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Wikipedia - Disk Partitioning

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How to find out mount/partition a directory or file is on? (Linux Server)

Is there a Linux command to easily find out which partition/mount a directory or file is on? (This is probably a RTM question, and I feel guilty for asking it, but somehow, I can't find a good answer on google just yet..)
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unable to resize root partition on EC2 centos

i created my EC2 Machine using Community Image of Centos 6.3 x64. i have added a 35 GB disk. Now when i do #df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 7.9G 1.2G 6.4G 16% / tmpfs 7.3G 0 …
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Trying to resize2fs EB volume fails

I have a 200GB EBS volume and am trying to increase the space available. I followed the instructions on: http://www.hellersoftware.com/2012/resize-ebs-volume-attached-to-amazon-web-services-ec2-instance/ and managed to create a snapshot and create a…
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How to create a new partition with Ansible

When I run this on the command line it works fine: echo -e "n\np\n1\n\n\nw" | sudo fdisk /dev/sdb But in Ansible it does not want to run in shell: - name: partition new disk shell: echo -e "n\np\n1\n\n\nw" | sudo fdisk /dev/sdb It does not…
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Mount native ext4 partition in WSL2

I often work on Windows and Linux (on dual boot) and I'm using a ntfs partition to synchronize a data between systems which is something problematic (lots of docker containers have a problem to work with ntfs permissions). I've tried to mount an…
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Smallest FAT32 Partition

I need to create a small partition image (a few MB) with FAT32 filesystem. I came up some contradictory info on the Internet about the minimum size limit of a FAT32 partition. When I tried to mkfs a 5MB partition as FAT32 in Linux, I get a warning…
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Partition information from CMD

Is there any CMD command line that shows all partition letters. For example: C, D, E... Can that command also show all the partition's information? Free space, used space, total space?
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Linux c++: apis vs /proc files?

Im working on an app to collect and send various bits of system info (partition space/free, laptop battery info, etc). Im not having much success getting this information in the form of direct c++ api.. though its all available via files in /proc…
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Obtain a list of partitions on Windows

Goal I'm porting a filesystem to Windows, and am writing a more Windows-like interface for the mounter executable. Part of this process is letting the user locate a partition and pick a drive letter. Ultimately the choice of partition has to result…
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Get size of volume on Windows

I'm writing a library to extract information about physical disks, partitions, and volumes on a Windows system (XP or later). I'm trying to get the capacity of a volume. Here are the approaches I know about and the reason each…
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Assign a mount point folder path to a drive using PowerShell

I have a server that is provisioned with several disks. One for an OS, one for programs etc., and the remaining are to be mounted to empty NTFS folders. Disk 0: C: Disk 1: G: Disk 2: G:\Folder01\ Disk 3: G:\Folder02\ This is fairly straightforward…
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How to check a disk for partitions for use in a script in Linux?

I'm scripting something in Bash for Linux systems. How would I check a disk for partitions in a robust manner? I could use grep, awk, or sed to parse the output from fdisk, sfdisk, etc., but this doesn't seem to be an exact science. I could also…
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How to make a tar backup of a root filesystem?

I have linux installed on SD card, I used this command to install the rootfs tar xpjf rootfs.tar.bz -C /mnt/rootfs/ Now, I made some changes to the rootfs and I would like to create a backup that I can use with the same command above, I tried…
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Is it possible to format a memory stick, pen drive or disk using Java?

I would like to create a multi-plattform utility to format / erase memory sticks, disks, etc. Is it possible to do this in Java? Or do I need to call native methods for each operational system plattform?
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USE WMI and WMQ to get Logical Disk and Partition Information from Win32_PnPEntity of SERVICE type USBSTOR

I am detecting when our proprietary USB device is attached to a PC. When we detect this, we get the related Win32_PnPEntity. We want to use this Win32_PnPEntity as a source of the following information: - USB Descriptor VID, PID, REV, Firmware…
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