Questions tagged [rootfs]
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Stuck in initramfs after logical volume resize volume group not found
Hoping someone can help me recover my ubuntu server instance. Ran out of space on a VM and decided to extend the virtual disk.
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv
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How does the linux kernel identify storage devices or any devices in general? [closed]
1 Problem: Today I encountered a strange behavior when trying to benchmark SSD's with a Raspberry PI and having two SSD's with the same label.
2 Setup: My setup is like this: My Raspi runs Ubuntu ...
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Boot from other root partition to shrink original root filesystem on LVM
How can I change the root partition for Debian 10 to boot from?
I'd like to decrease the size of my root filesystem that sits on an LVM logical volume from remote, that is over SSH only and without ...
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adding new partitions to a device the containing root partition [closed]
On virtual box, I have my root file system mounted on the LVM:
# df -h | head -n 2 | tail -n 1
/dev/mapper/cl-root 1.5G 951M 404M 71% /
The LVM is mounted on /dev/sda2, and /dev/sda has the ...
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tmpfs file system is full. Need assistance to increase this or remove unneeded software
Almost at a loss here. Been running a fast server for a couple of years with Plesk. Hosting our own website and services.
Over the last few days, I noticed a lot of problems but didn't think to check ...
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Download kernel+rootfs and boot on it with u-boot
We are working with a few single board computers (SBC). We generate linux embedded images with Yocto (using U-boot as bootloader), and we deploy it manually on SD cards. This works well for now, when ...
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FreeBSD 10.1 how to autoreboot on kernel panic
Recently I installed FreeBSD 10.1 on machine that for years was working fine with FreeBSD 6.2. Since machine is located in datacenter I configured remote access via serial console.
After installation ...
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Why is Ubuntu/Linux /proc/mounts lying to me?
I've got a broken HDD for the rootfs - this probably caused the filesystem to be mounted read-only... however /proc/mounts still says it's mounted rw:
$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
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ZFS terminology: does 'root file system' accurately describe the file system at the root of a pool?
I began using the expression root file system.
Recently in search engines I see, that three-word expression has different interpretations in relation to ZFS.
To avoid future misunderstandings:
if ...
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How can I run Linux from RAM only [duplicate]
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Copy OS to tmpfs from initramfs
I am putting together a new server with 64GB of RAM and I would like to copy the whole Linux OS into RAM from the disk and run the operating ...
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What is rootfs?
I'm a longtime Fedora user and I've just installed FC15. The new partition layout is confusing to me, as I'm used to the "plain vanilla" partitions that previous versions used.
[root@localhost ~]# df ...
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What is mdev and how to /dev/* nodes get created in Linux?
Our Linux kernel is 2.6.31 running on an embedded MIPS processor with busybox.
The initialisation script (rcS) starts mdev with:
echo "/sbin/stbhotplug" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
mdev -s
Can ...
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Linux (FC14/i386) is raid1 intact after hot fs install? How to repair?
My older (FC11) install had reached EOL, and I tried to reinstall FC14 on its RAID1 root filesystem.
I'm now having suspicions that now, after the install FS is not fully raided. The question is if ...
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Kernel Panic with gentoo boot (root partition not found)
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
grub.conf
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Gentoo Linux 2.6.34-r6
root (hd0,0)
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Debian - resize root ext3 partition on remote system
I want to resize (shrink) root ext3 fs partition of remote Debian 5.0 system. There is no LVM.
Is it possible without using a livecd? E.g. via custom initrd.img.
And second problem - Can I instuct ...
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