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Logical Volume Management

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

March 6, 2022December 23, 2020 by Babin Lonston

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

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management 1 Comment

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

March 6, 2022December 19, 2020 by Babin Lonston

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

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management

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

March 6, 2022December 17, 2020 by Babin Lonston

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

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Recover a deleted Logical Volume in LVM | 1 Quick guide

March 6, 2022December 15, 2020 by Babin Lonston

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.

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management

Moving a Volume Group from one Server to another Server

March 6, 2022May 10, 2020 by Babin Lonston

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

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management 2 Comments

Create a Thinly Provisioned Logical Volume on Linux

March 6, 2022September 1, 2019 by Babin Lonston

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

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Migrating Logical Volumes in Logical Volume Management

March 6, 2022August 1, 2019 by Babin Lonston

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.

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management 2 Comments

Striped Logical Volume in Logical volume management (LVM)

March 6, 2022July 26, 2019 by Babin Lonston

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

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management 10 Comments

Shrink a Volume Group in Logical Volume Management (LVM2)

March 6, 2022July 23, 2019 by Babin Lonston

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.

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management

How to Extend and Reduce LVM Logical Volume in Linux

March 6, 2022July 19, 2019 by Babin Lonston

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

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management 8 Comments

Migrate from single-partition boot device to LVM in CentOS7

March 7, 2022January 12, 2019 by Matthew Secaur

Convert from a single partition boot device to LVM. File System contains all of the files for Linux and user files into a system need a separate partition for /boot and LVM.

Categories Storage Servers Tags boot device to lvm, Logical Volume Management 8 Comments

Create Logical volume management LVM file-system in Linux

March 6, 2022October 4, 2018 by Babin Lonston
Create Logical volume management LVM file-system in Linux 1

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.

Categories Storage Servers Tags Logical Volume Management 1 Comment

Create a Logical volume using Ansible

March 6, 2022June 23, 2018 by Babin Lonston
Creating LVM with Ansible

In our last guide, we have seen how to manage user accounts using ansible. By following in this guide let us see how to create a new logical volume (LVM) filesystem using ansible. To read about more topics on “Ansible” you can refer to the below links. Install and configure Ansible Automation IT Tool Install … Read more

Categories Automation Tags Ansible, Logical Volume Management 7 Comments

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