Have you ever deleted a logical volume by accident? Can you recover it looking into the backups? Well, the answer is YES. For those who are not familiar with Logical Volume Management (LVM) is a device mapper target that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel.- Wikipedia. It is an abstraction layer or software that […]
Some days back, I gave some explanations about LVM such as creations of LVM partitions and a detailed analogy of the LVM structure as well as tips for using PVMOVE. We can also automate such task using the power of Ansible. Cool isn’t it? So, I have my two hosts Ansible1 and Ansible2. Ansible1 is […]
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, I will take an example of the /home directory and we will move it to […]
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 introduction about LVM on a previous post – Managing LVM with pvmove – Part 1. […]
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 elaborate on the pvmove operation here. Before handling any operation, do your precheck tasks such […]