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Reading encrypted partition with broken LVM2 inside?
I overwrote some LVM2 metadata in much the same way as Recovering overwritten LVM metadata . That is, I attempted to install Debian 6.0.7 on a system with existing encrypted volumes and LVM2 volumes.
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Fedora 17-15 old lvm partition reporting incorrect size
After years i decided to upgrade from Fedora 15 to 18, but as per the guidelines only 2 versions can be jumped, so i decided to settle with Fedora 17 and ran preupgrade , all was going fine, till ...
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Transfering whole linux system to a new disk
Few weeks back I installed linux as a virtual machine on my windows 7 system but I didn't gave much thought to(or miscalculated) the size of various partitions and even worse I'm not using 'lvm'. ...
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How to Extend LVM in Redhat 5.6
I need to Extend the LVM on one server. This is the df -h result.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 58G 26G 29G 48% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
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merging LVM volume groups
Situation:
I have a server with 4 1TB drives in LVM as shown below. The server is a openvz hardware node with a dozen or so openvz containers. At this time each container uses one disk only. This ...
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Recover MDADM Raid 5 in LVM with badblocks
I'm pretty sure I'm dealing with at stuffed RAID 5 array. Two of the drives were listed as failed in /proc/mdstat and mdadmdetails:
0 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1
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Why do some of my lvm partitions have “-real” appended to their names?
In the /dev/mapper directory I can see my lvm partitions, but then I'll see some other ones with the same names, but with "-real" appended to them.
What's that about?
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Defragmentation of LVM2 logical volumes
Question: Is there a tool supporting de-fragmentation of LVM2 logical volumes ? (Making their extents into consistent sequences)
Preferably by defining desired order of extents (something like ...
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Create Logical Volume Snapshot at boot and before mount
I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 and before I upgrade to 12.04, I want to make snapshots of my filesystems. Coming to think of that, I realized that it can be very useful to create snapshots of logical volumes ...
