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Is there any reason to use multiple partitions with a hardware raid?
Suppose you have a server with a hardware raid controller configured for Raid 1 (so if one of the hard disks goes bad, the other essentially acts as failover until you can replace the failed disk).
I ...
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I have an ext3 iso disk image. Can I use it and write it to a ext4 partition?
Is it possible to do so ?
I am migrating to EXT4 because of the SSD drive that has TRIM funtion. I have to have ext4 partion.
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mkfs destroys the partition table of disk images?
the problem
it seems mkfs destroys the partition table of disk images
event sequence to document the behavior
parallels@ubuntu:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1M count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 ...
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Did I screw up my USB stick? And if not, how can I fix it?
Basically, I am doing various tests with Linux/BSD and USB booting at the moment.
I had a live CD for a firewall that offered to partition a (hard) disk. I tried to use my flash drive for this - It ...
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HD external, Filesystem damage, file list not showing after do hibernate [closed]
comment:
nb:hd=harddisk
my hd label kiomiiro-nii (upper case) size from box 750 Gb
but in propeties 698 gb.
i always use fix drive letter using M: for this hdexternal
(i dont have a backup because i ...
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Tons of problems trying to make Windows 7 bootable again
I'm not particularly experienced with Linux and I'm having some troubles which I'm hoping somebody can help me with. I've been trying to fix a stupid mistake I made for the last few days and have ...
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how to find the unpartitoned space in linux?
I need to test partitioning but it risky because it might delete or overwrite an existing prtition or delete existing data.
how can i check the unpartitioned space.
these are the details from ...
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gparted crashed during a resize; what are my options?
I was in the process of resizing an NTFS partition on my 2TB data drive (increasing its size, moving it all the way to the beginning of the disk) when gparted unexpectedly terminated at perhaps 66% ...
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Why sizes are different, and what do they mean?
I have a 1 TB hard drive that consists of one NTFS partition which I use to back up my data (no operating system). The size of all the data in it is : 726 GB, size on disk: 728 GB, and the used space ...
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Reboot while repartitioning HDD left me with corrupt files
I'm trying to get used to the feeling that I might never be able to recover my lost files. Meanwhile, I'll try to explain the situation, hoping that someone might suggest a solution:
My HDD is made ...
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Partitions not showing after installing Windows 7
Yesterday, I installed the Windows 7. I found out that my other disks (partitions) automatically disappeared from my computer and only showing C disk.
I tried to defragment, hide/unhide the disk, ...
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Is there a Linux CLI tool to resize ext3 partition without data loss in simple step?
There are plenty of tools like parted and fdisk but all of them are not very user friendly. Something like Partition Magic but for CLI Linux? Something that automatically will adjust partition table, ...
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Parted: resize partition without resizing filesystem
Can parted resize a partition without resizing the underlying filesystem?
Currently, it prints a warning:
WARNING: you are attempting to use parted to operate on (resize) a file system. parted's ...
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1answer
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Why should I make a separate partition for /tmp?
A few years ago I installed Debian which is my favorite OS. There are many things in this system which I still don't understand.
For instance:
why should I make separate partitions for /tmp, ...
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Am I right thinking that UEFI and GPT eliminate all the sector size related problems?
Am I right thinking that UEFI and GPT completely deprecate all the CHS/MBR legacy and eliminate all the sector size related problems (alignment, max drive size, etc.) as well as partitioning ...
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Partition WD Elements 2.5inch drive for Windows, Linux and Mac [closed]
I just purchased a 500GB Western Digital Elements external drive. I haven't started using it yet so would like to know what's the best way to partition and format it for Windows (NTFS), Linux (EXT) ...
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Unknown undeleteable, unformattable partition
I had two partitions on my hard drive labeled as unknown in gParted that showed up out of nowhere. I use 3 OS's on my computer, Windows which I just recently deleted, Backtrack5, and Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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File system concepts (df command)
I'm finding it difficult to understand some stuffs about the df command. Suppose I type df and I have the following output
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
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fat and ext partitions on same drive, readable by Windows
I have a flash drive with a Debian installation on it, with lots of partitions (however many it makes if you choose all separate during installation). Anyways, what I want to do is create a FAT ...
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How to increase the partition space for my local active drive… without formatting?
I want to increase my local disk drive i.e C: partiton space..
I dont want to format my drive and do partition...
Is there any way to avoid formatting.. and increase the partition space in C: ?
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how to convert NTFS to ext4 in windows?
I want to convert one partition of my windows which is NTFS (or can be FAT32) to a linux file system partitioning?
I'm looking for some tools or ways to do it for me!
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What are some essential applications of partitioning a hard drive? [closed]
I would like to know more about why one would bother making partitions on a hard drive. I understand that you might want to dual boot your machine, but are there more interesting applications to ...
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Filesystem compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 and Windows 7
I have a laptop that installed with hackintosh (OSX 10.7) and Windows 7. I already created with 3 partitions with GUID partition table. Mac using Extended (Journaled), and windows 7 using NTFS.
The ...
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How can I make multiple physical hard drives appear as a single partition?
I'm writing a basic media server where people can upload/download my content. I have 8 2TB hard drives where I would like to store their uploaded files. Problem is navigating a file system that I want ...
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How do I shrink an SD Card image?
I imaged a 16 GB SD card using the dd command. The card however, does not have more than 4 GB of data on it across 2 partitions (FAT32 & ext3).
