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A ZFS or LVM or MD redundant heterogeneous storage proposal
I have the same problem most people have: how to create a reliable personal storage solution with the fact that:
Hard drives fail with alarming regularity. Losing files is unacceptable.
I will buy ...
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Tools for block diagrams / listings of multi-layered storage virtualization with LVM and LUKS?
When multiple storage virtualization systems are used together, it can be complicated and time-consuming to gain an understanding of the structure of the various relationships involved. What tools ...
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How to change partition size in fedora ? ( the format of drives are LVM2 )
I'm trying to install a windows on my laptop but I'm having some problems , I've got 500 Gb of storage which is under LVM2 format ( the format which is the Linux Fedora's format ) .
so here's the ...
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Mounting a LVM volume as normal user.
Here is what is observed:
sharad@nt535:~$ ls -l /mnt
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 sharad sharad 4096 2012-01-17 17:14 MyPicsAndVids
drwxr-xr-x 2 sharad sharad 4096 2012-01-17 17:14 SharadHomeDir
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linux LVM data recovery
I added a partition to my LVM group on linux, but didn't back up the data that was on the disk before doing so. And now I can't mount the underling partition as /dev/sda4. Does anyone know how to get ...
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Linux command line partition manager with LVM
I need to write a program to format SD card with, FAT boot, ext4 and swap partitions.
I would like the ext4 to use LVM. Ideally there would be scope for mdadm.
I need help finding a command line ...
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LVM Encrypted Physical Volume versus Encrypted Logical Volume. Am I safe?
I'm somehow new to disk encryption techniques in Linux, but I have the basic
notions about encryption. Here my conditions:
I need to have "full disk encryption", including "/", not just "/home".
I ...
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Recover LVM2 volume group after one HDD failed
I had two HDDs, each one containing a LVM partition which formed a volume group. Then I had two LVs, one for my / directory and one for my /home/ directory. Yesterday where I had my / dir failed. I'm ...
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Additional swap created on a new partition gets removed on reboot
I have created a new swap volume using logical volume management tool on RHEL.
Suppose the volume is /dev/rootvg/swap2
I did mkswamp /dev/rootvg/swap2
and then swapon /dev/rootvg/swap2 when listing ...
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LVM: Removing a 'Zombie' (Unavailable) VG
I have an LVM related problem. We have a server that 'learned' about a foreign volume group through a hard drive that was briefly attached. Now, with that hard drive gone again, all LVM utilities ...
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How to revert a shrink of an LVM volume
I had a Linux LVM volume that was about 400 GB.
I shrank it to 217 GB following the steps below.
umount /local
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol2
resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol2 217G
lvresize -L 217G ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 encrypted LVM password not working after user login password change
I installed UBUNTU using encrypted LVM .. like in the link below:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/10/how-to-install-ubuntu-11-04-on-an-encrypted-lvm-file-system/
When I boot it prompts me for a ...
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How to create a partition on a shrunk LVM volume
I have a Linux LVM volume that is about 400 GB.
I have shrunk it to 200 GB to get some space for a new NTFS partition on which I can install Win7.
umount /local
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol2
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Why does the debian installer erase the swap when encrypting?
I am installing a new copy of debian squeeze. I decided to use an encrypted Lvm this time. I noticed that is taking a really really long time to format the drive. It says it is erasing partition #5 ...
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Recovering Ubuntu after filesystem was overwritten using dd
I had an Ubuntu installation on my laptop, on an encrypted LVM (this was /dev/sda1).
I was planning to write an Arch Linux image to my USB drive (/dev/sdc1), following this guide - ...
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Using Linux LVM snapshots for system backups - “semop failed for cookie” error
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04, with the / partition in an encrypted LVM volume. /home is in the same logical volume. I'm trying to use the LVM snapshot functionality to enable time-consistent backups of ...
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How do you add more space to a Fedora (LVM) partition?
In a nutshell, i have a VM that ran out of space. I increased the size of the VM's harddrive to be 4 times bigger but the OS partition is still only using 1x the space. I need to change the LVM ...
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Replace LVM drive with a larger size
I have two drives setup in LVM holding my media. I ran out of space and would like to replace the 1tb with a 2tb I just got. What is the best way to go about copying the contents from the old 1tb ...
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Extending available space in LVM using LUKS
I have one volume group consisting of lv_root, lv_swap and lv_home. I want to increase the space available to lv_home by adding an extra hard drive.
Can this be done while maintaining a LUKS-based ...
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unable to mount lvm ext4 filesystem
I was moving a couple of physical volumes from my lvm. I managed to successfully pvmove and pvremove them. After this i was moving some files from the lvm to one of the removed pvs. Now during this my ...
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How to restore data from a set of old LVM disks using images?
I have three hard drives that were previously in a Debian server setup to use LVM that I now need to access data on. The first hard drive had a boot partition along with an LVM partition, the other ...
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Are there any LVM like solutions for Windows?
Are there any LVM like solutions for Windows?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29
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Fedora15 - Help me understand how cryptsetup and LVM interact
Upgrading F11 to F15 I've decided to encrypt the disk. Anaconda appears to have limited support for custom disk partitions (mine is dual boot). The result of my second install attempt was a PV boot ...
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lvm vgdisplay shows 0 free extents, while df shows freespace
My vgdisplay shows 0 PE's. But if i mount the volume and run df -h i get loads of free space. Is this something to do with the way lvm allocates extents? I don't get similar behaviour from my other ...
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Ubuntu Moving root folder to a new lvm partition
I began running out of space on my / partition*. So I decided to create a new lvm partition and move to that one instead. Now, I have created the lvm partition, mounted it, rsync folders from / to ...
