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shrink live mdadm partition with LVM

My goal is to shrink an mdadm RAID 1 partition while the system is running. I have to disks sda and sdb, which build my two RAID partitions md0 and md1. On md1 I use LVM, md0 is the /boot partition. I already reduced the size of the LVM physical…
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Resizing partition with DiskPart using desired and minimum options is unsuccessful

I have a few systems I want to shrink the primary (and only) partition to about half of the disk and then create a new partition in the newly available space. The disks are 500GB. I want to script it, so I am using diskpart; however, I have issues…
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How to shrink Linux partition (sda2, type is Linux LVM)

I have sda disk with 2 partitions. The second partition sda2(which is LVM) is 1.4TB in size and want to shrink to 50GB. I reduced Logical volume to 50GB but when I run vgdisplay it shows Free PE / Size 1.33 TiB. I want this free space to have sda…
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Should I consider shrinking or truncating a big LDF file?

I apologize for asking a question that gets asked a lot. I have a database that has an 80GB LDF file. MDF is 230MB. I have never shrunk or truncated the database. I do not know much about shrink and truncate. It is a SQL Server 2008 R2…
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How do I shrink an EBS volume on Windows Server 2008?

I have a Windows Server 2008 instance on EC2. I need to shrink one of the drives (non-root) to a certain amount. Is there are well defined way of doing it? Thanks
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resize2fs shrinking very slow

I tried to shrink a 60TB ext4 to 50TB and it takes about one week to finish. I know that should take much time but it's very slow even my disks underlying are RAID0. After some research, it seems many people meet this performance bottleneck. Are…
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shrink LVM (not XFS) to use for guest nodes (KVM)

I have /homemountpoint (Type=LVM). how can I reduce/home` from 418G to 200G and use remaining disk space for guest(KVM) Node? because XFS can not be shrunk (). localhost home]$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme0n1 …
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Shrinking overprovisioned thin disks

We have a VCenter with some data storages, one of them is 10 TB. The issue is that the former sysadmins created many VM's with thin provisioned disks of 8 TB. Right now, the provisioned storage is close to 100 TB and the real used space is below 100…
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Shrink a Windows VM in XenServer

I faced a problem. I deployed a VM by size of 500GB on Citrix XenServer and now I want to shrink it, because I don't have enough space for snapshots. Now I want to perform an export/import to do this. I'm wondering if it's possible to import the OVF…
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Is it a good idea to compress a MS SQL database backup?

Quick question! I heard that we should never shrink our databases. However, does the same rules apply to compressing our SQL backup? Thanks
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Individual Customer Backup from Multi Customer DB

We have a multi customer database, that's about 95gb in size. One of the customers is requesting a monthly backup of their data. We have a script that strips out all records from all tables that are not related to the specified ID. So we restore…
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Microsoft SC VMM 2008 R2 doesn't have option to compact virtual hard disk

I can't figure out how to shrink a VHD using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Viewing the article Shrink your VHD size seems like this would be simple to do. However I don't see any of those check boxes that article…
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How to truncate SQL Server log file

I tried to shink database log file but it is still huge. My database is 200mb and log is 30Gb USE [databasename]; BACKUP LOG [databasename] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY; DBCC SHRINKFILE ('databasename_log', 1, TRUNCATEONLY); Does not help much. Even after…
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Shrink Partition on Production Server

Our production server was only set up with one large partition. I have set up a standby server and properly partitioned it. Now the boss wants the production environment's partition shrunk. It is an HP DL380 G6 We have 4 hot swap drives in a RAID 5…
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How to reallocate space between two LVM VGs?

I have two disk partitions, say sda1 and sda2, each containing a VG. sda1 -> VG_SYS sda2 -> VG_GUESTS VG_SYS has a number of LV, one for every partition I needed. The problem is that VG_SYS has gone out of space (or better, partitions made on its…
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