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Having trouble with LVM snapshot
I have a funtoo linux machine which I am trying to add ubuntu to (thats a whole other issue). It is encrypted with luks and has lvm on top of that. I have a 2 TB harddrive (sdb) which I would like ...
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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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Extend my LVM After Upgrading SSD
So, I have a 120 GB SSD (/dev/sdb) that I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Fedora 17. When I first started I only have a 60 GB SSD so my space was very limited. I have a partition on my SSD ...
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Remount lvm partitions after OS reinstallation
I recently upgraded to Linux Mint from Ubuntu. I have overwritten /dev/sda2 which had Ubuntu. I had earlier created two logical volumes opt and virtualization from /dev/sda1. I forgot to take the lvm ...
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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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Where does LVM store data?
My questions are similar to this thread Does LVM increase the risk of data loss?, however, I couldn't find a satisfying answer.
So the question is, where does LVM store data/files, when I have a ...
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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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Followed SSD-optimization advice, now root partition won't mount rw
Tonight I decided I wanted to tweak the configuration of my Debian install on my netbook (Ideapad S10-2) to work better with the SSD I put in it.
I have done this before and never had any issues but ...
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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 ...
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LVM2: Obtaining lv and vg names from path (volume group name and logical volume name)
Let's assume we have lv path:
lvpath=/dev/mapper/vg2-Music
Than I split lvdisplay -c with cut:
vgname="$(lvdisplay -c "$lvpath" | cut -d ':' -f 2 )"
lvname="$(basename "$(lvdisplay -c "$lvpath" | ...
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Move a logical volume from one volume group to another
Is it possible to move a logical volume from one volume group to another in whole?
It is possible to create a (more or less) matching lv and copy the data over, but is there any way to do this with ...
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Backup of LVM2 logical volume
I'd like to make backup on external drive of LVM2 logical volume in dd manner.
Approach I consider is to
make lv on extranl drive with identical size
copy with dd
(Please let me know if you see ...
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LVM2: lvcreate -L - What does 's', 'S' suffix stand for?
man lvcreate - Am I blind or there is no description for "sS" ? (I can't find on redhat manual pages as well)
-L, --size LogicalVolumeSize[bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]
Gives the size to ...
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What is the smallest LVM2 logical volume unit?
Could you ensure me that minimal LVM2 size Unit is one extent to which all sizes are rounded up ?
Is 4MiB the default size of extent for LVM2 ?
Can it be configurable or is it the only size ?
Small ...
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How to properly unplug/plug removable LVM2 device?
How to properly unplug (remove) and later plug (insert) removable (hot-plug, usb etc) storage device with LVM2 on it ?
I've found this note
Remove (unplug, eject):
lvchange -an ...
