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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How much disk space should be allocated for FreeBSD?
I have a Samsung N150 netbook with 160 GB hard disk. I want to install FreeBSD OS. There will be no other OSs, no dual booting or like that, just FreeBSD. So the manual says to have a separate ...
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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 In fact, it has some-- the original 20G SCSI drives have been replaced by 300G SCSI drives, so in theory ...
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How to use ms-sys to restore MBR to boot /dev/sda2? [closed]
My brother screwed up a multi-OS install on his laptop and asked me to help fix it. I'm a basic linux user and I know my way around the terminal a little but beyond that I might need some hand-holding ...
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Confusion in creating a partition [closed]
Please somebody help, as i'm newbie to linux i don't know how to make a partition and also which has been already partitioned.
I got the following when i type fdisk -l. Can you guys please explain ...
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Creating partition from a start point till the end of the disk using parted
This is my partition table :
Model: ATA Hitachi HTS54757 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File ...
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How can I solve the issue about mounting my Windows 8 NTFS partition on Linux Mint?
I used Ubuntu for long even along Windows and SOMETIMES I got this problem for mounting the corresponding NTFS partition at the beginning, however with a pair of command lines to the console I got it ...
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Safe Linux dual-boot partitioning?
I'm about to get a Linux laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled. Among my first tasks will be a dual-boot installation of Linux Mint. From what I can tell, the following seems like an okay partition ...
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SliTaz, usb stick, unable to mount iso or to find a filesystem on it rootfs.gz
I deleted every partition on my system, even the partition on my usb stick. Then I created a partition with SliTaz which I'm currently on. But then I found out that my usb stick didn't get discovered ...
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How to create partition in ubuntu server 12.10
I'm trying to create partition during Ubuntu Server installation(12.10).Now I have a 500GB hard disk where I need to create a partition of 200GB for root file system and another 20GB for swap space ...
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Can linux systems on multiple virtual machines share the same swap partition? [duplicate]
I'm trying to save some disk space between multiple systems and re-using the same swap partition (which seems to be fine).
I'm now getting into multiple virtual machines and am thinking of a ...
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Low Disk Space on Volumn system “Root”
I installed Debian 7 onto a one terabyte drive, I let Debian automatically setup partitions, also selected LVM, Then installed OwnCLoud. All was working fine until I receved the message Low Disk Space ...
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Dual boot - Kubuntu and Windows 8 - how to?
I recently installed Windows 8 on my computer.
These are the specs:
Fx-8150 CPU
8 GB RAM
ATI HD7870
120 GB SSD
2 TB HDD
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (rev 1.1) (only bios but EFI mode possible ...
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How Solaris sub-partitions can be accessed in FreeBSD?
First of all, Linux detects it okay:
sdg1: <solaris: [s0] sdg5 [s1] sdg6 [s2] sdg7 [s8] sdg8 >
But FreeBSD 9.0 does show only main partition. Possibly only Solaris labels for sparc64 is ...
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LVM to extend a partition? [duplicate]
I tried to extend my partition with LVM, but not having much success. These are my HDD's in my server. The 2000GB is the new HDD. I would like to add it for my first HDD.
root@webstar:~# fdisk -l
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How can I use two HDD as one on Debian?
I have installed Debian on my server with a 250GB HDD. Now I have bought another HDD that is 2TB large, but I don't know how I could use that 2TB with my webhosting solution.
I heard about LVM, but ...
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Finding the sector size of a partition
I answered this question, assuming that the *.img file had a sector size of 512.
How do I query a device, or the image of a device, to find the correct sector size?
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pvcreate error on partition
I can't create this partition, I'm getting this error shown below:
Device /dev/mapper/vg_paperino-lv_rootp1 not found (or ignored by filtering)
Below are the steps that I'm doing on CentOS:
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Moving /etc to separate partition
How to put /etc on separate partition? Obviously i can't do that by editing /etc/fstab like i did with /home, because... it's in /etc. I want /etc and /home on one partition (sda7), and the rest on ...
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What is “Ext'd (LBA)” in fdisk output?
This is my partition table. Output of fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 204796619 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 ...
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Problem with openSUSE 12.3 dual-boot installation (with Windows 7)
I have a current Windows 7 64 bit installation that I'm using and I wish to create an openSUSE 12.3 partition on my HDD (not my SSD Windows drive). I used the Windows Disk Management tool to shrink my ...
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Installing debian 7 besides windows 8
I ask this question in superuser but no one can answer my question, I hope any one can help me:
I bought a VAIO laptop which Windows 8 preinstalled on it in UEFI mode. Now I want to install Debian 7 ...
