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How can I determine used space of a block device that has no filesystem on it? If it helps, such device is managed via lvm. I understand that the concept of "used space" on a device without ...
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Given 2 SSDs and 4 HDDs with their corresponding PVs (/dev/ssd1, /dev/ssd2, /dev/hdd1 to /dev/hdd4). I know, identifiers are not correct, they are just for easier keeping track of what device I'm ...
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Recently I had spun up a new vm that I was using as "tempstorage". Basically I set the size to 16tb which was the overall servers max space. I had 3 other vms up and running before this. ...
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I'm trying to create an snapshot from a thin provisioned lvm using the below command, but i get errors, is there anyone that can help me? root@ghv214:/dev/ghv214-vg# lvs LV VG Attr ...
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I am suffering in a problem due to a system crash, I am using LVM-THIN created in proxmox GUI, all lvs is inactive and the lvm seems broken and I saw it needs to fix manually in system log. After ...
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We are moving an installation from mdadm raid with LVM on top to pure LVM, so we will add the original raid partitions as indendent partitions to the LVM group, something like: # lvcreate -L 240G -n ...
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I'm trying to create a thin pool for docker as i'm changing the root location of docker and i had to delete previous thin pool. Info about situation: vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree cah ...
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I would like to shrink the space required by a thin volume used as a disk for a virtual machine (Windows). Unfortunately, the underlying disk is a USB-attached SSD and therefore mounting the NTFS ...
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I'm testing out glusterfs, and was following this guide on creating setting up volumes. I ran into an error when trying to create a thinly provisioned volume. This is the section Create a thinly ...
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I would like some advise with recovering from broken LVM thin pool / volumes. The step that cause my broken LVM thin is as follows: My thin pool metadata was full (99.4%), so the pool freeze. I tried ...
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I created a thinpool LV using the following command: lvcreate --type thin-pool -l 100%VG -n lv-thinpool vg-test Now /dev/mapper has the following entries: vg--test-lv--thinpool vg--test-lv--...
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I have LVM with thin-provisioning enabled. I have two almost identical thin logical volumes with ext4 file systems that slightly differs. The first volume is used entirely for storing file system. On ...
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Assuming you have a disk backup in raw format sda.img and /dev/sda is initially filled with zeroes, how to skip zeroes while restoring the backup? An analog of dd should detect zero block in input ...
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I created an LVM thin pool to be used by Docker for storage. At the docker start time, I tell it to use the thin pool. Everything worked as expected by running docker info , I noted that it is using ...
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