I would like to transfer this image on to a 8GB SD ...
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How to create HFS+ partition on Windows 7 machine
I'm running Windows 7 and I would like to partition my D: volume and make it HFS+, but I cannot find any tool that will accomplish this.
Has anyone done this before? Is it possible? I have EaseUS ...
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Magic Number of Linux partitions
I want to know the magic number of the current partitions and also the procedure of changing the magic number for the file system types.
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Windows (XP, Vista, 7) - Disable prompt to format unknown partitions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable “you need to format this disk” message in Windows Vista/7?
I use external hard disks a lot, and sometimes they are formatted as disk types ...
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How to fix partition table ordering?
I was going to install a completely fresh Linux distribution (Mageia) and I saw it as an opportunity to reorganize my partitions. I wanted all my non-Linux (Windows, restore, etc) partitions at the ...
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Why don't I need to format and partition a CD or DVD before writing files to it?
Every time that I need to use a Flash USB drive, SD card or a HDD I must format it and create a partition before using it, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, etc. So this makes me raise some doubts:
Why ...
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Unable to create filesystem on new partition - Amazon EC2 instance
I created a new partition /dev/xvda1p1 on linux amazon ami.
After that i am unable to create a filesystem.
What is the issue?
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda1: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 ...
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Linux - how to format multiple file systems within one file?
I need to create a disk image with two empty file systems. I have created it using
dd if=/dev/zero of=./disk.img bs=1MiB count=1024
Next, I have created 2 primary partitions using fdisk disk.img; ...
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How to open/read files on different partition? C in Linux
From the command line, I want to do cat on a txt file on a different partition, how can I do that?
I mount the drive manually and from the command line, I type: (this case, abc.txt in f drive)
cat ...
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What format does a partition have to be in order to boot linux off of it?
I am using disk utility to partition an external hard disk. My intention is to boot linux off of the partition. However, I am unsure of which format to make the partition. Disk Utility in OS X only ...
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Inconsistency with Debian filesystem, shows no free space even when I have 145 GB space free
I have a 200+GB HDD. I have set up Debian Squeeze 6 in following manner:
I have been seeing an error message saying I have run out of disk space. I used disk usage analyzer and I found that out of ...
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Calculate minimum ext3 partition size for certain amount of data
These following ext3 partitions contain identical data. As we can see, the larger the partition size, the more space is required for the same files:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available ...
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Difference between File system created by fdisk and file system created by mkfs - linux
I'm a little bit confused with partitioning the filesystem in Linux.
Please tell me the difference between creating the file system with fdisk and mkfs (when formatting the disk).
I can't clearly ...
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Where are files in the Recycle Bin stored, in respect of partitions?
I understand that the Recycle Bin is shared amongst local drives (partitions). When a file is "deleted" and sent to the Recycle Bin, does the file itself stay on the partition it was in prior to ...
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Criteria for low disk space warning on XP?
According to this article, it says the low disk space warning appears when there is less than 200MB of disk space. However, I find this not to be the case. Two test examples:
1) I create a 3GB ...
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How to merge ext4 partition containing data with unallocated partition?
I'm installing Windows to update my BIOS. I've removed a previous partition but I can't merge free partition to my original partition. How to solve this problem? I don't want to format the ext4 ...
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Can two Linux installations share the same /home partition?
I am currently using OpenSuse 11.4 and Windows XP in laptop. I was planning to remove the Windows and switch to install Kubuntu. My current situation is that I have my root (/) and /home partition ...
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resize2fs seems stuck at pass 3 (scanning inode table) - what to do?
I have a machine running Arch Linux (2010, I believe) with a 6TB RAID-5 array hooked up to a Highpoint RocketRaid 2320. I've been having issues with the RAID controller's drivers and the latest Linux ...
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What filesystem is Wubi?
I want to convert by Wubi Ubuntu install to a partition. But what filesystem is it? Which should I use?
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Resize partition failed (XP) - can I get the data back?
A customer resized a Windows partition to make the C drive bigger and the D drive smaller. I don't know how, or with what software, but it failed and now the D drive is unreadable in Windows. The ...
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is this an overlapping partition? and how do I fix it?
I am using Ubuntu and wanted to clone my HD with the dd command.
I have used it before but this time I got an error message:
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by ...
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create replica of ext4 filesystem and re-use it
Is there a way that I can use my Linux ext4 file system, as such and then use it on some other computer.
I have a dual-boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 and my partition table looks like this:
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How do I identify the file system used on a partition?
Let's say I have a disk which has undergone corruption and I can't boot it anymore.
How can I identify out the file system that has been used for the disk partition in an easy way?
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ext3: maximum recommended partition size / handling large partitions
I would like to do an encrypted install of Ubuntu on a 2 Terabyte drive (i.e., using LUKS/DMcrypt).
In order to not have to type in passwords too often, the partitioning scheme will be 50 GB for / and ...
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Partitioning an External HDD
I have an external hard drive and I want to partition it into 2 partitions which are EXT4 and NTFS.
Is that OK with this kind of partitioning and is there a problem with partitioning an external hard ...
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Repartition hard drive using Mac OS X, keep existing data
I got a 1 TB disk a year or so ago and loaded it with some hundred of GB of data. I somehow neglected to check the file system, which turns out to be FAT-32 and thus too small for files bigger than 4 ...
