Questions tagged [lvm]
LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel
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Need to Reinstall GRUB | Repair Boot after MB failed. OS on Raid1 / LVM partitions
My UEFI motherboard failed. I am running 22.04LTS on a bootable Raid1 array on a LVM layer.
It is not a dual boot setup.
Of course UEFI requires a small partition in fat32 to act as the boot, efi ...
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How to shrink the root parition after Ubuntu install? root partition is already installed
I installed Ubuntu 24.04 with advanced features ("Use LVM and encryption"), but I couldn't find more options to partition the disk during the installation. Here is the partition layout that ...
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Stuck in GRUB 2.06 command line after copying disk with CloneZilla
I have two identical HDD disks both have the same size. Because my main disk had some bad sectors, I decided to move my Ubuntu 22.04 system to another newer disk. Following the advice of people on ...
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LVM2 - non-root VG LV not activated on reboot
One of our physical Ubuntu server has,
3 VGs in total - rootvg, 2 non-rootvgs(appvg1 & appvg2).
Rootdisk is local HDD and both appvgs uses multipath disk (one disk each).
appvg1 has filesystem ...
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Is installing Ubuntu server and adding package *-desktop equivalent to installing *buntu Desktop?
current Ubuntu installation media (ubiquity , calamares) do have difficulties with manual partition and ecryption (luks + lvm), while the server installation (subiquity) works well.
Therefore:
If the ...
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Impact of software raid on IOPs performance
Today my server is a ubuntu 22.04 setup where I am starting 2 VMs namely mgmt-vm and storage-vm using LXD. Both the VMs are using lvm based storage pool which is on top of logical software RAID5 drive ...
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Is my SSD dying?
I have a home server that I use for Home Assistant with Ubuntu Server. All was good but someday the server stopped responding. I plugged it into a monitor and it was requiring a manual filesystem ...
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lvchange -ay can't activate an LV: device-mapper: reload ioctl on failed: Input/output error
Running on Ubuntu 22.04.4 with kernel 5.15.0-48-generic (yes, there are updates, that is a different issue.)
The only VG named datavg is active and online.
All of the PV are active and online.
All 11 ...
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LVM on cloud init ubuntu 22.04 server
I'm using packer from hashicorp, to install ubuntu 22.04 server on vmware. There is a one problem, i can't find how to specify volume group and logical volume in user-data file.
For example i need ...
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how to fixed ubuntu server 20.04 LTS /dev/mapper/ubuntu/--vg-ubuntu--lv contains a file system with errors, check forced
I am newbie for Linux Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS user.
I have a cases with my Linux Ubuntu PC Server.
When I boot my PC, I got an error with:
/dev/mapper/ubuntu/--vg-ubuntu--lv contains a file system ...
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How to safely extend Logical Volume in production server
I have 4 LVs, type is ext4. I want to know how to safely extend them since they are all used for production.
From what I know the steps are.
unmount
extend
resize FS
mount again
Are these steps ...
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DISA STIG drive partitioning (LVMs) during install of Ubuntu 24.04?
I would like to install Ubuntu 24.04 on a new (physical) system and comply with the DISA STIG for drive partitioning and secure LVM mounts. That means 'noexec' for /var and /tmp. I don't see any way ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 (Nomble Numbat) hangs on installation
I've been trying to install the new Ubuntu 24.04 (Nomble Numbat) on a PC that's been running 22.04 for a while. Observations:
Upon boot from the USB stick it errors out quickly (IIRC "Oh no ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 installer not showing encrypted lvm partitions (luks)
I want to replace my ubuntu 22.04 install which is in an encrypted lvm with new Ubuntu 24.04.
I unlocked to crypted partition :
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p3 nvme0n1p3_crypt
password: ok
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Keep getting error on LXC preseed.yaml for profile and LVM configuration
I am trying to create a preseed.yaml for our LXD environment in which I can use a profile to setup VMs with an 80GB disk and have it pre-configured using LVM for the partitions. I have a preseed.yaml ...
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I can only use 100GB of 2x1TB disks with LVM and a RAID
I have the following disks
lsblk
lsblk
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 63,9M 1 loop /snap/core20/2182
loop1 ...
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/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv does not exist. Dropping to shell
I inherited a problem... originally we thought the root partition of the drive was filled and no one could log into the host. The host was rebooted and upon reboot it now drops to initramfs. I ...
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Logical Volume Management in Linux (Ubuntu)
I'm encountering an issue with my virtual machine. Initially, I allocated 25 GB of storage to it, installed Docker, Jenkins, and several other applications, and extended the LVM to 18 GB. Now, I'm ...
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missing storage raid / lvm after updating ubuntu server 22.04 5.15 to 6.2.0, where do I start
I'm missing a 4 drive raid, I wasn't super sure how it was set up really, I updated the kernel for specific nvidia drivers to 6.2.0. I can see the drives in lsblk, and it looks like they still have ...
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/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv is full
I'm new to Ubuntu so I apologize in advance. I got my server up and running this week and set up jellyfin, which has been working fine up until now. I dont know if this is the cause but my boot drive ...
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Ubuntu Server installation use LVM OS physical volume as a whole device
I'm trying to do a Ubuntu Server VM installation by using the OS physical volume as a whole device without any partitions, but I can't manage to complete the disk configuration.
Is it possible somehow ...
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Extend available disk space to Ubuntu 20.04LTS
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04LTS on a VMWare virtual machine.
I have expanded the virtual hard disk allocated to the VM. It is now 32GB.
The size Ubuntu use is still the same (obviously).
I tried a number ...
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Ubuntu/Xubuntu 22.04 installation issue with RAID and full disk encryption
I'm trying to install a ubuntu or xubuntu 22.04.4 with minimum install to a device that has RAID 1 configured in BIOS. During installation I selected to erase disk and use LVM with new Ubuntu ...
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Volume group "encrypted" not found - error message during boot - I did not set up any volume groups
It was working the previous days normally, but suddenly I got this error message during the boot somewhere around the end of init-premount or beginning of local-bottom or in-between.
Volume group &...
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docker ubuntu server LVM disk full?
First of all I am new to Ubuntu and Linux altogether. Some things that i describe below may not be correct and I might (probably) have done it incorrectly.
I want to know how to set up the volumes and/...
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Stuck with kernel 6.2.0 on Ubuntu 23.10
I'm running Ubuntu on a thin client as a headless home server. I've upgraded to 23.10 a few monthes ago, but I realize I've been stuck with kernel 6.2.0 since then.
Running sudo apt update, sudo apt ...
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How can I create an LVM Partion /var/tmp in Ubuntu Server 22.04, without crashing the system?
To make it clear, I managed LVM and partitioning 1000+ times on RHEL and Debian derivatives,
but Ubuntu Server 22.04 seems to have a serious bug!
What is:
If I install a fresh VM, I can create every ...
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extending partition to root in ubuntu [duplicate]
I'm working on a Ubuntu 22.04 VM of 300GB , I got a warning " / is using 95.0% of 97.87GB" , I tried to increase my hard-disk space by adding additional 300GB of harddisk.
This is the result ...
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Ubuntu server LVM not using entire disk space [duplicate]
Running lsblk gives following output.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M ...
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Activating LVM volumes after failure to attach after reboot
I currently have the problem that after every reboot the two external hard disks (both connected via USB) throw the error "Activating LVM volumes after failure to attach ...".
Normally I can ...
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