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Tag: Logical Volume Management

How to Shrink XFS Partition for the root filesystem | 1 Easy guide

Shrink XFS partition
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An easy step by step guide to shrink XFS partition on a logical volume by taking an xfsdump and restore using xfsrestore.

Babin Lonston December 23, 2020 Storage Servers

Resize root LVM Partition in RHEL and Oracle Linux 7/8 | Easy guide

Resize root LVM Partition
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A quick guide to Resize Root LVM partition on any RHEL based operating systems such as CentOS, Oracle Linux, Scientific Linux and much more.

Babin Lonston December 19, 2020 Storage Servers

Recover a failed or deleted Physical Volume (PV) in LVM | 1 Easy guide

Deleted Physical volume
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A quick guide to recover the metadata of a failed physical disk or deleted physical volume in logical volume management.

Babin Lonston December 17, 2020 Storage Servers

Recover a deleted Logical Volume in LVM | 1 Quick guide

Deleted logical volume
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A quick guide about restoring a deleted logical volume in Linux operating system. vgcfgrestore a single command is more than enough to restore the LV.

Babin Lonston December 15, 2020 Storage Servers

Moving a Volume Group from one Server to another Server

Moving a Volume Group
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Moving a Volume group from one system to another system without missing any underlying logical volumes and file systems.

Babin Lonston May 10, 2020 Storage Servers

Create a Thinly Provisioned Logical Volume on Linux

Thinly-Provisioned-Logical-Volume
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Thinly Provisioned Logical volume is one of the advanced feature available in Logical volume Management, We can provision storage more than what we have.

Babin Lonston September 1, 2019 Storage Servers

Migrating Logical Volumes in Logical Volume Management

Migrating Logical Volume in LVM
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Migrating Logical Volume by moving the extents from a PV to another PV when a faulty disk or the size of the disk need to be larger than the current one.

Babin Lonston August 1, 2019 Storage Servers

Striped Logical Volume in Logical volume management (LVM)

Striped Logical Volume in Logical volume management (LVM) 1
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How to create Striped Logical Volumes in Logical Volume Management to get good I/O performance by balancing the data written to disks.

Babin Lonston July 26, 2019 Storage Servers

Shrink a Volume Group in Logical Volume Management (LVM2)

Shrink a Volume Group in Logical Volume Management (LVM2) 2
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Shrink a Volume Group in logical volume management will be performed by sysadmins when the requirement in place to reduce the no of disks from a VG.

Babin Lonston July 23, 2019 Storage Servers

How to Extend and Reduce LVM Logical Volume in Linux

Extend and Reduce LVM Logical Volume Management in Linux
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How to extend and reduce LVM logical volume management in Linux Operating Systems.

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Babin Lonston July 19, 2019 Storage Servers

Migrate from single-partition boot device to LVM in CentOS7

Migrate from single-partition boot device to LVM in CentOS7
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Introduction to Boot Device to LVM Single Partition boot device to LVM: There are times when you have […]

Matthew Secaur January 12, 2019 Storage Servers

Create Logical volume management LVM file-system in Linux

Create Logical volume management LVM file-system in Linux 3
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Creating an LVM flexible filesystem in Linux server using Logical volume management (LVM) which helps to expand from small size to large in size on the fly.

Babin Lonston October 4, 2018 Storage Servers

Create a Logical volume using Ansible

Creating LVM with Ansible
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In our last guide, we have seen how to manage user accounts using ansible. By following in this […]

Babin Lonston June 23, 2018 Automation
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