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Access network share without mapping drive letter (PowerShell)

I want to access a remote SMB network share \\SHARE-HOST\ without mapping a drive letter. I can manually do it in windows by typing \\SHARE-HOST\Share_folder\ in explorer. If I want to do it programatically I have to use the net use command. This…
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How can I connect a SAS drive to USB?

I have a Dell T710 with Seagate Cheetah 15k.7 SAS disks. If the T710 motherboard dies, I'll need to resort to one of my nightly off-site backups and salvage the journal/logfile from the SAS disk to bring the backup bang up-to-date. I need a way…
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How do I mount sub-directory to a hard drive in Linux?

Let us assume that I have two hard drives (A,B) and have the following directories: /var/www /var/www/upload Currently if I upload a file to /var/www OR /var/www/upload ; it will be saved in drive A. How do I make the folder /var/www/upload point…
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Do empty drive bays need to be filled?

I have a Dell R610 server, which has 6 2.5" drive bays. These all came empty. Generally, when I see pictures, all of the drive bays contain either drives or empty mounts. At first, I thought it would be unnecessary to have unused mounts. However, I…
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resume file copy linux

How do I resume a copy of a large file in linux? I have a huge file (serveral gigabyes) partially copied to a network drive, and it took a long time, and it was mostly done before the copy operation stopped due to a network problem that is now…
Andrew Johnson
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The difference between desktop-series HDD drives and server-series

What are the main differences between desktop-series hard disks and server-series? The obvious things I can see are: durability (server hardware mostly more qualitative and have more warranty) and power consumption (server hardware more focused on…
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moving to a larger drive in linux

I've got a linux box that's running out of space, on a non-root volume drive. What's the best way to move to a larger drive? I figure I boot to single user mode, format, mount the new drive, do some magical copy command that preserves links,…
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primary partition limit on Linux

I'm going to buy a server to host an Oracle database. The server will be running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The server will have 6 hard drives. I know there is a limit of 4 primary partitions in Linux. Here is my question: Is the 4 partition…
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Use NET USE to mount a network drive as read only

I'm using the following code to mount a network drive in a script that configures desktop icons and favorites by copying them when the user logs into windows. NET USE W: \\Server\Files\IT\auto /user:"DOMAIN\username" "password" I have read the…
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USB drive changes name from /dev/sdb to /dev/sdc (and back again) when copying?

I have a usb drive mounted to a folder in an Ubuntu 9.04 server installation. The mount options are stored in /etc/fstab for easy mounting/dismounting: # /dev/sdb1 …
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Map PCIe slot number (or BDF) to device number or vice versa

Is there any way to know the drive number from BDF or slot number of a PCIe or vice versa? Suppose I have four PCIe drives attached to my system. And I know their BDF's, I want to know each of the drives corresponding drive number in OS.…
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Same hard drive problems in dmesg on several servers

We have a couple of these SuperMicro MicroCloud units. In total we've got 16 servers (2x8) which all randomly spew these messages in dmesg: [4661350.802707] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED [4661350.802734] ata2.00: cmd…
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What is the best way to copy 9TB of data to multiple external drives, sequentially?

The data is currently stored in a 9TB RAID array, with many users having many files and directories. We'd like to back it up to five 2TB external hard drives, but since we only have one free USB port, this must be done sequentially. This means that…
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How to restore or recover a Logical Drive (RAID 5) on HP Proliant DL380 G6 (Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard)?

I have shutdown the server to replace one failed SCSI HDD (Port 2i: Box 1 : Bay 7) running on RAID 5. The rebuilding for the RAID was completed successfully. However, I noticed the Logical Local Drive F is still not accessible (as per Picture 1).…
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Btrfs Raid10 Two drives have failed. What are my options?

Here's my story: I noticed read errors on one of my four RAID10 Btrfs drives (/dev/sde). This occurred when I was attempting a backup using btrfs send/receive. I bought a new hard drive of the same size and attempted to replace the failed one. I…
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