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Log file not growing beyond a size. Why?
We have a java based web-app running on CentOS 6.0 64bit and it writes out many log files. Some of the files are rotated on daily basis using logrotate using the daily, copytruncate and other few ...
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Must the filesystem be unmounted while extending an LVM logical volume?
I have seen some tutorials on extending an LVM2 logical volume. None of them instruct you to unmount the filesystem. They claim that you can extend an LVM volume while it is in use. Is this right?
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changing the partition of a linux
I have a ubuntu system as a virtual system on Virtual Box. It uses VHD as its hard disk.
I manged to change the size of VHD using VHD resizer, now I want to expand the partition on vhd so it uses the ...
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How to re-size virtual disk with installed Linux system?
I've got hard system configuration there and I don't want to re-install it again but I need more space now.
Current system space is 30GB.
Seems like it's not possible to re-size disk so what I need ...
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How to find all disks & their size before using them?
I need to know the following information, before using the harddisk to create logical volumes or database.. Any perl modules or snippet would be of great help.
how many hard disks are presented to ...
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Determine the size of a block device
How can I find out the size of a block device, such as /dev/sda? Running ls -l gives no useful information.