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Why is the filesystem larger than logical volume?

On the machine, there is a logical volume /dev/lvm/tmp of size 500MiB with the same size partition /dev/mapper/tmp that is mounted on /tmp. Checking the logical volume: # lvdisplay /dev/lvm/tmp --- ...
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Is it possible to create tmpfs inside lvm puppet module?

we have autoprovisioning of linux machines (using trusty and xenial) and we are using puppet for it. We are using LVM in puppetlabs/lvm and specifying it in hiera. Example: lvm::volume_groups: ...
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How to use tmpfs and SSD for smart cache

I want to create fast logical disk under Linux for storing temporary files. This files I don't afraid to lost. On my machine I have 128Gb of RAM and 512Gb of SSD disk. So I want use 50% of my RAM as ...
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In linux is it possible to extend a ramdisk with a physcial drive in a logical volume?

I do not like how tmpfs behaves with swap and will allow memory to be exhausted before using the swap on physical disk (yes swappiness can be adjusted but it's still affecting the rest of the OS by ...
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