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add capacity using LVM system
my current /home directory is lack of storage so i want to add capacity to LV. want to confirm if my execution plan will not distroy the existing system.
Here is the current disk status:
df -h
/dev/...
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Linux Root volume partition without losing the data
We have this scenario : we want to increase the disk space of one of our vm
root@Test-01:~# blkid
/dev/vda2: UUID="0eae0eb4-92ed-45ec-aa99-6d606f17e70a" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="...
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Trying to add space to my fedora 31 VM on Virtualbox
I'm trying to add space to my fedora31 virtual machine I've followed some tutorials to do so but my virtual machine still doesn't have the added space. The tutorials used the Virtual Box configuration ...
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Is it possible to share OS files between multiple VMs
I was thinking of ways to minimize resources on a server that hosts VMs with limited space. Say every VM on this server runs the same exact OS, for example Ubuntu 18.04. This is currently a purely ...
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Virtual Box shows virtual size as 59.7 GB but actual size is 6.84 GB. Need to expand the root to use full 60GB [duplicate]
I was trying to install software into a CentOS Linux. It shows that I don't have enough space. When I do df -h I get the following result
[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used ...
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Is it still advisable to have a separate partition for virtual machines on Linux?
The question might also depend on whether the virtual hard drive has a fixed size or dynamic drive size. (may dynamics get fragmented)
I have a fixed size virtual machine now for win-xp on a ...
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How to make VM disk images easy to resize?
Disk images of virtual machines usually contain a parition table that contains one or more file systems. Resizing that is a bit painful, as you need to carefully rewrite the partition table before you ...
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raw partition as mounted vmdk not detected by windows installer in virtualbox
(Arch newbie here) I am running Arch 4.10, and would like to install Windows 10 in a virtual machine, but on a separate partition.
Background:
My drive layout (GPT Partition schema):
Device ...
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Resize LVM on KVM CentOS 6 VM
I've got a base image that I'm booting my VM's from. The base image is only 1.5GB. Different VM's will have different requirements for disk space. I've setup the VM with the default setting:
VolGroup
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Ubuntu on Virtualbox says 20 GB used when actual size of VDI is only 8 GB
I have a Guest Ubuntu 14.04 on Windows 7 Host. I've set the VDI limit to 20GB dynamically allocated. My Ubuntu boots to say there is zero space left in the system and sure enough df shows that this is ...
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storing virtual box VMs in multiple partitions in CentOS
A CentOS 7 server has Virtual Box installed, and the default location of the Virtual Machines is in /root/VirtualBox VMs. Is there a way that I can put each virtual machine in a separate partition? ...
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File Allocation for VM
I'm running Kali Linux as a virtual machine inside Oracle's Virtualbox. I've allocated 40GB of hard drive space, file type: VirtualBox Disk Image; Dynamicallly Allocated. On the VM it is showing the ...
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Is it safe to use "raw access"-.vdmk for a VM on the same physical disk as the host?
Main question:
On a dual boot configuration with Ubuntu and Windows 8, can I use a .vdmk with "Raw Access" to the Ubuntu-Partions as a disk image for VirtualBox on Windows safely? (Safe in ...
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move folder on a linux partition
my os is CentOS 6 running as a virtual machine under ESX. I don't know why /home folder is mapped to the biggest partition. I want my own folder /data (which is next to /etc, /root, /home and others) ...
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Manual clone/recreate virtual disk
I am trying to clone a virtual disk image in a fairly manual fashion. The overview of my methodology so far is as follows:
Create virtual machine in VirtualBox with 120GB HDD (hypervisor and HDD size ...
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How can I get Windows 8 to access the same data as a Linux VM? [duplicate]
I have a computer running Windows 8 and I would like to run a Linux VM on it. I would, preferably, like to create a partition which both Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows can access to hold my source code on ...
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VirtualBox resize disk not taking effect
I am trying to increase the size of my /dev/sda1 (boot) following this tutorial
I am able to execute the following command successfully:
VBoxManage.exe modifyhd ubuntu.vdi –-resize 40000
and when I ...
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create and mount partition on running VM Linux system
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 machine running as a VM and I would like to create a 'data' directory with the unallocated space left on /dev/sda. I managed to create a /dev/sda3 partition on the available ...
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Reasons to use separate partitions in a VM
I use linux VMs for tons of things these days and for the very most part I usually avoid LLvm and set them up with a single disk partition with everything in it. Granted, if I need a special type of ...
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Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: invalid argument
I have Oracle Linux on a VM and I'm trying to create partitions on /dev/sda2 of size 30 gigs using fdisk utility. I made four partitions each of size 512M and they appear in the partition table. ...
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Dualbooting, partitions or virtualization?
Hi,
I am trying to have Windows 8 and Fedora 17 in a dual boot setup on my laptop.
At first I installed Windows 8, gave it first 40GBs of the drive to play with ( windows installer cut off first ...
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