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Negative hdd usage. Available is larger than fullsize
Having issues with space accounting of lvm volume. 23G is available. But the full size of the partition is 20G. (So, it shows "-4.1G used" 0_O)
> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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Why does e2fsck fail during boot, but not later?
When booting my Debian server, I'm presented with the following error concerning my external hard drive:
/dev/disk/by-label/elements:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ...
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What is the concept of Drives in Unix Systems?
In windows, we have C drives where all the softwares are installed and other partitions e.g; D, E etc to store our data. Now once we reinstall the windows for some reason, we install everything again ...
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How to Expand LVM2 Partition in Fedora Linux
I've been using Fedora 15 on a VMWare virtual machine. Over time, the disk space I initially allocated for the file system began to run out, only 12GB left. I've expanded the disk space an extra 25GB.
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Not enough space on / to install new kernel update
During a recent update I received this:
Installing: kernel-default-2.6.37.6-0.11.1 [error]
Installation of kernel-default-2.6.37.6-0.11.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. ...
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Salvaging a “broken” hard drive
My girlfriend's macbook's hard drive failed, so I gave her a new one and reinstalled OSX on it. Works fine. However, I wanted to see if I could use her old hard drive for backups/fun.
I was able to ...
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Safest HardDrive Format for Archiving/Media Storage Data?
What is the safest hard drive format (NTFS, HFS+, XFS, ZFS, ...) for archiving or/and storing media (data)? I'd prefer to have the data not corrupt and be relatively safe (From corruption, ...) and ...
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EXT4-fs (sdc): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
In short, this is where I found the best answers to my problem with my disks: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
During Fedora 15 installation, I added all my 3 drives to be mounted on ...
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What would be a good choice for an elastic file system (for adding storage at a later date)?
I'm currently running a Debian 6.0 server with EXT3, but I'd like to move over to Arch. It's being used as a file server right now with a 1TB drive in it (of which 650GB in it is used). What I'd like ...
