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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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Backing up LVM volume with multiple partitions

I want to create a backup of a LVM volume (Xen DomU's), however a LVM volume can have multiple partitions and those are dynamic (I cannot guarantee LVM #1 has 1 partition and LVM #2 has 3 etcetera). I'm using kpartx to mount a LVM volume, however…
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Asterisk using 100% of the cpu and freezing my debian host

I have a Debian host $ uname -a Linux voip 2.6.25-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 11:05:23 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux Old asterisk asterisk 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3 It has been working for a long-long time $uptime 13:50:37 up 1047 days, 21:02, …
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SuSE Enterprise Linux 10 reports "write error: disk full?" even though there are 13TB available

So, I recently added some disk to a system and everything seemed to be peachy, the extending of the LVM went fine and so did the filesystem resize. However, when a user logs on to the system and tries editing or creating a file in his/hers home…
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Add drive to Logwatch disk space check

I'm looking to add a LVM volume to a Logwatch report for a Xen dom0. Currently this LVM volume doesn't show in the report as it is not mounted on the machine but is a physical drive. Any ideas on how to accomplish that? I have no other reason for…
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Undo LVM on Fedora 13?

I had lost my boot partition. This happened quite frequently. I used to boot for recovery and rewrite the existing partioning. Last time I missed the correct option and installed LVM by mistake. Is it possible to get the previous partioning table…
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How to shrink partition for lv snapshot?

I want to try the snapshot functionality but I don't understand all the picture. I'm on Ubuntu server 11.10 and I've created two Volume Group and some Logical Volumes inside like this: root@darwin:~# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG…
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Successfully reduced LVM partition in CentOS, but other programs still see it as it's original size?

I'm trying to restore a clonezilla image of a server that had a total disk size of 1TB, however the server I need to restore to only has 400GB of space available. I figured by reducing the mounted /var partition by 600GB I could easily fit it onto…
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Ubuntu Webhosting Server: RAID1 with LVM to run OpenVZ powered shared Apache hosts

About my confusion. I'm trying to setup Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS onto two 1 TB physical hard drives built into a server. I don't have a lot of experience with Ubuntu Server yet but I'm familiar with Ubuntu Desktop. I like the learning by doing…
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How can I slow down I/O operation in a disk when the LVM is being re-sized?

I want to re-size a LVM volume online in my Linux box. It is taking very long time to complete, since there are I/O operations being performed on that volume. Is there any way I can tell every other process which are writing to that disk to…
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convert currently used disk and new disk to lvm

Currently I have my home on an 1TB disk, which is an WD Green, thus not the most quick one. I have an 2TB WD Green disk I want to use as well, and in a LVM fashion (Have heard that striped LVM could increase the perfomance). Sadly the current /home…
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Allignment of ext3 partition on LVM RAID volume group

I'm trying to add a partition on a LVM that resides on a RAID6 volume group and fdisk is complaining about the partition not residing on a physical sector boundry. My question is, how do you calculate the correct starting sector for a partition on a…
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fsck on LVM snapshots

I'm trying to do some file system checks using LVM snapshots of our Logical Volumes to see if any of them have dirty file systems. The problem that I have is that our LVM only has one Volume Group with no available space. I was able to do fsck's on…
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How to revert a shrink of an LVM volume

I had a Linux LVM volume that was about 400 GB. I shrank it to 217 GB following the steps below. umount /local e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol2 resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol2 217G lvresize -L 217G /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol2 lvdisplay…
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What RAID Level Should Be Used

I am working on a server build project for work and have inherited the following items that I need to figure out the best way to handle and configure. 2 of these: I/O Crest SY-PEX40008 PCI-e SATA II Host Controller Card 8 or 9 of these: Hitachi…
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Increase Space of /usr directory in Cent OS

I have php 5.1.6 running on my CentOS 5 server running Apache 2.2.3 I run Command as: fdisk -l gives output Disk /dev/xvda: 100.0 GB, 100000595968 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12157 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280…
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