Questions tagged [disk-partitioning]

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Wikipedia - Disk Partitioning

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Volume doesn´t show up in Windows after diskpart

I use a diskpart script for my backup application in WinPE. It cleans the data drive (disk 1) and adds a partition to it so the image can be applied later. The script I wrote: select disk 1 rem wiping disk ... clean rem == Data partition…
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Resizing partition of disk in Hetzner cloud servers is not happening

I had increase disk space with the help of ansible playbook and now I have to resize the disk partition but its not working in Hetzner cloud server but it is working fine with other cloud servers. Task used in the playbook: - name: 'Partition…
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Use terraform dynamic block to create multiple Azure VM disks and format drives with naming convention

I have successfully used this terraform dynamic block to create X number of additional data disks in an Azure Windows VM: dynamic "storage_data_disk" { for_each = range(var.nb_data_disk) content { name =…
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Why does libparted detect partitions with negative labels?

Maybe I'm not using the right keywords for my Google searches. In that case, please point me in the right direction. I'm using libparted to detect connected mass-storage media and partitions on my device. One thing I've noticed, is that devices…
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Errno 28 No space availble on '/var/tmp/...'

I would like to install algobox for my studies but it is impossible for me to install it or even to update my computer. I looked for it and I saw that it was probably a problem of space in my partition. I made the command "df -h" to see what was in…
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Is it possible to create partition with a specific number using ansible?

I wanted to create a partition /dev/sdb2 on an empty disk. Ansible task looks as below: community.general.parted: device: "/dev/sdb" number: "2" state: present part_end: "100%" fs_type: xfs part_type:…
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Why does Elasticsearch allow you to specify multiple disk partitions in the .yml file if it doesn't balance shards across partitions?

This is follow-up to a questions I asked previously here. I have a cluster with three data nodes and one head node. The hard-drive on each data node has three partitions: /data1, /data2 and /data3. I configured my elasticsearch.yml on the head…
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Elasticsearch Low watermark setting triggered by disk partitions

My index is in 'yellow' state because one shard is unassigned. My three data nodes have plenty of disk space overall but they are partitioned. Each data node has three disk partitions called /data1, /data2 and /data3. Elasticsearch is only storing…
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Auto scaling from custom image having partitioned disk

First of all, I am newbie SE. Now I am trying to use two disks attached to one instance. One is only for OS, the other for logs data, etc. So I launched Compute engine with SSD PD 20GB(/dev/sda) and SSD PD 100GB(/dev/sdb). I partitioned /dev/sdb to…
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In GUID Partition Table how can I know how many partitions there are?

I have a image of a USB with 3 partitions: Partition 1: FAT32 Partition 2: exFAT Partition 3: NTFS I am making a program that goes trough the partitions, but I am unsure of how I can know how many partitions my program should look for. By looking…
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Assembly interrupt problem: int 13h (ah = 42h) failed returning cf = 1, ah = 1

I want to write a program in assembly language to read primary partitions of a hard disk. I Googled a lot last several days and I found that maybe int 13h (ah = 42h) is for me. But I failed at the beginning. After INT 13H was called, CF was set to 1…
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I need to create a YAML code to partition and format disk for windows , the input will be a dynamic /json file ,with the details of disk name,label

the input file format which i am using the (json/dictionary) as in below format dictionary : {    "disks": {     "disk2": {       "name": "S",       "label": "Sample",       "disknum": 2     },     "disk3": {       "name": "T",       "label":…
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Installing ceph using kolla-ansible for all-in-one setup

I am trying to deploy the all-in-one configuration using kolla-ansible with ceph enabled enable_ceph: "yes" #enable_ceph_mds: "no" enable_ceph_rgw: "yes" #enable_ceph_nfs: "no" enable_ceph_dashboard: "{{ enable_ceph | bool }}" #enable_chrony:…
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Partition and format only mechanical hard drives

first post here. I am trying to make a script that will only format mechanical hard drives on a computer and leaves the SSD(s) as they are. Can someone explain why the following occurs: PS C:\Users\hekke> Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object -Property…
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Disk image appears non-bootable when specifying a partition table in an MBR

I recently added a FAT32 partition table to my bootloader and now BIOS won't recognize it as a bootable MBR. I believe the binary is 512 Bytes and there is a valid signature. Is it something wrong with the "TIMES 499" or something else? [BITS…
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