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Move your /home to a new LVM partition

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date October 21, 2015
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To have better control and security over your Linux OS, you might want to move your say /home or/var to another LVM partition. The advantage is that you can easily increase/decrease the size at a future stage. On this article, [Read More…]

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Add and extend disk on Virtual Box through LVM

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date October 16, 2015
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You can easily add and extend disk on Virtual Box through some LVM manipulations. LVM (Logical Volume Partitioning) is a device mapper target that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. – Wikipedia. However, I have written a brief [Read More…]

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Repair your Kernel Panic with Dracut

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date October 5, 2015
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If you have encountered a Kernel Panic which usually happens after a major change in the Linux System, you can follow these procedures to rebuild the Kernel files with Dracut tools. Boot the server in rescue mode or simply through a [Read More…]

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Managing LVM with PVMOVE – Part 2

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date September 30, 2015
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After a little introduction about LVM from the article Managing LVM with PVMOVE – Part 1, its time to get into the details of the pvmove command. Based on the scenario and constraints described in part 1, that I will [Read More…]

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Managing LVM with PVMOVE – Part 1

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date September 29, 2015
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One of the challenging issues that I have encountered is the manipulation of LVM – Logical Volume Management on virtual servers. Whilst writing this article, I noticed that I have to split it into parts as it looks bulky in [Read More…]