Questions tagged [diskmanagement]
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ZFS: resilver restarted after the scan finished
As described here I had two dead drives on my raidz2 setup. I shut down the machine, replaced one drive, then booted up. My idea was to resilver disks one by one, but the resilver process for the ...
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ZFS resilver of 2 disks: serial or parallel?
I have 2 faulty disks in my zraid2 setup, and I'd need to understand whether it's better to replace and resilver them one by one or at the same time. My main concern is that I cannot afford loosing ...
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How to force Linux kernel to refresh disk modifications
I have a disk that was used by ceph, I used wipefs to clean it.
To make the system see that the disk is empty and can be used I have to reboot.
Is there a way to force the kernel to recognize those ...
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How to extend / partition by reducing /home partition in a live linux server?
We are running a CentOS Linux server to host websites. The website data are stored in /home partition and it is mounted separately.
Here's it:
[root@myserver ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size ...
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extending EBS volume
I have extended an existing EBS volume from 2.5Tb to 3 Tb , However when i check disk managment I dont see the unallocted space , It shows as 3TB post extension in AWS console but not on my windows ...
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How to combine two disks (partition and disk) if the partition holds the Ubuntu operating system?
I have a new server that came with two 1 TB SSD NVMe.
My goal is to create one drive with 2 TB. So I need to combine the two 1 TB.
I installed Ubuntu on SSD 1 with:
PART /boot/efi esp 256M
PART swap ...
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CentOS LVM Extension Trouble
We have a CentOS 8 server that has recently had a lvm fill up on available space. This was not our monitoring system since it watches the disk space and not the volume space. Regardless I am having ...
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How to directly add an SSD to a PowerEdge server without entering BIOS or creating a Virtual Disk?
I have a Dell PowerEdge R430, booting to Debian from an SSD. In order to get the system to "see" this first SSD, I first had to use the BIOS to create a Virtual Disk representing that ...
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How do I get the `/dev/sd*` path from `ata*` in dmesg?
I have this output in dmesg:
[149939.146576] ata18.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[149939.146592] ata18.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
[149939.146600] ata18.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:04:00/00:...
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I have a local Amazon Linux 2 (EC2) AMI Instance; How do I repartition the disk and expand the file system?
I have expanded the disk of my VM.
How do I now repartition the disk and expand the file system on the guest?
Which is Amazon Linux 2
Kernel 4.14.252-195.483.amzn2.x86_64 on an x86_64
$> sudo lsblk
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How to extend root volume / with an extra storage disk
I am trying to add a 2nd disk to a CentOS 8 instance and I want to extend the entire storage utilizing all the available extra space;
1st storage: 40 GB
2nd storage: 100 GB (added later)
The problem ...
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How to re-organize partition sizes on a Software RAID on Ubuntu?
I have an existing Software RAID consisting of 4 partitions on a Server running Ubuntu 22. I want to decrease the size of the md2 partition and increase the size of the md3 partition.
How do achieve ...
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Disk Size is not Consistent Between fdisk and parted
I have noticed some difference in size displayed using parted and fdisk. I have a disk attached with a size of 20GB. Executing the fdisk command shows that the size is 20GB which is correct.
fdisk -l /...
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df -h --total command showing wrong total disk size
I have 512GB attached to my linux centos 7.9 server I'm trying to know how much total disk size used from overall disk size from inside the server
I tried to use df -h --total command to show the ...
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Why is disk label type dos but the partition system is GPT?
And how can it be larger than 2TB if it's dos?
Disk /dev/sdi: 6000.6 GB, 6000606183424 bytes, 11719933952 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / ...
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