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 Check disk details

lsblk -o name,label,size,fstype,mountpoint,modefdisk -l

 Disk Health Check With Hard Disk Sentinel Linux Edition

https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php Download the tool: wget...

 How to Clone a CentOS Server with Rsync

Cloning is the practice of cloning an exact copy of an existing Live Linux server using the rsync...

 How to Extend/Reduce LVM’s (Logical Volume Management) in Linux – Part II

Previously we have seen how to create a flexible disk storage using LVM. Here, we are going to...

 How to Increase the size of a Linux LVM by expanding the Disk

This post will cover how to increase the disk space for a VMware virtual machine running Linux...

 How to: Replacing a failed drive in a Linux Software RAID1 configuration (mdraid)

Scenario: A drive has failed in your linux RAID1 configuration and you need to replace it....

 LVM Resize – How to Decrease an LVM Partition

Here we show you how to shrink an LVM volume or partition in Linux by first resizing the file...

 LVM Resize – How to Increase an LVM Partition

Here we show you how to expand an LVM volume or partition in Linux by first resizing logical...

 Linux iostat command

  About iostat iostat reports Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output...

 Replacing A Failed Hard Drive In A Software RAID1 Array

Replacing A Failed Hard Drive In A Software RAID1 Array. This guide shows how to remove a failed...

 S.M.A.R.T (smartctl) commands and test

Installation of Smartcl in Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install smartmontools Installation of Smartcl...

 Setup Flexible Disk Storage with Logical Volume Management (LVM) in Linux – PART 1

Logical Volume Management (LVM) makes it easier to manage disk space. If a file system needs more...

 mount: unknown file system type LVM2_member

So I’m planning on making a series, “mount: unknown file system type $TYPE”. I already have how...

 mount: unknown filesystem type ‘nfs’ (proxmox)

Awww cute little proxmox container doesn’t know nfs. (CentOS release 6.7 (Final)) [root@server...

 mount: unknown filesystem type ‘ntfs’ on Centos 7.2

Mounting a Windows created external disk on a Linux system (Centos 7, now) and seeing : mount:...