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Increase root space in RHEL
I have a VM (RHEL, in vSphere), that is running out of space in /dev/mapper/rhel-root. Wich one should be the easiest approach against this problem? I added 10GB to the virtual HardDisk of the VM and ...
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RHEL 7.2 + is it possible to resize partition sda2 when parted not support resizepart
we have old RHEL machines with version 7.2 ( RHEL 7.2 )
this machines has old parted version that not support resizepart
so for example we can't use this syntax in order to resize sda partiton
parted /...
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System crashes desperately need grub fixes
Basic information about the system on which the problem occurs:
the operating system is RHEL9.2, running on VMware17 virtual machine
the total size of the hard disk 40g, my hard disk using MBR ...
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How to make cgroup V2 persist accross system reboot in RHEL 7
I am using RHEL 7. The default Cgroup hierarchy for the system is Cgroup V1.
I need the system to have both Cgroup V1 and Cgroup V2 hierarchies co-existing, and I am achieving that by manually ...
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LVM extend filesystem based on increasing existing disk size
before couple months we extend root XFS filesystem partition size ( it was only 20G ) by adding the VMDK sdi disk and increase the root filesystem by +100G
[root@DB_OP_SERVER ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdi
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Mount overlay and assign owner to myuser
I've an entry in /etc/fstab like this:
overlay /etc/myfolder overlay defaults,x-systemd.requires-mounts-for=/var/data,lowerdir=/etc/myfolder,upperdir=/var/data/overlay/myfolder/upper,workdir=/var/...
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XFS version 4 vs 5 (RHEL 7 to 8)
In RHEL 7.9 I formatted my large /data volume with XFS 4.5.
In RHEL 8.8 XFS is version 5.0.
XFS v5 in RHEL 8 can mount an XFS v4 file system created by RHEL 7.9, however RHEL 7.9 cannot mount an XFS ...
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Use free space to make a new filesystem
How would I go about using 50G of the free space from vg_root to make a new filesystem and then use that for /home
nifle@rhel8box3 ~
$ sudo lsblk
[sudo] password for nifle:
NAME MAJ:MIN ...
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linux + is it possible to understand when filesystem was created on disk
is it possible to understand , when filesystem was created on disk ( date and time )
we try the following ( on sdb disk )
tune2fs -l /dev/sdb | grep time
Last mount time: Mon Aug 1 19:17:...
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lsblk + how to print only the disks that are without filesystem
we want to print only the disks that are without filesystem by command line
from following example we can see that sde disk is without filesystem
lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE
NAME FSTYPE
sda
├─...
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wipefs + disk not cleaned
we erased the disk signature as the following ( this is after we performed umount )
wipefs -a /dev/sde
/dev/sde: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000438 (ext4): 53 ef
then we check that disk is ...
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Which "file system type" to choose in "parted" for an LVM volume?
Running RHEL 8, the parted utility asks for a "File system type" for the partition being created.
If I plan to use LVM which should I choose? does it matter or I can choose any type of file ...
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RHEL 7.9 Help: Why do I get differences between lsblk and df
I have resized recently the rhel-root partition of my RHEL 7.9 system, basically I did the following commands:
pvresize /dev/sda2
lvextend -l+100%FREE /dev/rhel/root
I was able to resize the ...
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what is the right way to scan/search for words within file, on RHEL (Gnu/Linux)
We want to scan for words on our Gnu/Linux machine.
A simple way is for example with grep
grep -r "some_word" /var
However in the case we want to scan the whole filesystem, then we can't do ...
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rhel + root file-system is filling, despite no large files or directories
I want to share the following strange behavior on our rhel 7.6 server
root file system is almost full ( used 95% ) , when root file system size is 100G
we can see that folders that belong to root file ...
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