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Always reserve blocks for super user when formatting a file system in Linux? Even for data only partitions?

When formatting a large partition (10TB) that will hold only application data, does it make sense to have 'reserved for the super user' space? 122065906 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user My gut says 'no', but a professional system…
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Slow disk formatting in Windows 2008 x64 running as a guest on VMWare ESXi 4 build-208167

I have a windows 2008 64 bit server running as a guest on VMWare ESXi 4 Update 01 build-208167 which runs on top of an HP Server with SAS RAID 5 disks. It is performing well with 3 GB RAM. I wanted more storage so I added another virtual disk to the…
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Not able to format root partition in Arch Linux installation because already labelled

I am installing Arch Linux on a previously Windows machine. I have created the partitions, with root on sda1, and now I am trying to format it with mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1, but it's not liking that. Apparently the partition already has a label…
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Formatted capacity of a Sandisk Fusion-IO Card?

I'm interested in buying some 6.4 TB Fusion IO SX300 cards. They will be formatted as NTFS 64 Kb cluster size with Windows Server. My question is what will the actual usable space be once the drives are formatted with a filesystem on top? Does…
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Quick format of LUN in Server 2012(R2) hosted on a Thin provisioned SAN vol takes ages

I've now experienced this issue with 3 different storage vendors, using 3 different CNA adapters (all FCoE though), so I'm fairly sure this issue is not isolated to a specific storage vendor (seen on HP 3PAR, EMC VNX and HDS G1000(). When we add a…
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Formatting tables

Through the use of several code snippets here and in VMware's website, I've created the following code that works: Connect-ViServer server $body = Get-Folder -name vm | Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select Name, VM, SizeMb, Created | Out-String…
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In PowerShell, how can I parse a preformatted output?

Is there existing tooling to take text-based output and pipe it to a dynamic object that can be queried as columns? Specifically, I'm invoking .. query session /server:MYSERVER .. which is outputting .. SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID…
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"Disk volume is write-protected" error when formatting

I have an Infortrend EonStor A16F-G2430 RAID-6 connected to Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine via Fiber Channel QLogic 2Gb PCI-X adapter. I am able to initialize the 8.5TB storage as GPT, and able to create a simple partition spanning the entire…
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NTFS or FAT32:Formatting Disk for PFSense

Im a network guy, and know very little about system administration. I would like to install PFSense and Monowall to 2 CF Cards, but not sure how they should be formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and volume size. Both of the cards are 8 gigs. I was also…
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Ubuntu server Logs to email want to keep formatting in email.. ( new lines where required, etc )

want to send log files from Ubuntu Server via email using sendemail but the when I do all the text in the email is all in one big mess ( one space between words new lines and spacing not brought into email ) .. no neat format ? How do I fix…
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Windows Server Backup for 2008 R2

When restoring a Windows Server Backup for 2008 R2, there is the option to format the drives. However, that formats them at the standard cluster size of 4K. Is there a way to change that during restore? This is a SQL Database Server and the…
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Is there any standard log format that includes time taken to serve the request? Can i just add it without breaking standard logfile parsers?

I would like to log the %D and %O log format strings in apache 2. They are the time taken to serve a request in microseconds and the total bytes sent. This is useful to generate stats of the server file serving speeds and see whether connectivity…
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What's the quickest way to format a drive (USB, HDD, Floppy) under Linux?

I had fdisk segfault and just wondered if anyone had any other options? EDIT: It was late and that was a dumb question. Good answer though!
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Partition device missing after partitioning LV with sfdisk

I've successfully partitioned a logical volume (/dev/dm-2) using sfdisk and fdisk -l now reports there to be a partition /dev/dm-2p1 as desired. However, this device does not seem to exist in /dev/ and I'm unsure why/where to find it so that I can…
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how to low-level format a hard disk using AIX?

I have a server with AIX 6.1 , I formated some hdisks using diag tool, but in some way some of its VGDA survived. how may I low-level format a hard disk using AIX? or how may I clear the VGDA of a specific hdisk? thanks
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