Archive for the ‘LVM2’ Category
This really is an update to my previous article “Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes“, but the process is significantly different and thus requires more explaining than a simple inline update would do it justice. Now the big flaw with my first article was that by using dd on the hypervisor level, [...]
Linux Logical Volume Manager provides a better method for managing your disks in the home and even more so in the datacenter. I briefly outlined some of the benefits afforded us by LVM2 in a previous article Linux LVM2: Flexible Local Storage Management. In this article I will provide you with some very simple steps [...]
Linux LVM provides a different way of looking at storage. On the server side this provides much more flexibility than standard disks with partitions. It allows us to migrate from old to new storage as well as expand the available storage to a particular file system easily (assuming that there is free space available). Basically [...]