I have a disk from another server installed on a new server. However, when I try to make a filesystem on it, mkfs reports # mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdd1 mke2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) /dev/sdd1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here! This is a new disk to the new server.
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How to make a swap partition
Posted onHow to make a swap partition on Linux? First, make a new partition (or reuse an existing one if you like). I suggest using cfdisk to create it: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-cfdisk/ Then, turn the new partition (say, /dev/sdc1) to a swap # mkswap /dev/sdc1 Lastly, turn it on # swapon /dev/sdc1 You can check whether its status
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Making GPT Partition Table and Creating Partitions Using parted in Linux
Posted onMy best favorite disk partition table manipulation tools are cfdisk/fdisk on Linux. However, for large disks, cfdisk/fdisk (of the versions by this post is written) will just give up with a message suggesting GPT partition table format and using GNU parted like WARNING: The size of this disk is 6.0 TB (6001042391040 bytes). DOS partition
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Extending Mounted Ext4 File System on LVM in Linux
Posted onLVM is a great tool to manage hard disks on Linux—you can abstract the hard drives away and manage logical volumes from volume groups, you can dynamically add or remove hard drives while the file systems on the logical volumes need not to backed up and recovered, and you may create many snapshots of the
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