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Questions tagged [partition-table]

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How bad is it really to install Linux on one big partition?

We will be running CentOS 7 on our new server. We have 6 x 300GB drives in raid6 internal to the server. (Storage is largely external in the form of a 40TB raid box.) The internal volume comes to about 1.3TB if formatted as a single volume. Our…
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How long does gpart scan take?

After losing the partition table of a 2TB HDD disk i run gpart to find the lost partition. Immediately after program start, it starts to scan the drive automatically. Since over 30h. So the question is, how long does this scan take? The drive is…
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Partitioning - Is 5% reserved blocks required/recommended?

I'm performing a new Ubuntu Server installation, on hardware RAID 10, 6 x 1.72TB SSD, total space to partition is 5.8TB. The server is going to be used for KVM virtualisation. I've allocated 500MB for /boot ext4 2GB for swap Leaving 5.8T for /…
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Accidentally overwrote first 400MB of hard drive with ext3 partition - possible to rescue?

Accidentally wrote /dev/zero to the first 371MB of a 500GB disk. Is it possible to rebuild the partition table and/or recover what data hasn't been overwritten?
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I have a NTFS partition now the size of the partition seems to be wrong. Is there an easy way to fix this?

So I I resized a partition and now the partition table seems like it is screwed up. I am running Windows 7. When I open the "Disk Management" The table at the top of the screen show the disk as 139GB. Down below, in the graphical partition…
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linux - how to list partitions of specific type?

I am looking for a way to list all partitions of a specific type on linux. (Specifically: all EFI system partitions). I know blkid can filter on filesystem type: the command blkid -t TYPE=vfat returns the correct results, but is not very robust:…
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Force unmount of a partition shared through NFS but not used

Not sure if it's better suited for superuser of unix&linux boards, let me know. We have a server which is one of the main key points of a somehow large architecture. This server has a backup disk which was not used, although it hosted very old…
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Why would my servers be losing partition tables?

Over three consecutive days, three of our servers have lost their partition tables. Two of the machines were running linux and the third was a windows machine and all of these servers are on an internal network. It seems unlikely to be the work of a…
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Lost Partition on x3650

I have a RAID6 array with 1 logical drive. 3.7TB. The partition has been lost. I've tried several program to recover the partition. The most promising of the bunch was MiniTool Partition Wizard. It found the partition, and you could preview the file…
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recover a damaged partition table with ext4 fs

I have an external 2TB HD, that should have only one ext4 partition but the partition table is damaged and I'd love to rebuild/restore the partition. Things ain't that easy so here's the longer version. I had problems with my NAS and did a backup…
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Scientific Linux: RAID5 unaccessible after netboot by mistake

A server running old scientific linux 6.0 suffered damage from an enabled netboot during reboot by trying to load some crap from an application server in the same subnet (I saw him stuck somewhere in an old novell setup procedure). Reboot ends in a…
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Changing partition table, Centos 6.3 on Hetzner Server

I got from Hetzner a Server with Centos 6.3 + Plesk (2x3TB Software Raid 1), but the disk partition table is in MS-DOS format with no support for more than 2TB partitions. I want to change the partition table into GPT format to get one big…
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Back up system partition table

I'm tring to back up the partition table of a Linux Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Actually I'm making the tests with Virtualized machines (VirtualBox). And I have one source system in a virtual disk, another virtual machine as the rescue system, and another…
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AWS EC2 /dev/nvme1n1 mounted without partition table

I have an EC2 server on nitro system (c6g.2xl) where I have attached a 2nd volume. This is a web hosting environment and the disk is regularly increased in size. For some reason I accidentally mounted the disk on - what I would call - the "partition…
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Connect Access 2016 to remote SQL Server - SQL Server Error 17

Good morning, I am trying to connect to a SQL server from a remote machine, with ACCESS 2016, using the "External data" option. Both are on the same network. It is important to note that I am connected as a domain verified user. I create a new…
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