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Ubuntu 12.04 preseed LVM partitioning
I'm attempting to automate the installation of Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS using a preseed file, but I'm still getting prompted to confirm a Yes/No at a disk partitioning window. The question being asked is "...
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How to increase lvm disk partition size
I've came up with a problema, let me explain it:
I have an Ubuntu 12 LTS virtualized on Hyper-V, initially it had 20Gb of asigned virtual disk but now I'm almost runing out of space so I've increased ...
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Is Ubuntu LVM a RAID?
I had a 4 disk LAMP system running Ubuntu 10 then upgraded to 12. The drives are managed by LVM since initial setup. Recently, one of the drive failed (the newest and largest of course, 3TB). I sent ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.3 - Expanding/Resizing LVM partition upon additional Disk in a Hardware RAID 5
We have a database server configured as hardware RAID 5 with 3pcs 1TB Disk. Usable is 2TB and partition as follows: /data is LVM
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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update-grub fails on lvm cryptoroot
Disclaimer: I'm running this server now but I did NOT install it.
I have two disks connected to an Intel Hardware Raid Controller running in RAID1. On top of it there is a fully encrypted 12.04 ...
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How to setup device mapper RAID on LVM on Ubuntu 12.04
I have read that LVM can be setup as raid without using mdadm. I have setup LVM with two physical HDD and would like to set up RAID1 but I can't find any guidance.
Is there any documentation on how ...
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Can I resize a physical volume?
I've been trying to solve the following problem 5 good hours now. I've recently installed Linux Mint 17 with LVM, erasing my hard disk. For some reason I want to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 alongside my ...
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Proper way to remove an active / inactive LVM snapshot
I have created a sample ruby script file for removing extra LVM snapshots from the system.
For removing LVM snapshot, we are using lvremove command. This command is working fine and we can remove ...
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Data transfer from 12.04 to 14.04 using same hostname?
I've been using my 12.04 server for a year and a half. I'd like to install 14.04 on a new drive and transfer all my data over once that is complete. I have 720GB of files to to deal with.
12.04 was ...
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Getting "read failed after 0 of 4096 at xxxxxx: Input/output error" error for LVM
I have system with Ubuntu 12.04.
On this system used LVM for managing disk drives and similar mass-storage devices.
When I used lvscan command for scanning all the logical volumes then it displayed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.04 LTS xfs xlog_space_left
I am running Kernel: 3.2.0-59-generic will moving to 3.2.0-61-generic fix the issue with xlog_space_left: head behind tail? I do a serious amount of lvsnap shots every hour on a mysql database on a ...
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LUKS and LVM install: no boot (gave up waiting for root device)
I just finished installing 12.04 on my system, configuring it with LUKS and LVM.
I can open the encrypted position just fine in a recovery disk, but I just can't seem to get it to boot.
It waits ...
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Format USB stick using LVM?
Is it possible to format a USB stick using LVM? I am interested in LVM because apparently it allows you to create instantaneous snapshots for backup purposes.
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Lv not showing correct in fdisk
I am working on a project with iscsi to create a iscsi-target and initiator. Right now i made a logical volume which looks like this:
But when I do fdisk -l it shows:
The problem is why does it make ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04: Boot hangs with error "udevd[538] inotify_add_watch(...) failed: invalid argument
I'm currently faced with the following situation:
when rebooting a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server after updating (it ran perfectly for a year or so, I updated it around two months ago and rebooted with no ...
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