Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I need to know the best way to implement the snapshot of root partition “/” on a kvm guest. What I have is … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I have an old box(CentOS 5) that was formatted as lvm but now I want to convert it to ext3/4 file system without … Read more
When I create a Logical Volume on my Hard disk and new partition is showing in fdisk -l output. [root@linux1 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size … Read more
This is what I needed, 1. Add new disk 2. Create New pv, vg and lv as per below plan Plan /dev/mapper/PJR_sapvg1-USR_SAP_PJR /usr/sap/PJR/sapmnt/GJR 20Gb /dev/mapper/PJR_sapvg1-SAPMNT_PJR /sapmnt/PJR/db2/db2gjr 20Gb This is what I have done: pvcreate /dev/sdc vgcreate vg_GJR /dev/sdc lvcreate -L 1G -n lv_usr_ORACLE_GJR vg_GJR lvcreate -L 1G -n lv_ORACLEmnt_GJR vg_GJR mkfs -t ext4 /dev/vg_GJR/lv_usr_sap_GJR mkfs … Read more
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I tried to setup Xen by the instruction released on the site of my hoster. I installed Xen, completed RAID … Read more
What is LVM limitation (space in GB/TB/PB/EB) in any Linux/Unix? Answer That’s rather kernel-dependent, but for 32bit 2.6 Linux kernels it’s 16TB and 64bit Linux kernels it’s 8 Exabytes. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : neolix , Answer Author : Magellan
I have two physical hard drives on a Linux system (server / hosting), and I created a logical volume from sda3 (partition on disk A) and sdb (the whole disk B). I then mounted it on /home directory, and when I enter: du -sh /home …this is showing a size of 20K, and it should … Read more
Created an LVM when installing CentOS 7. I have a 1TB drive. I still had about 800 GB free. I cant see those 800GB anywhere. [root@mimir user]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/cl_mimir-root 50G 1.4G 49G 3% / devtmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs … Read more
I disabled SELinux and edited the fstab to mount an LVM partition. After that I restart the machine but stuck in this process The operating system is CentOS 7.3. Does anyone have same issue and have the solution? Answer SELinux defines the access and transition rights of every user, application, process, and file on the … Read more
Seen few questions on this, but the general answer was just reinstall. Although that is the best and easiest solution, this unfortunately is not possible in my situation. I was thinking of the following solution. current partition layout /dev/vda1 linux/boot 250mb /dev/vda2 extended 15GiB |_/dev/vda5 Linux LVM 15GiB LVM has 2 LVs 13GiB /root and … Read more
