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What drive pool/RAID option is best for a home media server with uneven drive sizes?
I am building a DIY home server NAS with a DAS and Proxmox and don't need enterprise-grade redundancy. I am happy to use something other than Proxmox, I just like how easy it is to use containers and ...
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USB disk on a VBox on RAID was repartitioned
I have an Ubuntu on a VBox on Windows 10 Pro. The Ubuntu had a Raid 1+0 with 2 external USB disks. Suddenly, when I restarted the server, both disks got repartitioned with these: PARTLABEL="...
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How to recover a RAID 5 after deleting the partition table and fstab?
I have a RAID5 set up for my storage drives on my Nixos 23.11 machine. I followed this guide to set up the RAID (and I followed it very closely).
I have just reinstalled Linux on my boot drive (...
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Why am I getting "Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary" warning with this setup?
On a fresh install of Proxmox 8.1, fdisk -l is warning "Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary". This is unexpected to me, because the start of the partition is 2099200, ...
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Recover files from failed raid 0
I have a client whose laptop (Asus GX502) stopped working, and as I fix the laptop he wants his data from his drives, but problem is that when I connected the nvme SSDs (512 GB each) to my test ...
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How to convert ext4 partition on raid 1 to btrfs?
I'm trying to convert two ext4 partitions that are on raid 1 with mdadm to btrfs.
When i try to run
fsck.ext4 /dev/md0p2
fsck.ext4 /dev/md0p3
They return with
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/md0p3 ...
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How can I create a single partition from three different disks to install Windows on it?
I have 3 disks: 1TB, 512GB and 512GB. Is there any way to create a single 2TB partition and install Windows 10 on it? Data safety is not important.
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Linux installation, how to partition for install with a raid setup?
This question is about how to install Linux and create a raid setup as part of the installation. I am trying to install Debian 12, although this question is probably quite generalizable.
As part of ...
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Mayhem with partitions and GPT: mdadm RAID overwritten by Windows partition - possible to fix partition table?
dear Community,
I’m writing as I may have wrecked my system up.
I launched disk manager in Windows; as one of my disks was not recognized, and as Windows kindly suggested me to initialize the-said ...
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Recovering RAID 6: drives are ok, but partitions are "lost"
I faced strange issue with my RAID 6 array (8 HDDs, mdadm). Accidentially 3 drives were disappeared from it, with corresponding result - array has been ruined, but - all 8 drives are perfectly fine, ...
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How to recreate hardware mirror RAID with bigger drives?
I had a RAID 1 mirrored array composed of 2 x 500GB HDDs connected to my Gigabyte Z590 motherboard.
I was running out of space, so I cloned one of the drives with Clonezilla to a 1TB drive.
On that ...
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How to safely delete disk volumes on a RAID 5 logical disk in order to expand the C: volume?
Our small office has a RAID 5 server with 4 2TB disks using HPE S100i software RAID, running windows server 2016. The office files are just in the Shared folder of the C: volume, but for some reason ...
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can we identify which HDD has the operating system installed in the RAID configuration
I have a server using windows 2008 R2 and using a RAID configuration as storage. can I find out which HDD has the operating system installed in the RAID configuration?
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Clean up left-over around a RAID5 coming from a QNAP NAS
I just moved a 12TB RAID5 (4 disks of 4TB) from my QNAP NAS into my Linux Server (/dev/md0), and I noticed that there are three "left-over" partitions on each disk (/dev/sd*1, /dev/sd*2, /...
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How much space should I use in a RAID-1 (mirrored) disk partition to avoid a "partition too big" issue
We're having issue with a RAID-1 (mirrored) setup when replacing disks. Our current setup has two 1TB disks nearing end-of-life and we wanted to replaced them with two other 1TB disks.
The issue is ...
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