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Expand or shrink striped array in Windows?
I plan to replace 2 of my HDDs (let's call them A & B, they're not in RAID) with 2 larger HDDs (C & D) in software RAID 0 (Striped volume in Windows). The one problem I have is that my case ...
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How much space does a Linux software RAID1 REALLY occupy on its component devices?
A precise answer to this question is important when shrinking the array and its components.
As an example, I have a RAID1 /dev/md0 set up on two partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1.
Both fdisk and /...
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I want to collect system information using bat file
I hope you all are doing well. Help me please.
I want to collect system information using bat file like:
List of Software
OS information
System Hardware details.
I had some code which collects the ...
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Restore linux partition table of one raid0 drive after accidentally installing windows over it
How the problem arrose:
So I made a very stupid mistake yesterday. I installed windows 10 on the wrong harddrive (I didn't expect the installation to start right after choosing the drive). After ...
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Can't add unallocated 2nd drive to C:\ in either striped or spanned volume
I was playing with getting rid of my BIOS RAID 0 and using AHCI. This would destroy the RAID 0 meaning I'd have to create a software RAID with Windows.
After converting to AHCI and doing a clean ...
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Linux Partition full but it is really not
I experienced a weird phenomenon right after the installation of Debian 9. It seems like my 2To /home partition (sdc1) is already full though I don't have much things in it yet
root@ripper:/home/...
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How to convert a software RAID 1 partition to non-RAID partition?
RAID is not a backup, they say, but only now I can see that what I really need is an (external) backup.
So, I would like to convert a (software) RAID-1 partition to a non-RAID partition (ext4) in my ...
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mdadm, Device or resource busy when adding sda
Trying to create a raid1 on a live system following this article: http://guylabs.ch/2013/09/17/create-a-software-raid1-with-mdadm-on-an-active-ubuntu-13-04-hard-drive/comment-page-1/
uname =a
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Keep linux software RAID 1 after OS change
Currently I've configured software RAID 1 on ubuntu machine. However I am planning to add SSD drive just for the OS and keep my main 2 HDD for the storage with RAID. The question is, can I put now ...
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Add space from 3TB unto 4TB using raid, how?
I would like to expand my 4 TB drive by adding on drive space from my 3 TB drive. I assume this is possible in a raid configuration by resizing the partion on the 3 TB to free space then using ...
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LVM while mdadm is creating a RAID6
So earlier today I was setting up a new server and creating a RAID6 array with mdadm. I then decided to create a physical and logical volume with LVM while it was running and throw on ext4. So before ...
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Is it possible to create software Raid array with operating system partition included?
I know that software raid array can be created in the OS it self. But my question is, Is it possible to create a software raid array including partition which is having Operating System installed ? Or ...
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Linux software RAID 10 on mixed drives - alignment
I have 4 2.5" 7.2k drives lying about and I'd like to build some RAID arrays for a bit of VM storage on my KVM lab box.
There are 2x 320GB drives and 2x 500GB drives. I'm looking to create a RAID 10 ...
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SDcard /dev/sdb2 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here
I divided my sdcard into 2 partitions, but It got an error and couldn't create a new partition.
Error:
/dev/sdb2 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
My /dev/...
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Adding sda1 vs. sda to a linux software raid
I'm running a Linux md software RAID 6 on several USB hard-drives. Each drive is partitioned to contain one partition of type fd (linux raid). My RAID is built on these partitions, i.e. it uses sda1, ...
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RAID on partitions or devices
I plan to create a software-only Linux MD RAID10 array from two identical 1TB discs (using mdadm). Should I create it directly on the two disc devices (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) or create a partition in ...
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How can I delete soft/motherboard RAID 1 from a different computer?
I have a drive. It was part of a RAID 1 mirror on a motherboard-based raid controller (nVidia controller on an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe), which, if I understand correctly, is considered to be "soft" raid, ...
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Update grub for whole disks added to software raid
I have a raid-1 running under rhel6 (/dev/md0) that is mapped to /. It contains two unpartitioned disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). I'd like to be able to boot from either disk. But grub won't let me ...
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RAID-1 in RHEL 6; can't get partitioning on identical devices to look identical
I have a RHEL 6 fileserver. It contains two identical 2TB SATA drives. Both are supposed to contain one partition that takes up all the space on the drive (and this used to be the case). When I had ...
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Reformat soft RAID-5 Ubuntu
I built a linux (Ubuntu) box a year ago and decided to have some fun and use a soft RAID 5. I followed the instructions here.
Things seemed to work fine, but now it's time to reformat the computer ...
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How can I deal with a full striped volume?
I created a striped logical volume in Windows 7 x86 that is across 3 x 2TB drives. It's almost completely full, and I smacked my forehead when I realized today that you apparently cannot add drives to ...
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Partitioning 2 SSDs of different capacity for RAID 1
I have two SSDs. One has 64G the other is 32G of size.
I'd like to create a RAID 1 configuration with Linux (it would be a software RAID), and I'm wondering if what I'm planning is possible or wise:
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misaligned raid partition in Ubuntu 10.04
I attached two identical hard drives to my linux machine. Then using gparted I formated the first 1024 mb at the beginning of each drive as linux swap space.
Then I went into system->administration->...
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