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There are situations where we would be required to move a whole volume group from one system to another system for some requirement. As part of this, it also moves …
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The fsck (stands for File System Consistency Check) is used to check and repair one or more Linux filesystems. This check will run automatically at boot time when a filesystem …
How to Check and Repair EXT4 Filesystem in Linux Read More
If you have accidentally removed a logical volume (LV) or LVM meta data got corrupted or damaged in some way, it can be easily restored without losing the data using …
How to recover deleted Logical volume (LV) in LVM Read More
If the LVM volume (logical volume) is no longer required to be used by the LVM (Logical Volume Manager) on the system, you can remove/delete it with the ‘lvremove’ command …
How to Remove LVM (Logical) Volume in Linux Read More
If a device is no longer needed by LVM, you can use the ‘vgreduce’ command to remove that physical volume from it’s volume group. The ‘vgreduce’ command shrinks the capacity …
How to Remove Physical Volume from a Volume Group in LVM Read More
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. …
How to Reduce/Shrink LVM’s (Logical Volume Resize) in Linux Read More
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 …
How to Extend/Increase LVM’s (Logical Volume Resize) in Linux Read More
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 …
How to Create LVM (Logical Volume) in Linux Read More