https://rdr-it.com/en/tag/disk/System administration, virtualization, security and tools for IT professionals.en-USWed, 14 Oct 2026 16:27:21 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-display-s-m-a-r-t-data-for-an-nvme-drive/Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-display-s-m-a-r-t-data-for-an-nvme-drive/In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to view the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data for an NVMe drive on Ubuntu using the command line. …https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-testing-disk-performance-from-the-command-line/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-testing-disk-performance-from-the-command-line/In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to test the read and write performance of a disk on Ubuntu using the command line. To give you some points of comparison, I ran the …https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-busybox-solve-unexpected-inconsistyency-error/Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-busybox-solve-unexpected-inconsistyency-error/In this tutorial, I will tell you how to resolve the UNEXPECTED INCONSISYENCY error when starting the computer in BusyBox mode. During a sudden shutdown with a disk …https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-add-an-lvm-disk-and-volume/Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-add-an-lvm-disk-and-volume/In this tutorial, I will explain how to add an additional disk to an Ubuntu machine and create a new LMV volume for this disk. To explain this tutorial, I will start from …https://rdr-it.com/en/proxmox-partition-a-disk/Thu, 21 Mar 2024 05:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/proxmox-partition-a-disk/In this tutorial, I will explain how to partition a disk on Proxmox and then assign the partitions to storage. In this tutorial, you can see that I have two “disks” sda …https://rdr-it.com/en/duf-show-available-disk-space-on-ubuntu/Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:20:07 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/duf-show-available-disk-space-on-ubuntu/In this tutorial, I will explain how to install duf to show available disk space on Ubuntu. DUF is a command line utility that allows you to view available disk space on …https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-extend-lvm-partition-and-disk/Wed, 20 Jul 2022 04:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/ubuntu-extend-lvm-partition-and-disk/In this tutorial, I will explain how to extend a disk’s partition and then the LVM disk. To understand what we are going to do in this tutorial, I have a virtual machine …https://rdr-it.com/en/diskpart-delete-all-partitions/Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/diskpart-delete-all-partitions/In this tutorial, I will tell you how to delete all partitions from a hard drive with DISKPART. I am using this procedure to remove OEM partitions on computers from …https://rdr-it.com/en/linux-extend-a-partition/Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:30:00 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/linux-extend-a-partition/Intro In this tutorial, I will explain how to extend a partition on Linux (Ubuntu). This type of operation is common when using virtual machines on Hyper-V for example or …https://rdr-it.com/en/hyper-v-merge-a-virtual-disk-without-snapshot/Wed, 11 Sep 2019 02:00:23 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/hyper-v-merge-a-virtual-disk-without-snapshot/Symptom In the Hyper-V Manager, the virtual machine does not have checkpoints, but in the folder where the computer is stored, the virtual disk has several checkpoint …https://rdr-it.com/en/storage-pool-change-a-physical-disk/Sat, 13 Jul 2019 02:00:40 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/storage-pool-change-a-physical-disk/In this article, we will see how to change a failed physical disk. When a disk is in error, an icon appears at the pool and virtual disks. Change the disk Open a command …https://rdr-it.com/en/storage-pool-configuration-on-windows-server/Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:00:20 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/storage-pool-configuration-on-windows-server/This tutorial explains how to use Storage Pool features on Windows Server.https://rdr-it.com/en/iscsi-target-role/Mon, 06 May 2019 17:48:18 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/iscsi-target-role/The iSCSI target role makes it possible to transform a server into a SAN (bay of disks / storage) by creating virtual disks (vhdx) and by presenting them to other server …https://rdr-it.com/en/starwind-setting-up-a-highly-available-storage/Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:56:54 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/starwind-setting-up-a-highly-available-storage/StarWind Virtual SAN is software that turns Windows into an iSCSI target server. The advantage of StarWind is that it can be used to put the storage in high availability …https://rdr-it.com/en/create-a-raid-1-with-windows/Mon, 25 Feb 2019 03:00:30 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/create-a-raid-1-with-windows/In this tutorial, I will explain how to create a RAID 1 on Windows with Disk Manager. I have personally used this technique on several occasions both on my personal …https://rdr-it.com/en/configure-a-san-disk-on-windows/Wed, 13 Feb 2019 03:00:40 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/configure-a-san-disk-on-windows/In this tutorial, we will see how to configure a SAN-type disk to present to a Windows server. SAN type disks are LUNs / Volume that are presented in FC / iSCSI / SAS. …https://rdr-it.com/en/extend-a-windows-partition/Fri, 28 Dec 2018 14:46:13 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/extend-a-windows-partition/In this tutorial, we will see how to extend a partition under Windows. In which case extend a partition: The partition does not use all available space on the physical …https://rdr-it.com/en/msa-2040-2050-configuration-en/Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:15:49 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/msa-2040-2050-configuration-en/The MSA 1040/1050 and MSA 2040/2050 arrays are entry-level SANs that enable high-performance storage at a great price. The MSA arrays are equipped with a dual controller …https://rdr-it.com/en/prtg-disks-management-in-absolute-value-space/Tue, 30 Oct 2018 06:00:03 +0000https://rdr-it.com/en/prtg-disks-management-in-absolute-value-space/In this tutorial, I will explain how to manage disks in PRTG using available space instead of percentage. The% management allows the software to apply alerts for disk …