Logical Volume Management provides storage abstraction, a generalization of disk partitioning.
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Cannot mount filesystem under luks. Device does not exist
I made one big luks device and re-used it on my debian install, then i ran into some boot problems and i need to acess the filesystem.
The problem is, i decrypt the luks device and when i try to ...
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No Space left on device - Debian
when Im new to linux and try to run this below code
apt-get -f install
getting below error:
Checking the available space
df
Tho output
How to increase the available space in /usr path?
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LVM issue with VM - Physical disk not present
Am trying to troubleshoot an issue that has arisen during a DR test and admit from the outset that LVMs are not my forte.
We have a RHEL6 VM running on ESXi 5.1. We are using a LUN to LUN ...
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bootloader configuration with GPT, RAID1, and LVM
Using the GUID Partition Table and RAID 1, the bootloader (syslinux or GRUB) is not able to boot into the machine, which was installed with Arch Linux.
First off, there are two drives identical ...
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Restored VG has shifted volumes
I'm recovering a PV on a mdadm RAID 1 with a single VG containing several LVs.
The underlying devices have several bad sectors (one just a few, the other really much) and a silly typo made it ...
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Install grub on LV container for VM
I'm having difficult time installing grub in LVM LV container for a VM. This is the partition table:
# parted /dev/mgtvg/linux2os print
Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/dm-7: 129GB ...
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how to have root partition LVM for RHEL 5.8 64 bit on AWS EC2
I am new to this and I have to create a RHEL 5.8 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in which the root partition should be a logical volume. I know how to create a data partition as a logical volume but am not ...
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when is it safe to remove `/dev/.tmp-block-*` files
i'm currently experimenting with temporary lvm-snapshots (that is: create a snapshot of an LV, do something with the snapshot (e.g. run a backup), then destroy the snapshot. something along the lines:
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LVM hangs while trying to create my root device node
Followup to How can I check for bad blocks on an LVM physical volume?
The title mostly sums it up. Basically, I have a box partitioned with a regular /boot partition and then an LVM physical volume ...
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Resizing root partition in LVM broke Grub
I'm using Debian Wheezy hosted on W7 in Virtualbox. I needed to enlarge root partition then added a new virtual disk to virtual machine. Doing the steps mentioned below brings me to grub prompt. I:
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Recovery of data on raid5+lvm reiserfs partition, after raid5 problems
I've got a server with 3 sata hard drives. Each has 2 partitions: one small is part of /dev/md0, a raid1 array (/boot), rest is part of a raid5 array (/dev/md1), which is an lvm physical volume. ...
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New menu entry in GRUB2, “file not found” and “you need to load the kernel first” errors
I wanted to add new menu entry to my GRUB2 list. This is how I tried to do this and necessary info:
Erros after choosing "Debian Wheezy" menu entry from GRUB2 list:
error:file not found
error:you ...
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Can you create a volumegroup in LVM that all the Logical volumes created under it will be thin provisioned?
I would like to know if it is possible to create a volumegroup in LVM that all the Logical volumes created under it will be thin provisioned?
This will be used on RHEL 6 which does include thin ...
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Should LVM partitions be used in virtual machine images?
Should LVM be used for the partitions when creating VM images (e.g., KVM images)? It seems like it adds complexity if you want to, say, mount a qcow2 image in the host if the image has LVM partitions. ...
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Should I use LVM or not? [duplicate]
I'm installing Debian 7.1 "for fun" in a VMware virtual machine. During the installation, I have to make a choice regarding the disk partitions.
Partitioning method:
Guided - use entire disk
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