Questions tagged [lvm2]
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How can I shrink a Logical Volume, and re-allocate the freed space into a new partition on the same drive?
I have a drive, sda. It has two partitions:
sda1: /boot
sda2: LVM managed in Volume Group volgrp01
volgrp01 contains the following Logical Volumes:
lv_root (30 GB)
lv_swap (8 GB)
lv_scratch (430 GB)...
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grub2-install: "this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition"
There seems to be quite a bit of discussion about this but I can't find a simple answer.
When I try to install grub2 I get this error:
# grub2-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub2-...
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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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CentOS 6 LVM RAID5, unable to activate VG / LV. "device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:119) failed: Input/output error"
I've found myself in a complex Linux LVM-RAID5 / device-mapper problem after one temporary device failure, and one bad block encountered during that time. The logical volume can now not be activated ...