Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.
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Boot disk unavailable
Background
I've got one 32GB SSD that I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on (this drive is encrypted), and two 1.5TB drives that will serve as storage and backup respectively. I have formated both drives ...
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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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How to mount some folders on a different partition
I recently got an SSD for my computer. Therefore I reinstalled my system and mounted / on /dev/sda1 (which is a partition on the SSD).
To protect the SSD, I managed to mount /tmp on the RAMdisk. ...
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How do I make use of unused space on my boot drive on FreeBSD
I have an old FreeBSD Server (running 7.3-RELEASE) that desperately needs additional storage. In fact, it has some-- the original 20G SCSI drives have been replaced by 300G SCSI drives, so in theory ...
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Why are logical volumes used with LUKS partitions?
All of the instructions I've seen on setting up a LUKS encrypted drive require using logical volumes to create root and swap partitions inside a LUKS device. Why not just put standard partitions ...
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How to repartition disk to use non-allocated space?
This is how my hard drive (where I have Xubuntu 12.10) is formatted currently, based on a recent GParted screenshot:
I want to expand sda6 (4) to take up the free 11.72 GiB unallocated space. But I ...
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Resizing Cloud Harddrive
I recently upgraded the harddrive from 20GB to 50Gb using the web interface of my cloud service.
But df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 20G 19G 47M ...
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Graphical Btrfs tool
Is there a graphical tool for creating Btrfs sub-partitions and in particular, subpartitions like "GParted" or "system-config-lvm"? I'm running Debian squeeze.
In response to the first comment, Btrfs ...
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How should I partition my hard drive?
Xubuntu 12.10
XFCE with Greybird theme
Hello,
this is my GParted screenshot:
Could anyone please give my any advice on how to make changes to have more space available for use in Linux? Let's ...
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Can I safely resize my partition from its beginning?
Currently dual booting Windows 8 and Linux Mint 14, sooner or later I will give more space to my Linux system.
Is resizing my Linux partition from the beginning a safe operation ?
If yes, could you ...
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Resize ext4 partition to create more inodes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I increase the number of inodes in an ext4 filesystem?
An old headless no-X backup server I use has a small hard drive with three primary ext4 partitions: /, ...
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Install Debian over Ubuntu using same home partition
I'm interested in changing from Ubuntu to Debian. I currently have 12.04LTS installed on its own boot partition which is separate from the /home partition.
I would simply wipe the Ubuntu partition ...
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Growing my extended partition to the left
I have the following one hdd
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Disk identifier: 0xfa6bd800
Device Boot Start ...
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If I have an SSD and a hard disk in a system, can the SSD act as cache for the hard disk?
Say I have some partitions; one on a SATA drive and one on an SSD. I want to create a "virtual" hybrid disk. Is this possible?
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Create swap partition after install
I already have parititon contain data under lvm enviroment with centos 5.8
output of fdisk -l
root@server [~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, ...
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Create Logical Volume with non-LVM partition
I'm not sure if the title actually depicts my question, but I will try to explain.
I have seen everywhere it is mentioned to create a partition of type LVM (8e) and then create logical volume with ...
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Why would I want to create more partitions if RHEL will only recognize up to 16?
During some basic RHEL training, I came across this blurb:
Although it's possible to create more, RHEL will recognize only up to 16 partitions on any individual SATA, SCSI, PATA, or virtual hard ...
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FreeBSD and Linux shared partitions
Which directories, and how, can I share between FreeBSD and Linux? In particular, how can I deduplicate respectively /usr/home and /home?
I guess directly sharing a partition between both systems ...
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Installing Boot and OS on SSD, rest on HDD
Okay so I got an SSD for my notebook and I'm currently setting up my system.
On the SSD I'd like to have the main OS (Crunchbang in this case) and maybe some swap whereas on the HDD I want my Home ...
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Strange IOStat xk. Moving a mere 40GB data is too slow. Can anyone explain?
iostat -xk 5
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.99 0.00 1.10 11.01 0.00 86.89
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s ...
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disk labels mismatch [closed]
I've added a new disk in a hurry and now I have several mismatches. Would anyone care to help me to sort them out. Below I'm giving fstab, fdisk -l,
df -la (apparently "/" (root) is duplicated ??, ...
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fdisk isn't showing my hard drive as properly formatted (but it is)
I've got 3 1TB drives which I've set up to use LVM. Here's the output of pvdisplay:
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda1
VG Name vgpool
PV Size ...
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Updating disk free size without rebooting the host
I use RHEL4 with LVM2 on it. At times even after removing large files more that a GB the partition size is not getting updated when is see using df command.
-bash-3.00$ df -h
Filesystem ...
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How to format Partition
I need to format Partition on Redhat 5.2
/dev/mapper/VG00-LogVol 148G 111G 36G 76% /u001/app/oracle
Please advice how to do it.
Thanks
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What is Partition System ID?
If I go to fdisk, and I type t and then L I saw:
0 Empty 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris
1 FAT12 39 Plan 9 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
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Optimal Setup for Windows & Linux - Sharing and Partitioning
This question gets a little complicated so please bear with me.
So we have a new custom designed desktop which we will be mostly a dedicated machine for scientific computations in FORTRAN and ...
