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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WD MyBook 3TB - Gparted failed & HDD partitions recovery?
I have this new WD MyBook external HDD (USB 3.0/2.0); I created 3 partitions all of them ext3 type (~1 TB | ~1 TB | ~750 GB)
I loaded lots of files all the partitions were like ~30% full on each, and ...
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Formating hdd to ext3 fails?
maybe i'm too stupid, but what's the command to format my external 2.5tb usb hdd to ext3? using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 works, but only gives me 300gb of space allocated... where am i failing?
thanks in ...
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Move /usr to SSD
I have an SSD and regular HDD drive in my laptop. The SSD drive is not used at all; it is not even being mounted. I am using Arch Linux. I'd like to start using the SSD, and from what I have read I ...
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How to partition 22TB disk?
I have a 22TB disk on /dev/sdb. How do I create a 22TB partition? Don't really care about the file system - ext4 or zfs is fine.
Running CentOS 6.2 - Partition will be used as a data dump. Only a ...
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Access times for different partitions on same hard disk
I have partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2.
/ is mounted on /dev/sda1, while all other data is on sda2 which has more size allocated to it.
I want to save the virtual machine images (VirtualBox ...
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How do I find out a server's drive mappings for raw devices?
I don't have a lot of knowledge on Linux so pleas forgive me if this is a simple question.
I manage a server with Oracle RAC 11g running on Redhat 5.2. There are a number of raw drives on the server ...
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Can I resize the root partition without uninstalling and reinstalling Linux (or losing data)?
I have started using a machine that has both Debian and Windows 7 installed. However, after installing some programs I started getting a message that there is not enough space. I knew that the system ...
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Root filesystem nearly full - should I be worried?
me@netbook:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 323M 292M 15M 96% /
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs ...
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/usr partition filled up, need to make it larger or mount it somewhere else
I have 160 GBhdd. I have ubuntu on about 30GB and Rest is PC-BSD 9.0.
On PC-BSD, my /usr is about 11GB and that is all used up. I realize that when I try to install ubuntu inside VirtualBox. I need ...
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How can I increase the number of inodes in an ext4 filesystem?
I had a problem (new to me) last week. I have a ext4 (Fedora 15) filesystem. The application that runs on the server suddenly stopped. I couldn't find the problem at first look.
df showed 50% ...
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Create a partition from a directory
I have a Linux system with only one partition /dev/sda1 on /dev/sda disk with / mount point. Is it possible to create partitions after installation?
e.g. create /dev/sda2 with the mount point /home/
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Discovering EMC PowerPath LUNs and creating partitions on Solaris
I have to work with EMC PowerPath disks/LUNs. I find them in the /dev/dsk/ directory under names such as emcpower0a, emcpower0b, …, emcpower0z, emcpower1a, …
Here are my points of confusion:
Inside ...
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How do I permanently mount a separate partition as folder in a separate home partition?
I'd like to create the following situation:
A separate partition for my user's home directory,
A second separate partition for ~/Documents, and
A third separate partition for ~/Videos and ~/Music.
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Windows Recovery from Grub messed up my computer?
Ok so I'm a noob when it comes to Operating Systems and I think I really messed up this time. So I have a laptop that dual boots Windows 7 and Linux Mint 11. I was trying to boot into Windows 7 but it ...
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Will my programs installed in Ubuntu be usable by another distro in a dual-boot set-up?
I am interested in setting up my machine so that I can try different distributions of Linux. I want to always be running Ubuntu (10.04.3), but would then try other distros in a dual-boot setting.
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Create recovery medium from Windows 7 recovery partition
Many laptops are delivered with Windows 7 recovery partition (but without CD or DVD) which takes place on the harddrive that could contain some Linux distribution or serve for data storage.
I don't ...
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Linux Mint can not see my partitions - installation problem
Scenario:
On my laptop I have Windows 7
My disk drive has several partitions whereof not all are used (for now)
My plan is to install Linux Mint on the 20000 MB (19,53 GB) partition (called I: in ...
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Partitioning and installing Voyage Linux
I am trying to install Voyage Linux 0.8.0 (a distribution based off Debian) on a Soekris Net4801. I would like to have two partitions, one for the operating system and another one for data.
I have ...
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Linux Mint: drives' map changing at reboot brings fstab error
I've set up fstab to auto mount media drives on a Linux Mint machine.
The OS is installed on a IDE/ATA Disk while 3 SATA disks hold data to share.
The BIOS has the ATA disk as first boot device.
All ...
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Reduce LVM /tmp size to 10G and add everything to / root dir
I want to reduce the partition mounted at /tmp to 10GB and add all unused space to the / partition.
If I umount -l /tmp and run fsck.ext3 -f /dev/privg/lv_tmp, I get this:
fsck.ext3: Device or ...
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How to create a new partition in Ubuntu
I want to build my own Linux as "Linux From Scratch".
I need to get a new partition from my hard disk.
I checked and saw I have sda1. (I have about 20G empty)
When I use the fdisk command n, I can ...
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Switching runlevel when moving /var to another partition
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to move /var to another partition using a python script. I found some directions that I thought were pretty good, but they call for switching to runlevel 1 ...
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Why must swap partition be nested when created as an extended partition?
I did not want to use up my last primary partition so I created my new swap partition as an extended partition. However, somewhat redundantly, it is created under sda4. This makes little sense as ...
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Combine unallocated space using KDE partition manager?
See below screenshot and see that there are 2 unknown unallocated blocks. How to combine the unallocated space using KDE partition manager?
@ktf, as requested:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, ...
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What is the effect of deleting utility manufacturer partitions?
