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My old CentOS 6 computer died. How do I make a new one boot with the old HDDs?
As the title says, I have had a CentOS 6 box for some years, but recently it died. Since it was quite old, I've upgraded it with a whole new box (new psu, motherboard, RAM, CPU), but kept the HDDs. My ...
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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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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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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 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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Moving /tmp to a different mounted drive
I've mapped my MySQL datadir to a different (and bigger) disk with 900GB
[root@web ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 40G 24G 14G 64% /
tmpfs ...
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linux - centos won't boot after rebuilding raid
I have a dedicated server with OVH. Yesterday they had to replace one of the HDD because it was about to fail.
After replacing the disk, we had to rebuild the RAID and now the server won't boot ...
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Is it possible to install an over 2TB HDD CentOS on Hetzner?
Wanted to just check here before I open a ticket at Hetzner. I just got a server from Hetzner with 2x 3TB. I want to set them up in a RAID 0.
I��ve ran the “Installimage” command once in rescue-mode, ...
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lv root drive full on CentOS - how can I extend the partition?
My lv_root drive is full - I believe it's 50GB. I couldn't find an option to extend it when I installed CentOS.
I've installed a second drive where I have my /var/www which mounted fine.
How can I ...
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Centos does not install on unallocated space
I have a 1TB hard disk on which I installed Windows 8. It has 100GB unallocated space. I have this partition on my Windows (click to enlarge):
Now, I want to install CentOS 6.4 on the remaining 100 ...
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How to get total running time of a hard disk
In order to do disk rotation in a server, I need to know the current running time (online) time of a disk on a Linux CentOS release 6.3 (Final) system.
The disks are connected with SATA (e.g. /dev/sdc)...
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How to resize disk partition CentOS
I have parallels mac os desktop and I run centOS. My problem is that I can't make this Disk /dev/mapper/vg_host-lv_root bigger.
Disk /dev/sda: 549.8 GB, 549755813888 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/...
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How can I reimage my virtual server to not have size caps to individual directories?
As a prenote, I am extremely new to networking in general, and my knowledge is very minimal, even for things you guys would consider basic. I will try my best to keep up with any advice you have to ...
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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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Resolving unix server disk space not adding up
I'm trying to evaluate where my disk space on my unix server is distributed. In order to see disk space current status I'm running:
df -h
But when trying to evaluate what is taking the disk space and ...
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