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GNU Parted is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions

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Extended/Logical partition with parted

I have already partition/installed server and its partition is like following # parted -l Model: ATA TOSHIBA THNSNJ51 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 512GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End …
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How to extending a partition onto a new drive in Ubuntu Server

I have a VPS which was installed by my hosting provider. Recently I ran out of space on the original 100GB drive and so they have now allocated an additional 100GB drive to me. I would like to expand the partition over the new drive so that the…
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Need to expand LV and partition LUN

I am fairly new with this. I read many about expanding to the back of the current partition but how do I expand partition to the front of the disk. I need to keep the data on it as it is 1/4 part of a striped LV. Also the storage on a IBM DS3512…
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4 TB external disk on Centos 5

I have an old server running CentOS 5(Kernel 2.6.18-92.el5). It is running a legacy application so I can't retire it yet. I had connected a 2 TB USB disk to it to take backups and the disk is almost full right now. I bought a new 4 TB disk but the…
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Copying parition tables (only) on two GPT HDDs of 4TB each

I have two hdds of 4TB each on CentOS 7. I need to copy partitions of one to the other so that I can use the second to take periodic backups from the first. Tried sgdisk using -R option but it did not help, while parted was able to read correctly…
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Centos 6 partition raid

Firstly, I am 20 years windows user. Recently, i decided move to unix and buy a centos server for my work. Today, i found that I missed a 3TB disk drive, it does not show on my system. I dont know how to describe it, so please see bellow: lsblk NAME…
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resizing a Debian linux partition without losing data

i have made by mistake a small partition partion on my Debian installation and after installing openvz on this bare metal server i notice that i created production vps on this partion and that it reached 100% this is df -h result : Sys. fich. …
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Increase partition size in debian server

I have a debian server instance and I need to increase the root partition size of it. I installed the parted program and took a backup first. Then I attached another 2GB volume to the instance. When I run "df" command it gives me this…
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How to create two partitions with same size?

I created two partitions using the following commands. parted /dev/sda --script -- mkpart primary 1 50001 parted /dev/sda --script -- mkpart primary 1948001 1998001 Each partition should have 50001 MB. However, when I use "partclone" trying to copy…
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lvm-managed gpt partition: partition length exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum

CentOS 6.4 /dev/sdb is a hardware raid. I'm getting this error reported from 'parted -l': Model: JetStor JetStor -VOL#000 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 39.0TB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End …
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Is there a tool that can take partition table information and partition another based on it?

Is there a tool that can read the partitioning information of a disk and partition another disk based on that information? I don't know whether parted for instance can partition a disk based on a script, or whether there is a tool that can read a…
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no special files in /dev/ after partition created with parted

I've created two partitions with parted: mklabel gpt mkpart primary ext4 1 80% mkpart primary ext4 80% -1 after reboot these are properly shown parted /dev/sdc print Model: easyRAID Q12 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 4999GB Sector size (logical/physical):…
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parted subtracting partition size 16896 from size given

When I create a partition using parted(mkpart) giving unit as Bytes, it is creating "size given - 16896" byte sized partition. Is there any specific reason to less 16896 bytes from the partition size(in bytes) given? Here, after creating a…
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GNU Parted and Small Spaces Between Partitions

I wanted to install Slackware on my MacBook Pro (6,2). Because MBP's use GPT instead of MBR, I need to use parted prior to running the installer. I wanted to use LVM, but I cannot even get that far. When creating a partition, I get small bits of…
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resize "shrink" an .img file from the command line

Shrink an .img file from the command line I need to be able to shrink the .img for use on other drives. I can do this using gparted, but do not always have a GUI, so I want to translate the gparted step below into parted to be verbose, here is my…
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