Linux’s Logical Volume Manager is a handy framework for configuring disks and volumes. Learn how to use LVM to grow and shrink existing volumes as needed. Image: Andreas Prott/Adobe Stock The Logical ...

I've got a box here that runs 6 KVM virtual machines, each of which has a dedicated LVM logical volume mounted using virtio. I'm attempting to create filesystem backups preparatory to doing a ...

I've been a sysadmin for a long time, and part of being a sysadmin is doing more than is humanly possible. Sometimes that means writing wicked cool scripts, sometimes it means working late, and ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) helps you manage your storage better by introducing a layer of abstraction over your storage hardware. When you’re freed from hardware limitations you can use more than ...

Use vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore to back up metadata on LVM Your email has been sent Scott Reeves shows how to use two handy commands to back up and restore volume group metadata on LVM. Two of the ...

Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...