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LVM keeping harddisk awake?
I have a Lenovo W530 running Arch with kernel 3.79 (for bumblebee) and laptop-mode is configured properly and running. It has one SSD (sdb) and one harddisk (sdb). The sdb disk has two lvm-volumes: ...
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Create swap partition after install
I already have parititon contain data under lvm enviroment with centos 5.8
output of fdisk -l
root@server [~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, ...
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When should I create a new volume group instead of a new logical volume?
I currently have 3x1TB physical volumes in a VG and a LV that spans the entire capacity of the VG. This LV is meant to store specific files.
Now I have another 2TB drive that I want to use LVM with. ...
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fdisk isn't showing my hard drive as properly formatted (but it is)
I've got 3 1TB drives which I've set up to use LVM. Here's the output of pvdisplay:
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda1
VG Name vgpool
PV Size ...
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How to resize logical volume to fit filesystem
How can I resize logical volume to fit filesystem automagically?
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VBoxManage: Error: Can't be used as the requested device
I used the soluton from this thread but always i get
VirtualBox error: The medium 'lvol.vmdk' can't be used as the requested device type (0x80004005)
I've tried all controllers SATA, SCSI, IDE and ...
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LVM with SSD and SATA hard disks
Is it possible to create LVM partitions for both SSD and SATA hard disks? I mean if there isn't any conflicts.
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Copying an HDD to a larger one by dd
I'm trying to copy an entire HDD which has IBM PC-style partition table to a larger one by dd on GNU/Linux. The questions are:
Can I use the additional space on the larger disk by changing the ...
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How to Expand LVM2 Partition in Fedora Linux
I've been using Fedora 15 on a VMWare virtual machine. Over time, the disk space I initially allocated for the file system began to run out, only 12GB left. I've expanded the disk space an extra 25GB.
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Equivalent to “copies=2” feature of ZFS in Linux with LVM
I have a laptop with only one HDD and is impossible add other HDD. The feature "copies=2" of ZFS is the perfect solution for to add redundancy to my /home in the laptop.
I would like emulate the ...
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Using a LVM partition as a Virtualbox drive
Is it possible to use a LVM partition as a Virtualbox disk?
I can't find any option to use a device as a Virtualbox disk, only disk images.
