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How to realign a disk on logical volume with minimum to zero down time
A system running un-align disk partition that needs to be aligned without loss of data on all the partition including mbr with the minimum to no down time.
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Disk Partitioning - Can't create partition
I've been following this example to restore capacity to my microSD --> SD card corrupt and stuck at 32MB, any way to fix it?
Everything seems to work until I get to
mkfs /dev/sdx1
It tells me ...
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How to use DD to clone a partition off a disk image?
I have a disk image, it's a "whole" disk image, e.g., contains multiple partitions, and I want to clone just one of them (not the first one..) onto a partition on an external drive with multiple ...
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Block Devices & Partitions
I partitioned a microSD card (mmcblk1) into two partitions mmcblk1p1 and mmcblk1p2.
If use a dedicated card reader I am able to see the entire SD card and its partitions using various disk management ...
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Reasons for choosing primary over logical partitions [duplicate]
I guess anyone knows the benefits of logical volumes. But are there any reasons why I should choose primary partitions if I can?
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Really umount external drive
I had a USB drive mounted on /dev/sdb1 and I want to reformat from NTFS to ext3. I did umount -l which unmounted the disk. I deleted the old partition using cfdisk. I ran mkfs.ext3, but got the error:
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Linux Mint freezes on startup
Premise
I am running Linux Mint on my sister's computer. Everything was working fine, but than one day she turned it on and she got a strange message she didn't understand. I think it was some kind ...
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Resize non-LVM ext4 root partition
How can I shrink/resize a non-LVM ext4 root partition?
The problem is I can't unmount it and I don't have physical access.
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How to resize root Volume Group
How Can I reduce size of root volume group?
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
I just have SSH access to Linux host.
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Setup Cloudmin on Centos installed in LVM
I installed CentOS 6 with default LVM partition pattern. according to this pattern Can I use Cloudmin and store KVM Disks in LVM as Logical Volume? I think Cloudmin requires creating new logical ...
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Unable to create logical partition with Parted
I was fiddling around with parted command on a loopback disk and tried to create some partitions using gpt part table but I keep getting Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. when ...
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recovering ext4 partition after dd'ing over start of HD
I accidentally used dd and wrote over the first 208MB of my external disk. What I wrote over is a partition on its own (Debian nestinstaller) so what I see now is not my old (now damaged) ext4 ...
