these errores.I think the first proble is about disk partition and the other problem is about do_rootfs…
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Are badblocks related to a partition or permanent?
I ran a check on a partition :
sudo e2fsck -c /dev/sdb3
It found some bad blocks. As far as I understood, it marked the badblocks, so that no files will use them.
My question is : is that "marking" persistent or is it linked to the partition ?
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