Questions tagged [partition-table]
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How bad is it really to install Linux on one big partition?
We will be running CentOS 7 on our new server. We have 6 x 300GB drives in raid6 internal to the server. (Storage is largely external in the form of a 40TB raid box.) The internal volume comes to ...
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How long does gpart scan take?
After losing the partition table of a 2TB HDD disk i run gpart to find the lost partition. Immediately after program start, it starts to scan the drive automatically. Since over 30h. So the question ...
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I have a NTFS partition now the size of the partition seems to be wrong. Is there an easy way to fix this?
So I I resized a partition and now the partition table seems like it is screwed up. I am running Windows 7. When I open the "Disk Management" The table at the top of the screen show the disk as 139GB. ...
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Partitioning - Is 5% reserved blocks required/recommended?
I'm performing a new Ubuntu Server installation, on hardware RAID 10, 6 x 1.72TB SSD, total space to partition is 5.8TB. The server is going to be used for KVM virtualisation.
I've allocated 500MB ...
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Accidentally overwrote first 400MB of hard drive with ext3 partition - possible to rescue?
Accidentally wrote /dev/zero to the first 371MB of a 500GB disk. Is it possible to rebuild the partition table and/or recover what data hasn't been overwritten?
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AWS EC2 /dev/nvme1n1 mounted without partition table
I have an EC2 server on nitro system (c6g.2xl) where I have attached a 2nd volume. This is a web hosting environment and the disk is regularly increased in size.
For some reason I accidentally mounted ...
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linux - how to list partitions of specific type?
I am looking for a way to list all partitions of a specific type on linux. (Specifically: all EFI system partitions).
I know blkid can filter on filesystem type: the command blkid -t TYPE=vfat ...
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Why would my servers be losing partition tables?
Over three consecutive days, three of our servers have lost their partition tables. Two of the machines were running linux and the third was a windows machine and all of these servers are on an ...
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Force unmount of a partition shared through NFS but not used
Not sure if it's better suited for superuser of unix&linux boards, let me know.
We have a server which is one of the main key points of a somehow large architecture. This server has a backup ...
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Connect Access 2016 to remote SQL Server - SQL Server Error 17
Good morning,
I am trying to connect to a SQL server from a remote machine, with ACCESS 2016, using the "External data" option. Both are on the same network.
It is important to note that I ...
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Changing partition table, Centos 6.3 on Hetzner Server [closed]
I got from Hetzner a Server with Centos 6.3 + Plesk (2x3TB Software Raid 1), but the disk partition table is in MS-DOS format with no support for more than 2TB partitions.
I want to change the ...
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Raid 5 array won't assemble after 1 drive's partition table was wiped
This is my first post/question here, so please bear with me.
I have an issue with my system where my existing raid5 array won't assemble. This occurred after I inadvertently wiped the partition table ...
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Lost Partition on x3650
I have a RAID6 array with 1 logical drive. 3.7TB. The partition has been lost. I've tried several program to recover the partition. The most promising of the bunch was MiniTool Partition Wizard. It ...
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recover a damaged partition table with ext4 fs
I have an external 2TB HD, that should have only one ext4 partition but the partition table is damaged and I'd love to rebuild/restore the partition.
Things ain't that easy so here's the longer ...
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Scientific Linux: RAID5 unaccessible after netboot by mistake
A server running old scientific linux 6.0 suffered damage from an enabled netboot during reboot by trying to load some crap from an application server in the same subnet (I saw him stuck somewhere in ...
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Back up system partition table
I'm tring to back up the partition table of a Linux Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Actually I'm making the tests with Virtualized machines (VirtualBox). And I have one source system in a virtual disk, another ...
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Resize logical volumes in linux
how could I resize my logical volumes in Oracle Linux?
I have the following partition table:
Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
devtmpfs 2,8G 0 2,8G 0%...
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Spreading a table's partitions across drives
With nearly a billion rows, we have to split up individual partitions across SSDs with about 4 partitions of them in each SSD.
