Questions tagged [lvm2]
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Is LVM broken or xfs filesystem dead?
As we say all too often, never prod on a Friday ... But an admin on my team wanted to expand a lv, so he broke the whole system.
I've managed to remount the disk and the group volume, and now I'm ...
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Rebuilding grub with LVM2 and UEFI
Trying to restore my grub boot loader for Ubuntu 22.04, but a weird anomaly during the rebuild process changes the boot menu to CentOS. I have tried several rebuild attempts from many different ...
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How to mount hard drive (physical disk) which is a part of LVM in Ubuntu Server 22.04?
Newly installed Ubuntu 22.04 to a server.
The logical volume is already mounted (by default) to / during installation of 22.04 to a Dell server.
When I try to mount the "mapper" (to anywhere ...
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Cannot stop md raid6 array
I setup a raid6 array on top of iscsi and lvm shared logical volumes that I use to make sure only one node part of iscsi network can use the raid volume at a time.
Today I fail to stop the volume. ...
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LVM, EXT4, mount points etc. I'm not even sure how to determine what the issue might be
I have a media server that used to work: 4 disks, EXT4, as a single LVM with 5 shares.
Working through other tutorials, when I execute the "lsblk" command this is what I see:
NAME ...
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How to merge Linux LVM physical volumes on the same disk?
I have a funny situation (Proxmox, but that's immaterial) where I ended up with LVM, a single volume group on top of two partitions (PVs) that are contiguous with one another on the disk. The PVs (and ...
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Does multiple snapshots influence the performance?
My desktop system(Kubuntu-20.04.4, with LVM2 root-fs) need to be frequently adjusted the configurations, but some configuration would be fault.
I take a new LVM2 snapshot of root fs, before every time ...
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In a new rocky9 vm, LVM2 does NOT see the newly attached PVs under LUKS
In a new rocky9 vm, LVM2 does NOT see the newly attached PVs under LUKS.
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The end goal is to migrate a simple "repo" server (that holds iso files) from centos8 to rocky9.
I have a freshly ...
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lvm semantics compared with Mac OS container volumes - sharing storage between logical volumes?
I'm very new to lvm, and have simultaneously understood how Mac OS container disks work.
I'm very happy with Mac OS container disk semantics - I don't have to think how much space to allocate. I just ...
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LVM: Problems in adding disk to an existing Logical volume
I have a disk under a Logical Volume.
$ lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/vg_prod/lv_prod
LV Name lv_prod
VG Name vg_prod
LV UUID ...
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CentOS 6 LVM RAID5, unable to activate VG / LV. "device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:119) failed: Input/output error"
I've found myself in a complex Linux LVM-RAID5 / device-mapper problem after one temporary device failure, and one bad block encountered during that time. The logical volume can now not be activated ...
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How to prevent GRUB from scanning lvm snapshot?
My root file system is a LVM2 logic volume, and there are few snapshots of it beside.
Every time when I run update-grub, it always add menu entries for those snapshots as if they are normal volumes. ...
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systemd error message : Failed to start LVM event activation on device 253:0
I have an Acer Notebook with Debian Linux 10.0. As may be seen from lsblk output below, root partition is on 256GB SSD at /var/home and SWAP is located on an LVM2 volume located on two LUKS encrypted ...
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How to extend LVM2 partition while keeping existing files
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 server edition
I'm attempting to adjust my Proxmox installation that I copied from my 120GB SSD to my 500GB SSD. However, fdisk is complaining about the 'GPT PMBR size mismatch'. I'd ...
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Do temporary files tend to reuse the same physical blocks over time?
On a Linux FS such as ext4, would temporary files such as logs and other /var stuff tend to end up on the same physical blocks over time? For example, with log rotation, would new logs tend to end up ...
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