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Creating a USB stick for installing centos 6.x using DVD1 and DVD2 iso files
First, we create 2 partitions on the USB stick that
is let's say 16GB.
first partition is let's say only 1GB
and the second partition is the rest of what is available.
after we "w" write the changes,...
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Error checking storage configuration (centos 7)
I tried to install linux centos 7 (dual boot), this is the first time i install linux so i've been following some tutorial. In the installation destination I've got an error message Error checking ...
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Freshly Provisioned Cent-OS occupies a lot of space for "/dev/mapper/centos-root"
I created a fresh VM, however I started facing space issues as soon as it got created. From the du and lsblk command I see /dev/mapper/centos-root is occupying a lot of space. I tried running tree ...
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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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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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How can I recover my data after I changed formatting type?
To better explain what is wrong now with my harddisk let me tell you the series of events:
I was trying to expand a CentOS root partition. In order to do that I first tried to unmount and remove the ...
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How to change CentOS partition to LVM?
I have CentOS installed in a virtual machine, but its partition is in old-style, now, I need to change it to LVM. Is it possible? And how to do that? I don't want to reinstall the system.
The current ...
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How to enlarge home directory on CentOS 7
I have an issue with the storage of my virtual machine which is running on CentOS 7. I'd like to enlarge the home directory which is currently completely used but there is clearly free space on the ...
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How can I extend / dev / sda6 is it possible?
I need to extend / dev / sda6 on other occasions and used the following guide (https://www.miarec.com/doc/administration-guide/doc1012), adding a new disk to the vm, but apparently it is not ...
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Merge partition (CentOS 7)
I have CentOS 7 at VM and I want to merge /dev/sda3 with /dev/sda4 (recently created PV). Output of fdisk -l listed below:
Disk /dev/sda: 24.7 GB, 24696061952 bytes, 48234496 sectors
Units = sectors ...
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Centos/RHEL 7 - MBR with an extended partition > 2T
Studying for the RHCSA and I've been trying to find an answer to a question thats been stuck in my head...
My understanding is for MBR you can have a total of 4 partitions which each cant be > 2TiB......
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Which partition is the CentOS Operating System location?
When I install the CentOS6 operating system, there will create /boot, /, and swap partitions.
I want to know which partition is the operating system location?
such as if the CentOS OS break down, I ...
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Partition disappeared after shrinking
I am using Windows 10 on an old Pentium Laptop. It had 4 partitions:
C,D,E (System Reserved) and F
I wanted to created unallocated space for CentOS.
I used Windows 10 Disk Management to shrink C: ...
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How do I format an NTFS drive on CentOS 7 so that I can also use it in Windows?
We have a LIDAR system that collects data in the field. The computers that process the raw data are Windows computers so we use NTFS. However, the LIDAR system itself runs CentOS 7. Normally this ...
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Linux CentOS 7 doesn't allocate over 1024 KiB space for /boot partition
So this is a problem, that I have encountered the second time now.
I am having machines here running dual-boot on Windows and Linux OS. I have managed to successfully install dual boot systems ...
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