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restore filesystem after fdisk
I split a partition in two with fdisk, but after rebooting I've got partition in FAT filesystem (was ext4). What's can be wrong? And how to fix it or get data from bad partition? I hope this is ...
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GParted doesn't recognize the unallocated space after my current partition
I'm using GParted to resize my partitions on Linux. There is about 5GB of unallocated space following the partition sda5. However, when I right click on sda5 and select 'resize/move', it doesn't show ...
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Can't boot after installing FreeBSD in VMware Workstation
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1-i386 in VMware Workstation.
I'm following the guide in the manual on freebsd.org to do this.
When I come to the partitioning part I use the guided setting and it ...
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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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Is it possible to remove Windows 7 from dual-boot?
I have Windows 7 as primary OS with Linux Mint as secondary OS. I am just feeling comfortable with Linux and want to remove Windows from the disk.
Is it possible to remove it without damaging data?
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extending a partition by resize2fs
I have a 4 GB SD card. Before the image load
root@ubuntu# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes
49 heads, 48 sectors/track, 3292 cylinders, total 7744512 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * ...
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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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Linux/GParted can see partition table but dd bs=512 count=1 can't
I have an MBR formatted sd card and when connect to a Linux machine (xubuntu 12.04) it can mount a partition and parse the file system (as can GParted). However, when I try to read the MBR from the ...
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How can I move the home directory to a separate partition?
I would like to install another distribution but keep my home directory. Is there a way to move the home directory to a separate partition? I don't have an external hard drive available to back up my ...
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Rearrange partitions to install a second Linux distribution
I am new to Linux and just got some foggy idea of partition tables. To be precise here it is:
Model: ATA ST3500418AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition ...
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Is it good to make a separate partition for /boot?
I've seen some people make a separate partition for /boot. What is the benefit of doing this? What problems might I encounter in the future by doing this?
Also, except for /home and /boot, which ...
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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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Can I use a disk without partitioning it? [duplicate]
If I have a disk (whether a physical disk or a virtual disk managed by a some VM hypervisor) that I want to use as a single big partition, do I need to actually create a partition table with one big ...
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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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Convert image of a partition into image of a disk with partition table
I have an image of an existing partition generated with dd if=/dev/sdXN of=image.bin. Now I want to use this image as the basis for a virtual machine. I know how to convert the image into a format ...
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Finding all partitions with filesystems
I'm writing a script that will copy all of the files on a device to a directory. The problem is that some of the devices have multiple partitions and some of the partitions don't have filesystems to ...
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How can I use DD to migrate data from an old drive to a new drive?
I am upgrading the internal SATA hard drive on my laptop from a 40G drive to a 160G drive. I have a Linux/Ubuntu desktop which has a SATA card. I would actually like to do the same thing for a couple ...
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What's the best way to partition your drive?
I usually install Linux on a single partition since I only use it as a personal desktop.
However every now and then I reinstall the box and what I simply do is to move my files around with an ...
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fdisk. What does the “free” partition mean?
I had two primary partitions (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2). Then I created an extended partition to segment it into logical partitions.
After I had typed fdisk /dev/sda and n (add a new partition) the ...
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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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Question About Bootloader Partition (Mint)
I have a quick question that I ran across while trying to install Linux Mint along with Windows 8 on my computer. I'm pretty new to Linux stuff so I'm sorry if this is pretty obvious. I'm mainly ...
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Flashing rootfs on Embedded Linux with Limited RAM
I'm fairly new to the embedded world, so forgive me if this seems obvious.
I'm working on a board based off of the AT91SAM9260. I have 256MB of flash and 64MB of RAM. The current setup flashes two ...
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Partition /usr/local : Can I use the software there after reinstall?
I want to reinstall Linux OS, and before that, I think I will partition my hard disk again. (I just use a simple one partition / for root, and make Linux automatically put all other directories ...
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How to boot into FreeBSD installed in the second partition of an external drive
I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on the second partition of an external hard disk and I'm not able to get my computer to boot from it. FreeBSD was installed using the FreeBSD memstick image dd'd onto a ...
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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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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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Why does this work: “cp image.bin /dev/mapper/loop0p1”?
Why does this work?
cp image.bin /dev/mapper/loop0p1
image.bin is a partition image.
I have tried it and works, but why? Shouldn't a dd be used?
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Partition manager that can handle LVM?
I have been looking but neither Gparted nor KDE Partition Manager can handle LVM. Working with the command line is probably fine but it would be clearer to have a GUI tool here. Does such thing exist?
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Readonly in mounted partition's root
/etc/fstab
UUID=<someuuid> /mnt/data ext4 defaults,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
and
/mnt$ ll
drwxr-xr-x 2 manuel users 4096 15. Apr 18:25 data
/mnt$ mount -a
/mnt$ ll
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root ...