The table's current schema:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `a` (
`id` ...
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Is there a tool that can take partition table information and partition another based on it?
Is there a tool that can read the partitioning information of a disk and partition another disk based on that information?
I don't know whether parted for instance can partition a disk based on a ...
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how to mount a partition inside a partition
On my linux box I have a block device (/dev/sda5) that has been partitioned inside by a virtual machine. So, when I look inside with fdisk /dev/sda5, I see:
sda5p1
sda5p2
and so on. Is it possible ...
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Almalinux - Extending logical drive partition after resize
I am trying to extend the disk space on an AlmaLinux server (running on a VM), this is a live email server, so I really can't mess this up. There are other posts on this operation, but I am not quite ...
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How to move physical partition into extended partition?
Given a disk layout like this
Disk: /dev/sdc
Size: 119.9 GiB, 127865454592 bytes, 249737216 sectors
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Wrong boot order - BIOS get stuck instead of trying the next boot device
I have a tests server that runs an Intel S2600C0 bios version SE5C600.86B.02.06.0002. It has 7 SSDs: 5 SDLFNCAR-960G-1HA2s and 2 Micron_M500DC_MTFDDAK800MBB. The OS and all the files are on the first ...
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Partition-table on one disk from RAID always equal to partition-table configured for RAID?
Are partition-tables from hard-drives, that are part of a RAID (no matter of what kind of RAID) always equal to the partition-table configured for the RAID?
What is clear:
A machine has a RAID 1 with ...
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Expanding partition (xfs) of a virtual machine
OS: Ubuntu 14.04, partition table:
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 37.6GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
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Why third partition of /dev/sda is shown as /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda3?
I have two 3 TB disks in hardware RAID-1 (mirroring), controller DELL PERC H310 (it is a Dell PowerEdge R420 server).
I have three partitions on the same disk.
df and fdisk commands shows the third ...
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Does this partition setup look OK for Centos 6.x and Plesk panel?
I have a new server with 2x3TB HDD, I want to setup software raid 1; When I use host's automatic install it makes my largest partition 2TB and the other 1TB a separate partition (not nice).
So I am ...
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"Can't create table" when having to many partitions
I am currently having a problem I dont understand. Wherever I look it says mySQL (5.5) / InnoDB doesnt have a table limit.
I wanted to test the InnoDB compression and was about to create an empty ...
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Shrinking ESXi volume to reclaim unallocated space
We have a number of VMs (VMware ESXi) running Ubuntu. As a result of the installation time 'feature' which only allocates half the amount of the requested space, we have a lot of wasted/unallocated ...
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Linux: 1 TB HDD showing 7 TB partition!
I replaced a 1 TB HDD (which holds a single EXT4 partition with lots of hardlinks to backup files/directories also inside this partition. It has also a bunch of regular files/directories) with a 2 TB ...
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pvcreate does not work: Device /dev/sda3 not found
As I recall I accidentally removed partition with fdisk and left changes which I did on LVM, then I did restart and Centos was not able to boot normally, it booted to Dracut.. It is my fault that I ...
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How to force creating an extended partition in before the last primary partition in kickstart?
I am searching for a way to write a kickstart partition section where I can control precisely which partitions are primary, and which partitions are secondary partitions in a extended partition.
I don'...
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ESXi management fails, refusing connections, after copying in the boot drive from a backup
I’m writing this after having found the solution myself, because it was such a strange “gotcha” it deserves to be documented.
Although I hit this issue while doing a restore, it’s possible this could ...
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Retrieve data from an HD with vmfs partition
My problem is the following:
I have a 1TB HDD with the information of a server that I need now.
I do not know what to do to access the information, inside the HDD there is a vmfs formatted partition ...
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Delete partition and create two other partitions instead one?
i have structure of my hdd, like this:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 40 2048 2009 1004.5K BIOS boot
/dev/sdb2 4096 409602047 ...
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