I am about to erase everything off of my hard drive and install Linux Mint I'm doing this on a Dell laptop, there is a Dell utility partition that I have never used... I have seen these on other ...
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb on CentOS 6.0
Somehow my partition on /dev/sdb has gotten all buggered up. This hard drive contains a lot of data that I need to recover and haven't been able to backup yet. When I attempt to mount it:
# mount -t ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 and large external drives
I have a Hitachi USB external 3 terabyte drive attached to a Dell Precision T1500. When connected to the computer running Ubuntu 11.04 (2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 ...
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Which root paths should reside on fast media?
Which paths under / should be mounted on fast media, and which can be mounted on slower media without significantly affecting system performance?
My guess:
Fast
Partition: swap (2G)
Partition: ...
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Equivalent to “copies=2” feature of ZFS in Linux with LVM
I have a laptop with only one HDD and is impossible add other HDD. The feature "copies=2" of ZFS is the perfect solution for to add redundancy to my /home in the laptop.
I would like emulate the ...
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Does mkswap check that a partition is a swap partition before formatting it?
I checked the man page for mkswap and was left confused whether mkswap tests whether a partition is of type 82 before formatting it.
Background: I am using Ubuntu 11.04, and I had just set up my swap ...
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How to enable (format) a disk in SunOS then add it to a DiskGroup?
SERVER # vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c1t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c1t1d0s2 auto:none - - ...
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How can I diagnose and repair missing drive space?
I have a small ext3 / partition on a 2T drive which appears to have a discrepancy in its free space. How can I determine what is causing it and how it can be fixed.
After trying everything I could ...
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What happens to partition labels after removing a partition?
What will happen to all the remaining partition labels if I remove a single partition? For example if I have a layout that looks like this:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4
/dev/sda5
and if ...
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LVM tools on raw block copy
I have several raw block copies of disks that have both NTFS and Linux partitions. The parition tables generally have both a Windows NTFS partition and a Linux LVM partition. I need to work on all of ...
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How can I quickly copy a GPT partition scheme from one hard drive to another?
On a non GPT partition table I can do
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
But sfdisk doesn't support GPT partition tables. What can I use instead?
I'm looking for a one or two command solution, ...
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Does GRUB consider partition order when looking for config files?
I have a HD which has 3 partitions, in the following order:
NTFS
FAT32
FAT32 (very small)
I want to install GRUB into the MBR of the HD, and place the config files (menu.lst, etc.) into the 3rd ...
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Change the number of the partition from sda1 to sda2
I have a disk with two partitions: sda1 and sda2. I would like change the number of sda1 to sda2 and sda2 to sda1.
It's possible but I don't remember the procedure. i.e. My first partition will be ...
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LVM2 partition alignment
How to do the following with Linux tools :
LVM partition alignment and alignment of partition on LVM ?
What in case where I want to setup LVM partition (for "pv") and then partitions ?
To be more ...
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Why do we need to specify partition type in fdisk and later again in mkfs?
I'm a little confused about fdisk and mkfs.
So - here is typical USB flash drive partitioning and formatting:
umount /dev/sdb
fdisk fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 1
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Is there a way to install Arch Linux without any installation media?
I want to install Arch Linux on my laptop machine. I have created a 20GB partition to (dev/sda5) to be used as Arch Linux root partition. I tried installing using a usb thumbdrive (I don't have a cd ...
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How to repartition pendrive again?
My 8GB pendrive originally contained only a FAT partition, but I tried to install OpenSUSE 11.4 on it. I created a 200MB partition for /boot and the rest was for the root partition.
Despite the ...
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How to allocate more space alongside Windows
I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop, alongside WinXP. Now I'm trying to download some updates and it says that I don't have enough free disk space - I need to free some more space on "/".
Since ...
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How to modify a partitioning layout (which may involve converting a primary partition to an extended one)
I am having trouble thinking through how I can achieve my partitioning goals.
Now my partitions are:
sda1 (winA) (primary)
sda2 (winB) (primary)
sda3 (/ for linux) (primary)
What I want to ...
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Is the crazy partition layout in Fedora 15 really nessesary?
As I'm installing Fedora 15 on another computer I'm really starting to question the crazy partition layout. On this computer there's an existing Windows 7 installation, so I'm cramming Fedora right ...
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Can I split /boot to a different partition on a single partition system?
I have set up my system, configured it and everything, using only one partition for / (ext4).
So no separate home, boot, swap etc.
So the question is:
Is there a way to go from this configuration ...
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Installing debian on existing ubuntu - will /home folder be removed?
I want to install Debian with LXDE on partition, that already have Ubuntu 11.04 installed. I have a lot of music there, and I don't want copy it to another partition. I know that Debian installer will ...
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Paritioning Scheme: Arch Linux server & laptop
What would be a good partitioning scheme for an Arch Linux installation, on a server and on a laptop?
My current basic scheme:
/ [root] ext4
/home ext4
swap
I know ...
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Can I create a new partition from the free space inside my reiserfs-formatted /home partition?
Ok, I have Ubuntu installed but I want to install Windows also (dual-boot). Problem is, I don't have a free partition. I have my root partition (15 GB), and my /home partition (300 GB). The home ...
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Use testdisk and gpart information to mount ext4 partition
I am trying to recover the ext4 partition table of a 2TB disk, where I have 900.000 files. I have cloned the original HD and now I am working on the cloned HD. And I am running Parted Magic Live CD.
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How do I check how much free space left on a device to create a partition
Let's say I have this virtual machine running:
[root@centos ~]# fdisk -ul
Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders, total 16777216 sectors
Units = sectors ...
