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Add new partition to CentOS file system

I use a CentOS virtual machine on VMWare Workstation. I recently tried to increase the system hard disk memory for CentOS by tweaking the VM settings on VMWare Workstation. After that, I tried to ...
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Merge two partition without gparted on Centos 6.*

I have been trying to merge two partitions on my centos 6 virtual machine. I have only command line access to this machine. My system look like this: [x@x-y ~]$lsblk NAME MAJ:...
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Resizing LVM Partitions

I'm trying to resize a couple of my LVM partitions. I have one that is 850GB (/dev/mapper/cl-home) and one that is 50GB (/dev/mapper/cl-root). I'd like to make it so that cl-home is 750GB and cl-root ...
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No disk space on CentOS VM while my data is only 1.8G?

I am just beginning to learn some stuff on Linux. I have virtual machine on CentOS and suddenly my website does not coming up since morning and I get et internal 500 error while trying to login my ...
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Cannot partition my hard drive

I'm trying to install CentOS 7 on my laptop, but I've got a problem partitioning the hard drive. Though here's writen the there is 2.49 MB of available space and 476.94 GB of total space, when I try ...
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Where is Linux root filesystem on an attached drive

I have a CentOS system with many configurations/applications installed on a hard drive. I have installed a new CentOS system on a different hard drive. I have booted from the new system/hard drive and ...
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How many drives do I have?

This is the first time I ordered a dedicated server with 3 HDDs and I am quite confused. My limited knowledge tells me that /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc are the 3 drives that I actually have. But, ...
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CentOS 7 and OpenSuSE 13.1 (so far) can't see NTFS partitions during installation

The title is rather self explanatory, but here some more details. I'm currently running my machine with Windows XP x64 (read Windows Server 2003) and I was planning to install CentOS 7 on the same ...
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Can I repartition Centos 6 without losing any data?

I have 10 GB space in my /home partition. I am now running out of space in this partition. But I have enough space in my / partition. Is there any way to increase my /home disc space by transferring ...
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Extend Existing Linux partition

I had a dual boot hard drive with Windows / Centos 6.5. I no longer needed Windows so I removed the /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 via fdisk. It now looks like: Device Boot Start End ...
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merge two partition with different disk in centos

I have a lite centos 6 on my system. I am going to resize one of its partition. Here is the file system of this system: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_hadoop1-...
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Used 4 primary partitions, now need to add more space

I currently have CentOS 6.5 running on a VM in a live environment. The need to increase space has arrisen several times, and after following guides online it has worked successfully until today. ...
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Has anyone encountered this error? read error on /dev/sdc - cannot read sector 0?

/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 0: Input/output error /dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 2499819012096: Input/output error /dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 2499819130880: ...
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How can I merge partitions in Linux without losing data?

So, I'm working on a couple VMs for a high-profile site, and they have /home partitioned separately from / (root). The owner has asked me to merge the two partitions so that /home is not partitioned ...
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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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