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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I m not sure if this is a right question to ask .
During the installation of the OS, installation sw does partitioning for you.
I m not quit sure if they have used parted or fdisk to partition the disk.
(If they are using fdisk then you can't make partition > 2Tb )correct me if i m wrong.Also... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinga123
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2. Red Hat
Hi Everyone,
I have added new Virtual disk to OS. The main point is I need to bring this whole Disk into LVM control, is it necessary to partition the disk using fdisk command and assign partition type as '8e', or can I directly add that disk into LVM, by running pvcreate command with out... (2 Replies)
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3. Linux
Hi all,
I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a loopback device to be used as my virtual hard disk. After creating the loop back hard disk and mounting it... (23 Replies)
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4. Red Hat
I'm new to Linux 5, going through initial phases of installation and setting up devices, etc,, and much to my surprise discovered also an existence of a 2nd hard drive to try to initialize and partition perhaps using any built-in command i.e. "fdisk" or similar, but I couldn't get the command to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: su
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5. Solaris
Hi all,
we have an existing system that was configured using just one of the (two) internal disks. I want to mirror the disk using SVM, but have realised there is no free slice for creating the metadb's. Is there a workaround I can use for this?
In the past we have always kept slice 7 free -... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: badoshi
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6. Solaris
Total disk size is 38912 cylinders
Cylinder size is 32130 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: seyiisq
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a Sun box running Solaris 9.
My root disk was slices too small when it was installed and I am now at 99% capacity for my root partition.
Is it possible, and if so how?, to increase the size of slice 0 and decrease the size of slice 7??
Thanks!
Current partition table... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: FredSmith
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8. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
Hi
I have 2 75GB SCSI hard drives and 2 250GB SATA hard drives which are using RAID Level 1 respectively. I wana have both FTP and Apache installed on them as services. I'm wondering what's the best partitioning schem? I wana use FC3 as my OS, so, I thought I can use the 75GB hard drive as the /... (0 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
To run UNIX, can the hard disk be partitioned so I could use that part for UNIX and the other for my existing Windows '98? At the moment there are hard drives C: & D:. Also, where can I obtain the UNIX software?.....Your response is appreciated. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hpin
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How do I create new disk slices taking space from an existing slice? Right now I have slice 6 (/usr) with 16G. I'd like to create slices 5 (/opt) and 7 (/export/home) and steal space from slice 6.
Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kmgrady01
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