Questions tagged [lvm]
Logical Volume Management provides storage abstraction, a generalization of disk partitioning.
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mkfs.ext4 deleted my filesystems, how can i recover data?
Iam trying to recover my data and need help/advice on how to do it. The details of my issue are as below My disk was partitioned as below - sda1 - 487MB, primary bootable type 83 sda2 - 240G , ...
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Preseed file bad configuration using UEFI and LVM
I just changed my preseed file from legacy to UEFI installation. I'm using LVM with the following custom recipe, in order to specify size of swap, root, home, var & tmp. To make it works in UEFI I ...
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Replacing a 500GB SSD LUKS/LVM drive in place with 1TB SSD
I have a ThinkPad T520 running Fedora with a single 500GB SSD drive. The drive has two partitions, a small boot partition and the rest devoted to a a single LUKS one. The LUKS partition is managed ...
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lvm2 on Gentoo: what I miss?
I need lvm2 on gentoo ppc64. This is the situation e-file vgs app-shells/bash-completion Seen Versions: 2.14.0-r1 2.15.0 2.16.0 2.16.0-r1 2.16.0-r2 2.16.0-r3 Portage Versions: 2.14.0-...
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Space Issue on Elementary OS
I set up Elementary OS on a virtualbox VM for testing. When I did so I only selected 20 gb drive size. It didn't take long to fill that up because for some reason the LVM was set for ~16 gb. I resized ...
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How to configure grub to boot from encrypted lvm partition
I try to install Grub manually after Devuan installation, but I guess there is an error in configuration. /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”cryptdevice=/dev/sda5:devuan-root:allow-discard” ...
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How to clonezilla efficiently a LVM volume?
I have a Debian 12 system that I want to backup using clonezilla. This system is using LVM and a bunch of little partitions. Some using ext4, and some in xfs. The issue, is that, if I don't do ...
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How to recover data or mount a logical volume after resizing drive to less than size of physical volume
Due to a series of mistakes i resized my drive to be smaller than the physical volume it contains. The drive has a physical volume at around 110Gib, a logical volume at 100Gib, all on a 99.4Gib drive. ...
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