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What is the best practice for adding disks in LVM
According to the Linux manpages you can add raw disks as well as partitions to a volume group.
In other documentation (RedHat, CentOS or openSUSE), all examples refer to adding partitions to the VG ...
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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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Resize a Physical Volume, resize2fs won't work with it
I need to resize my PV so that I could make room for a new partition,
/dev/sda7 --> belongs to Volume Group: vg0
vg0 has 23g free space not allocated, so I tried
pvresize ...
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Can lvm2 volumes based on device names like sda, sdb etc be mounted if their names change?
Lets say I would like to make a large volume from external usb drives. I create the lvm volume on drives that have been given certain device names sdf sdg or whatever and at some point they are ...
