Logical Volume Manager for the Linux kernel manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices, in particular large ones. "Volume" refers to a disk drive or partition thereof.
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Home Server: storage virtualisation, what to choose?
I'm looking for virtualisation solutions for storage and OS for a home server. A sort of private cloud where I manage the storage space independently of the VM one.
This question focus on storage ...
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How to mount LVM Volume?
I'm trying to mount an LVM2 volume, but all the instructions I see online say to mount the Volume Group, such as 'mkdir -p /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00'
but I don't know how to figure out the name of it. ...
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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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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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Advice on approaches to disk encryption in Ubuntu?
I'm considering encrypting the contents of my laptop, which runs Ubuntu 10.04 and has an ext4 + swap, and I'm wondering what the best options are here. I'm aware of:
TrueCrypt: either block-level ...
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List all physical volumes associated to a volume group
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I do not see it listed in vgdisplay.
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Why does LVM HDD fail “mount” command when booting from CDROM?
Currently I have a superuser post asking if I can install/upgrade existing LUKS/LVM without having to erase and rebuild the partitions. This has provided instructions to mount the HDD, but there are ...
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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 ...
