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Fixing/restoring HDD boot data (Linux)
I increased the size of a partition (After modifying the size of an EBS Volume)
Prior to resizing I got the following warning:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
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how to securely wipe an AWS EBS volume (mag drive and SSD)
I have an SLES 12 SP1 system running on AWS. I need to "wipe" the EBS volumes before deprovisioning them as a customer requirement. The data is sensitive in a commercial way only (no TLAs). Is shred ...
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Default partition type for Instance Store disks?
I have created an EC2 instance with an instance store automatically mounted to it. Although I can use the mounted disk correctly I can fdisk command complains that the disk does not have a valid ...
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Why don't du and df agree on AWS ephemeral storage?
I have an Amazon AWS instance with a storage mounted on /dev/xvdb, which is the "usual" /mnt/build_tmp. It is about 70GB (exactly 66,946,696kB). Attempting to write to it, it was apparently full. This ...
