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Reasons for choosing primary over logical partitions [duplicate]
I guess anyone knows the benefits of logical volumes. But are there any reasons why I should choose primary partitions if I can?
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How to Format an LVM partition
I need to format a partition.
But I have one LVM on my machine (VirtualBox) that is composed of two different two partitions of two Virtual HDD's (sdb5 and sdc5)
fdisk output
df output
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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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Create Logical Volume with non-LVM partition
I'm not sure if the title actually depicts my question, but I will try to explain.
I have seen everywhere it is mentioned to create a partition of type LVM (8e) and then create logical volume 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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Updating disk free size without rebooting the host
I use RHEL4 with LVM2 on it. At times even after removing large files more that a GB the partition size is not getting updated when is see using df command.
-bash-3.00$ df -h
Filesystem ...
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How can I resize my root partition in Debian?
I am trying to add space to my root partition and am really not sure the safest way to go about it. I have read this thread, Can I resize the root partition without uninstalling and reinstalling ...
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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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How to resize root Volume Group
How Can I reduce size of root volume group?
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
I just have SSH access to Linux host.
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Setup Cloudmin on Centos installed in LVM
I installed CentOS 6 with default LVM partition pattern. according to this pattern Can I use Cloudmin and store KVM Disks in LVM as Logical Volume? I think Cloudmin requires creating new logical ...
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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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How to extend second CentOS 5 partition in VMware
I know this question has already been answered for a primary partition, but what about a secondary?
I have extended the space to 30G in VMware. When I perform an fdisk -l, here's the output:
Disk ...
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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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Moving /usr to its own filesystem/logical volume
My Fedora 17 (x64 - running on VMware Workstation 8) root filesystem is running out of space (this was an install using the default layout as suggested by the Fedora installer):
# df -h
Filesystem ...
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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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How to resize an LVM partition at the beginning
I have resized lvm partitions in the past, but after the resize there is space at the end of the partition. What I want to achive is to have the space at the beginning of the partition instead.
The ...
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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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How to extend an ext3 partition over LVM inside a file (virtual machine)?
I need to extend the root partition of a virtual machine (VM) using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) . I can afford a few minutes of downtime so a VM shutdown/reboot is fine.
The virtual hard disk is in ...
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# of reads/writes for LVM vs. “regular” partitioning?
I am going to be installing linux to a USB flash drive (an actual install, not a "live usb"). I need it to be completely portable, so I can't realistically have the high-access partitions (swap, var, ...
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Reduce LVM /tmp size to 10G and add everything to / root dir
I want to reduce the partition mounted at /tmp to 10GB and add all unused space to the / partition.
If I umount -l /tmp and run fsck.ext3 -f /dev/privg/lv_tmp, I get this:
fsck.ext3: Device or ...
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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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LVM tools on raw block copy
I have several raw block copies of disks that have both NTFS and Linux partitions. The parition tables generally have both a Windows NTFS partition and a Linux LVM partition. I need to work on all of ...
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LVM2 partition alignment
How to do the following with Linux tools :
LVM partition alignment and alignment of partition on LVM ?
What in case where I want to setup LVM partition (for "pv") and then partitions ?
To be more ...
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The merits of a partitionless filesystem
I ran into something a couple of weeks ago that I'd never seen before: A filesystem (ext3 I believe) installed to a storage device without a partition. In essence /dev/sdb was the entire filesystem. I ...
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Partition manager that can handle LVM?
I have been looking but neither Gparted nor KDE Partition Manager can handle LVM. Working with the command line is probably fine but it would be clearer to have a GUI tool here. Does such thing exist?
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