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mdadm RAID monitoring no DegradedArray email
So, I have a couple of MDADM RAID arrays and I want to set up monitoring with email notifications for drive failures through sSMTP but I can't seem to get it working.
The system in question is a ...
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Cloned CentOS not booting up
I recently cloned a CentOS6 environment from 1TB HDD and intended to restore its image to a 4 TB space. I used Clonezilla for this.
The clone went successful, but after that when I tried to restore ...
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how to get the next disk device name to be created on centos
I need to get the next device name to be created of the centos or other unix like system, e.g. if the current device name is vda to vdf like in below, I need to get the vdg as my result
[root@VM-0-10-...
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Restore RAID1 configuration with 2 different HardDrives in CentOS-7
We have a server (HP ProLiant ML10 Gen 9) that came with Two Identical Hard disks. It was assumed that the server supports hardware RAID 1 (Mirror), and the CentOS-7 was installed in it. But later we ...
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I cannot use all my disk space on centos
I have a centos 7 dedicated server with 60GB or SSD disk.
the fact :
sfdisk -uM -l /dev/sda gives:
Disk /dev/sda: 61440 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like ...
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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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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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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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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 remove automounting without system access on CentOS
I have a Nethserver server (based on CentOS 7) and recently one of the disks failed. There was nothing important on the disk so I just removed it.
But the disk was set to automatically mount to /mnt/...
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Migration of hard drive from one raid array to another
I would like to remove a working drive in a raid-1 array, replacing with a new drive, in order to hopefully build a "test system" where I can experiment with OS upgrades and migration of an old "point-...
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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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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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Hot-swapping drives
I have hot swap drives and controllers, but have never actually used the hot swap capability. What is the procedure for doing so? Do I need to warn Linux that I'm about to pull a drive out? Should ...
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Sharing a Hard drive on Centos and using samba
I am having issues sharing a external hard drive using samba on centos. I am able to view the share group from my windows machine but when I attempt to accsess it, it says "you do not have permission ...
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