Reducing/Shrinking the logical volume is the highest risk of data corruption. So try to avoid this kind of situation if possible, but go ahead if you have no other options. It is always recommended...
Expanding the logical volume is extremely easy, it takes very few steps and can be done online without unmounting a certain logical volume. The main purpose of LVM is flexible disk management, which allows...
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) plays an important role in the Linux operating system by improving the availability, disk I/O, performance and capability of disk management. LVM is a widely used technique that is extremely...
When the Linux system has connected to the SAN (Storage Area Network) you need to rescan the iSCSI service to discover new LUNs. To do so, you must provide the WWN number of the...
As a Linux administrator, you may have noticed some requests from developers to convert files from DOS format to Unix format, and vice versa. This is because these files were created on a Windows...
Sometimes you may need to kill multiple user sessions on Linux. For example, you have to run a month job, for which all users have to be logged out of the system. Another example...
The root user is a privileged user on Linux, which is similar to an administrator on Windows. It performs all kinds of administrative operations, so do not give anyone root access because they may...
Generally, a file system must be mounted on a Linux system to access the contents. When adding a new hard disk to your system, you may need to use the fdisk command or the...
You may have missed deleting files that are no longer needed on your computer in some directory. This can be “Download” or any other directory. It may have grown up over a period of...
Well known services on Linux can be added on boot without any problems. For example, if you want to add Apache Httpd service on boot, you can do this with the help of the...
