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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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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 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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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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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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Change default swap disk in Centos7
We disabled older swap space (disk) that already mounted in /dev/mapper/centos-swap to increase size of the root(/).
Then we create new swap file in /dev/sda3:
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM ...
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Resize /dev/root on CentOS 7.4 [duplicate]
I'd like to give /dev/root more space on my CentOS 7.4 system.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 20G 18G 302M 99% /
devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /...
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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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