Questions tagged [lvm]
Logical Volume Management provides storage abstraction, a generalization of disk partitioning.
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How to merge two partitions inside one logical volume?
Recently I tried to extend the virtual disk size for my Centos7 virtual machine. I did it in a wrong way and now I have the following:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes, ...
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How to merge additional disk (volume) into existing one (Hetzner Server)
So on my Hetzner server, where I'm running nodes, I'm running out of space, so I used their additional volume feature to add more space, but they do it so a separate disk is created (sdb). My question ...
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Root partition not growing after LV increase
Sorry if this seems stupid, but I'm still kinda new to Linux. So for a class we need to make a VM, I wanted to try and save space on my hard drive, so I only gave it 25 gigs. That's always been more ...
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LV split over multiple PVs - moving to one PV
I have 3 drives in my system. They are all PVs inside one VG.
Inside this VG are a few LVs. One of them is pretty big and spans over two drives/PVs. The 3rd drive is big enough to hold this entire ...
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umount: /home: target is busy
umount /dev/mapper/nvmeVg-home
umount: /home: target is busy
I looked at this answer and found this useful page
I was unable to solve my problem before posting here.
My /var directory is full. /var ...
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LVM 4,55 TiB Volume Group. I only can create a 2.70TiB logical volume
I create a Volume Group with 3 disks, 2 of 931g, and 1 of 2.73t. It seems like works propertly.
sudo pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sdb nxt lvm2 a-- 931.51g 931.51g
/dev/...
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Cannot extend virtual disk with `cfdisk`: Failed to resize partition
I'd like to extend my virtual disk in a Proxmox environment from 64GB to 100GB. The guest OS is Debian 10. I've extended the virtual disk in Proxmox (it now has 100GB) and restarted the guest OS.
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shrink partition after LVM resize on RedHat Linux
I have a physical Redhat RHEL 6.10 machine on physical hardware, which I tried to virtualize for vmware. We did backup with dd to virtualize. Problem is right now, that this VM is still taking full ...
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How can I extend lvm+xfs with no free partitions
I'm stuck with a centos 7 vm with 1 disk that has 4 primary partitions created... and now I need to add more space:
It currently looks like this - simplified:
mount
/dev/mapper/centos-root on / type ...
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CentOS entered emergency mode after reboot
Please help me, this is very very important.
I have a CentOS server running properly for a month. It was installed with LVM.
Today I found that I could not connect to the MongoDB and failed to restart ...
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LVM operation hangs forever and cannot be killed on QNAP TS-412 with Debian
I have ran into a problem with my LVM. I have 4 drives in RAID 10, each is 14 TB, and on top of that there is LVM. The machine is 32-bit QNAP TS-412 running Debian 10.
When installing the system, I ...
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Volume group not found after hard shutdown due to beveage spilled on the computer
This afternoon, I made a stupid move and some beverage spilled over my computer. I did not notice it directly, but when I came back the PC was shutdown. The computer was not on battery.
I tried to ...
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what is LVM _tmeta _tdata in lsblk
I've installed proxmox (sda) and did some LVM on another disks than proxmox was installed on (sdc, sdd). Now my setups is following:
root@pve:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE ...
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LVM volume group and its logical volumes not activated during startup on Debian Buster
My LVs in the only volume group I have are marked as "inactive" (vgscan) or "NOT available" (lvdisplay) respectively after machine restart.
vgchange -an makes them active / ...
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Question about Disk Partitioning
I'm new to Linux environment and trying to get some clarification on the Disk partitioning.
I've installed new RHEL 8 vmware workstation initially with 20GB Disk and later expanded with additional ...
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lvextend could be risky if volume is more then what is set
as all know lvextend is the command that extend the size of a logical volume
as the following example
lvextend -L100G /dev/vg-test/lv_root
but this approach could be risky if the user by mistake also ...
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LVM + pvs + how to get the pvs results
we want to wrote command that take the Pfree size but with integer number not float number
pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 vg lvm2 a-- 277.97g 111.97g
for example on ...
