Beginners Lessons / Linux Admin / Linux Disk Management / Linux LVM
by Yogesh Raheja · Published February 8, 2022
1.) What LVM is? 2.) Terminology 3.) Creation of Physical Vol, Volume Group, Logical Volume, Filesystem creation, Mount and making the FS entry in /etc/fstab 4.) Add new disk under existing Volume Group 5.) Filesystem extension in Linux 6.) Filesystem shrinking in Linux 7.) Removing disk...
As part of regular System Admin task we were asked to configure new storage to an existing sybase server without disturbing the existing storage and expecting no downtime for the existing production server. All necessary storage LUNS were already allocated by the Storage team as mentioned...
Linux Admin / Linux Disk Management / Linux LVM / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published May 26, 2014 · Last modified July 23, 2016
In Enterprise Linux Environment, External storage often permits devices to be accessed by multiple physical paths. This improves redundancy and availability. SAN environment Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the device-mapper-multipath component to manage multipath capable storage and to present multipath devices to applications running on the...
Linux Admin / Linux Disk Management / Linux LVM / Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / Rhel6 Storage / Storage Configs for Unixadmin / Storage Migrations / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 25, 2021
In Enterprise Linux Environment, External storage often permits devices to be accessed by multiple physical paths. This improves redundancy and availability. SAN environment Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the device-mapper-multipath component to manage multipath capable storage and to present multipath devices to applications running on the...
EMail Posts / Linux Admin / Linux LVM / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published November 14, 2012 · Last modified July 23, 2016
1. How do I reduce LVM logical voulme in Red Hat Enterprise linux? First of all make sure to have sufficient disk space available before reducing logical volume (otherwise it would result in data loss). Also, make sure to have valid data backup before going forward...
Linux Admin / Linux Disk Management / Linux LVM / Storage Configs for Unixadmin / Storage Migrations / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published June 16, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2016
Sudo is different from the su command and is more flexible and more secure. The sudo command allows users to do tasks on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system as another user. One significant advantage is that it can log usage. By default the program saves...
Device-mapper is a very important component of Linux 2.6 kernel. It is used for many critical storage related applications, such as LVM2, Linux native multipath tool device-mapper-multipath, device-mapper software RAID, etc. A solid understanding of device-mapper helps system administrators to investigate various kinds of issues with...
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by Ramdev · Published September 1, 2015 · Last modified September 19, 2019
Booting Tasks Read – Unexpected Server Reboots of RHEL servers on HP Read – Linux Admin Reference – RedHat Linux Grub Loader Storage Responsibilities Read – Understand Device Mapper and DM-Multipath Read – Identifying Disk Errors in Linux Read – Identify if linux was installed on...
During the last weekend, I have noticed one of the interesting task performed by one of my collegue as part of the storage migration, i have captured the logs from his task. And the actual scenario is : In any Storage migration ( with Host Side...
In this post I am explaining about the procedure to add 20G to /applocal volume configured in Virtual Linux Machine. A new Disk sdb is partitioned as sdb1 and it was allocated to LVM from outside, and after the reboot the disk is visible to Linux...
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