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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
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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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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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Unmounted/unpartitioned HDD wakes up ~4 times per day on CentOS
I have a small CentOS server (minimal installation). It has HDD connected, but this HDD is not partitioned. Just a blank unused drive for future tasks. I want this HDD to stay in sleep mode when it is ...
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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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cannot mount a virtual drive in centos 7
I have a centos 7 which is installed in a RAID1 disks. I have another Raid6 disks which I would like to mount in the system.
when I do fdisk -l
the Raid 6 shows as:
Disk /dev/sdb: 40000.0 GB, ...
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Can't get Linux smartctl to show me disk health
CentOS 7
I'm trying to use smartctl to show my disk info.
I have an Dell PowerEdge R720 with an H710P controller, running RAID 10.
When I run df in the Linux virtual machine, it says /dev/loop0 is ...
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Cloning a RAID-1 Array in Linux to a Larger Capacity Drive
I have two existing Fonality (Asterisk based) VoIP servers that I would like to upgrade the hard disks on.
Both servers have RAID1 arrays consisting of 2 80GB SATA drives. Here is the output of df -...
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Why does udisksctl command on my machine say that power-off is not a valid option?
I recently switched to CentOS 7. I was trying to safely remove my backup drive. The drive unmounts, but the LED on it, stays on.
I know how a disk can be safely removed using command line as answered ...
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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 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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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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