Hi, there are tons of RAID1 tutorials, but none of them deal with lvm. The problem is that I want to expand my current lvm partition over RAID1 rather than creating a new lvm partition after RAID1 is created.
My master harddrive has lvm partition. I'm wondering how to create a RAID1 image of... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
How do I create /var as LVM type during install? I want my new OS to have /var as LVM so that I could extend it on the fly.
Thanks for any comment you may add. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm new to HP-UX.
I have LVM on /var with 92Gig. I would like to reduce it to create another LVM for Oracle client with 800 meg or so. How to do it. I'm running 11.iv3
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi guys.
I'm confused how LVM snapshots work. Here is what i understood:
1. we have a Logical Volume holding our data.
2. we make a snap shot of it with this command:
lvcreate -L 1000M -s -n backup /dev/vg01/lv013. mount the snap shot
4. take your backup
5. remove the snapshot --> in this... (3 Replies)
I wanted to know how we can combine volumes over 2 physical drives.
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ... (16 Replies)
Hello,
I have install 2 HDD in my server and now installing the Centos6.4.
I want create the LVM of those 2 HDD's so while i'm doing this it is not allowing me to select these 2 disk's from allowable disk list.
Same problem if i tried to make Software RAID with creating LVM.
Please help. (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I have a Red Hat Linux 5.9 Server installed with one hard disk & 2 Partitions created on it as follows,
/boot - Linux Partition & another is
LVM - One VG & under that 5-6 Logical volumes(var,opt,home etc).
Here my requirement is to take out 1GB of space from LVM ( Any logical... (5 Replies)
Oracle Linux 6.6
To create Physical Volumes for Volume groups (LVM) , the disk need to be partitioned to LVM type ie. 'Linux LVM' type . In fdisk , this can done by choosing 8e when prompted for partition type.
Since it is easy to script (non-interactive), I use parted command rather than... (1 Reply)
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on a HP laptop with a core I3 processor. I am trying to run mariaDB and do hot backups to disk. In order to do that I wanted to create an LVM snapshot and backup the snapshot for a point in time backup, possibly using tar. I included a snapshot of the gparted app showing... (1 Reply)
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fstyp
fstyp(1M)fstyp(1M)NAME
fstyp - determine file system type
SYNOPSIS
special
DESCRIPTION
The command allows the user to determine the file system type of a mounted or unmounted file system. special represents a device special
file (for example:
The file system type is determined by reading the superblock of the supplied special file. If the superblock is read successfully, the com-
mand prints the file system type identifier on the standard output and exits with an exit status of If the type of the file system cannot
be identified, the error message (no matches) is printed and the exit status is Exit status is not currently returned, but is reserved for
the situation where the file system matches more than one file system type. Any other error will cause exit status to be returned.
The file system type is determined by reading the superblock of the supplied special file.
Options
Produce verbose output.
The output contains information about the file system's superblock.
RETURN VALUE
returns the following values:
Successful completion.
Unknown file system type.
File system matches more than one type.
Usage error or access problem.
If the printed message is "Can't send after socket shutdown", check with your system administrator to make sure the is
running properly on the system.
EXAMPLES
Find the type of the file system on a disk,
Find the type of the file system on a logical volume,
Find the file system type for a particular device file and also information about its super block:
SEE ALSO stat(2), statvfsdev(3C).
fstyp(1M)