Logical Volume Management

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

How to create Striped Logical Volumes in Logical Volume Management to get good I/O performance by balancing the data written to disks.

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.

How to extend and reduce LVM logical volume management in Linux Operating Systems.