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LVM thin pool inactive and failed with: No data available
I am suffering in a problem due to a system crash, I am using LVM-THIN created in proxmox GUI, all lvs is inactive and the lvm seems broken and I saw it needs to fix manually in system log.
After ...
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create non logical partition from free space on volume group (LVM)
I needed to have Windows beside Ubuntu on my Laptop. The setup on my ubuntu is 500 GB as Logical Volume. I could resize the volume group but can't do anything further, even with gparted on live boot. ...
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How can I share system folders across filesystems using LVM or by other means?
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First off, this is a continuation of How can I use unique hostnames across VMs with a shared root filesystem? Is this method even recommended? I started a new thread because the edits and ...
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Multiple mounts of the same LVM
I'm not even sure if my question is correct, but I got the following problem.
I have an encrypted USB drive (via veracrypt) which I decrypt on boot with crypttab and which is automatically mounted for ...
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How to fix /dev/mapper/rhel-root doesn't exist issue at startup?
I was trying to increase my /dev/mapper/rhel-root size. I have available 136GB of free space. For testing, from GNOME disk graphical interface, I mounted ext4, 2 GB and then unmount it. I used ...
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Mount hard drive to new CentOS 6 install
I installed Linux CentOS 6 on a new hard drive. GNOME automatically mounted my old drive to /media/bf90bc42-1b10-4c6f-9b58-f0e52d103907.
Long number maybe is a some type of UUID. I even umounted it ...
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Unable to start a LVM-Volume after crash of cache-device
I'm running a radi6(HDD) setup on a debian 10.7 machine. I'm using this md-device for a LVM VG. I added a SSD as writethrough-Cache. Unfortunately my bash-history doesnt' contain the commands of the ...
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How to make multiple NFS host directories appear as one on NFS client?
I have 6 Ubuntu VM's on one network. Five of them has 2 TB disks attached. I have created NFS directories for those disks and share them on the last VM that acts as a client and a server. How I can ...
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multiple mount points in same partition [duplicate]
If got a logic partition (LVM) with /tmp..
How move /var/tmp to the same logic partition?
So we would have /tmp & var/tmp in the same.
(Both are Ext4, var/tmp is currently in /var partition.)
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Why does `mount /dev/dm-8` mount `/dev/dm-39` instead?
On a debian 10 GNU with Linux kernel system the following line does not - as expected - mount /dev/dm-8 but (imho incorreclty) /dev/dm-37:
mount /dev/dm-8 /mnt
I am puzzled really now the reason and/...
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how to disable and re-enable the same LVM mirror leg, only to update system core packages?
I have a desktop PC without a no-break (but even with one the batteries may not last long enough in case things are compiled during the installation of the new kernel).
I have 3 mirror legs of the ...
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Command to monitor lvm-raid1 status under a thin pool
Further to my question regarding the possibility of converting an lvm-raid1 LV into thinpool, which I understand it's possible I am now stuck in looking for a possible command to monitor their status.
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Volume show different sizes in CentOS 7
I hope you and your dears are very well.
I'm facing a issue which I cannot understand the root cause.
I have a VM with CentOS 7 64 bits. This VM has the following partitions:
Filesystem Size ...
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LVM type raid1 & thinpool is it possible?
We are moving an installation from mdadm raid with LVM on top to pure LVM, so we will add the original raid partitions as indendent partitions to the LVM group
Something like:
lvcreate -L 240G -n thin ...
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MacOS like lazy provisioned filesystem on Linux
I have always had issues with estimating how to partition a hard disk for the system, media, and other data. Although you can resize partitions more easily with LVM, it still consumes time and forces ...
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Viability of LVM snapshots for creating multiple versions of a filesystem on a backup storage device
I have a largish main storage disk of 400TiB that we plan to backup to a remote JBOD. The backup tools provided with the main storage only allow for dumping a single copy of the filesystem, and then ...
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With logical volumes, how to modify default lvs output?
