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In computer storage, Logical Volume Management or LVM provides a method of allocating space on mass-storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes.

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LVM+Ext3 - recover the ext3 partition?

I setup a new email server today and I did lvm for the main drive and then LVM for /opt. I realized I did not give myself enough room for /opt so I decided to try and extend it and I must of screwed up the instructions because on reboot I get some…
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raid 1 and high load average

i have a server with high load average, I think the problem is the raid 1. Server is in one or two points of load average, and in seconds jumps to 10 points (md4_raid1 process), this happens once or twice per minute cat /proc/mdstat Personalities :…
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Diagnosing **very** slow write speed on RAID / Fedora 14

We have a Dell PowerEdge T110 running Fedora 14 which operates as our build server for Embedded Linux and as our Subversion server. Recently it has become very slow, failing to complete nightly backups before the new day begins. [EDIT] Thanks…
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Need to make some Free space VG PE Size

I want to add 150GB space in Free PE /Size. How can I accomplish this? [root@localhost ~]# vgdisplay rhel01 --- Volume group --- VG Name rhel01 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 2 Metadata Sequence…
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Best Practice: Add an Additional Disk to Expand Logical Volume or Expand Existing Disk

We host a client’s Oracle VMs on our Nutanix platform. To date, whenever their VMs require more space they have us add an additional vDisk which they then add to the VG in order to expand the required LV. The reason they’re doing it this way is…
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LVM resize / full system encrypt (reinstall no possible)

Seen few questions on this, but the general answer was just reinstall. Although that is the best and easiest solution, this unfortunately is not possible in my situation. I was thinking of the following solution. current partition layout /dev/vda1 …
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CentOS 7.3 stuck when reboot after disabling SELinux and editing the fstab

I disabled SELinux and edited the fstab to mount an LVM partition. After that I restart the machine but stuck in this process The operating system is CentOS 7.3. Does anyone have same issue and have the solution?
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LVM created in CentOS 7 now cant view free space?

Created an LVM when installing CentOS 7. I have a 1TB drive. I still had about 800 GB free. I cant see those 800GB anywhere. [root@mimir user]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/cl_mimir-root …
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linux + timeout from command

in my bash script I want to add timeout for the lvresize command so if the command is waiting , I will exit after 5 second , as the follwing: timeout 5 lvresize -L 1M /dev/mapper/rootvg-home Rounding size to boundary between physical extents:…
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Directory mounted on a newly created logical volume does not show a correct size

I have two physical hard drives on a Linux system (server / hosting), and I created a logical volume from sda3 (partition on disk A) and sdb (the whole disk B). I then mounted it on /home directory, and when I enter: du -sh /home ...this is…
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External Drives on RAID/LVM configuration

I had 2 drives corrupted and now replaced with new ones sitting on RAID 0. After installing the new drives I have attached the 2 old corrupted drives via usb to retrieve data from them. These 2 drives are build RAID 0 and using LVM, the server…
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Solution to manage data server with multiple drives

I'm looking for some pointers on the best way to manage a Linux data server, with 20 hard drives and with new files always being added (around 30GB/day). Performance is not important, reliability is crucial. I don't like RAIDs (many issues with…
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Creating or exporting an image of an LVM filesystem that is portable.

There is an important machine in my department which must be backed up. It uses lvm2 to span its various partitions over two 80G PATA hard drives (lvm tools output: http://pastebin.com/Wh3h9PVz). I have tried using clonezilla to image the drives,…
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LVM partition not available after creating partition while mounting

This is what I needed, 1. Add new disk 2. Create New pv, vg and lv as per below plan Plan /dev/mapper/PJR_sapvg1-USR_SAP_PJR /usr/sap/PJR/sapmnt/GJR 20Gb /dev/mapper/PJR_sapvg1-SAPMNT_PJR /sapmnt/PJR/db2/db2gjr 20Gb This is what I have…
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Xen doesn't boot after install

I tried to setup Xen by the instruction released on the site of my hoster. I installed Xen, completed RAID setup as it is told in the instruction. Rebooted and succesfully connected to Xen from XenCenter. Then I created a volume for ISO and added…
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