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ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv and vgdisplay give different sizes for different commands
Even though the disk size is 221.57 GiB and there is no unallocated disk space and /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv gives only 98G where did the rest go?
output of:
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: ...
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I messed up and made my /boot partition laughably small over 4 years ago. Resizing it will not be straightforward. What can I do?
Ubuntu version is 22.04 LTS Desktop
My boot disk is /dev/sda, and it has three partitions.
Here are the relevant mounts:
~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs ...
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On what disk is filesystem located?
I need to find out on what disk a specific filesystems on my server is located. For this case, let's use my /home directory as an example:
[root@master playbooks]# df -h /home
Filesystem ...
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How to mount/recover failed drive?
Today my home server went to kernel panic, something went wrong with its system drive. I swapped the drive, restored the server and now I'm trying to figure out what happened to the old one. It ...
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Move an existing Ubuntu installation to new disk that i've configured it with lvm - a few specific questions
I've been searching the internet for any answer to this and have not found anything that I can wrap my head around, not that specifically answers my questions anyway.
I installed a new hard disk in my ...
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Device for PV <UUID> not found
This is how it looks the drive settings of a VM that I am trying to rescue.
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 ...
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How to find physical disks?
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/loop0: 54.98 MiB, 57626624 bytes, 112552 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 ...
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How to recover some files from lvm thinpool (from Qubes OS)
I mounted, on Ubuntu, a LUKS partition that has these lvm containers from Qubes OS:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool ...
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Help in mounting/accessing part of a disk that is already being used
lsblk gives me this:
Screenshot of lsblk output
the volume hanging off sda3, 'ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv', contains the Ubuntu OS and runs well. What I don't have access to is to the rest of the 58.6G on ...
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How to enlarge an LVM partition when the virtualised (MS Hyper-V) drive has been resized
I have an Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS server that runs under MS HyperV. The only disk in the system, a vhdx, is installed under Ubuntu as a single physical and logical volume via LVM.
I have enlarged the disk ...
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Expand filesystem from command line - sda1-5 already in use
I have a headless Ubuntu server install inside a VM, running on Hyper-V using lvm. I have full access to the VM, but no access to the Hyper-V environment (so can't boot with a LiveCD).
I need to ...
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Insufficient free space: XXX extents needed, but only 0 available
I'm trying to run this command:
lvresize --size +100% --resizefs /dev/mapper/pve-root
but geting this error:
Insufficient free space: XXX extents needed, but only 0 available
Running ProxMox 5.1 ...
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How to see the volume group name of an LVM logical volume on an external Hard Drive?
I'm trying to follow this guide, in order to shrink an encrypted partition on an external hard drive.
I think I've successfully resized the file system on that partition, and now I want to reduce the ...
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How to access an LVM partition on an external USB disk? [duplicate]
I have a external USB disk that is format using LVM. There are 2 logical partitions inside the LVM partition. When I plug it I can see the disk with GParted, but the disk partitions are not shown in ...
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Recovering files from a, potentially broken, LVM2 filesystem
TLDR
How can I recover files from a hard disk containing LVM2 partitions after extracting the disk from a dead server?
In Brief
My headless email server appliance stopped responding to network ...
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