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Jan/15

Replace Disk In LVM On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 19th January 2015 0:01 by

Overview LVM makes adding and removing physical disk very easy as its an additional layer of abstraction. I will go through the steps need to replace an existing disk of same or larger size. Warning! Always backup prior to doing … Continue reading →

02

Jul/12

Mounting LVM Using Ubuntu Live CD

Filed Under Linux at 2nd July 2012 0:00 by

Overview My system died recently and I needed to access the data on the hard drives. I had two 1TB drives in a logical volume which I needed to pull data off of. Luckily the drivers were in tact. Live … Continue reading →

18

Nov/11

Resizing VirtualBox Disk

Filed Under Linux, Software at 18th November 2011 10:29 by

I ran out of disk space on my virtual machine and needed more space. I did not want to create a new disk and install from scratch but VirtualBox does not have any GUI tools which would resize a disk … Continue reading →

05

Nov/10

Ubuntu LVM2 – Smart Storage

Filed Under Linux at 5th November 2010 0:32 by

Overview There are plenty of exceptions where hardware and software abstractions are used to create modular and flexible designs in a modern OS. Examples can be seen from Microsoft’s .Net Framework to Virtualization. Logical Volume Management or LVM is no … Continue reading →