Questions tagged [formatting]

Question 1

I have several SAS hard drives that were previously in a hardware RAID. I reflashed an LSI 9211-8i controller to IT mode following: https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-updating-your-lsi-sas-...

Question 2

I need to display each IBM MQ Queue Manager queue along with its depth. I can do this with a command like echo DISPLAY QLOCAL(QE*) WHERE(CURDEPTH GE 0) | runmqsc QMNAME. The output is similar to this: ...

Question 3

What i want to do: i have a virtual-host conf-file (linux-apache server), with several virtual-Host directories in ONE file. This virtual-host conf-File looks like: /etc/apache2/sites-available/...

Question 4

I am trying to setup a disk on Linux with Ansible. I am fairly new to ansible. I have managed to get a list of all unused disks (though it will probably consist of just one) but I am having issues to ...

Question 5

Okay, so, contrived example here, but it's the simplest instance I could come up with the produces the conditions I'm trying to alter. I'm trying to run a black-boxed command and alter the multi-line ...

Question 6

How can I find out if I formatted the drive with mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -T largefile4 or without specifying the options -m and -T mkfs.ext4 In other words how can I see what is the -m reserved-blocks-...

Question 7

Running an application inside screen to log all output including stacktraces not caught by the applications logging. Screen is however logging all formatting like ^[[58;1H^[[58;1H which results in ...

Question 8

I have an external 2TB HDD that i plan on leaving attached to my ubuntu server. I am trying to format it to ext4 but am encounterin issue My current setup is a 200gb ssd in the server (sdb), 2x2TB ...

Question 9

I am trying to pull data from a .ini file using the PSIni (Get-IniContent). I have a format that works but generates too much data. My ini file looks like this : [General settings] gensetting1=random ...

Question 10

I have a DMARC report that includes: <date_range> <begin>1500249600</begin> <end>1500335999</end> </date_range> How do I convert the dates to something human?

Question 11

I am installing Arch Linux on a previously Windows machine. I have created the partitions, with root on sda1, and now I am trying to format it with mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1, but it's not liking that. ...

Question 12

I'm trying to re-image my machine... at the moment it doesn't have ANY os on it, as the drive has been wiped, thus any recovery images are gone, too. This poses a problem when I'm reinstalling ...

Question 13

I found a PowerShell script that I thought I could adapt to my purposes. It contains this line that formats the output: $largeSizefiles = get-ChildItem -path $filesLocation -include $Extension -...

Question 14

I'm capturing traffic with tshark into a CSV file using "-T fields", but whatever I try I can't get a nice ISO date or even changing the timezone to UTC. The command I'm using is tshark.exe -i 2 -c ...

Question 15

I'm looking for a way to wipe just one partition from the drive. Currently I have a recovery partition which needs to stay as it is and a partition with windows 10 installed which needs to be wiped. ...

Question 16

I want to reformat /dev/md0, which is a RAID0 array consisting of 4 disks (sd[bcde]). However, when I tried to run the command mke2fs, I received the following error message: /dev/md0 is apparently ...

Question 17

I'm having some issues on some of the formatting. My code looks for the new files in a folder structure and returns those items, but I would like to trim the result to only show the first 3 folders ...

Question 18

I'm interested in buying some 6.4 TB Fusion IO SX300 cards. They will be formatted as NTFS 64 Kb cluster size with Windows Server. My question is what will the actual usable space be once the drives ...

Question 19

I've now experienced this issue with 3 different storage vendors, using 3 different CNA adapters (all FCoE though), so I'm fairly sure this issue is not isolated to a specific storage vendor (seen on ...

Question 20

Suppose I have two HDDs, same manufacturer, same model, same attributes (volume, speed, cache, ...). Both are equally partitioned. I want to have a level one array of two disks with one ext4 partition....

Question 21

We have a Microsoft Failover Cluster with dynamic disks managed by Veritas Storage Foundation. Today the sysadmins added a new disk for SQL Server but the cluster size on the volume was wrong, so I ...

Question 22

I am trying to install ESXi 5.5 to a computer that ESXi 5.1 is installed before. I am doing installation using the CD-Rom. After I select the boot options in the boot menu, installation starts. After ...

Question 23

Through the use of several code snippets here and in VMware's website, I've created the following code that works: Connect-ViServer server $body = Get-Folder -name vm | Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select ...

Question 24

What is the differences between quick format and normal format in windows? I Just formatted my external Hard Drive by quick format and it took a minute to complete and then I just started formatting ...