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Shrink LVM partition on Fedora 15
I currently have an install of Fedora 15, which happened to make a LVM volume group that took up the entire disk. Since I want to be able to use the space on the rest of the disk (and don't need a ...
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Creating a disk image of dm-crypt/LUKS encrypted LVM partition (Linux)
Is there any disk imaging software out there that can intelligently take an image of an encrypted LVM partition, if I provide the passphrase?
I am referring to software that is similar to Clonezilla ...
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How to resize hard disk of linux in vm
I installed a centos in vm,
then expand the volume of hard disk by the setting of vm.
How to resize the hard disk without re-install?
I do not set lvm in the frist install
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How to mount USB disk with LVM/LUKS crypted volumes on a Mac? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to mount an encrypted ext3 filesystem under OS X?
I have a USB disk that I've partitioned with LVM and encrypted some of the volumes with LUKS.
This is all ...
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Troublesome hard-drive in LVM — is it broken?
I have a LVM volume set up with several harddrives, and one of them seems to be failing, or at least something strange is going on. Every time the logical volume series sees heavy write activity, the ...
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Merging LVM Physical Volumes
I currently have an LVM volume group comprised of
/dev/sda1 ~2 TiB
/dev/sdb1 ~1 TiB
/dev/sdc1 ~1 TiB.
Recently, I have purchased a new 2 TiB drive and wish to use it in place of the two 1 TiB ...
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Moving a LVM/LUKS encrypted partition to the end of a harddrive?
I need to move a LUKS encrypted partition to the end of a harddrive to expand another partition.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Is it possible to do this with other partition editing programs?
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How do I expand an LVM volume (Ubuntu Server)?
I have an Ubuntu Server installation, and I only setup 20Gb on the 80Gb HDD using LVM at installation, thinking it would give me more options down the road. I should of just set up the whole ...
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lvm Remove missing physical volumes
I have an logical volume /home which shows missing physical volumes. "Couldn't find device with uuid 'jhueouoe-eoueok-ceokek-chkoke'". I had removed that physical volume some time back(after migating ...
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Can't migrate logical volume to newly added physical volumes
I had a partition of 91GB added in a logical volume filled to 61G. Now I got an external hard drive and added a couple of partitions 43G and 26G each to the logical volume.
I now want to move the ...
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Convert LVM filesystem to LVM RAID1 (Ubuntu 10.10)
We just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a server with ext4 and LVM:
$ df -l
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 1875309692 656114888 1123931624 37% /
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How do I install Ubuntu 10.04 with full disk encryption alongside other operating systems?
I always used the Full Disk Encryption option of the alternate installer, but now I need to keep another OS running in the first partition but that option seems only to be able to use the whole disk. ...
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Does Linux support TRIM for SSDs on LVM?
I am getting a SSD and need to know, does Linux support TRIM if I set up LVM on top of the SSD? I'm finding conflicting information. I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 with kernel 2.6.35-28.
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Multiple LUKS+dm_crypt datasets demands mutiple passphrases at boot time
I am experimenting with LUKS+dm_crypt. My setup is something like this: a LVM VG made of multiple Physical Volumes (PV). That VG contains multiple LV (Logical Volumes), most of them encrypted via ...
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How to make a redundant desktop system with daily snapshots? (Is btrfs ready for use?)
I want to configure a desktop system in which the home filesystem would be redundant (e.g. RAID-1), and would have weekly snapshots taken. I've already done this with ZFS, the snapshot system is ...
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LVM and cloning HDs
Using Linux, I have several backup levels. One of them is a periodical sector by sector copy (using dd) of my laptop harddisk to an external USB disk. Yes, I have other backups too, like remote rsync.
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Have Desktop Ubuntu Installed with 2nd HD having 2 LVM partitions: want to install LAMP
I have Ubuntu 10.04LTS Desktop version installed on a 300GB HD. I also have another 300HD divided into two 150GB LVM partitions neither of which are used at this time.
I want to install LAMP and run ...
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Booting windows (any version) from an LVM volume
I'd like to know if any versions of Windows are able to boot from an LVM logical volume, with or without third party extension software.
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How to allocate limited SSD space in LVM for optimal performance
I just got a new SSD, and I'm looking for advice on how best to incorporate it into my existing LVM setup. I have the following logical volumes (mounted at the obvious places):
# lvs
LV ...
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How to resize an encrypted LVM in RAID 1 in Linux?
I am running 3 partitions in RAID 1.
Partition : Mountpoint : Filesystem : Encrypted : LVM
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1 : /boot : ext2 : No : No
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How can I copy an LVM configuaration to another machine?
I inherited a machine that's set up with 3 disks, managed by LVM (v 2.02.46-RHEL5). I just got a new box with the same hardware configuration, and would like to clone the disk setup by copying an LVM ...
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how to multi-boot/upgrade Linux from LVM-based partition
I currently have FC3 Linux which installed itself on the hard disk using LVM partitioning, so it is basically all one big partition. I would like to try some other distributions and upgrade to ...
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Is it possible to mount an LVM built on one machine onto another?
I've got a system with three drives that's build as a set of volume groups, under Ubuntu.
I'm moving the drives to my Gentoo server, which has space for all three.
Is it possible to somehow get the ...
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Is there a simple way to move/copy a logical volume from one volume group to another? (LVM2)
I'm rearranging a bunch of disks on my server at home and I find myself in the position of wanting to move a bunch of LVM logical volumes to another volume group. Is there a simple way to do this? I ...
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How do I access lvm disk with same VG name as current?
I reloaded my PC onto a new disk then put the old disk back in the PC to recover old files.
I kept the same pc name. The OS setup routine appears to have used my PC name (stiffler) to create the LVM ...
