I am using Google Compute Engine VM for a web server.  I currently have 3TB as disk space but want to bring it down to 1TB.  Can someone tell me where I can do this from?  Thanks.
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i have a huuuuge problem.  Created a snapshot and image from my instance...instance has 1000GB of disk.  Now i need to reduce it but everytime i try to create an image or a snapshot from that, i get the same error "Disk need to be at least 1000GB".  There is a way to reduce disk size directly on instance? Some workaround?
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I'm a web developer and I have Windows 10 installed on a very small SSD (128GB).  The problem is, when I want to save my file to a cloud service, I need to store the files on my computer, so that the OneDrive or the Google Drive client can synchronize them.  My free space is very low, so I can't afford that.  Is it possible to save files to the cloud (directly), without them needing to first download them to my computer?
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I want to build a new PC with a smallish SSD.  I'd like to be able to install some of my games onto the drive (those I care about loading quickly or I play frequently), but have the rest of them on a larger, slower drive.  Anybody know if this is possible?  I'm kind of guessing it's not, but figured I'd ask anyway.
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When configuring new SQL Servers on VMs, it is a good idea to have the Database, TempDB, logs, and backups on separate logical drives, even if the underlying storage is the same? I know that this is a good practice on physical servers; the separation actually helps us to reduce the pains caused by concurrent I/O.   I am trying to understand if having 3 drives instead of 5 would make sense. Can someone please provide their views/suggestions for this idea?
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I have a shiny new 5TB WD Black and was hoping to use it as the OS System disc and for a fair number of audio production programs, Workstations, samplers, synthesizers and such. Moving from a 2TB. The new drive loses nearly 3 TB as "unallocated space" if run direct from the Win7 program disc. I reset the drive, initialized it in GPT, got back all 5 TB but can't put the OS there. Do any newer versions allow this or do I go backwards to a 4 year old 2 TB that's in the habit of crashing to bluescreen at least daily and use the new one for all programs but windows? (I'm backing the old drive up using Acronis in total as I type, (tired of rebooting ). Win 10 upgrades are free right now...will this change allow me to increase the storage on my system while using a new drive for the system? Old format has 2TB OS + programs, 3TB full of samples, 2 x 3TB as RAID backup system, too many usb drives to list when I need to empty stuff out......Thank in advance!
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Is there anyway to resize a virtual machine's disk? Say increasing the disk size from 32GB to 64GB. I am running KVM/Qemu on Ubuntu server 11.10 64bit. Thanks.
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I want to transfer my current system hard drive to a larger hard drive. Doing so, I thought of creating an image of my system hard drive which is 320 GB in size.   Would I be able to restore this image on a larger hard drive? I plan buying a 1TB hard drive.  If yes, how? I prefer no data loss.  I am using Windows 7
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Today lots of peoples/developers are using VM's in google cloud, so keeping in this mind there are lots of VM's were getting created and deleted every day.  Also, Google compute engine allocates an ID (auto-generated) to each instance in the cloud at the time of VM creation.   So, Is there any chance that this ID gets reused(repeated) considering this same ID was assigned to an instance but now that instance got deleted?  Thanks
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Can I use dd, rsync, clonezilla or any tool to clone only space in use in my hard disk in Linux? I need to do a backup from a 1 TB HD (with only 2 GB space in use) into a 500 GB HD.
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I ran into this error earlier today and requested that the extra logs be purged from the server. It was done but it still claims that there isn't any room. Is there a way to notify the server that it has more room than it thinks?
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My dynamically growing virtual disks (VDI) from various Ubuntu installations in Virtual Box are actually steadily "growing" indeed.  Deleting of files in the virtual machine does not free the space my VDI file took from the host hard disk space.  How do I shrink these files to give the unused hard disk space back to the host?
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I have installed an Ubuntu server on a VMWare workstation with a space of 20GB storage as seen below:    After the installation I've attached another 40GB worth storage to the existing Ubuntu server installation (seen below):    Now I want to add this 40GB to my / (root) directory it mean's  I want that my / directory became to 60G , like it will be resize from 20G to 60G (20G + 40G), i don't know what should i do, can any body help me ?  , my df -h result shows;  root@Userver:~# df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1        18G  900M   16G   6% / udev            990M  4.0K  990M   1% /dev tmpfs           400M  308K  399M   1% /run none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none            999M     0  999M   0% /run/shm none            100M     0  100M   0% /run/user root@Userver:~#   it must be 60G !  i have no graphic mode, then i can't use Gparted tools, i'm just have ssh access !
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I am a Linux user. I don't have Windows on my laptop. Also the hard drive size is less than 2 TB. Then why should I use GPT tables? Can't I go with old fasioned MBR?  I will be having two root partitions, two home partitions, and a swap space. So when a partition is not primary, but is extended, does that make any performance difference?
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I am running Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 under VirtualBox on a Windows server. When I first set up the machine I opted to put /boot on its own 230 MB partition. This turns out not to have been necessary for my situation and now I’d like to roll /boot into the much larger partition I use for /. How can I safely make this change?
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I have a filesystem that has lots of small files. Currently about 80% of inodes are used (I checked with df -i), however only 60% of disk space is used. How can I 'increase' the number of inodes? If it was just disk space, I know that I could just increase the size of the disk (this disk is on LVM). If I increase the size of the disk, will that make me have more inodes?  I'm willing to grow the filesystem this disk is on, if that'd help.
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We will be running CentOS 7 on our new server. We have 6 x 300GB drives in raid6 internal to the server. (Storage is largely external in the form of a 40TB raid box.) The internal volume comes to about 1.3TB if formatted as a single volume. Our sysadmin thinks it is a really bad idea to install the OS on one big 1.3TB partition.  I am a biologist. We constantly install new software to run and test, most of which lands in /usr/local. However, because we have about 12 non-computer savvy biologists using the system, we also collect a lot cruft in /home as well. Our last server had a 200GB partition for /, and after 2.5 years it was 90% full. I don't want that to happen again, but I also don't want to go against expert advice!  How can we best use the 1.3TB available to make sure that space is available when and where it's needed but not create a maintenance nightmare for the sysadmin??
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Time Machine stopped this morning, stating it has too little disk space left. It wants to back up 200 gigs, but my local hard drive has 240 gig used and 150 gig are excluded in the Time Machine options, so this leaves 90 gigs of data at most that can be backed up, and I am pretty sure only very few files have changed (no big update or similar). So I would estimate a backup of, at most, 1 gig.  How can this happen? Any idea?