Question 25

Is there existing tooling to take text-based output and pipe it to a dynamic object that can be queried as columns? Specifically, I'm invoking .. query session /server:MYSERVER .. which is ...

Question 26

I have a Windows 7 laptop that I need to return to my former employer. I worked there for about 10 years, so I'd like to nuke the laptop before I return it since it might contain personal info in ...

Question 27

My server has two hard disks. One very limited of around 500 GB and another NOT FORMATTED of more than 1 TB. I need to find this second disk to format it (and eventually mount it to my Red ...

Question 28

Usually we would use parted or fdisk to create a new partition, but in my case I want to do this non-interactively in a script. An interactive fdisk session would look like this: # fdisk /dev/sdb ...

Question 29

I'm learning about dedicated servers and have a very simple question. In windows server 2008, is it a good practice to fast format your HDs for the first time? Or should i perform a slow one? Which ...

Question 30

In my mt-daapd config file is the line name = %h which, if I understand correctly, when my hostname is aCoolHostname this will evaluate to name = acoolhostname in lowercase. How do I use the %h ...

Question 31

I have an Infortrend EonStor A16F-G2430 RAID-6 connected to Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine via Fiber Channel QLogic 2Gb PCI-X adapter. I am able to initialize the 8.5TB storage as GPT, and able ...

Question 32

Can anyone point in the right direction on how to remove SWAP out of a RAID1 configuration on Ubuntu 10.04 server? According to the Ubuntu Advanced installation guide, here, it said to add swap to the ...

Question 33

Im a network guy, and know very little about system administration. I would like to install PFSense and Monowall to 2 CF Cards, but not sure how they should be formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and volume ...

Question 34

I have 2 questions Can we know weather a Hard Drive has done Low Level format or not. Somehow using a tool ? How to do Low Level Format (Hard Format) for a Laptop HardDrive

Question 35

I have a problem extracting the device names on Solaris 8 SPARC when using 'iostat -En' command since the device names are too long. For example : iostat -en output ---- errors --- s/w h/w trn tot ...

Question 36

consider you are creating a raid5 device with three drives. mdadm --create /dev/md0 --leve=5 --raid-disk=3 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 After issuing this command , I can see the progress of md ...

Question 37

want to send log files from Ubuntu Server via email using sendemail but the when I do all the text in the email is all in one big mess ( one space between words new lines and spacing not brought into ...

Question 38

I have a new 3.5" 2 TB hard drive. Using a Windows 7 laptop + a docking station, I quick formatted it to NTFS. Next, I put this hard drive on a docking station that's hooked via eSata to a rack server ...

Question 39

My website runs on a dedicated Debian LAMP server . I would like to update the system (let's say I have a pretty old Debian version and I want to reinstall everything from scratch) What strategy can ...

Question 40

When restoring a Windows Server Backup for 2008 R2, there is the option to format the drives. However, that formats them at the standard cluster size of 4K. Is there a way to change that during ...

Question 41

I would like to log the %D and %O log format strings in apache 2. They are the time taken to serve a request in microseconds and the total bytes sent. This is useful to generate stats of the server ...

Question 42

I purchased a server about 6 months ago and it's been a huge learning experience. I'm now going to sell it - I've sold the sites that I was hosting on it. I'd like to sell it with formatted hard ...

Question 43

I've exported a Mantis project from one server to another and despite the MySQL SQL file (from which it was populated) showing: (15375,'\r\n1. Log out\r\n\r\n2. When logging in, start ... The final ...

Question 44

I have a dedicated server for now(in a far far away place), and we are going to change our provider next month. The problem is server has some valuable data for us about a project, and we need to ...

Question 45

If I open the saved .msg file I see the following: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5....

Question 46

I can specify custom log format for access log in nginx, but it won't work for error log. I wish I always saw time when error occur. Is it possible?

Question 47

Is there a hard disk utility which can format(NTFS) &repair a HDD which has lots of bad sectors like Norton Disk Doctor from Linux ?

Question 48

Apparently, redirects in categories are always meant to appear in italics. In our MediaWiki (1.13.2) this is almost always not the case. This is not a problem, but sometimes they suddenly appear in ...

Question 49

The current network configuration is as follows. 5 Servers Server 1: Windows Server 2003 R2 (Server in question to reformat) Primary Domain Controller + VPN + WSUS + DHCP + DNS Server 2: Windows ...

Question 50

Is it possible to somehow configure PowerShell to add a new line after executing a command? IronPython and other console programs which I use doesn't always finish it's output with a \n and because of ...