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How should I prevent data corruption on an NTFS partition shared by Windows and Linux?
I use Linux for most of the things but I still need Windows sometimes. So, I have Linux Mint 14 and Windows 8 installed (dual-booting) on my computer with the following disk setup:
sda1: The 350 MB ...
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I deleted the /boot server is still running is reinstall necessary?
This is stupid. I ordered 2SSD from a provicer. Usually I am the one doing the partitioning and formatting. I will then know which one is the SSD by looking at disks that's not partitioned yet.
Turns ...
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Removing windows partition from dual-boot
I have a dual boot of Windows 8 and Linux Mint 14. I want to remove the windows partitions and format them to ext4.
sudo fdisk -lu
gives me this..
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 ...
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Failed to boot Grub Error Fedora 17
I had two hard disks. One is internal, 320GB, all NTFS, where Windows 7 is installed in a ~20GB partition. The other is external, 160GB, where I have installed Fedora. Now when I had installed Fedora ...
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Tool to reduce a partition's size and create a new one from the command-line
At the moment I don't have any free space:
(parted) mkpart
Partition type? primary/extended? primary
File system type? [ext2]? ext4
Start? 60G
End? 62.9G
Warning: You requested a partition from ...
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Copying and expanding partitions
I currently have the following setup:
2TB HDD /dev/sda:
/dev/sda1: (NTFS) Windows 7 Boot Partition: 100GB
1TB HDD /dev/sdb:
/dev/sdb1: (EXT4) Linux General/Backup Partition - 1TB
256GB SSD ...
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Mac OS X partition type problem
As a 2 decades of MS-Windows user I have switched to Mac OS X a month ago. And my knowledge is not enough to fix my big problem which I encountered yesterday and my brand new MBPro is dead now.
I ...
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gparted partition master boot record corrupt
I was trying to Linux Mint from live-usb and made a stupid mistake.
I created master boot record and my HDD partition become unallocated.
After rebooting from live OS, I'm unable to get to boot menu.
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Don't have write permission in partition
In my PC I have installs Windows7 and then Ubuntu as OSes.
When I try to access other partitions ( E: and F: which I'm using from Winsows7 OS) it get mount without any issue and can read and modify ...
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Moving a root directory to a separate partition
I'd like to create a new partition and move the contents of the /var directory to it for the security reason of having /var/www and other subdirectories "mounted" with nosuid, noexec, and nodev ...
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Do I only need one swap partition for multiple Linux distros? (and other questions)
I have Linux Mint 14 installed as my only OS. I have one extended partition containing /swap, / and /home, and I have some unallocated space on my drive.
I'm guessing that Mint decided to put this ...
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convert /dev/md0 to /dev/sda1
I used a Software-RAID I and want to access the data without RAID now.
After
mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
I tried
mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt
but dmesg ...
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How can I resize my root partition in Debian?
I am trying to add space to my root partition and am really not sure the safest way to go about it. I have read this thread, Can I resize the root partition without uninstalling and reinstalling ...
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Reset partitions numbers
I just decided to delete my Windows partition and only use Linux.
My old partition table was:
sda1: W7 boot partition
sda2: W7 partition
sda3: Linux
sda4: start of logic partitions
sda5: swap.
I ...
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Resizing of partitions taking too long in Debian 6 installer
I had a Windows 7 PC, with three partitions on it:
The default Windows partition (~300GB in size, primary)
Some system stuff Windows 7 needs (100MB in size, primary)
A partition called Shared, that ...
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Partioning free space for manual install
I have 53 gigabytes that need formating into /root, /swap, /usr/, /var, /home, and /tmp. If there's any help what is the best space allocation? Please let me know.
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Remove /var partition and replace it with /var into / (root) partition
I accidentaly created a /var partition and I'd like to get rid of it. Is it possible to remove this partition and use the / partition to contain /var without reinstalling the OS or do I have to ...
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How to setup KVM partitions?
I'm trying to install SolusVM/KVM on a server with one 500 GB HD and one 256 SSD. I am a complete beginner at Linux. SolusVM has a script on the site to download and install automatically, but how do ...
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Xubuntu installer not showing NTFS option
So, I wanted a part of my extended partition to be NTFS formatted to access my data from both Win 7 and Xubuntu OSes. Only problem, Xubuntu installer did not show the NTFS option when I was manual ...
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Extended partition should have many filesystems
I need some related information on the following lines I found in an answer:
A logical partition is a container for a filesystem (or an LVM volume or some swap space or a BSD partition or other ...
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How to resize logical volume to fit filesystem
How can I resize logical volume to fit filesystem automagically?
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What happens to data copied after undoing fdisk?
Suppose I have some drive with a single partition. For some reason I decide to repartition it, using fdisk. I create multiple partitions, then write the partition table, then exit fdisk. At this ...
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Partitioning disk image file
I want to partition raw disk image with the following commands
#creating the blank image
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=example.img bs=1M count=50
#write the partition table
$ parted example.img mktable msdos
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Is there an excellent tutorial on how to resize a rootfs partition (and shrink another) on a drive that is 100% allocated?
I'm experiencing the all-too-common "root partition full" situation. 100% of my hard drive is allocated. My home (ext4) partition has plenty of space to give up for my full root partition (rootfs).
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