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fdisk - do i need it or can i make a filesystem directly?
i read about fdisk being able to creation partition / which is to break down a physical disk into several logical partitions.
If i intend to utilize the whole disk as a whole, is it still necessary ...
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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 can I resize a partition managed by LVM?
I have a fresh CentOS install on my machine and I would like to make space on the drive available in order to install Arch Linux.
Unfortunately, LVM is new to me and doesn't appear to work well ...
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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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New partition still showing old files?
I have a relatively new installation of Centos 6 installed as a virtual machine on VMWare Workstation. The original issue I was getting was that one of the partitions was created too small in the ...
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CentOS 7 Linux resize filesystem after partition resize
I am running CentOS 7 on a HyperV virtual server. I recently increased the size of the hard disk from 32GB to 64GB and used GParted Live to extend the partition, which seems to have worked as shown ...
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Resize LVM on KVM CentOS 6 VM
I've got a base image that I'm booting my VM's from. The base image is only 1.5GB. Different VM's will have different requirements for disk space. I've setup the VM with the default setting:
VolGroup
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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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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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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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Parted Resize doesnt show up in mount
I used GParted to resize/move a partition on disk. The initial size was 50MB, but I shrunk my C:\ partition in windows, and then moved the start back 50GB
This shows up in parted
Model: ATA TOSHIBA ...
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Not enough space on disk when installing second Linux
I have the following problem: I installed a CentOS version 6.4 on my new computer that has 1 TB of HDD and I decided to use all the available space in this disk.
Right now, I want to install a ...
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clonezilla moving to bigger harddrive
I successfully cloned my hard drive from 250gb to 1Tb using -k1 on expert mode.
but when I explore the folders, why is it still acting like a 250 gb hard drive. It is still showing that 180gb ...
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How to give permission to user after mounting a hard disk on Centos 7?
I have a HP Microserver gen 8 that i'm using as a NAS at my home, with Centos 7.
And i just got a new hard disk 2 TB, after i installed it in the bay, and rebooted the system.
I've used fdisk to ...
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