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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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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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Vboxmanage resize HDD but not the real size? (CentOS Guest, Windows Host)

I have this situation. whereas the actual is 7.62 GB then i tried to execute the steps given from here Geekwebsite. to make it bigger to 14GB (which is 13.92GB) Everything smoothly working... until ...
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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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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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Add new partition under raid-1 array

I have small /tmp partition, and I want to create new partition with size 10 GB than current one, I have two hard disk on raid-1 array # mdadm --query --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 0....
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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 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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Why I can't utilize my 2nd 1TB Hard drive in VESTACP?

I have an server with the following specifications Intel Core i3-530 2.93 GHz 4GB RAM Storage 2x 1000GB HW RAID CentOS 7.2, 64 bits with NO RAID I installed VESTA CP. It works OK but I have a little ...
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CentOS 7 : How to increase disk space with additional disk so as if there was only one disk?

I have a VPS running CentOS 7 with an original 10 GB disk on which everything is installed /dev/vba1and formatted in xfs. I ordered from my provider an additional 50 GB disk that I need to format and ...
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Move Linux Partitions, Dual Boot with windows

I'm not thinking about Expand Linux Partitions... I need Shrink (one, the larger) and move it (two, with the swap)... Here my HD from Windows View (Disk Management) Now, I want to reduce the last ...
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Why does the output of `lsblk` and `df -h` seem to conflict?

I'm trying to create a directory /mnt/data that will be mounted on to /dev/mapper/centos-home, since that's the biggest partition. The output of lsblk looks like this: NAME MAJ:MIN RM ...
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Centos 6.7 Partitioning command

The current storage on the server is Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 118G 109G 3.0G 98% / tmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/vdc 118G 40G ...
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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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