With lvs I get the default output:
~$ sudo lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
pre_upgrade_2020-10-31 rpi.vg06 swi-a-s--- 2,...
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Xencenter server with failed disk mirror - LVM - I am unsure how to proceed
I'm having a serious problem with an older server I inherited running Xencenter. The VM would no longer boot with a VDI unavailable error.. I began troubleshooting as much as I could but I have very ...
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Cannot shrink logical volume - mixed messages whether space is available
I want to shrink my logical volume (LV)
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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/dev/mapper/MyOnlyVolumeGroup-MyLogicVolume 59G 23G 35G 40% /...
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How can I add a new physical volume to extend an existing LUKS-encrypted lvm (volume group) and maintain encryption?
I want to extend my LUKS-encrypted lvm (volume group) with a new physical volume.
In my previous question I was told - in respect to my actual setup - that I need to encrypt the new physical volume ...
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Do I maintain encryption when extending a luks encrypted lvm with a physical volume?
My luks encrypted lvm is running out of space.
I want to extend the volume group with a new physical volume.
Will the data on that physical volume be encrypted automatically when added to the volume ...
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lvcreate + how to set lvcreate with variables when size is in GIGA
dear all friends
We want to create the VOLUME_GROUP_NAME
As
lvcreate -n $LV_NAME --size $P_size $VOLUME_GROUP_NAME
and the variables are
VOLUME_GROUP_NAME=VG_a
LV_NAME=LV_NEW_1
P_size=5 ( is the new ...
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get pids/locks for lvm - source for opencount on dmsetup info
# dmsetup info
Name: ubuntu--vg-root
State: ACTIVE
Read Ahead: 256 <---- cat /sys/dev/block/253:0/bdi/read_ahead_kb gives 128 not 256
Tables present: LIVE
Open ...
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What are the benefits to using multiple LVM caches?
I strangely can't find any documentation on this, just how to use LVM cache for a device. If add another SSD as a second LVM cache to LVM volume, will I get better or worse performance? Or does it ...
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Is an LVM cache a security leak when using LUKS on LVM?
I have two hard drives in a volume group with LVM. All volumes in that volume group hold LUKS containers. If I add an SSD as an LVM cache to that volume group, is all data on the cache device ...
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Disk looks fine, but mount fails (bad option, bad superblock)
I've got a disk that's a bit of a mess right now, but I feel like I've got it into a state where it's working. Here's the original question about how the block size was wrong:
https://superuser.com/...
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How to wipe free space in an LVM volume group?
After some storage reorganisation, I have a volume group with a fair chunk of free space. I want to wipe this free space without perturbing any of the existing volumes. Is there an easy way to fill ...
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bare metal raid array with LVM dissapears after reboot
tl;dr:
RAID array + LVM dissapears after reboot.
Detail
I wanted to set up an encrypted raid array, based on this SO.
I set up a RAID array "bare metal" (i.e. on the disks not on the ...
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Grub is not booting Ubuntu with LUKS/LVM
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 on LUKS/LVM but unfortunately on booting I am only getting a grub> prompt.
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda ...
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Extending LVM on an existing partition in vmware environment
I am trying to extend a logical volume size of a partition in a vmware environment. The VM originally was configured with a single 60 GB HDD and partitions look like as follows:
lsblk
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What happens to a logical volume when a physical volume fails?
I have recently run out of storage space on a server and would like to migrate to lvm to make handling this scenario easier in the future. I would like to combine all of my drives (not including OS ...
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How to setup mdadm raid1 auto-assembly, where external bitmap is itself on another mdadm raid1?
How can the assembling of a raid (as via information stored in mdadm.conf) succeed, given that its assembling requires a bitmap file, which itself is only available after another device has become ...
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How do I restore redundancy to an LVM-RAID volume
I have a logical volume (home64) that spans several drives that was converted to RAID1 using lvconvert.
This was fine, and when a drive failed, it carried on. Now I'm trying to replace the drive ...
